Overall, I'm absolutely thrilled about my PGA Tour season, which culminated by my winning the FedExCup for the second time. This has been one of my most consistent years on the PGA Tour. I won six times, finished second three times, placed in the top 10 in 14 of 17 starts, contended in three of four majors and had my third-lowest scoring average at 68.05. I don't think anyone could have foreseen that. Unfortunately, I just didn't get it done in the majors.

Starting out the year, I really didn't know what to expect. It was a slow process after my knee surgery, but the only anxiety I felt was how long it would take for me to feel explosive in my left leg. It was a heavy leg for a while. I was also uncertain about how I would recover, round-to-round.

The difference between how I started the year and now with my knee is night and day. Not even close. It's stable, explosive. It feels normal. I can do pretty much anything I want, and there is no pain. I'd have to say my best round of the year so far was the 62 I shot in the third round of the BMW Championship. I still have a lot golf left to play. I'm going to China, Australia and then I'll host the Chevron World Challenge in Southern California in December.

We finalized our field for the Chevron World Challenge last week, and it's our best ever. Two factors account for that: We changed our date to Dec. 2-6, and we are now awarding Official World Golf Ranking points. Both were instrumental in getting the players we wanted.

I'm very excited about returning to Northern California this week for The Presidents Cup at Harding Park, which is just up the road from where I went to college at Stanford. The Bay Area has always supported golf, whether it was the U.S. Open at Olympic Club, the USGA Junior Championship at Lake Merced or the WGC-American Express Championship at Harding, where I was fortunate enough to win in 2005. San Francisco is a great sports town.

As a junior golfer, I remember playing Harding when it was a clover field. When I came back and played it after the 2002 redesign, I couldn't believe it was the same course! I know they are rerouting it this week for The Presidents Cup, and I'm kind of curious to see what it looks like.

Most of all, I'm really looking forward to hanging out with the U.S. team. I was unable to play in the Ryder Cup last year because of my knee surgery and missed being with the guys.

The Presidents Cup is definitely more congenial, but we'll get after it starting Thursday. I think the reason it's friendlier is that 23 of the 24 players competing this week are full-time members of the PGA Tour. We see each other week after week. The only guy who isn't a regular member is Ryo Ishikawa.

I'm not sure who our captain, Fred Couples, will pair me with, but I know it will fun because I have so many good friends on the team.

At THE TOUR Championship, I gave Sean O'Hair a putting lesson on Wednesday before the first round. Usually, I don't offer advice unless someone asks for it, but he's a good friend, and that's what friends do. I just noticed something in his stroke and thought I could help. Mark O'Meara and I have done that for each other for years. Same with John Cook and Notah Begay III. Of course, I didn't know Sean would shoot 66 in the first round, and I had to go chew him out.

That's all for now. Looking forward to a great week in San Francisco and will check back with you next month.

