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Lucky Supermarkets Join Ellie Mae Classic at TPC Stonebrae As Celebrity Shootout Title Sponsor; Tickets Now on Sale at 70 Bay Area LocationsThe Web.com (News - Alert) Tour and Ellie Mae announced today that Lucky Supermarkets have joined the Ellie Mae Classic as the Presenting Sponsor for the Ellie Mae Classic Celebrity Shootout. Part of the week- the Ellie Mae Classic Celebrity Shootout presented by Lucky will begin at 5:00 p.m. PT on Monday, August 6th. Bay Area Lucky Supermarket locations will be selling Celebrity Shootout tickets that include a good-any-one-day Ellie Mae Classic tournament ticket starting today. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180712005253/en/ Preceding Thursday's opening round of the Ellie Mae Classic, teams of celebrities from Bay Area sports franchises will compete in a five-hole shootout with the winning team earning $15,000 for the charity of their choosing. Ticket sales from the Lucky Celebrity Shootout and the Ellie Mae Classic will benefit the Warriors Community Foundation "Hoops for Kids" program serving children in San Francisco and Alameda counties. The teams currently slated to participate in the shootout include:
Golden State Warriors: Player confirmations to be announced at a later
date "Lucky is a proud sponsor of the Ellie Mae Classic and the Celebrity Shootout," said Woody Hunter, Vice President of Operations for Lucky Supermarkets. "As a Bay Area company with 70 stores locally, we view the Ellie Mae Classic Tournament as a great way to serve and support the local communities where we live and work. We're thrilled to partner with the Web.com Tour, Ellie Mae and the Warriors Community Foundation to bring the Ellie Mae Classic Celebrity Shootout Presented by Lucky to sports fans." "The Ellie Mae Classic Celebrity Shootout Presented by Lucky provides a fan-friendly platform for beloved Bay Area sports star-power to play in a fun, yet competitive shootout for a great cause," said Trish Gregovich, Ellie Mae Classic Tournament Director. "We believe that golf is the sport that unites all others and our Shootout participants are competitive by nature. By having Lucky Supermarkets as our main Shootout sponsor, we hope to bring the game of golf and the great competition our players offer to more spectators locally. And through the charitable donation, we're able to give back to the local community long after tournament play ends." Ellie Mae Classic Tournament tickets are also available on the Tickets & Parking section of the Ellie Mae Classic website. The Celebity Shootout is not the only charitable aspect of the tournament, as the Warriors Community Foundation serves as the event's main charitable beneficiary. Charity plays a key role in every PGA TOUR-sanctioned event, with other Ellie Mae charities also benefiting. The TOUR and its tournaments generated a record $180 million for charity in 2017, in turn elevating the all-time total donated to charity to $2.65 billion. The Ellie Mae Classic tournament schedule includes the following:
Monday, August 6 - Ellie Mae Community Pro-Am Presented by HousingWire
and Ellie Mae Classic Celebrity Shootout Presented by Lucky For more information on the Ellie Mae Classic at TPC Stonebrae, including the schedule of events, tickets and sponsorship opportunities, please visit EllieMaeClassic.com. For more information on the Web.com Tour, please visit PGATOUR.com. About Ellie Mae Ellie Mae (NYSE: ELLI) is the leading cloud-based platform provider for the mortgage finance industry. Ellie Mae's technology solutions enable lenders to originate more loans, lower origination costs, and reduce the time to close, all while ensuring the highest levels of compliance, quality and efficiency. Visit EllieMae.com or call (877) 355-4362 to learn more. About The Warriors Community Foundation The Warriors Community Foundation supports education and youth development for low-income students in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since its inception in 2012, the Foundation has generated over $9 million in direct impact, including grants to improve educational equity in Alameda and San Francisco Counties. The Foundation also rebuilds public basketball courts around the Bay Area. To date, more than 70 courts have been refurbished, helping to revitalize local schools, parks and neighborhoods. Finally, the Foundation donates thousands of tickets each season to schools and nonprofits that serve children and families, helping share the joy and excitement of Warriors home games. The Foundation is sustained by generous contributions from Warriors owners, players, partners and fans. Learn more at www.warriors.org. About TPC Stonebrae Country Club TPC Stonebrae Country Club opened in 2007 and sits 1,500 feet above the San Francisco Bay on Walpert Ridge, providing a 75 mile wide view of the beautiful Northern California coastline. Members of this private club are tested by an American Links layout that rises and falls along ridge tops and across ravines. Designed by Scottish Golf Course Architect David McLay Kidd, TPC Stonebrae has established itself as one of the most unique and challenging tests of golf in Northern California. For more information about TPC Stonebrae please visit www.stonebrae.com. About the Web.com Tour Founded (1990), owned and operated by the PGA TOUR, the Web.com Tour continues to identify those players who are ready to compete and win on golf's biggest stage. In 2013, the Web.com Tour became The Path to the PGA TOUR with all 50 available PGA TOUR cards coming through the Web.com Tour and the season culminating at the four-event Web.com Tour Finals. Web.com became the Tour's umbrella sponsor on June 27, 2012, with a 10-year agreement in place through 2021. This season marks the 28th year of competition on the Web.com Tour. Three out of four PGA TOUR members are Web.com Tour alumni. Tour alumni have won more than 450 PGA TOUR titles, including 22 majors and seven PLAYERS Championships. The PGA TOUR, through the efforts of its Tours and their tournaments, sponsors, players and volunteers, has surpassed $2 billion in charitable giving. To learn more about the PGA TOUR, the Web.com Tour and to follow the season-long quest for a PGA TOUR card, visit PGATOUR.COM, or follow the Tour on social media via Twitter (@WebDotComTour), Facebook (News - Alert) (facebook.com/WebDotComTour) and Instagram (Instagram.com/WebDotComTour). About Web.com Web.com Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: WEB) offers the most tools and services for small businesses to maximize their presence and effectiveness online. More than just great websites, Web.com provides small businesses a robust, multi-faceted web presence, that connects them with customers and helps them grow. The company provides a full range of Internet services to small businesses to help them compete and succeed online. Web.com meets the needs of small businesses anywhere along their lifecycle with affordable, subscription-based solutions including domains, hosting, website design and management, search engine optimization, online marketing campaigns, local sales leads, social media, mobile products and eCommerce solutions. For more information, please visit web.com; follow Web.com on Twitter (News - Alert) @webdotcom or on Facebook at facebook.com/web.com. For additional online marketing resources and small business networking, please visit Web.com's Webwise Workshop at www.webwiseworkshop.com. About Lucky Supermarkets Lucky Supermarkets have been serving Bay Area for nearly 100 years. Owned and operated by Central Valley based, The Save Mart Companies, Lucky stores prides itself of on sourcing a wide variety of local products-ensuring that 'fresh comes first.' The company employs more than 15,000 team members and operates 209 stores under the banners of FoodMaxx, Lucky, Lucky California and Save Mart. In addition to its retail operations, the company also operates Smart Refrigerated Transport and is a voting partner in Super Store Industries (SSI), which owns and operates a distribution center in Lathrop and Sunnyside Farms ice cream plant in Turlock. For more information on the company please visit www.TheSaveMartCompanies.com.
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