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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Fred Funk, Jay Haas and John Cook Light Up the List of Returning
Champions to the 29th Annual AT&T Championship
Toledo, Elkington, Mediate and Montgomerie highlight newcomers in the field
At a glance:
 Past champions Fred Funk, Jay Haas and John Cook highlight newest commitments of the 2013
AT&T Championship
 Champions Tour rookies Esteban Toledo, Steve Elkington, Rocco Mediate and Colin Montgomerie
have also joined the field
 The AT&T Championship is slated for Mon., Oct. 21, through Sun., Oct. 27, with days of
Championship play from Friday through Sunday at TPC San Antonio’s AT&T Canyons Course
October 9, 2013 (SAN ANTONIO) – The AT&T Championship announced seven new commitments to the
field of golfers for the 2013 tournament. They include past champions Fred Funk, Jay Haas and John Cook
and newcomers Esteban Toledo, Steve Elkington, Rocco Mediate and Colin Montgomerie. The Champions
Tour event is slated for October 21-27, 2013 at TPC San Antonio’s AT&T Canyons Course.
The 2006 champion, Fred Funk, is currently ranked fifteenth in the Charles Schwab Cup rankings with 868
points. With 9 PGA Tour wins and sixteen Champions Tour wins, Jay Haas, the 2005 champion, will return to
the AT&T Championship. He sits at spot 17 on the Schwab Cup rankings. Two-time AT&T Championship
champion (2007, 2008), John Cook, is ready to return to San Antonio seeking a third title. He holds eighth
place on the Schwab Cup leaderboard.
Tour newcomer Esteban Toledo will come into San Antonio on a roll with two wins in his rookie season on
the Champions Tour. He is one slot behind John Cook in the race for the Schwab Cup. Australian Steve
Elkington will ride into town in his two-story trailer, affectionately named The Big Show. Elkington amassed
10 wins while on the PGA Tour. Rocco Mediate and Colin Montgomerie have also joined the field of players,
and currently hold 12th and 39th spaces on the Schwab Cup rankings, respectively.
Tickets are currently being sold through the Champions FORE Charity ticket program for $10 and will be
sold at the gates on the days of Championship Play (Fri., Oct. 25 – Sun., Oct. 27) for $20.
For information on the 2013 AT&T Championship, visit www.attchamp.com or call 210.698.3582. Follow
AT&T Championship on Twitter and Facebook.
About AT&T
AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) is a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates, AT&T operating companies, are the
providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. Among their offerings are the world's most advanced IPbased business communications services and the nation's leading wireless, high speed Internet access and voice services. In
domestic markets, AT&T is known for the directory publishing and advertising sales leadership of its Yellow Pages and
YELLOWPAGES.COM organizations, and the AT&T brand is licensed to innovators in such fields as communications equipment. As
part of its three-screen integration strategy, AT&T is expanding its TV entertainment offerings. In 2008, AT&T again ranked No. 1 on
Fortune magazine's World's Most Admired Telecommunications Company list and No. 1 on America's Most Admired
Telecommunications Company list. Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T
subsidiaries and affiliates is available at www.att.com.
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About Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent provides communications solutions to telecommunication carriers, Internet service providers and enterprises for
delivery of voice, data and video applications to their customers or employees. Alcatel brings its leading position in fixed and mobile
broadband networks, applications and services, to help its partners and customers build a user-centric broadband world. With sales
of EURO 13.1 billion and 58,000 employees in 2005, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. For more information, visit Alcatel
on the Internet: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com.
About the Champions Tour
Collectively, the Champions Tour has the most recognizable and accomplished players in the game with many of its 32 members of
the World Golf Hall of Fame competing regularly in its events and numerous other major championship winners among its
members. The Champions Tour is a membership organization of professional golfers age 50 and older. Conceived in 1980 as the
Senior PGA Tour, it started with just four events and purses totaling $475,000. Points earned in 26 official Charles Schwab Cup
events in 2013 will determine the Charles Schwab Cup champion, the season-long competition designed to recognize the
Champions Tour’s leading player. The Champions Tour's primary purpose is to provide financial opportunities for its players,
entertain and inspire its fans, deliver substantial value to its partners, create outlets for volunteers to give back, protect the
integrity of the game and generate significant charitable and economic impact in communities in which it plays. In 2012,
tournaments on all five Tours (PGA TOUR, Champions Tour, Web.com Tour, PGA TOUR Latinoamerica, PGA TOUR Canada)
generated more than $130 million for local charitable organizations, bringing the TOUR’s all-time total of charitable contributions to
more than $1.85 billion. The Commissioner of the PGA TOUR is Tim Finchem. Mike Stevens is President of the Champions Tour. The
PGA TOUR’s website is pgatour.com, the No. 1 site in golf, and the organization is headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL. Follow
the Champions Tour at facebook.com/ChampionsTour and on Twitter @ChampionsTour.
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