CHEVRON WORLD CHALLENGE MEDIA DAY

GREG McLAUGHLIN: Welcome to the 11th annual media day that we're hosting out here. It's great to be here. It's great to be back at Sherwood Country Club for our I guess this is our tenth year. Golf course and weather today probably can't be better for those of you that are playing golf. So looking forward to having that.
What we're going to do is we're going to have a few remarks and then we're going to open it up to questions, and we ask that all the questions really be of media representatives only. We've got kind of a mixture of guests and media here, so we ask please that only the media ask questions of Tiger or actually the representatives that will be speaking today.
With that, I would like to introduce our host. As I mentioned, Sherwood Country Club has been a really long standing partner of ours dating back to 2000 when we won the event here, and we just really can't say enough great things about this club, the partnership and how much we really enjoy being here. So I'd like to welcome the Sherwood Country Club board president Jim Jackoway.
JIM JACKOWAY: Well, welcome, all, to Sherwood. The members of Sherwood Country Club are, of course, thrilled to be hosting the Chevron World Challenge again this year. It has been our privilege for the past ten years to work with Tiger and all the dedicated people at the Tiger Woods Foundation. We are proud that we have the opportunity to support the great work of the foundation.
We have a couple people I want to introduce, Steve Smith, our immediate past president, who serves as chairman of our Chevron World Challenge tournament host committee; and our general manager, Lenny Fisher; and Sean Dyer, our director of agronomy.
Sean has been busy for the past year since December working on the course, in many ways unnoticed. But specifically since we last saw you, with the support of the foundation, we have renovated and improved all 72,000 square feet of our 51 existing bunkers, and we added one more. Many have been substantially redesigned, particularly, for instance, tournament No. 13, you'll see a big difference. I'm asked to tell you that we have used a state of the art liner for this project. I think it's probably the first time it's been used in the United States.
The work was completed under the direction of Jack Nicklaus, and with his associate Chet Williams on site. McDonald & Sons did the heavy lifting, and Sean and Paul Latshaw helped to complete the project.
It was completed in the spring. The sand is already settled, and we are confident that in December the pros will enjoy their infrequent visits to our bunkers.
Greg, the board and staff of Sherwood will do everything possible on our own to help ensure that this year's tournament will be a success by every measure. We look forward to seeing you all in a few months. Thank you.
GREG McLAUGHLIN: Thanks, Jim. The bunker restoration project, as Jim mentioned, it turned out amazingly well for really a short period of time and how well that they settled. I know you guys brought in McDonald & Sons, which really did a great job on it. Those of you that find the bunkers today, we certainly would be happy for any feedback that you have. I'm sure that won't be the case.
I next would like to introduce our title sponsor in their second year. The Chevron Corporation based in northern California came in and assumed title sponsorship last year, and really it's been great having them involved and the things that they've been able to do really in helping our event has been tremendous, so we're delighted to have them back again. I'd like to now introduce the global director of brand and product line manager of Chevron, Glenn Weckerlin. Glenn?
GLENN WECKERLIN: Thank you, Greg, and we're happy to be here once again. I also recognize that we're in about the same spot we were last year when we were talking about this kind of between you, Tiger and the golf. So I'm going to try and be really brief about what I want to say. It's really centered around two things.
We talk a lot about human energy at Chevron, and without going into what human energy means, if you really think about it, it's about the power to kind of help people to do some things that they don't ordinarily do. And if you watched yesterday, you saw some of that on the golf course. I guarantee you're going to see it with the field that we've got coming in this year at the golf.
But the thing that I'd actually like to do, and I threw out my notes on this, is really to make a plea, I guess, to have the folks that are writing about the golf to actually take the time to dig behind the scenes and see what goes on with not only the PGA TOUR, who does a bunch of stuff every year at all the golf tournaments that go on, but more importantly for us, the Tiger Woods Foundation. So I guess the plea is look for the human energy that goes on off the course or outside the ropes, as well, and help tell that story, because if that story doesn't get told to people, we really run a risk that we become just yet another sponsorship property, and I can tell you quite frankly that becomes harder and harder these days to justify if you don't have something of more substance behind it.
We got into the deal a year and a half ago for that reason alone. We get the golf as a bonus. So I'll just throw out a plea there. If one or two of you want to pick it up and run with it, that would be really fantastic from our side of things.
With that I'll move it along and just reinforce that we're really, really happy to be here. It's a wonderful field. With that, I'll hand it back to Greg. Thank you again for coming, and I'll look forward to seeing you back here in December.
GREG McLAUGHLIN: I would like to highlight just a couple things with respect to the tournament. For those of you that have been coming out here for the last ten years, this will mark a new date that we have, the first weekend in December. As you recall last year, it was our goal to try and move the tournament up a little bit earlier in the year, which we think is a huge positive, certainly for the community, for people to come out and sponsor the event.
In addition to that, we're certainly very, very proud to have World Golf Ranking points that will now come as a result of our event, and I think most of you that followed the announcement last year in December, that this is really the second limited field event ever to be granted World Ranking points in the first what they call challenge season event, which is not really part of the PGA TOUR or European Tour schedule. We think that that has a lot to do with really the quality of the field, quality of the competition that we've really had here these last 11 years. We're certainly extremely pleased with that.
I would like to just talk about the field, and having been here for all 11 years, this is, I think, far and away the best field that we've ever been able to compile. We have three of the four major winners, 15 out of the top 20 players in the world. We'll have eight countries represented, including the United States, and nine major championship title winners, which is great. And that field includes host and No. 1 ranked player in the world Tiger Woods; Steve Stricker, ranked No. 2; Paul Casey, 4; Kenny Perry, 6; Padraig Harrington, 8; Jim Furyk, 9; Lee Westwood, 11; Stewart Cink, 12; Martin Kaymer, 13; defending champion Vijay Singh, 14; Sean O'Hair, 15; Camilo Villegas, 16; Lucas Glover, 17; Zach Johnson, 18; Ian Poulter, 20; and Y.E. Yang at No. 33.
It's a phenomenal field. We awarded two exemptions. The committee awarded exemptions to Anthony Kim, who's currently ranked No. 21 in the world, and Mike Weir, who's ranked 30 in the world. So we feel like the competition this year will be tremendous.
Our purse is, again, $5.75 million with first place being $1.35 and last place being $150,000. So it's going to be a great week of golf. Looking forward to certainly having everyone out here.
And with that I'd now like to introduce the host to make a few remarks and then he'll open it up for questions and answers. With that, Tiger?
TIGER WOODS: Thanks, Greg. As always, we're very excited to have this event. Chevron and Sherwood are great partners, and this is a field that we've never had before. This is deeper and stronger than we've ever had, and we're looking forward to it, especially with the bunker restorations, and I'm sure the difficulty has been increased. So we're looking forward to getting out there and hosting the event and having a great time.

