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Company Profile

November 24, 1995

GolfWeb is the Internet’s premier golf Web site. Winner of the 1995 GNN (Global Network Navigator) Best of the Net award for Best Professional Sports Site, GolfWeb is committed to providing "Everything Golf on the World Wide Web!" GolfWeb offers something for everyone with an interest in golf, from the latest professional tournament scores, to extensive course information, to an online pro shop.

GolfWeb was first envisioned in June 1994 by Ed Pattermann, now president and CEO of GolfWeb. His goal was to create a Web site where golf lovers could come for golf information and services in every category and to communicate with other golfers. The other principals in the Cupertino, CA based company are: Cynthia Typaldos, chief operating officer and vice president of business development; Bob Vieraitis, vice president of marketing and sales; and Kevin Klier, director of golf company sales.

GolfWeb received initial seed funding in December 1994 and was launched in January 1995. Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), a top-tier venture capital firm, and Stanford University provided first round funding. Geoff Yang, the IVP partner responsible for the investment in GolfWeb, has had great success with other start-ups including SynOptics, Centillion, and Wellfleet Communications (purchased by Synoptics earlier this year).

GolfWeb has experienced tremendous success since it first debuted on the Internet. The Web site averages 180,000 accesses per weekday by readers in more than 65 countries. This number more than triples during major tournaments, when GolfWeb reports live from the event with up to the minute scores, photos and other tournament information.

GolfWeb is organized into several different sections for quick and easy access to information. The major sections are:

What’s New, Tour Action and OnCourse are GolfWeb’s most popular sections. GolfWeb is continuing to enhance Tour Action, recently adding coverage for a sixth professional tour, and is planning international course expansion to the OnCourse database. GolfWeb is also adding entire new sections such as golf-related classifieds, golf instruction, a premier club, and interactive chat sessions. Guiding GolfWeb’s rapid expansion is an experienced team of engineering, publishing, marketing and golf professionals. GolfWeb has recruited Harvard, MIT, Stanford, University of Chicago and UC Berkeley educated talent from leading edge Silicon Valley companies. GolfWeb’s President, COO and VP of Marketing are all experienced software and Internet marketing professionals from Sun Microsystems. The GolfWeb engineering group includes a former member of the Sun Microsystems Java development team. A 10 year veteran of Golf Digest, Stu Schneider leads the editorial staff which includes the best golf writers from around the world. And, GolfWeb’s ambassador to the golf world is Grant Spaeth, former president of the USGA and member of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club, St. Andrews, Scotland.

With a business model based on advertising, services and product revenue, GolfWeb is free to the reader. GolfWeb has already attracted advertisers such as 3Com, Alien Sport, Callaway Golf, Cleveland Golf, Karsten Manufacturing (makers of Ping), Motorola, NEC, Odyssey Golf, and Tommy Armour Golf. Other revenue sources will include the Premier Club and Services, the GolfWeb Pro Shop, and classifieds and interactive services.

GolfWeb has received recognition from national and international business, computer and golf media. Within the Internet community, numerous Internet browser programs, including the retail version of Netscape and Prodigy’s browser, contain GolfWeb as the standard golf bookmark. GolfWeb is prominently featured in Yahoo and is catalogued by all of the major internet directories and search engines. This visibility, along with GolfWeb’s own marketing program, has spurred 20% per month growth in readership.

GolfWeb is a member of the National Golf Foundation and of CommerceNet, a worldwide consortium of businesses with a charter to develop, maintain and endorse an Internet-based infrastructure for electronic commerce.

GolfWeb can be accessed through all major online service providers including America Online, Compuserve, MSN and Prodigy, any Internet service provider such as Netcom, PSI or UUnet and, in Japan, via PC-VAN and Nifty-serve.

Help Wanted

GolfWeb is looking for talented individuals in the following areas: If you have experience in any of these areas, are really really really interested in Golf, and want to be part of the Best Professional Sports Site on the Web, please send an e-mail with your qualifications to employment@golfweb.com. Thanks.

GolfWeb Email Contact Information

Copyrights, Trademarks and Disclaimer of Warranty

GolfWeb is the ongoing result of the work of many dedicated hard-working people. Although there is no charge to the reader to use a Web browser to view and read anything contained in GolfWeb, all the information on GolfWeb, including text, artwork, logos and graphic design are copyrighted by GolfWeb. No permission is granted to make permanent copies of the information or to reproduce or transmit without the express written permission of GolfWeb. Permission is granted to make temporary copies of this information while using GolfWeb to the extent required by your Web browser.

How to Use GolfWeb

Using is GolfWeb is easy. A series of pages are linked together in a hierarchy described below. Any highlighted text or graphics are clickable, meaning if you click them with your mouse, you will go to that section. The text or picture will change color just to denote that you've already gone that route. To go back to the previous page you were on, use the "Back" button that is available on your Web browser. A button is included at the bottom of every page which will take you back to the GolfWeb main page.

GolfWeb is organized into the sections described above in the Profile.

Golf Associations

GolfWeb is pleased to grant to any USGA-accredited golf association or club free space on GolfWeb to publish a club newsletter, a tournament schedule, member lists, index information and contact phone numbers. If your association is interested, please send email to editor@golfweb.com.

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