Liberty Mutual Insurance Invitational Culminates 2014 Tournament By Crowning National Champions At TPC Sawgrass

CHARITY SERIES TEES-OFF 2015 SLATE OF 80 EVENTS ON MAY 4

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Mar 09, 2015, 01:43 ET

BOSTON, March 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Kurt Hesse (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Rob Reynolds (Port St. Lucie, Fla.), Marvin Epperson (Lapeer, Mich.) and John Bailey (Davisburg, Mich.) recently won the Liberty Mutual Invitational National Championship at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra, Fla.

World Golf Hall of Famer and Liberty Mutual Invitational Honorary Chairman Curtis Strange (center) displays a check for $7.2 million raised for more than 60 charities throughout the 2014 Liberty Mutual Insurance Invitational, which was comprised of more than 75 local charity golf tournaments. Also pictured are Joe LeClair (left) and John Coombe from Liberty Mutual Insurance, which has leveraged its Invitational to raise more than $28 million for charity since 2010. The slate of more than 80 charitable events that will comprise the 2015 Liberty Mutual Invitational will tee off on May 4.

The February 26-March 1 competition was the culmination of a series of more than 75 charity golf tournaments around the country in 2014 hosted by Liberty Mutual Insurance and local and national charitable organizations that raised more than $7.2 million for charity last year and more than $28 million since its inception in 2010. The foursome qualified for the national finals by winning a local Invitational event at the Oakland Hills (Mich.) Country Club where they competed in support of The Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan (RIM) Foundation in Detroit.

"We congratulate our winners as well as each of our 240 participants for their personal achievement on the course, and for helping Liberty Mutual raise more than $7 million for more than 60 charities in their communities and around the nation," said John Coombe, vice president of brand management and sponsorships at Liberty Mutual.

The 2015 Liberty Mutual Insurance Invitational will tee off its slate of 80 local tournaments with a pair of events on May 4 at Smoke Rise Country Club in Stone Mountain, Ga., to benefit the American Parkinson's Disease Association, and at Oak Hills Country Club in Omaha, Neb., to benefit the Nebraska Kidney Foundation. The winners of each local event will qualify for the National Finals to be played March 30-April 3, 2016, at Pinehurst Resort. A complete 2015 Liberty Mutual Invitational tournament schedule is available at libertymutualinvitational.com.

"I am proud and honored to support the Liberty Mutual Invitational, a series that has raised more than $28 million for so many great charities in just five years," said two-time U.S. Open Champion, World Golf Hall of Famer Curtis Strange, who will serve as Liberty Mutual Invitational Honorary Chairman for the third consecutive year. "I encourage golfers and individual and corporate supporters to embrace an event in their local community through participation and sponsorship to help Liberty Mutual surpass its goal to raise another $7 million for charity this year."

About the Liberty Mutual Insurance Invitational
The #1 Charity Event In Golf^TM, the Liberty Mutual Insurance Invitational tournaments are single-day events featuring an 18-hole Scramble format open to men and women amateur golfers of all skill levels in the local community. Each tournament is held at a prestigious golf course in that community and concludes with a dinner and awards ceremony. Members of winning foursomes will receive great prizes from Liberty Mutual Insurance, TaylorMade, adidas Golf, Polaroid, Sports Vision Eyewear, Golf Digest, Voice Caddie, Blank Label and The Old Course Experience. Leaders from the community, business and charitable organizations run and promote the local tournaments with support from local Liberty Mutual employees. Winning foursomes from each local tournament are invited to play in the four-day Liberty Mutual Invitational National Finals the following spring. For more information about the Liberty Mutual Insurance Invitational, please visit www.libertymutualinvitational.com; follow on Facebook and via #lmigolf.

About Liberty Mutual Insurance
Liberty Mutual Insurance helps people preserve and protect what they earn, build, own and cherish. Keeping this promise means we are there when our policyholders throughout the world need us most.

In business since 1912 and headquartered in Boston, Mass., today Liberty Mutual Insurance is a diversified insurer with operations in 30 countries and economies around the world. The company is the third largest property and casualty insurer in the U.S. based on 2013 direct premiums written as reported by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

Liberty Mutual Insurance also ranks 76^th on the Fortune 100 list of largest corporations in the U.S. based on 2013 revenue. As of December 31, 2014, Liberty Mutual Insurance had $124.3 billion in consolidated assets, $104.0 billion in consolidated liabilities, and $39.6 billion in annual consolidated revenue.

Liberty employs more than 50,000 people in approximately 900 offices throughout the world, and offers a wide range of insurance products and services, including personal automobile, homeowners, accident & health, commercial automobile, general liability, property, surety, workers compensation, group disability, group life, specialty lines, reinsurance, and individual life and annuity products. You can learn more by visiting www.libertymutualinsurance.com.

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