Q. Can you talk about the tournament and its history and how it is starting to really become a big deal around here and the growth and what it does for this community?
TIGER WOODS: Yeah. We've always wanted to be a part of southern California because obviously that's where I was born and raised, and it's one of the reasons why we have the learning center in Anaheim. We're lucky enough to have Sherwood as a partner so we can have that type of an event.
And over the years as we've kind of basically grown and matured in the event, you've seen a lot of these players come and have supported the event. I know they have busy schedules. A lot of the European players and foreign born players who don't live here in the United States have made the trek over here to play.
Now with this year having World Ranking points, it's only going to add to that, and I think that what we've done for the community and the support we've gotten over the years has been tremendous, and that's one of the reasons why we've been able to have a learning center is because of this event.

Q. I know this is a challenge season event, but with the feel of it and the strength of the field, do you think the other players view this as a challenge season event or do they view this as a regular TOUR event?
TIGER WOODS: Well, when you step up and you get on that practice range and you see the field, your juices start going. I've played in several challenge events post TOUR Championship or post Cups. This event is different. The quality of field and the venue, it just adds to it, and the guys really get pretty jacked up to play.
It's amazing how a lot of tripping goes on early in the week. Come game time, it gets a little more quiet, very similar to how you'd find at a bigger TOUR event.

Q. Have you noticed there's maybe a little bit more buzz amongst the players because of the World Ranking points and that they want to come and play even more than normal?
TIGER WOODS: Absolutely. That's been instrumental in getting the field that we have this year. Having World Ranking points with this type of field, guys want to come play for that, and that certainly helps.

Q. Can you sort of look back at your season this year, and was it a success to you, not having won a major but winning the FedExCup and the tournaments that you won and coming back from knee surgery? How do you sort of wrap it up?
TIGER WOODS: Absolutely, it's a successful year. To have gone through what I went through for eight months being away from the game and then coming back and being as consistent as I've been this year, this is, I believe, my third lowest stroke average I've ever had on the TOUR. So that's something I'm very proud of.
Unfortunately this year I didn't win a major championship. I was close in three of them, missed the cut in the other. But the year as a whole, it's been a huge success to come back and play as well as I have and as consistently as I have. I'm really looking forward to the prospects of ending this year and then playing again next year.

