Nearly 26.000 visitors confirm RHEINGOLF as the biggest public golf show in Europe. Again exhibitor record. Standing ovation at Rheingolf Awards Ceremony 

Pulheim/Cologne, March 2007 – With nearly 26.000 visitors, RHEINGOLF 2007 achieved again the high level of visitor numbers of the previous year. RHEINGOLF – the German Golf Show confirms therefore impressively its position as market leader among the European public golf shows. Moreover, the exhibitors were very satisfied by their participation during the three days of the show. Michael Jacoby, CEO - Rheingolf : “RHEINGOLF remains the market leader within the German and European golf shows. We have proved this again impressively this year. “  

Again exhibitor record With more than 220 stands RHEINGOLF achieved a new exhibitor record again in its ninth year. More than 500 national and international exhibitors presented on a 18.400 sqm surface in hall 8 of the Koelnmesse a complete range of products from the golf sport and golf tourism sector. Along the 160 m long RHEINGOLF Boulevard, golfers and travellers found a lot of information sources about top holiday destinations for golfers. The Boulevard was therefore for those three days Europe’s biggest golf travel shop for top national and international destinations within the four and five star sector. 

Brisk SalesThe visitors took again advantage of RHEINGOLF as the biggest European golf shop for the weekend. There was never before a large offer on the already enlarged sales surfaces of Karstadt, Kaufhof, GolfHouse, GolfPartner, Hohmann, Fairway Golfshop and many others. Almost overwhelmed were the manufacturers of the Indoor Driving Ranges. The visitors tested as much as they could.  

Event program achieved a high visitor interest In the LTU golf arena, during the Rheingolf Charity event, as well as at the Longest Drive competition and the Nordea Putting Tournament – a high number of visitors made each event to a spectacular one. As in the previous years the manifold event program ensured best entertainment and high visitor numbers. Here, prominent teaching gurus like Don Ross, Heinz-Peter Thül, Paul Dyer and Frank Adamowicz gave tips and hints to the audience for improving their golfing.  

Standing Ovation at the RHEINGOLF AWARDS CeremonyWith 230 invited guests from the golf and golf tourism industries the Rheingolf Awards ceremony took place in the Radisson SAS Hotel in Cologne. Jan Brügelmann, honours president of the German Golf Association (DGV), received the award for the golf book of the year. The presence of Jan Brügelmann was honoured with Standing Ovation by all participants. The VIP Award for special achievements went to the actor Michael Lesch, who is very engaged in the works of the Deutsche Lebensbrücke e.V. The further laureates: Land Fleesensee (National Golf Resort of the Year),K-Club/Irland (International Golf Resort of the Year),Algarve/Portugal (Golf Destination of the Year),Die Welt/GolfSport (Golf editorial team of the Year),and E.P.D. Tour (Innovation).   All over the saying “Oscars of the German golf scene” was heard, and many of the conversations among the top deciders of the golf industry during the after-show party lasted until early in the morning.  

RHEINGOLF CHARITY – presented by Augenzentrum Maus + HeiserThere were also many events with audience participation, such as RHEINGOLF Charity presented by Augenzentrum Maus + Heiser which was followed by many people of the golfing audience. Here, the prevailing world champion Marcel Siem, the former world champion Torsten Gideon as well as the  TourPro Tino Schuster jointly presented the “Nearest to the pin“ contest. The advertised prize for a hole-in-one of 500 € sponsored by the organiser Michael Jacoby came to the benefit of the Deutsche Lebensbrücke e.V. The famous TV actor Michael Lesch received 6.000 € as patron of the Deutsche Lebensbrücke at the Rheingolf Awards Gala Dinner.

2008 Jubilee RHEINGOLF – the German Golf Show celebrates its 10^th jubileeThe next RHEINGOLF takes place from 22^nd till 24^th February 2008 in the Koelnmesse. Rheingolf will then celebrate its 10^th jubilee. Of course, the RHEINGOLF Awards ceremony will take place then again on the Saturday night of RHEINGOLF 2008. 

