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Chase Field, downtown Phoenix home to the Arizona Diamondbacks baseball team, is hosting a Topgolf Live golf game this weekend to bring entertainment to local families and companies while raising money for charity.

鈥淚t is thrilling to turn one of 30 Major League Baseball stadiums into a legitimate Topgolf venue, showing the versatility of our facility,鈥� said Derrick Hall, president and CEO of the Arizona Diamondbacks. 鈥淎nd the response from fans and consumers shows the popularity of Topgolf itself and the enthusiasm for pairing it with our home.鈥�

Topgolf Entertainment Group is a global sports entertainment platform with a unique edge: Topgolf balls use the company鈥檚 Toptracer technology to track the ball鈥檚 flight through the air, including distance, height, spin and more.

Topgolf has four permanent venues in Arizona: in Scottsdale, Gilbert, Tucson and its along the Loop 101 freeway.

鈥淏ut tonight, we are here at Chase Field; this is called ,鈥� Topgolf CEO Dolf Berle said on an upper deck of Chase Field, where Topgolf driving range bays have been temporarily installed on top of stadium seating.

鈥淭opgolf is in the business of creating moments that matter and connecting people in meaningful ways, so our hope is that lots of people will come out and enjoy their families and their fellow colleagues at work and have a great time hitting balls out onto the field,鈥� he said.

Berle said he chose Chase Field for Arizona鈥檚 first Topgolf Live event because he is friends with Hall. The two CEOs work together on the board of the , which is based in Phoenix, Berle said.

鈥淭he success of the event will also benefit Make-A-Wish America, as Dolf [Berle] and I, who each serve as national board members, both agreed in the early planning that wish kids should be a focal point,鈥� Hall said.

鈥淲e had this dream that we could do something together where we could bring joy to families and companies here in Phoenix, at Chase Field, through Topgolf, and then at the same time , because we have a fundraiser going for Make-A-Wish,鈥� Berle said. 鈥淭his is a wonderful combination of all of those things.鈥�

Topgolf was founded in the United Kingdom in 2002, and its original three locations outside London are still open today. There are more than 55 Topgolf , according to Berle.

鈥淲hen we came to the United States in 2005, one of the first places we came was Scottsdale, and that鈥檚 because of the wonderful , and the great climate, and we felt that it would be a great place to test the concept,鈥� Berle said.

Topgolf also has locations in Australia and will be expanding globally in 2020, opening venues in Monterrey, Mexico, and Dubai.

鈥淢any people really understand Topgolf as a venue business, but in fact there are several parts of the business, because we鈥檙e a platform company,鈥� Berle said.

Toptracer technology is Topgolf鈥檚 biggest claim to fame and is used in golf matches and tournaments seen on television to give an easy-to-understand visual representation of the ball鈥檚 trajectory.

鈥淚f you watch golf on TV and watch tournaments, you鈥檒l see Toptracer,鈥� Berle said. 鈥淧ro golfers really value that, and it makes it fun to watch in terms of TV broadcast.鈥�

According to Berle, Toptracer is used at driving ranges in 25 countries around the world.

Topgolf has a number of venues called 鈥� the indoor, urban version of Topgolf for big cities.

Last, but not least, Topgolf is a media company: It produces the video game 鈥�,鈥� which is 鈥渢he most popular photorealistic golf [game] you can play on a computer or on your phone,鈥� according to Berle.

鈥淲e furthermore have Topgolf original content, which is ,鈥� he said. 鈥淭his coming year, you鈥檙e going to see an with Topgolf [in collaboration] with Will Smith and Jada Smith, and that will be a lot of fun. It鈥檒l be in the vein of the original content video series that we鈥檝e done over the past few years 鈥� things like and and also .鈥�

鈥淲e鈥檙e a platform company, we鈥檙e a global sports entertainment company, and we owe a lot to Arizona, because we have four venues here, all of which we love, and we appreciate Arizona as part of our history,鈥� Berle said.

Berle said he hopes hundreds of people will come out to the venue to enjoy the game in a unique setting.

“Tonight, we have the players 鈥� a lot of the Diamondbacks players; Baxter is here; we鈥檝e got a number of celebrities,” Berle said.

鈥淭he weather is perfect, and if you鈥檝e ever dreamed of hitting a ball really far at Chase Field 鈥� it won鈥檛 be a baseball in this case, but come out and hit a golf ball.”

Topgolf Live at Chase Field is .