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Contact:
Cathleen Kiernan
Smith O’Keefe and Associates
800.222.0461
publicrelations@smithokeefe.com


Smith O’Keefe and Associates Expands Nationwide Client List of Golf Properties

Egg Harbor Twp.,NJ, March 1, 2006 – Regarded as one of the preeminent golf club marketing firms in America with clients in ten states nationwide, Smith O’Keefe and Associates has recently expanded its golf marketing clientele adding two golf management companies with courses and golf destination properties along the east coast as well as a contract with the state of Delaware.

The agency of choice for Forewinds Hospitality, LLC, headquarted in Avondale, Pa., Smith O’Keefe and Associates is providing full-service marketing, public relations and internet services for Forewinds’ five public and private golf properties from Massachusetts to Maryland. As the agency of record for over a year, Smith O’Keefe has served as brand strategist and strategic marketing partner to Forewinds as it acquired five courses during 2005. The Forewinds Hospitality portfolio includes Hartefeld National Golf Club and Inniscrone Golf Club in Avondale, Pa.; Mountain Branch Golf Course, a public daily-fee course and restaurant destination in Joppa, Md.; Sterling Country Club in Sterling, Mass.; and Wentworth Hills Golf Club in Plainville, Mass.

Empire Golf Management, headquartered in Pomona, New York, has retained Smith O’Keefe’s public relations expertise to assist in the re-branding of its management company. Empire Golf is a respected, privately-owned company with six highly acclaimed courses, both public and private stretching from upstate NY to southern NJ including: Branton Woods Golf Club in Hopewell Junction, Dutchess County, NY; Hollow Brook Golf Club, Cortlandt Manor, Westchester County, NY; Minisceongo Golf Club Pomona, Rockland County, NY; New Jersey National Golf Club,Basking Ridge, Somerset County, NJ; Pine Barrens Golf Club,Jackson, Ocean County, NJ; and Pine Hill Golf Club, Pine Hill, Camden County, NJ.

The state of Delaware recently contracted Smith O’Keefe’s golf consulting division, Golf ProfitBuilders, LLC, to assist the state with consulting on RFP preparation for receiving bids to manage and operate the award-winning Deerfield Golf and Tennis Club, recently purchased by the state of Delaware from MBNA America.

“Our organization has amassed a wealth of strategic golf marketing expertise over the past 15 years,” stated Teddie O’Keefe, President. “In an ever increasingly competitive golf market, club owners and management companies are seeking strategic marketing partners to help them increase market share and grow new markets. We are very proud that course owners from all over the country are calling us to help them do that,” she added.

Located in Egg Harbor Township, just outside of Atlantic City, Smith O’Keefe is the largest full-service marketing and communications firm in the region and was also ranked by NJ Biz Magazine among the 15 largest public relations firms in New Jersey in 2004 and 2005. The firm offers specialized expertise in hospitality & tourism, golf and gaming, resort real estate development, as well as financial services and healthcare.

 

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