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Voices about the Awards Dinner and RHEINGOLF 2007 

“This is the Oscars of the German golf industry.”Frank Thonig, a.o. member of the DGV 

”Everything is great. I am completely happy with the Awards Ceremony and glad about the presence of Jan Brügelmann. The standing ovation of the scene were just great.”Perry Einfeld, Managing Director of the golf courses in Land Fleesensee 

“I have spent an atmospheric evening. The who’s who of the golf scene met here and Michael Jacoby and his team can be very proud about what they have organised with the show and the RHEINGOLF Awards.“Stefan Blöcher, Hockey Legend and Managing Director of Golf de Andratx/ Mallorca

 “Golfmagazin likes to give points, and the RHEINGOLF show as well as the RHEINGOLF Awards receive a 10 points out of 10. I am here for the first time and believe that both events were sensational.“Dieter Genske, Chief Editor of the Golfmagazin 

“Very good speeches from prominent people of the golf scene – the Nike team is very satisfied by the show and we look forward to participating again in 2008.”Wolfgang Haas, Nike Golf Germany 

“Such an awards ceremony is very important and I am happy that very special personalities like Jan Brügelmann or Michael Lesch have been honoured adequately here. The show was excellent for us. We contest that the quality of the visitors was very high and we look forward to the RHEINGOLF jubilee in 2008.”Dieter Lindner, Managing Director of Classic Golf Tours and CGT –Golfreisen

 “The Award Ceremony was Premium-Select. The RHEINGOLF team has achieved an amazing job. My compliments.”Thomas Querl, Premium Select, Karstadt Quelle Versicherungen

 “I participated for the first time at RHEINGOLF and I can now understand, why RHEINGOLF is such a big success. Golfers just find everything there.”Stefan Frommann, Sportchef Welt, Welt am Sonntag und GolfSport

 “This is the best golf show I have every seen. And the golf scene has never before experienced an awards ceremony of this kind. I am completely enthusiastic, like every year, actually.”Peter Stollenwerk, MacGregor Golf Germany

 “We are as exhibitors very satisfied with RHEINGOLF 2007. Organisation and management of the show improve every year and the RHEINGOLF team did a great job this year. The golf scene has long waited for such an event like the RHEINGOLF Awards. This is very important. We look forward to 2008!”Michael Bärwald, Powacaddy Germany

 “The individual visitor’s needs are all met at RHEINGOLF, they find everything they wish. This is why RHEINGOLF is such a success. We will gladly come back.”Manfred Thomas, Drive Golfreisen

 “The RHEINGOLF has a leading function in Europe. It is meeting point for all within the golf scene. The atmosphere was excellent, the show great and I wonder how the RHEINGOLF team will manage to top this, but they will definitely imagine something extraordinary again.”Alfred Richter, Kölner Golfwoche, Bergische Golf-Masters

 “RHEINGOLF is a great platform to meet all important people and deciders of the golf industry.”Thomas Hasak, MD BVGA

 “RHEINGOLF gives the opportunity to meet people who do not pass our salons every day.”Christoph Riffel, Bentley Köln

 “I meet more potential clients at RHEINGOLF than anywhere else. Our brand gets more publicity with this show than in any other campaign.”Ludwig Hentschel, Owner of Titec

 “The Rheingolf Awards were great. A very well organised event with a very appealing dinner, and despite seven awards very diverting. Being from Cologne I am obviously glad that the German golf show takes place as “Rheingolf Show“ in Cologne.”Jan Brügelmann, president of honour of the Deutscher Golfverband, DGV

 “Rheingolf its the ideal platform because we meet a very broad golf audience.”  Edith Lange, Augenzentrum Maus+Heiser

 “We participate since nine years. The other golf shows will not for a long time arrive there where Rheingolf is. We look forward to Rheingolf 2008.“ Jens Heck, GolfPartner

 “North Rhine Westphalia is one of our main markets. Rheingolf is our ideal platform. We participated fort he first time in 2007 and are highly satisfied by the organisation and visitor numbers. We will surely come back next year.”Thomas Döbber-Rüther, Managing Director Land Fleesensee

 “Rheingolf is the only golf show we sincerely consider. We have been coming for the last seven years and will definitely come back 2008.”Horst Peffer, Tastevin 

“Here, we can present our product to a large number of customers.” Jochen Griesheimer, Carbon Functions (Mantis-Caddy)