NASHVILLE – Local golfers will again have a tour to call their own as the popular Amateur Golf Tour returns to Middle Tennessee with an impressive schedule for 2007.
The Nashville AGT hosts a lineup of 16 area tournaments beginning March 17 at Champions Run and concluding Oct. 6-7 with two-day local finals at Champions Run.
The tour is for amateurs of all ages and abilities. Members are placed in one of five flights based on handicaps. Flights are: Championship (5.4 or less handicap), A Flight (5.5-10.4), B Flight (10.5-15.4), C Flight (15.5-20.4) and D Flight (20.5 and up).
Tournament format is gross stroke play, with USGA rules in effect. A software program tracks each player’s handicap to ensure participants are placed in their proper flight.
Nashville tour director Matt Duncan has assembled a schedule of 16 tourneys on some of the area’s premier courses. In addition to Champions Run, tour stops include: Greystone, President’s Reserve, The Legacy, General’s Retreat, Old Fort and King’s Creek. There will also be a combined tournament with the Mississippi AGT at Tunica National in Tunica, Miss. All one-day events are on Saturday, and two-day events are played on Saturday and Sunday.
"The tour provides everyday golfers a chance to compete like the pros," said Duncan. "You don’t have to be a superstar to join the Amateur Golf Tour of Nashville."
At each event, the top three golfers in all flights win gift certificates from Dick’s Sporting Goods that can be used online or at any Dick’s retail location, while all participants earn points toward a championship in their flight.
Golfers may join the tour anytime for an $80 membership fee. That fee includes a gift bag and tour packet, and allows members to play in Nashville tourneys, as well as other AGT events nationwide.
Entry fees for Nashville tournaments begin at $65 for one-day events and $100 for two-day events. Those fees include cart and green fees, range balls and prizes, plus closest-to-the-pin and long drive awards. Results and points standings are posted within 48 hours at: www.agtnashville.com.
Golfers who finish in the top 10 in points in their flight receive invitations to the 2007 Amateur Golf Tour Championship, Oct. 27-28 at Palmetto Dunes Resort in Hilton Head, S.C.
For info, call Matt Duncan at (931) 628-2365, or visit: www.agtnashville.com.
Contact:
Matt Duncan (931) 628-2365; tourdirector@agtnashville.com
Craig Distl (704) 377-8622; cdistl@bellsouth.net