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Now celebrating its 16th anniversary, the Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge, benefiting adoption, is the only professional golf tournament that pits three players from the PGA, LPGA and Champions Tours against each other in a head-to-head competition for tour bragging rights and a share of the $1 million dollar purse.

The three PGA TOUR members include Chris DiMarco, Camilo Villegas and Bubba Watson.
DiMarco is one of the most consistent PGA TOUR players of the last decade. He has posted 55 top-10 finishes since 1998, including all three of his career victories. DiMarco has recorded three second place finishes in major championships over the past four years (PGA Championship - 2004, Master - 2005, and British Open - 2006) and competed on two U.S. Ryder Cup (2004 & 2006) and two U.S. Presidents Cup teams (2003 & 2005).

During the 2005 Presidents Cup DiMarco compiled a 4-0-1 record for the victorious United States squad and sank the Cup-clinching putt. This will be DiMarco's first Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge appearance.

Camilo Villegas is making his first appearance at the Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge. He is one of the brightest young stars on the PGA TOUR and has recorded six top-10 finishes so far in 2007, including a runner-up at The Honda Classic. Villegas has a total of three second place finishes since joining the PGA TOUR in 2006 and has two international victories on his resume. The four-time All-American at the University of Florida turned professional in 2004 and played his way onto the PGA TOUR by finishing 13th on the 2005 Nationwide Tour money list.

Camilo Villegas is one of three PGA TOUR Players in the Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge. (WireImage)

Bubba Watson is a rising star on the PGA TOUR. He finished tied for fourth in his first-career PGA TOUR start at the 2006 Sony Open in Hawaii. So far in 2007 he has recorded five top-10 finishes. He held the 54-hole lead at the Shell Houston Open but lost by three strokes to (more) PGA TOUR Team Announced Page 2 October 11, 2007 eventual champion Adam Scott. Watson is currently ranked No.1 in driving distance on the PGA TOUR with a 315.2 yard average. He will be competing in his first Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge this November at Reflection Bay Golf Club at Lake Las Vegas Resort in Henderson, Nevada.

Lake Las Vegas will be hosting the Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge for the 11th time, with Reflection Bay serving as the host course for the seventh time. The par-72 award-winning Reflection Bay Golf Club was Jack Nicklaus' first resort course design in Nevada. It features three waterfalls and 7,261 yards of terrain carved from the desert's natural contours, including five holes along one-and-a-half miles of Lake Las Vegas' majestic shoreline.

Tune in December 22 and 23 as the golfers team up to raise charity dollars for the tournament's primary beneficiary, the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption is a nonprofit 501(c)3 public charity dedicated to dramatically increasing the adoptions of the more than 140,000 children in North America's foster care systems waiting to be adopted. Created by Wendy's founder, Dave Thomas, who was adopted as a child, the Foundation leads signature national service programs and works to streamline the adoption process and make adoption more affordable for families.

As the only foundation dedicated exclusively to foster care adoption, they are driven by Dave's simple value: Do what's best for the child. To learn more about the Foundation's work, please visit www.DaveThomasFoundationforAdoption.org.

NOTE: Previously named LPGA Tour team members for the 2007 Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge are Natalie Gulbis, Cristie Kerr and Morgan Pressel. Previously named Champions Tour team members are Fred Funk, Jay Haas, and Nick Price.