Q. Just being, if not the, one of the top athletes in the world and playing golf, just wondering, put us in a day of the life of Tiger Woods say in the gym, what your workout regimen is on a day to day basis. Just very curious to know.
TIGER WOODS: You know, depends what the buildup is, how much time I have off and how much I'm getting physically ready for an event. Like right now I'm taking a couple days off and just kind of letting the body unwind a little bit, and then I'll start gearing back up here, not today but Wednesday, and getting after it again.
As of right now, I don't do a lot of cardio right now because I'm trying to get my weight back up. I've lost quite a bit of weight from playing so much golf, and I've just been lifting.

Q. Because of the injury, how much different was it coming into this year in terms of what your expectations were? I mean, were they severely different than what they had been previously in terms of not knowing what to expect from the knee and what your game would be once you got back?
TIGER WOODS: You know, that is the biggest thing that I did not know entering the year, which was a little worrisome because I've never had that before. It was a complete unknown.
I didn't know how this leg was going to respond. I didn't know how it was going to how I was going to deal with the swelling day in and day out, how my power was going to be, how consistent I could play, what shots could I play. And all the while trying to get my feel back for playing, because I had been gone for eight months. So that was a bit of a tricky feeling because I had never been in this situation before.
But once the season started getting rolling after a few months of playing, I started feeling a lot better. My leg started becoming more explosive again. Looking back, how I feel now and how I felt when I played the Match Play, it's complete night and day. I'm very thankful to all my trainers, to Hank.
We had to make some adjustments when I first came back to make sure that I did not injure the leg, and one of the things I alluded to yesterday after the round when I was talking to the press is that I didn't play a lot at the beginning because I didn't want to hurt the leg. I didn't want to stretch out the ligament because if I stretch out the ligament basically the whole surgery was for naught. So I took it easy and made sure that I came back slowly, and I think I did it right.

Q. I've often wondered, do these guys, with the special exemptions you have for this tournament, schmooze you up to get a spot?
TIGER WOODS: Yeah, there are a few guys that have done that over the years, yes.

Q. Can you tell us a little bit more about that?
TIGER WOODS: I know J.D. certainly has been a tremendous supporter of ours, and he usually asks for a spot. But this year with the new regulations and having to be in the top 50, that changes things. That's one of the reasons why we have Weirsie and AK in there is because obviously they're tremendous players and great supporters of ours, but obviously they're in the top 50, as well.

Q. You won both FedExCups when you've been able to play in the Playoffs under vastly different systems. Can you say whether anything else needs to be tweaked? Personally I don't like the reset before the TOUR Championship. Is there any merit to say having match play for the final 32 in Atlanta or something like that? Just your thoughts on the system.
TIGER WOODS: Yeah, the resetting, certainly we didn't know how it was going to all pan out because if you play I mean, basically what could have transpired is a person could have won the first three Playoff events, finished second at the TOUR Championship and would have lost if someone other than himself in the Top 5 would have won the tournament. So that's one of the tricky kind of things that I don't know how that's going to be resolved or not resolved at all.
If you play well and you play consistently the entire year, you're rewarded by having a high seed. But once you get in the Playoffs you've got to play well again to give yourself another high seed at the TOUR Championship. It puts a lot of pressure on you toward the end of the season to play well for the first three Playoff events, and then at the TOUR Championship being seeded has a tremendous advantage.

Q. With the bunker restoration project, the course is obviously going to be a little more difficult, but is there any thought to making this course tight and fast and making it I don't want to say torturous, but making it as challenging as possible, or is there a balance you have to strike?
TIGER WOODS: Yeah, I've always wanted to have it fast and have the fairways going. That's how I think it's best played. We just need to have the weather cooperate with us. Being that late in the year, generally that's when the storms start rolling in off the Pacific as we all know. So that's one of the tricky things that we have to try and balance. If the weather cooperates, and some years we've had some Santa Anas blow in and it's been dry and the ball has been rolly, it's a tremendous test. But if it's soft, then the guys can take dead aim at a lot of these holes and you see high teens, even low 20s under par win the golf tournament.

