Brittanys - Lang and Lincicome - join TourPlayers.com
PROVIDENCE, RI — TourPlayers.com announced today that they will be adding members of the LPGA Tour to their roster. The goal of TourPlayers.com is to offer an enhanced media experience for golf fans around the globe. By adding members of the LPGA Tour, TourPlayers.com seeks to build on their audience. The joint venture – centered around a video platform that allows users to easily share videos via YouTube, Twitter and Facebook – provides visitors with more free original video content and social interactivity than ever before. The first two members of the LPGA Tour to join forces with TourPlayers.com are Brittany Lincicome and Brittany Lang. Both ladies have enjoyed great success on their Tour this year finishing at both 6th and 19th on the LPGA Money List, respectively.“We are very excited to expand our group to include some of the world's best on the LPGA Tour,” said Tom Auclair, CEO of TourPlayers.com. “We feel when people get to know these ladies from a social perspective they will regularly come back to view their quality content.”
Beginning in January of 2012 TourPlayers.com will collaborate with members of the LPGA to create unique multimedia content throughout the season to give their audience a look into the lives of professional female golfers. The exclusive features that will be captured along with candid videos from the players themselves will be made available through a social-friendly player housed on TourPlayers.com as well as numerous other sites on the web.
About TourPlayers.com
An exclusive website designed, created and owned in part by professional athletes, TourPlayers.com gives audiences a closer look at the personalities of each individual athlete outside of their game via unique premium content that is available free to all visitors. The site allows visitors to view and share the latest content, access social media feeds and check out player pages. TourPlayers.com is a company majority-owned by PGA Tour players, whose founding partners include Luke Donald, Paul Casey, Justin Rose, Camilo Villegas, Vijay Singh, Steve Marino, Ryuji Imada, Ben Crane and Bo Van Pelt.
About Brittany Lincicome & Brittany Lang
Brittany Lincicome is an American touring pro from Seminole, Florida. She has five wins on the LPGA Tour, including two in 2011 and a major in 2009 - the Kraft Nabisco Championship. Nicknamed “Bam Bam”, Lincicome is the only LPGA player to have finished in the top 3 in driving distance in each of the past 7 years. She enjoys fishing on her boat & playing poker. In 2011, Linicome finished 6th on the LPGA Tour Money List.
Brittany Lang is an American golfer, originally from Richmond, Virginia but grew up in the Dallas, Texas area. In 2011 she had 7 top-10 finishes including a 2nd place finish at the 2011 Ricoh Women’s British Open. An All-American at Duke University, Lang won a total of 6 collegiate tournaments, NCAA Freshman Golfer of the Year honors and a national championship in 2005. Lang is devoted to fitness and in 2011, finished 19th on the LPGA Tour Money List. Both Brittany Lincicome and Brittany Lang were members of this year's US Solheim Cup Team.
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