BMW Media Site PGA TOUR Professionals Took to the Famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway Following the First Day of Play at the 2012 BMW Championship  Contact: Stacy  Morris 201-594-3360 (office) 201-370-5134 (cell) stacy.morris@bmwna.com   Phil  Diianni phil.diianni@bmwna.com     PGA TOUR Professionals Took to the Famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway Following the First Day of Play at the 2012 BMW Championship  Indianapolis, IN – September 6, 2012… PGA TOUR pros including Ian Poulter, Louis Oosthuizen, Bud Cauley and Charl Schwartzel headed out to the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Thursday following the first round of play at the 2012 BMW Championship to experience of few of BMW’s Ultimate Driving Machines on the track. The players had the opportunity to personally drive a selection of BMWs on the infield road course and were taken for hot laps around the famed oval by Indy 500 veteran Stéphan Grégoire.Opened in 1909 the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is home to the Indianapolis 500 and Brickyard 400.BMW Group In AmericaBMW of North America, LLC has been present in the United States since 1975. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars NA, LLC began distributing vehicles in 2003. The BMW Group in the United States has grown to include marketing, sales, and financial service organizations for the BMW brand of motor vehicles, including motorcycles, the MINI brand, and the Rolls-Royce brand of Motor Cars; DesignworksUSA, a strategic design consultancy in California; a technology office in Silicon Valley and various other operations throughout the country. BMW Manufacturing Co., LLC in South Carolina is part of BMW Group’s global manufacturing network and is the exclusive manufacturing plant for all X5 and X3 Sports Activity Vehicles and X6 Sports Activity Coupes. The BMW Group sales organization is represented in the U.S. through networks of 338 BMW passenger car and BMW Sports Activity Vehicle centers, 139 BMW motorcycle retailers, 115 MINI passenger car dealers, and 32 Rolls-Royce Motor Car dealers. BMW (US) Holding Corp., the BMW Group’s sales headquarters for North America, is located in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey.Information about BMW Group products is available to consumers via the Internet at: www.bmwgroupna.com.Journalist note: Press releases, photos and videos about the 2012 BMW Championship are available on-line at www.bmwusanews.com/BMWChampionship. Further information about BMW Group and its products in the USA is available to journalists on-line at www.bmwgroupusanews.com and www.press.bmwna.com.Evans Scholars Foundation: Created in 1930, the Evans Scholars Foundation started with two Northwestern University students and has been managed since its inception by the Western Golf Association. To date, the foundation has offered more than 10,500 college scholarships to golf caddies, and during the 2012-2013 academic school year 835 caddies are attending college on Evans Scholarships, receiving tuition and housing benefits totaling more than $11 million.