Las Vegas' Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge To Feature Two PGA Champions Tour Rookies at Rio Secco Golf Club

September 30, 2010--The Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge, a Las Vegas golf tournament that features 3-golfer teams from the PGA Tour, LPGA Tour, and Champions Tour playing against each other, is back at Las Vegas' Rio Secco Golf Club. And the management of the event announced yesterday that the Champions Tour team will be Bernhard Langer, Kenny Perry and Nick Price. Price is a Wendy's 3-Tour veteran, but both Perry and Langer will be making their first appearances, kind of. Perry did play in 2008 but as a member of the PGA Tour team, while Langer has never played in the event. --By Brian Hurlburt.

The PGA Tour team was announced a couple of weeks ago and is scheduled to be United States Ryder Cup team members Dustin Johnson and Bubba Watson, plus 2008 Ryder Cupper Boo Weekly. The defending champion of the Wendy's is the LPGA Tour team of Suzann Petterson, Natalie Gulbis and Christie Kerr. Those close to the event say that it is quite possible that the same three LPGA Tour golfers will be back to defend their title. Gulbis is a Las Vegas resident who also works with Butch Harmon at Las Vegas' Butch Harmon School of Golf, located at Rio Secco Golf Club. The LPGA Tour has won the tournament in two of the last three years.

Rio Secco Golf Club is a resort Las Vegas golf course owned and operated by Harrah's Entertainment, and is open to all Las Vegas golfers. Rio Secco was designed by the legendary Rees Jones, and is the sister course to Las Vegas' Cascata, another Rees Jones resort Las Vegas golf course that has been rated 29 out of 30 in a ZAGAT survey. Rio Secco is also the home of the beautiful T-Mates, female caddies, who are available for your round at Rio Secco. Click now to reserve your tee times in Las Vegas at Rio Secco or to view special Las Vegas golf packages. Some Wendy's events take place at Cascata.

The Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge has been played at Las Vegas' Rio Secco since 2008, and has been played in the Las Vegas Golf Region since 1996, when it was played at Lake Las Vegas Resort, where Gulbis lives. In the past, the tournament has been televised tape delayed on ABC in December, but this year, the event will be shown on The Golf Channel on the same day of the actual competition, November 9. But the Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge is actually several days of special events that take place to raise money and awareness for the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. Click now to view how you can become a part of this special Las Vegas golf event experience.

The Champions Tour team will come into the event looking very strong. Langer is enjoying another dominant season on the Champions Tour. His five victories in 2010 include two Major Championships and he is currently ranked No. 1 on the Money List. He also looks poised to be named as the Tour's Player of the Year. Having turned 50 in August, Perry returns to the Wendy’s 3-Tour Challenge as a member of the Champions Tour team. The Kentucky native and 14-time winner on the PGA TOUR has been a member of two Ryder Cup teams (2004 and 2008) and four Presidents Cup teams (1996, 2003, 2005, and 2009) during his more than 25 years as a professional.

Price is a world-wide golf icon who has recorded 18 PGA TOUR and 24 international victories since turning professional in 1977. He has won three major championships (1992 and 1994 PGA Championships and the 1994 British Open Championship) and was the PGA TOUR Player of the Year and leading money winner in 1993 and 1994. Price has been a member of the last three Champions Tour teams at this tournament, including in 2008 when the Champions Tour won.

This nationally-televised event benefits the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption is a non-profit 501(c)(3) public charity dedicated to increasing the adoptions of the more than 159,000 children in North America’s foster care system. Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy’s® Old Fashioned Hamburgers, created the Foundation in 1992 in support of his vision that every child deserves a permanent home and a loving family. The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption focuses on increasing foster care adoption awareness while supporting model adoption service programs. Other events for amateurs during the week include a golf clinice with Butch Harmon, an official pro-am with the Wendy's participants and other top tour pros, plus several parties and other fun.