For the Sports Illustrated Golf Group it is a homecoming and an opportunity to broaden its appeal to amateur golfers.

For Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday and the World Amateur Handicap Championship it is an opportunity to partner with one of golf and sports leading brands.

For World Amateur players a new title sponsor provides the knowledge that the game’s leading media company is dedicated to improving golf’s largest single-site tournament.

Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday officials announced Wednesday at Pine Lakes Country Club that the Sports Illustrated Golf Group, which includes Golf Magazine, Golf.com and Sports Illustrated’s Golf Plus, is the new title sponsor of the World Amateur Handicap Championship.

Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday introduced the Sports Illustrated Golf Group as the new title sponsor of the World Am in a press conference at Pine Lakes Country Club. The event's new name is the Golf.com World Amateur Handicap Championship. Enjoy a press conference photo gallery.

Sports Illustrated Golf Group President Dick Raskopf talks about the excitment of joining the World Am family!

We are overwhelmed with the wonderful responses from our fellow golf addicts. Thank you and for those of you who have left your phone numbers and invites to play, trust me, if we are anywhere near you, we will call and set up a game!

Now I just need an Admin to help me set this up along with our RV camps! Some have asked about our preliminary route. We are right now on the gulf, heading west through Baton Rouge, through Houston, San Antonio, so that we can spend Thanksgiving with my family in Redlands, CA. We will also spend some time visiting with our San Diego friends.

After that, the trip really begins with no real agenda but to stay warm and play golf. We'll be working our way toward south Florida after Thanksgiving so we'll be taking the southern route. We will hit the Carolinas in the Spring since I am playing at Rock Barn (Hickory) in an invitational. Then we'll head north up the east coast and then work our way west along the northern route during the summer. In the Fall we'll come down the west coast hitting courses in Washington, Oregon, and the parts of CA we'll miss this time. If our home in North Myrtle Beach has sold by then, we'll hopefully head to our new home yet to be determined.

Y'all have given me some great ideas to put a travel plan together. Our main goal with this year long golf extravaganza is to find the perfect golf club for our lifestyle. We're looking for somewhere warm most of the year, near water (fresh or salt), private, reasonable initiation, walkable, and either a cart plan or trail fee. Before hitting the road I was playing 7-10 times a week so paying cart fees got to be a problem.

And yes, I know I need a 12 step program for this addiction of mine. If you know of THE spot for folks like us that has a fun active membership, please send those ideas asap.

Thank you from the bottom of my spikes!!!

Juanita Rosenfeld

Anyone wishing to reach Juanita directly can email her at peanut_rosenfeld@hotmail.com.

The idea of a one-year, cross country golf trip is merely a dream for most of us, but for Juanita Rosenfeld, a World Am player, it’s a reality.

Last month, Rosenfeld and her fiancé, Mike Evans, began a year-long trek across America in a 41-foot motor home with their golf clubs, a road map, internet access and two dogs. Nearly everything that happens between the Atlantic and Pacific has yet to be determined.

Other than a few course suggestions received from playing partners during this year’s World Am, Rosenfeld and Evans are a blank slate. But they are looking for suggestions.

If you’d like to recommend a course or possibly play a round with them, Rosenfeld is happily accepting suggestions on her blog, where she is also chronicling the couple’s adventures.  

Here in tournament headquarters, we are envious of Rosenfeld’s adventure but wish her well!

Linda Fuller of Richmond, Texas, shot a net 66 to win the World Championship Playoff at the Dunes Golf & Beach Club Friday afternoon. Fuller’s victory capped the 26th annual PGA TOUR Superstore World Amateur Handicap Championship, an event that began with 3,060 people on Monday morning.

The World Championship Playoff consisted of all flight winners and ties, a total of 75 golfers. There was a three-way tie for second place. Treg Hallman, Jill Ford and Thomas Wagner all finished with a net 68. Full Leaderboard

Fuller, the third consecutive woman to win the title, played to a 13 handicap in Friday’s round. Fuller’s husband, Roger, is one of 14 players to have played in all 26 World Amateurs.

“I’m pretty flabbergasted,” an emotional Fuller said. “It’s been a lot of fun. You like to have a goal and you work towards it. It’s the fulfillment of plan when it all comes together and it works.”

Phillip Sanders and Wayne Hudson shot a net 135 but were pushed to a sudden death playoff before winning the U.S. Qualifier for International Pairs Championship, and along with it a trip to St. Andrews, Scotland to compete in the IP World Championship.

Sanders and Hudson recorded a par and bogey on the Dunes Club’s famed 13th hole, while their opponents dunked the ball in Lake Singleton.

Fuller’s victory concluded a week that featured near perfect weather over the tournament’s last four days. Temperatures along the Gran d Strand never got above the low 80s as nearly 3,100 players from 49 states and 20 foreign countries participated in the 26th annual event.

The only thing remaining is tomorrow morning's World Championship Playoff at the Dunes Club. On Monday nearly 3,100 people teed off in Myrtle Beach with dreams of being crowned champion. The field has been narrowed to the 64 flight winners and ties. Enjoy day four photos.

We will get to a roundup of media coverage, but first a moment to acknowledge the coldest World Amateur in history.  After four days of (occasionally) seeing people in jackets - for you non-believers, checkout the accompanying photo, which was taken at 10:30 a.m. this morning Tidewater – I have officially declared 2009 the chilliest World Am ever.

To confirm my hunch, which was based on the fact no one wears a jacket or long sleeves in Myrtle Beach in August, save for a medical purposes, I conferred with a few of the event’s 26-year participants. Without a moment’s hesitation Bob and Don Yelton and Fred Pugh all confirmed this year’s historic lows, which plunged into the upper 60s in the morning hours.

The third round of the PGA TOUR Superstore World Amateur Handicap Championship is in the books. Some golfers enjoyed the thrill of a charge up the leaderboard while others saw their dreams of a flight championship fade away. The one thing every tournament participant savored was the unseasonably cool weather. Take a look at a few photos that capture the day's events.