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27th Annual Golf.com World Amateur Tees Off

The 27th annual Golf.com World Amateur Handicap Championship teed off this morning. More than 3,000 golfers from 48 states and 18 foreign countries came to Myrtle Beach to compete in an event that has become known as the “Every Man’s Major.”

The Golf.com World Am is a 72-hole tournament that is open to all golfers – young and old, male and female – with a verifiable handicap. Players are separated by age and gender – there are six different divisions – and placed in tightly grouped flights based on the game’s most comprehensive and accurate handicap system.

Each flight, which includes approximately 48 players, plays a different Myrtle Beach area course everyday and after four rounds, all flight winners and ties advance to the World Championship Playoff on Friday at the TPC-Myrtle Beach, the area’s only 5-star layout.

Thanks to its handicap system, the Golf.com World Am provides players the opportunity to compete on a level playing field, something the list of past world champions bares out. Players with handicaps as low as two and has high as 34 have hoisted the trophy.

While competition is an integral component of the event, it’s far from the only attraction. Each night players gather at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center to enjoy the World’s Largest 19th Hole, the event’s social hub. The World’s Largest 19th Hole provides three hours of free food from some of the area’s finest restaurants, free top shelf drinks, live entertainment and a golf expo that features instructional clinics from some of the game’s leading names.