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VH1's 'Fairway to Heaven '02' Brings Together Pro Golfers, Rock Stars, Celebrities and Other Duffers in Miami For 8th Annual Tournament, Airing On VH1 Saturday, April 27, at 12:00 P.M. (ET/PT)
NEW YORK, Mar 7, 2002 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The top stars of music and golf will drive for show and putt for dough when VH1's annual celebrity pro-am tournament tees off for "Fairway to Heaven '02." Benefiting the VH1 Save The Music Foundation, the eighth annual two-day golf event will be taped March 9- 11 at the challenging Blue Monster course at The Doral Golf Resort & Spa in Miami.
"Fairway to Heaven '02" will air on a special three-hour edition of VH1's "Top 18 Countdown," Saturday, April 27, at 12:00 p.m. (ET/PT), featuring the 18 biggest music videos of the week, plus a celebrity guest, and highlights from the tournament and the celebrity golf skills competition.
The world's only rock & roll golf tournament, "Fairway to Heaven '02" teams celebrities from the worlds of music, television and film with top professional golfers. Alice Cooper, Bon Jovi's Tico Torres, Meat Loaf, Tommy Lee, Backstreet Boys' AJ McLean and Brian Littrell, Vince Neil of Motley Crue, Hootie & The Blowfish's Mark Bryan, Dean Felber, Darius Rucker and Jim "Soni" Sonefeld, sax great Clarence Clemons of the E Street Band, Queensryche's Geoff Tate and Michael Wilton, Branford Marsalis, Lawrence Taylor, Judd Nelson, Dweezil Zappa, Lisa Loeb, Molly Culver, Kyle Maclachan and Eddie Cibrian are among the celebrity duffers who will tee off with PGA stars John Cook, John Daly, Peter Jacobsen, Scott Simpson, Woody Austin, Brian Bateman, Cameron Beckman, Joe Durant, Brian Gay, Jeff Gove, Kent Jones, Bob Heintz J.L. Lewis, Blaine McCallister, Pat Perez, Chris Riley, Chris Smith, Bo Van Pelt, Boo Weekly, Craig Stadler, Fulton Allem, and Tommy Armour III.
The annual "Fairway to Heaven" pro-am celebrity golf tournament event benefits the VH1 Save The Music Foundation, which is dedicated to restoring music education programs in cities across America and raising awareness of the importance of music participation for our nation's youth.