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Global Golf is an Official Sponsor of World Cup Golf '99

Business Wire, Sept 21, 1999

ATLANTA--(BW SportsWire)--Sept. 21, 1999--

Tiger Woods slated for team-tournament play

Beverly Hills Ltd. (OTC BB: BLTDE) has announced that its subsidiary, Global Golf, (www.globalgolf.com) is an official sponsor of the World Cup Golf '99 tournament slated for Nov. 18-21 at the Mines Resort City and Golf Club in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

This year's tournament play includes the world's No. 1 player, Tiger Woods, who teams with friend Mark O'Meara to challenge other internationally known players including Colin Montogomerie who leads the Scottish, German players Sven Struver and Alex Cejka and Thomas Bjorn of Denmark. It's the first year that Woods will be playing in this event, which features 32 of the biggest nations of the world. Total prize money is $1.5 million.

Global Golf is an independent company owned by CNBC Sports and Beverly Hills Ltd. The Global Golf website, www.globalgolf.com encompasses all facets of upscale golf - apparel, quality merchandising, tee time reservations, travel and hospitality, publishing, golf information and other product links to maximize the quantity and quality of viewers to the site. Global Golf is currently negotiating with a number of potential partners that can provide the components necessary to create the largest golf oriented web site in the world in the shortest possible time.

Beverly Hills Ltd. is a diversified holding company that combines ownership of traditional retail, publishing and product companies with the expertise of Internet commerce. To date, the company has specialized in bringing upscale merchandise, recreation and sporting goods to the Internet through a network of new media assets. For more information visit the company website at www.bhltd.com.

CNBC Sports is a joint venture between NBC, America's premier network and Parallel Media Groups, a leading global sports marketing company. The company is the exclusive provider of executive sports programming to CNBC's networks in Europe and Asia, broadcasting 12 hours per week in each region. Having secured exclusive broadcast contracts with all the major golf tours (US PGA Tour, European Tour, Australian PGA Tour, Asian PGA Tour and South African PGA Tour) CNBC Sports promotes major events including the World Cup of Golf and Vodacom Mercedes-Benz South African Open.

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