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Course Assignment Project

Well, course assignments are posted and a day earlier than expected at that! We are very pleased with the quality of layouts in this year’s tournament field and I’d like to thank our area courses for their participation.

I’ve been involved with golf operations for more than a decade, and the World Amateur course and flight assignment process is among the most interesting things I’ve done. As a result, I thought I would share a quick timeline and give you an idea of how the process unfolds.

February – We sent out bid requests to Myrtle Beach area courses.

April – Received all bids from courses and updated golf course contact information.

May & June – Scoured the Grand Strand securing courses and dates, doing our best to juggle the needs of the tournament and the courses.

July – Four of us spent 20 hours, cloistered together, assigning courses to flights. Think about the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament selection committee and how much ink they get for flighting a mere 65 teams. We’ve 3,600 players!! 

We try to insure two things during course assignments:
1. A flight does not visit a course it has played in the last three years.
2. Each flight gets to experience at least one South, Central and North Strand course.

July 15 – August 8 – Collected and hand-checked 4,000 handicaps, entered them into our database (by hand), and then alphabetized them in binders.

August 9-10 – We flighted the event and sent the info to our programming company to post online (22 total hours).

Monday, August 11  – Proofed the online assignments.

Tuesday, August 12 – We hosted a golf professionals information meeting at Wild Wing in the morning for host courses, then retuned to the office for the posting of flight assignments.

The most amazing thing is this was all done by a staff of 4 people.  Needless to say, we had a great time doing it and hope you enjoy the results!
 

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• Course Assignments,
• World Amateur