Arkansas Tour Local FAQs for 2025January 2025
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What do I get for my membership in the GolfWeek Amateur Tour? What does my tournament entry fee get me? What is the event format? Are Range finders/GPS allowed? Do I need a USGA handicap index? How is the Tour handicap calculated? How are the flights broken down? What yardage is played in each flight? What if I am in the wrong flight? What if I don’t know the rules? Do I have to play every event? Can I play in another tour? Can I try an event before I commit to a membership? How long do I have to decide to play in an event? What are the prizes? How do I get to The Tour Championship at Hilton Head Island at the end of the year? What is the triple bogey max rule? What is the dress code? Are caddies permitted? Are spectators permitted? What if the weather is bad? Is there a deadline to join the tour? What if I sign up for an event and them can't make it?
Your tour membership of $125 for 2025 allows you to play in any tour event nationwide and comes with a welcome packet that includes:
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Your entry fee for each tournament gets you 18 holes (18 each day for a 2 day event), cart, range balls and includes money that goes into your flight prize pool and an etched trophy for first place winner in your flight.
All standard 1 and 2 day events are gross stroke play with USGA rules in effect.. The Tour Championship at the end of the year in Hilton Head is a 3 day, 54 hole gross stroke play event.
Range finders and GPS are allowed as long as they conform to USGA rules and do not measure slope, wind or any other information other than distance. If they do measure these things they must have a button that can turn them off during tournament play.
It is helpful to have an established index to place you in the correct flight, but the index is not necessary. If you do not have a USGA or Tour index, we will place you in a flight based on your average score and ability for the appropriate yardage. Your flight placement can always be adjusted later if the placement doesn’t fit your ability. Once on Tour, you will develop a Tour Index based strictly on your tournament results.
The Tour Index Policy is intended to group players into flights of comparable potential ability to promote fair competition within the flight. Indexes are based solely on Amateur Golf Tour performance. The AGT index formula will closely mirror the published USGA handicap method (for a complete description see USGA Handicapping Manual go to the following link: (http://www.usga.org/ ). The AGT formula differs from USGA handicap methodology in that it uses only rounds played on tour and substitutes the triple bogey rule in place of Equitable Stroke Control.