2022 Four Winds Invitational Announces Volunteer Opportunities

The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians and its Four Winds® Casinos are seeking
150 volunteers to support the 2022 Four Winds Invitational.  Volunteers are needed for morning,
afternoon, and evening shifts all three days of the tournament, which will take place from
Friday, August 12 through Sunday, August 14 at South Bend Country Club. 
Assistance is also needed for Pro-Am activities on Wednesday, August 10 and Thursday, August 11,
as well as the Grapes on the Green event Thursday evening.  The Four Winds Invitational is part of
the Epson Tour, which entered its 42nd year of structured competition in 2022 and is the most
established women’s qualifying tour in the world as the one “Road to the LPGA.”

Volunteers are needed to fill a variety of roles including assisting with scoring duties and serving
as building attendants, caddies, cart drivers, driving range attendants, food and beverage servers,
marshals and spotters, parking attendants, standard bearers, shuttle drivers, and more.

All selected volunteers must be at least 16 years of age prior to July 30, 2022 and will receive a
Four Winds Invitational polo shirt, hat, and a $25 Four Winds Casinos gift card for their services
(9+ hours of service is required).  Two meals and beverages will also be provided to volunteers
on each day of service.  Volunteers are required to pay a $25 fee prior to July 30.  As an additional option,
volunteers can pay an $85 volunteer fee instead of $25 and receive a single round of golf to
South Bend Country Club including a cart, along with their polo shirt, hat and $25 Four Winds Casinos
gift card. 

For more information and to complete the volunteer application, please visit  
http://fourwindsinvitational.com/volunteer/.

For questions regarding volunteer opportunities, please contact Gina Hamilton, Four Winds
Invitational Volunteer Coordinator at fwivolunteer@southbendcc.com.            

About the Four Winds Invitational
The Four Winds® Invitational was established in 2012 as part of the Road to the LPGA®,
and is sponsored by the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians and its Four Winds® Casinos. 
The tournament features a field of professional women golfers from around the world.  More information is
available at: http://fourwindsinvitational.com/.                                                                                                                          

About The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians of Michigan and Indiana
The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi’s sovereignty was reaffirmed under legislation signed into law by
President Clinton in September of 1994.  The Pokagon Band is dedicated to providing community
development initiatives such as housing, education, family services, medical care and cultural preservation
for its more than 5,900 citizens.  The Pokagon Band’s ten-county service area includes four counties in
Southwestern Michigan and six in Northern Indiana.  Its main administrative offices are located in
Dowagiac, Mich., with a satellite office in South Bend, Ind.  In 2007, it opened Four Winds Casino Resort
in New Buffalo, Mich., followed by Four Winds Hartford in 2011, Four Winds Dowagiac in 2013 and Four Winds
South Bend in January 2018.  The Pokagon Band operates a variety of businesses via Mno-Bmadsen,
its non-gaming investment enterprise.  More information is available at www.pokagonband-nsn.gov, www.fourwindscasino.com and www.mno-bmadsen.com.  

About the Epson Tour
The Epson Tour (formerly the Symetra Tour) is the official qualifying tour of the LPGA Tour and
enters its 42nd competitive season in 2022.  With the support of entitlement partner Seiko Epson Corporation,
the Tour’s mission is to prepare the world’s best female professional golfers for a successful career on the
LPGA Tour.  In the last decade, the Epson Tour has grown from 15 tournaments and $1.6 million in prize money
to $4.41 million awarded across 20+ events in 2022.  With more than 600 graduates and alumnae moving on to the LPGA Tour, former Epson Tour players have won 459 LPGA titles.

Follow the Epson Tour at www.epsontour.com, as well as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

About Epson
Epson is a global technology leader dedicated to co-creating sustainability and enriching communities by
leveraging its efficient, compact, and precision technologies and digital technologies to connect people, things,
and information.  The company is focused on solving societal issues through innovations in home and office
printing, commercial and industrial printing, manufacturing, visual and lifestyle.  Epson’s goal is to become carbon negative and eliminate use of exhaustible underground resources such as oil and metal by 2050.

Led by the Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, the worldwide Epson Group generates annual sales of around
JPY 1 trillion.  Epson America, Inc., based in Los Alamitos, Calif., is Epson’s regional headquarters for the U.S.,
Canada, and Latin America.  To learn more about Epson, please visit: epson.com.  You may also connect with
Epson America on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram.

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Media Contact:
David Gutierrez for the Pokagon Band and its Four Winds Casinos, (312) 780-7204, dgutierrez@dresnerco.com