Energy Transfer will partner with the ClubCorp Classic PGA TOUR Champions/celebrity golf tournament as a primary sponsor, officials announced today. The April 19-24 event at Las Colinas Country Club is a $2.5 million competition featuring the world's best over-50 players from the PGA TOUR Champions playing together with top sports and entertainment personalities. All three days of competition will be televised on GOLF Channel.

Energy Transfer specializes in the transportation, storage and terminalling of natural gas, natural gas liquids, crude oil and refined products. Since its founding in 1996 by Executive Chairman Kelcy Warren and Ray Davis, the company has made itself one of the largest infrastructure companies in North America with nearly 120,000 miles of pipelines and related assets traversing 41 states, and an international office in Beijing as well as plans to open an office in Panama. In conjunction with the Energy Transfer sponsorship, Annika Sörenstam, the greatest player in the history of women's golf, will kick off the week's activities with a special-event golf clinic for children from The First Tee of Greater Dallas and The First Tee of Fort Worth on Tuesday, April 19, at 4 p.m. The clinic will be combined with a salute to Annika and her special relationship with the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex on the 19th anniversary of her epic endeavor to compete against the greatest male players in the world at the 2003 Bank of America Colonial PGA TOUR event.

That May, she made history and established a benchmark in the women's movement for greater equality in sports. Though she did not make the cut, her effort has had a lasting effect on professional golf, with Annika walking away with immense honor and respect from sports fans around the globe.