Won A Golf Ball and Expense-Paid Golf Getaway To Pittsburgh
Mayor Ravenstahl attended the American Society of Association Executives Annual Meeting & Exposition in Chicago Saturday and he went prepared with an old-fashioned sales hook to lure businesses and conventions to the city. Ravenstahl is widely known as an avid golfer, so the VisitPittsburgh booth offered attendees a chance to play a round of golf with the semi-celebrity mayor. Winners received a golf ball and had their name entered into a grand-prize drawing for an all-expense-paid golf holiday to our City of Bridges.
“We felt this was an excellent opportunity to showcase our wonderful city,” VisitPittsburgh spokesperson Craig Davis said. “We were all hoping the head of some real big corporation would win the trip.”
But the best laid plans sometimes do go awry, as Mayor Ravenstahl was hotter than hot out on the links. “He just couldn’t loose. There were hardly any winning names in the hat besides his own,” Davis lamented.
Those odds certainly worked in the young mayor’s favor: Pittsburgh’s Mayor Luke Ravenstahl had his own name drawn as the lucky winner of Pittsburgh’s “Meet our Mayor” contest! But since Ravenstahl is already very familiar with all of Pittsburgh’s golf courses, he felt it best to take his golf outing trip at the Koolau Golf Club in Hawaii instead.
“This will be an exceptional chance for me to meet, greet and do business with the wonderful people of Hawaii,” Ravenstahl beamed. “In fact, it might be a first-rate idea to continue the “Meet our Mayor” contest there. You never know what big names we might be able to lure to our great city from that locale.”
Mayor Ravenstahl attended the American Society of Association Executives Annual Meeting & Exposition in Chicago Saturday and he went prepared with an old-fashioned sales hook to lure businesses and conventions to the city. Ravenstahl is widely known as an avid golfer, so the VisitPittsburgh booth offered attendees a chance to play a round of golf with the semi-celebrity mayor. Winners received a golf ball and had their name entered into a grand-prize drawing for an all-expense-paid golf holiday to our City of Bridges.
“We felt this was an excellent opportunity to showcase our wonderful city,” VisitPittsburgh spokesperson Craig Davis said. “We were all hoping the head of some real big corporation would win the trip.”
But the best laid plans sometimes do go awry, as Mayor Ravenstahl was hotter than hot out on the links. “He just couldn’t loose. There were hardly any winning names in the hat besides his own,” Davis lamented.
Those odds certainly worked in the young mayor’s favor: Pittsburgh’s Mayor Luke Ravenstahl had his own name drawn as the lucky winner of Pittsburgh’s “Meet our Mayor” contest! But since Ravenstahl is already very familiar with all of Pittsburgh’s golf courses, he felt it best to take his golf outing trip at the Koolau Golf Club in Hawaii instead.
“This will be an exceptional chance for me to meet, greet and do business with the wonderful people of Hawaii,” Ravenstahl beamed. “In fact, it might be a first-rate idea to continue the “Meet our Mayor” contest there. You never know what big names we might be able to lure to our great city from that locale.”
