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The Ultimate Game to be Televised

LAS VEGAS, Nevada – (PRESS RELEASE) -- The Ultimate Game at Wynn Las Vegas will be televised nationally on FOX Sports in 2007. It was announced jointly by Wynn Las Vegas Chairman & CEO Steve Wynn, FOX Sports President Ed Goren, Ultimate Game co-owners Steve Bartkowski and Jim Thomas and Ultimate Game executive producer Terry Jastrow.

The final two rounds of the tournament featuring the richest first place prize in golf history of $2 million will be played at Wynn Las Vegas Golf Course designed by Tom Fazio, June 7-8, 2007.

The Ultimate Game at Wynn Las Vegas is the first golf tournament produced by FOX and will be seen on the network over four hours on Saturday, June 9 and Sunday, June 10.

Co-owners Bartkowski and Thomas also announced the preliminary rounds of The Ultimate Game will be played May 29-June 1 at the Lake Las Vegas Resort -Reflection Bay Golf Club and The Falls Golf Club -- designed by Jack Nicklaus and Tom Weiskopf respectively.

"The Ultimate Game at Wynn Las Vegas is the first golf event we have ever hosted," said Chairman & CEO Steve Wynn. "It provides the ultimate challenge because players will play for the largest winner's purse in golf...a purse they themselves have put up. Right event. Right host venue. Right town. Right network partner. We're pleased and excited to be involved."

"We feel this is another great and unique opportunity for FOX Sports," said FOX Sports President Ed Goren. "Watching these competitors with their own money at stake on a spectacular golf course should make this quite an event for television."

"Steve Bartkowski and Jim Thomas could not ask for better partners than Wynn Las Vegas and FOX in launching this original and compelling new event," said Executive Producer Terry Jastrow.

The winner will receive $2 million, which tops all the other major golf events played during the year -- The Players Championship ($1.44MM), The British Open ($1.215MM), The Tour Championship ($1.170MM), The PGA Championship ($1.170MM), The U.S. Open ($1.125MM), The Masters ($1.080MM). The players will compete for their own entry fees, adding an unprecedented level of risk, pressure and drama.

The Ultimate Game is open to any male or female golfer who has never been a fully-exempt member of the PGA TOUR, PGA European Tour, Champions Tour, or Nationwide Tour. The entry fee is $50,000 per contestant.

The second collaboration of Tom Fazio, Steve Wynn and Mother Nature has resulted in 18 unforgettable holes at the Wynn Las Vegas. The par-70 course is 7,042 yards and located on property on the Las Vegas Strip. More than 800,000 cubic yards of earth were moved to create the dramatic elevation changes considered impossible on the Las Vegas Strip. The course has been featured on VH1's Fabulous Life, Fine Living Network and the Today Show and this will be the first network-televised tournament.

One of the finest television producers and directors of sports, Terry Jastrow, has joined the Ultimate Game at Wynn Las Vegas team. Jastrow, who was instrumental in bringing the event to Wynn Las Vegas, will executive produce the 2007 event on FOX Sports. A winner of seven Emmy Awards, Jastrow has been the executive producer, producer and/or director of some of television's most prestigious and important programs during the last 25 years, including 68 of golf's major championships.

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