Q. Have you given much thought to your schedule next year, and what are the chances of LA being in those plans?
TIGER WOODS: I haven't looked at the schedule for next year. I have no idea how tournaments lay out. I was going to do that once I come back from Australia and basically get settled in before I come to Sherwood, have an idea of what my schedule is going to be for next year.

Q. Obviously you were out of the Ryder Cup last year because of the injury. Does that make this Presidents Cup a little more exciting for you in terms of getting back in the mix and doing that whole team competition thing?
TIGER WOODS: Yeah, you know, I certainly wish I could have been a part of that team last year. There was a different kind of chemistry last year. The guys, we had a mix of older players and some younger guys in their 20s. Over the years, usually I've been the youngest one.
So this Presidents Cup is different. Lucas and Sean and AK and Hunter, it's the next generation of players, so it's going to be fun to be a part of a team that's young like that. But also we've got Kenny, who's, I think, 49 now. I think we've got just a great mix of players, and also that young generation, I think that it's a great way for them to gain experience for future Ryder Cups and future Presidents Cups because the generation you can see the generation is leaving us now with Freddie and Davis not making the team; they're at that age that they're not going to be a part of the teams. They've been a part of the teams for 12, 14 years. So this is another generation of players, so it's going to be fun to be a part of that.

Q. Obviously Freddie is the captain and he's been a familiar face here at this tournament and won't be here for the first time. Talk about playing for Freddie. And then also, you're pretty close with Jordan. What do you think he'll bring as an assistant captain to the table?
TIGER WOODS: As far as Freddie, I'm looking forward to it. I'm looking forward to seeing how Freddie speaks in front of all of us, because as you all know, Freddie starts in one direction and ends in another. That will be interesting to see what kind of tangents he goes on, because it's never straight and narrow with him. He goes off in all different directions. So that part will be fun.
As far as what Michael will bring, a lot of BS, absolutely. (Laughter.)
It'll be fun. I've been a part of several Ryder Cup teams where Michael has come in and hung out with us a couple nights here and there. But he's never been instrumental in being a part of the team. So this will be different. I think this will be a lot of fun. A lot of the guys are looking forward to getting to know him. Geez, he's one of the probably him and Muhammad Ali are two of the greatest athletes that have ever lived, so it'll be fun for our entire team to hang out with him.

Q. I know Greg alluded to the earlier date for the Chevron tournament. Can you talk about why that was important for you and what went into getting those earlier dates?
TIGER WOODS: Well, I think that's just kind of how it all it kind of unfolded. We wanted to have an earlier date because we wanted to get away from Christmas. Everyone wants to have their holidays open and free, and we were bumping pretty close to Christmas, and guys have their commitments with their families. Other players were playing down in Sun City, and also some of the Aussies are playing down in Australia, so they've got to support their Tour. The more we can get away from Christmas and the holidays, the more guys will show, and I think this is one of the reasons why we have a strong field this year.

Q. You look a little tired; I don't know if that's the case or not. Has this season been maybe more exhausting and more of a grind than others, or did the kids keep you up late last night?
TIGER WOODS: Yeah, I am a little bit tired, there's no doubt. I am running on a little bit of fumes. I didn't sleep very well last night. Got up early this morning. That's what happens when you have a crying baby, I guess.
It has been a long year, absolutely it's been a long year, because I've had to train harder than normal just to come back to playing, and then a lot of golf at the end of the season. There was seven out of nine weeks I believe it was I played.

