Charitee Golf in the news:

Solon firm aims for an ace with hole-in-one device
	Dan Quigg describes VeriShot with three words: Excitement, revenue and promotion. The Solon company, formerly called Charitee Golf, aims to bring those three things to golf courses nationwide in 2009, when it plans to begin a national rollout for its hole-in-one monitoring technology, said Mr. Quigg, VeriShot CEO.
	Date: May 12, 2008	>> Read the Complete Story

Name Change Announcement
	Charitee Golf, a leading provider of hole-in-one monitoring systems today announced that the company has been rebranded as VeriShot. The change eliminates any confusion over the company status as a for-profit entity and more fully describes what the system does and the program it offers.
	Date: April 22, 2008	>> Read the Complete Story

Welk Golf Course - San Diego News 10
	Featured news clip on San Diego News 10 talking about the recently installed Charitee Golf Hole-In-One monitoring system
	Date: Sept 14th, 2007	>> View the Clip

Charitee Golf gains more dollars
	Charitee Golf now has nearly $1 million to help expand its high-tech system for conducting hole-in-one contests to as many golf courses as possible. The Solon company, which provides golf courses with video-monitoring systems for hole-in-one contests, two weeks ago closed a deal to receive $200,000 from North Coast Angel Fund LLC and another $100,000 from individual investors in the group. The company also has raised about $500,000 from other angel investors, another term for wealthy individuals, in addition to $300,000 it got in March 2006 from JumpStart Inc., a nonprofit that finances new technology companies
	Date: May 2nd, 2007	>> Read the Complete Story

IMG Invests in Charitee Golf - Course Monitors
	Cleveland sports and talent marketing agency IMG is taking a swing with a homegrown golf business. IMG will invest in Charitee Golf Hole-in-One Monitoring System in Cleveland, said the system's creator, Mike Burkons. Both Burkons and an IMG spokeswoman declined to give the terms. JumpStart Inc., the Cleveland economic development organization and early stage investor, got IMG and Burkons together. "We brokered the first meeting," said Thom Ruhe, JumpStart's chief marketing officer.
	Date: Aug 26, 2005	>> Read the Complete Story

An Ace that Really Pays
	As if Manakiki Golf Course, the Cleveland Metroparks gem in Willoughby, didn't offer enough amenities to daily-fee players, now it pays a cool grand when players ace No. 7, the downhill par 3 that plays around 150 yards. Last year, on one of the first days of the program, a player aced the hole and won a thousand dollars. If the player had purchased an upgrade ticket for $1, his shot would have won him a trip to Las Vegas and $500 worth of golf at Manakiki plus a Nike bag with Nike sticks. The package had a value of $2,500.
	Date: Apr 18, 2005	>> Read the Complete Story

Hole-in-one for Entrepreneur
	When Mike Burkons was in college, he got together with his buddies every week to play golf. Their favorite course offered a sport utility vehicle to golfers who got a hole-in-one. He was never so lucky, but someone else was. The next year, the SUV was gone and so was the hole-in-one contest. And the golf course's business dropped off. Burkons, now 29, never forgot the contest's popularity and how it had given the golf course a leg up on its competition. Over the years, his curiosity turned to conviction: Technology could solve the contests' limitations so that every golfer could
	Date: Apr 24, 2005	>> Read the Complete Story

County to aid entrepreneurs
	The Cuyahoga County Board of Commissioners has allocated $1 million in product development loans this year for local entrepreneurs and companies. The loans will be distributed after a competitive process in which a committee of business leaders reviews and assesses applications. Camp Inc., a nonprofit that assists manufacturers with product development, is administering the program. The review committee includes representatives from Camp, the county, nonprofit investment company JumpStart Inc. and motion-and-controls company Parker Hannifin Corp.
	Date: Jan 16, 2006	>> Read the Complete Story

Ohio - Actions news 19
	Features news clip from Action News 19 displaying one of our eariler prototype systems installed at little mountain golf course.
	Date: Jan 16, 2006	>> View the video