Thirty-Six-Hole, Four-Ball Stroke Play Tournament Features $1000 First-Prize
(TALLAHASSEE, Florida) – SouthWood Golf Club – the award winning, upscale public course at the heart of Tallahassee’s most comprehensively designed community – announces it will host the 3rd annual "SouthWood Cup" Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 5-6, sponsored by Moss Creek Custom Homes.
Admission for the four-ball stroke play format tournament is limited to the first 48 teams to register, and players must have a USGA handicap (maximum 20). The entry fee of $165 per player includes cart and green fees, prize fund, practice round (cart fee only) a team welcome party on Friday night and a deli sandwich bar after golf on Saturday and Sunday.
The SouthWood Cup is contested from SouthWood’s 6,500-yard #4 tees and features four flights of 12 teams. A championship "gross" flight contested from the #5 tees (6,900 yards) is open to the first 12 teams to register. The overall low gross and low net winning teams will win $1000. The top three net teams in each flight will win as follows: first ($750 per team); second ($500), third ($400); second day low team ($200).
"The SouthWood Cup is quickly becoming a treasured tradition and we’re excited to host the third edition of this popular event," says Beth Murphy, SouthWood’s General Manager. "The course is in peak condition from tee to green and will provide a challenging, fair playing surface for all participants."
For entry forms or more information, please visit www.stjoegolf.com or call 850.942.4653. Entries must be received by 6 p.m., Friday, July 29.
About SouthWood Golf Club
Designed by PGA Tour star Fred Couples and renowned architect Gene Bates, SouthWood Golf Club is among the region’s most-acclaimed courses. Highlighted by stands of stunning, Spanish moss-draped oak trees, the 7,172-yard layout meanders over rolling hills, through wooded areas and open land.
A course that tests members of the Florida State University men’s and women’s golf teams while providing an enjoyable experience for golfers of all abilities, SouthWood features five sets of tees on every hole. The 2,986-yard "Wee Tees" provide the ideal course set-up for juniors, beginners or players seeking to improve their short game.
SouthWood Golf Club has garnered numerous honors since opening in November 2002. Most recently, it was named among the Top-10 courses of the new millennium by Travel + Leisure Golf. SouthWood was also named to Golf Digest’s list of "America’s Best New Courses," selected by GOLF Magazine as one of the top 35 public courses – out of 325 nationwide – to open in 2002, and named Tallahassee’s best golf course by Tallahassee Magazine.
About SouthWood
Set on 3,300-acres of land complete with hills, open pastures, natural lakes and towering oaks, St. Joe’s SouthWood is one of the largest and most comprehensively planned communities in Florida’s capital region. SouthWood is located in Tallahassee, just four miles from Florida’s Capitol building and includes St. Joe-built and custom-designed homes.
SouthWood is a place where neighbors will be able to walk or bike to Town Center for shopping, dinner, or work, and currently enjoy the SouthWood Education Village for lifelong learning opportunities and other events. There also are abundant outdoor recreational activities, including a nationally recognized, upscale public golf course designed by PGA Tour pro Fred Couples, a community center and golf club house and miles of paved walking and biking trails that wind through the community.
SouthWood is tucked among 1,000 acres of parks, lakes and ponds surrounded by massive Patriarch oaks that gracefully sweep the ground. An abundance of native wildlife creates an ever-changing landscape for birdwatchers and nature lovers.
About St. Joe
The St. Joe Company, a publicly held company based in Jacksonville, is one of Florida’s largest real estate operating companies. It is engaged in town, resort, commercial and industrial development and land sales. JOE also has significant interests in timber.
More information about JOE can be found online at JOE.com .
© 2006 The St. Joe Company. "JOE," "St. Joe," "SouthWood," and the "Taking Flight" design are service marks of The St. Joe Company.
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