Q. I was wondering if you could talk about the tournament in LA next year, the fact that Jerry West is now involved, and if you've heard from him. And also the fact that you're now going to be playing in your own tournament this year, does that mean you're not going to be hanging out with us again during the event?
TIGER WOODS: Yeah, I've got some correspondence with Jerry, and he's certainly made it known that he wants me to play the event. And unfortunately, yeah, I can't hang out with you guys. I've got to play the event. Sorry.
THE MODERATOR: Thank you, all. Tiger, thank you.

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The soon-to-be sold-out, star-studded event will primarily assist Nourish America, a nationwide non-profit organization that provides nutrient-rich foods and products to impoverished American children, families, pregnant moms, and seniors and others so they may live healthy, productive lives. Additional tournament proceeds will assist other MLMIA-sanctioned charitable causes.

The tournament is presented by corporate sponsors Biometics, Inc., an advanced nutritional supplements provider based in Camarillo, Calif.; REACTOR Watch, LP, an innovative manufacturer and seller of stainless steel sports watches; and "Fireball Tim" Lawrence, world-renowned designer of customized vehicles featured in major Hollywood studio films, cable and television series, and Web projects.

"The Malibu Golf Classic is always a strongly-attended and MLM industry-supported event that is fun and exciting for members, non-members, and special guests alike, and one which annually generates significant proceeds for Nourish America and other worthy causes," said Ted Silverberg, president of the MLMIA, and president and chief executive officer of MLMIA member Biometics in Camarillo. Silverberg is a long-time resident of Malibu, and a senior executive with long-standing ties to Camarillo and other business communities within Ventura County. "This year's tournament will certainly be no different. With its impressive slate of corporate and individual sponsors on board, and a projected full field of 144 players, appearance commitments from numerous celebrities and sports personalities, thousands of dollars in prizes and auction items, and a remarkable entertainment line-up, the 2009 Malibu Golf Classic is poised to be the most successful tournament ever staged in its illustrious 17-year history. This success is clearly a testament to the financial viability and sustainability of the MLM sector, even during recessionary periods, and the broad following which this tournament has attracted over the years."

"The Malibu Golf Classic is another exceptional, well-orchestrated event in a growing series of prominent MLMIA industry showcases that seek to solicit consistent, robust involvement of greater numbers of members," said Doris Wood, co-founder, chairman and president emeritus of the MLMIA, and a highly-regarded MLM industry pioneer and executive. "In addition, the tournament also serves as a critical component of the association's ongoing strategic efforts to recruit new MLM companies, distributors, and suppliers into the MLMIA family, and as a solid communications vehicle for emphasizing the value and benefits of MLMIA participation."

Tournament Schedule

The Malibu Golf Classic begins promptly at 10:00 a.m. PDT with attendee sign-in and registration, a pre-tournament putting contest, and access to locker room and practice facilities. The tournament begins at 12:00 p.m. PDT with a shotgun start. Play will conclude at 5:30 p.m. PDT, with the post-tournament festivities slated to commence at 6:00 p.m. PDT.

Tournament Format and Prizes

To maximize fun and participation for all players, the format of the Malibu Golf Classic is a four-person scramble, in which every member of a group tees off on a given hole, and then the team decides which of those four shots is best. The foursome members then play their seconds shots from within a club length of where the best tee ball has come to rest, and this procedure is repeated until the hole is completed.

In addition, all tournament participants are eligible to participate in multiple long-drive and closest-to-the-pin contests, one of each which will be staged on the front nine and the back nine at Malibu Country Club.

Top-performing individual golfers and teams will receive great prizes, including state-of-the-art Apple® products, gift cards to major retailers, and vacations to exciting destinations such as Lake Tahoe, for qualifying long drives, closest-to-the-pin results, and gross and net team scores.

Post-Tournament Festivities and Awards Ceremony

Once off the course, tournament attendees will be treated to musical entertainment from local bands, a display of Hollywood movie cars designed by "Fireball Tim" Lawrence, a live auction featuring lavish prize and vacation packages, a sumptuous sit-down dinner, the closing awards ceremony, and a 50th-birthday tribute to MLMIA President Ted Silverberg.

