Summerhays signs deal with Promontory

PARK CITY— PGA Champions Tour professional Bruce Summerhays and Promontory — The Ranch Club, a private ranch club community in Park City, have reached a partnership agreement.

Under the provisions of the agreement, Promontory will be Summerhays' new "home club" and this new affiliation will be announced at all of the events he participates in on the PGA Champions Tour. Summerhays' shirts and golf bag will proudly feature the Promontory - The Ranch Club logo.

In addition, Summerhays will attend select Promontory events and conduct a Junior Golf Clinic this summer. As a board member of the Utah Junior Golf Association, Summerhays creates a direct link between junior competitors and Promontory, which prides itself on its commitment to family recreation.

"Bruce Summerhays is a wonderful addition to our Promontory team," said Rich Sonntag, Promontory's Managing Director. "Bruce has established a tremendous record as a player and coach at the collegiate and professional levels, and more importantly, he epitomizes the same commitment to excellence and focus on family which are so central to the Promontory vision."

Promontory, developed by Pivotal Group of Phoenix, Ariz., boasts 10-square miles of a recreational second-home community offering spectacular mountain and golf views, more than 50 miles of hiking, biking and snowshoe trails and up to five planned 18-hole championship golf courses, the first of which, the Pete Dye Canyon Golf Course, opened last summer, and the second of which, the Jack Nicklaus Valley Golf Course, is presently under design.

Summerhays, who owns two PGA Champions Tour victories, has earnings of more than $6 million in eight full seasons on the PGA Champions Tour and is known as the Tour's "Ironman" for competing in a record 38 of 39 official events in 1996.

Summerhays, a collegiate All-America at the University of Utah, was inducted into the University of Utah Athletic Hall of Fame in 1998 and the Utah Golf Hall of Fame last year. He was twice selected Rocky Mountain PGA Section Player of the Year. Summerhays' daughter, Carrie, was an All-America golfer at Brigham Young University and now plays on the LPGA Tour.

As a kid, Summerhays enjoyed fishing the mountain lakes and rivers surrounding Promontory.