ADVISORY/LPGA Champion Meg Mallon Beats PGA TOUR Star Corey Pavin in Month-Long Shoot-Out for Stroke Awareness.

Sports Editors/Golf Writers & Columnists

ADVISORY...for Monday (July 24)

--(BW SportsWire)

Mallon to Visit Boston Area to Share Winning Golf Tips

with Local Amateurs

WHO:    Meg Mallon, LPGA champion and winner of the 2000 Rochester
        Invitational

WHAT:   LPGA star Meg Mallon will conduct a golf clinic and play a
        round of golf with 16 lucky Boston area golfers. Mallon is
        sharing her tournament winning skills after beating PGA TOUR
        star Corey Pavin in a month-long birdie contest as part of the
        American Stroke Challenge. Throughout Stroke Awareness Month
        in May, Bayer(R) Aspirin donated $1,500 to the American Stroke
        Association (ASA) for each birdie Mallon and Pavin scored.
        Mallon scored 39 birdies to beat Pavin's 21, raising a total
        of $250,000 for stroke research and education.

        Boston area public golf courses edged out Dallas and other
        cities around the nation for this unique opportunity by
        collecting the most sweepstakes entries for the American
        Stroke Challenge Million Dollar Hole-in-One Contest last
        month.

        The American Stroke Challenge is a national stroke education
        program sponsored by Bayer Aspirin in cooperation with the
        ASA, a division of the American Heart Association.

WHEN:   Monday, July 24
        8:00-8:45 a.m.--Mallon hosts putting clinic for players
        8:45-9:15 a.m.--Bayer awards check to ASA and trophy to
                        winning golf course
        9:15 a.m.-2:15 p.m.--Mallon golfs with players; available for
                             interviews

WHERE:  Saddle Hill Country Club, 204 Saddle Hill Road in Hopkinton,
        MA; 508-435-4630

WHY:    -   Learn valuable golf tips from Mallon for a fun feature
            story with strong general interest.

        -   Mallon has a strong family connection to cardiovascular
            disease and stroke. Her 75-year-old mother has experienced
            several transient ischemic attacks (TIA) or mini-strokes
            during the past few years--most recently in March 1999.

        -   Approximately 600,000 Americans suffer a new or recurrent
            stroke each year; stroke is the third leading cause of
            death in the United States, accounting for 1 of every 14.5
            deaths or 1 death every 3.3 minutes.