Bonita resident Jacobsen stays busy, whether on or off golf course
Posted by briank | SWFL News, Treviso Bay | Posted on February 18th, 2009
Peter Jacobsen and his son Mick were at the Super Bowl earlier this month in Tampa, mixing business and pleasure at a pre-game, celebrity-driven party that his sports marketing firm had organized for the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.
Ed Kiernan, the executive vice president and chief marketing officer for Peter Jacobsen Sports and Jacobsen’s right-hand man at his office in Bonita Springs, had been in Tampa too, but he returned to Southwest Florida for work with another client.
After enough time passed without contact between the two, Jacobsen finally had to track down Kiernan.
“He e-mailed me and said, ‘Where are you? I haven’t heard from you in 12 hours. I’m worried about you,’” Kiernan said. “He’s just very driven.”
The concern about Kiernan’s welfare may have been slightly tongue in cheek, but the digital dependence on one of his business wingmen wasn’t.
In growing off-course interests that in many ways resemble his playing career — not necessarily the biggest name in the field but highly regarded by those who know him — Jacobsen has combined a tireless work ethic with a lifelong attention to, as one client puts it, personal and professional style.
Newest in his list of duties is serving as tournament host at this week’s The ACE Group Classic at the Tournament Players Club at Treviso Bay in Naples, where Jacobsen will do everything but play golf after recently undergoing surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff in his left shoulder.
“I think it’s really great when a player identifies with a tournament,” said Jacobsen, noting tournaments hosted by Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Greg Norman, not to mention other events once hosted by late icons Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Jackie Gleason.
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