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Wednesday, August 23, 2006

U.S. Pro Golf Tour Executes Three Year Television Production and Marketing Agreement With Winnercomm, Inc.

U.S. Pro Golf Tour Executes Three Year Television Production and Marketing Agreement With Winnercomm, Inc.

HERTFORD, N.C., Aug. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The U.S. Pro Golf Tour, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Greens Worldwide, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: GRWW) announces that it has entered into an agreement with Winnercomm, Inc. to provide television production, program distribution, interactive services, marketing and sales representation for its Tour operations and national television programming for the next three years.

Winnercomm, www.winnercomm.com , is America's largest independent sports production, program development, marketing services and sales representation company. Winnercomm supplies over 1,500 hours of programming annually to ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, FOX SPORTS NET and 10 other national television networks, has earned 14 Emmy Awards, operates sales offices in New York, Chicago, Nashville, Dallas and Tulsa, and has one of the fastest-growing interactive, marketing services and marketing consulting businesses in the region.

"I am extremely pleased that our strategic television production relationship with Winnercomm has evolved into this significant and comprehensive services package and we are looking forward to a prosperous and long term partnership", said R. Thomas Kidd, CEO of Greens Worldwide. "When fully realized, Winnercomm will contribute to the execution of our golf business in a significant way."

"This is an exciting opportunity for us," said Jim Wilburn, CEO of Winnercomm, Inc. "It further expands our presence in professional golf and puts us in a position to extend our full range of services in support of an organization that has a terrific product and is poised for rapid growth."

"I think it's a great strategic fit for both companies," said John Baker, CFO of Winnercomm, Inc. "We've invested heavily over the past few years adding resources and growing our capabilities so we can provide interactive and marketing support that complements and reinforces our television production. We have a lot to offer this group and are eager to get to work."

"Winnercomm is highly experienced in delivering a full platform of services such as TV production, sales, online, PR, and marketing support to sports rights holders. This experience and expertise will be hugely valuable as we develop the Tour's TV and marketing strategy going forward. I'm looking forward to a long and successful relationship," said Philip Bough, Commissioner of the USPGT.

About Greens Worldwide Incorporated

Greens Worldwide Incorporated is a vertically integrated sports marketing and management company, engaged in owning and operating sports entities and their support companies and is publicly traded under the stock symbol GRWW. Our current operating subsidiaries are the US Pro Golf Tour, Inc. www.usprogolftour.com , Breakthru Media, Inc. www.breakthrumedia.com, Crowley and Company Advertising, Inc. www.crowleyadvertising.com, New England Pro Tour, Inc. www.neprogolftour.com, Still Moving, Inc. www.still-moving.com , Las Vegas Golf Schools, Inc. www.gotogolfschool.com, and American Challenge Golf Tour, www.acgtour.com. In our continuing effort to develop a more cohesive and synergistic organization, we are structured in a way that allows all of our wholly owned subsidiaries to utilize each other's resources to the greatest extent possible. In addition, the Company's strategic plan is to be able to deliver substantial value by providing multiple sports platforms and media to leverage our partners advertising and promotional dollars, while delivering the finest entertainment opportunities to retain and build customers. For our non-sports businesses, we will utilize the media and promotional benefits of our media platforms in Television, Radio, and Print, together with Internet Television and other like strategic relationships, to grow our consolidated revenues. The Company intends to continue its strategy of acquiring profitable sports organizations and sports related firms, together with other businesses that would benefit from the synergy the Company provides. www.grwwsports.com

About the U.S. Pro Golf Tour

The U.S. Pro Golf Tour is the country's premier intermediary professional golf tour. Our tour-caliber events feature former PGA golfers, players preparing for the Champions Tour, non-exempt professionals on the Champions Tour, celebrity challengers and professionals 18 and older gearing-up for the PGA Tour. The U.S. Pro Golf Tour also conducts a Pro-Net competition for players with handicaps of all skill levels, 18 years and older, competing for substantial prize money in a tour-event atmosphere. All tournaments are week- long events, and feature junior clinics, Pro-Am's, media coverage, entertainment, electronic leader boards and hospitality, with local market charities benefiting from the events. The U.S. Pro Golf Tour is televised on FOX Sports Net, which operates 22 regional sports channels nationwide. For more information on the U.S. Pro Golf Tour, phone 252.264.2064, or visit our website, www.usprogolftour.com. The U.S. Pro Golf Tour, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Greens Worldwide, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: GRWW - www.grwwsports.com) .

Forward-Looking Statements

The statements contained in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and are intended to be covered by the safe harbors created thereby. Forward-looking statements deal with the Company's current plans, intentions, beliefs and expectations. Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those discussed from time to time in reports filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

R. Thomas Kidd
CEO, Greens Worldwide Incorporated
252.264.2064

Source: Greens Worldwide, Inc.

CONTACT: R. Thomas Kidd, CEO of Greens Worldwide Incorporated,
+1-252-264-2064

Web site: http://www.grwwsports.com/
http://www.usprogolftour.com/
http://www.winnercomm.com/

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