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Oriental Medicine Newspaper

NEWS RELEASE

June 13, 2008
For More Information Contact: Kathleen Rushall Phone: (800) 729-0941

U.S. Open Golf Tournament

The U.S. Open Golf Tournament comes to Southern California for the first time in over sixty years with San Diego's Torrey Pines golf course serving as the venue for the prestigious open championship on June 12-15, 2008. Torrey Pines South Golf Course is only the second truly public golf course to host the U.S. Open, the jewel of the United States Golf Association's (USGA) competitions. It is the first time in its 108-year history that the Open Championship will be played on a city owned, public course. This, second oldest, USGA championship is one of the four major golf championships and the USGA's National Championship. Many of the game's greatest players have won this coveted championship title. Over 300 players and caddies will be trekking over the 7,634-yard South Course, the longest layout in Open history, during the four-day tournament competing for the coveted U. S. Open trophy.

Pacific College of Oriental Medicine will be doing its part by participating in the hospitality and wellness centers providing massage therapy, chiropractic, and acupuncture services for players, caddies, and the more than 6,000 volunteers. Dr. Tom Haines of Pacific College has worked closely over the past 12 months with the wellness center Chairman, Dr. Jeff Polarsky, to provide much of the necessary equipment as well as to help solicit over 60 professional health care providers needed to work the event.

The two wellness centers will provide an estimated 3,000 treatments to those participating in this important event. If this event proves successful, Pacific College will most likely volunteer to help with next year's U.S. Open, which will be held at the Beth Page State Park venue, near its New York campus. Pacific College is the largest Oriental medicine college in the United States with its three campuses located in San Diego, Chicago, and New York. Now, if the U.S. Open committee ever chose a venue near in the Chicago area, it would be a grand slam for the college.

For more information on how Pacific College has participated in the U.S. Open, please call(800) 729-0941, or visit www.PacificCollege.edu.

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