Pricing, Availability and Contact Information

The Malibu Golf Classic is one of the most affordable and value-packed charity golf tournaments in Southern California. Individual tournament slots, which include amazing tee prizes, golf, entertainment, and food and beverage on and off the course, are just $99 per person. The cost to attend the dinner and awards ceremony is just $25 per person.

Tournament spots are limited, and the event is certain to sell out. Individuals interested in registering for the 17th annual Malibu Golf Classic should contact Ted Silverberg at (805) 383-3535, or by e-mail at ted@biometics.com. Golfers may also sign up by visiting http://www.mlmia.com/events.aspx, and then clicking on the registration link.

Local Malibu and Ventura County businesses interested in advertising and sponsorship packages may contact Ted Silverberg at (805) 383-3535, or by e-mail at ted@biometics.com.

Malibu Country Club: A World-Class Venue

Designed by world-renowned golf course architect, William Francis Bell, Jr. (i.e., Billy Bell, Jr.) in the late 1970's, Malibu Country Club is a challenging championship-caliber, par-72 layout nestled in the rugged and beautiful canyons of the Santa Monica Mountains. Measuring almost 6,700 yards from the back tees, and meandering through natural, chaparral-covered terrain capped by red rock formations, the course poses a formidable but fair test to golfers of all skill levels, and offers stunning views of natural wildlife and the surrounding countryside from many elevated tee positions. In addition, the design is a favorite of both local and visiting golfers alike for its affordable green fees, superb year-round conditioning, and favorable, moderate sun-drenched weather. Malibu Country Club is a full-service public golf facility which annually hosts more than 100 tournaments presented by corporations, professional associations, non-profits, and private groups, and over 10,000 individual players each year. For more information about Malibu Country Club and its numerous amenities, please visit http://www.malibucountryclub.net.

Nourish America: Providing Nourishing Food and supplements to Those in Need

Nourish America is an award-winning 501(c)(3) organization committed to improving the health of those in need through nutritional supplements, nourishing foods, and health education. Every day, 30,000 children, 34,000 low-income senior citizens, and 12,000 National Guard throughout America receive nutrition through Nourish America programs. The organization also provides nutritional support to evacuees, victims, and emergency workers during domestic disasters. Nourish America has received high fiscal management ratings three years in a row from Charity Navigator, the nation's leading charity watchdog organization. Independent audits of Nourish America's finances show that over 94% of all donations go directly to programs and those served. Donations can be made online at http://www.nourishamerica.org, or through Chance to Give Foundation's (http://www.chancetogive.com) iPhone® charity app.

VENTURA, Calif. -- The Ventura County Junior Golf Association
(VCJGA) will host the inaugural Mike Andonian Scholarship Fund Golf
Tournament on Monday, October 26 at Las Posas Country Club in Camarillo.
The tournament and scholarship fund is named in memory of Mike
Andonian, a teacher and golf coach at Ventura High School who founded the
VCJGA in 1967. Andondian passed away in 2007 at the age of 81. All net
proceeds from the tournament will go entirely to fund the Mike Andonian
Scholarship Fund which will annually provide financial aid to college bound
members of the VCJGA
Entry fee is $200 per person or $750 per foursome, which also
includes tee prizes, on course contests, and buffet dinner.
"The tournament and the renaming of the scholarship fund will insure
Mike is forever linked with the VCJGA and that his legacy will continue to
live on through this organization," says board member Bruce Beck who is
organizing the event.
For more information about the tournament, scholarship fund or the
VCJGA, please call Bruce Beck at (805) 777-7971.
The VCJGA is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization established to
develop boys and girls golf skills and character by providing quality
competitive golf events that merit integrity and honor the traditions of the
game of golf. The VCJGA is one of California's oldest Junior Golf Programs
operating year-round. TaylorMade Adidas Golf Company is the official ball
and apparel provider of the VCJGA.