Golf.com World Am registration open April 3
27 Mar 2013
by AmateurGolf.com Staff
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MYRTLE BEACH, Calif. (March 27, 2013) --
Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday announces entry
opens on
April 3 for the 30th annual GOLF.com World
Amateur Handicap Championship held August
26 -
30.
More than 3500 amateur golfers from 25
countries are expected to play on 60-plus area
layouts
including the Norman, Fazio and Love courses
at Barefoot Resort, Caledonia Golf & Fish Club,
True Blue Golf Plantation and King's North at
Myrtle Beach National. Last year, baseball
legend
Roger Clemens joined 68 individual flight
winners (and ties) in the fifth round
championship
playoff at TPC Myrtle Beach.
This year's championship playoff will be held at
Barefoot Resort's Dye Club.
Registration for the four-day, 72-hole event is
$450 through May 15, a $100 savings off of
the
regular entry fee of $550. Registration is
available at
www.worldamg
olf.com.
The entry fee additionally includes nightly
access to "The World's Largest 19th Hole" at
the
Myrtle Beach Convention Center. The gala is a
vast festival of golf featuring equipment
demos,
entertainment, open bars, concerts, prize
drawings and food from superb area
restaurants. Golf
Channel analysts Charlie Rymer and Brandel
Chamblee are among the early roster of
celebrities
slated to appear.
"For 30 years the World Am has exemplified
what the game is all about through the joy of
friendly competition and camaraderie," says
Jeff Monday, Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday's
tournament director. "The beauty of the
handicap system allows players of any and all
abilities
to vie for title of 'World Champion' in the golf
capital of the U.S."
The World Am is grouped according to USGA
indexes with five competitive divisions ranging
from
men / women under 49 years old to super
seniors 70 and above. Flight winners advance
to the
18-hole world championship playoff where a
World Champion is crowned. The event's
inclusiveness is apparent in its past champions
as winners with handicaps as low as three and
as high as 34 have won. Four women have
hoisted the championship trophy.