CORRECTED: Ameris Bank named title sponsor of Flagler College President's Golf Classic

ST. AUGUSTINE, FL (03/10/2014)(readMedia)-- Flagler College has announces that Ameris Bank will be the title sponsor for the 2014 President's Golf Classic to be held on Sept. 26 at The Players Club Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra.

The event will follow the Crimson & Gold Athletics Banquet on Sept. 25 in the Ponce de Leon Dining Hall.

Among the guests for this year's event will be three-time Major League Baseball All-Star Ken Griffey, Sr. Griffey won two World Series championships with the Cincinnati Reds in 1975 and 1976.

The athletics banquet and golf tournament raised more $100,000 for athletics scholarships in 2013.

For more information on the tournament or to register as a sponsor or player, visit www.flagler.edu/golftournament.

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Flagler College is an independent, four-year, comprehensive baccalaureate college located in St. Augustine, Fla. The college offers 29 majors, 34 minors and two pre-professional programs, the largest majors being business, education and communication. Small by intent, Flagler College has an enrollment of about 2,500 students, as well as a satellite campus at Tallahassee Community College in Tallahassee, Fla. A Flagler education is less than half the cost of similar private colleges, and competitive with many state universities. A relatively young institution (founded in 1968), Flagler College is also noted for its historic beauty. The centerpiece of the campus is the former Hotel Ponce de Leon, a grand resort built in 1888 by Henry M. Flagler, industrialist, railroad pioneer and co-founder of Standard Oil. The Ponce has been designated as a National Historic Landmark. For more on Flagler College, visit www.flagler.edu.