When you sign up for the Nashville Senior Amateur Tour, we will place you into a flight based on your current USGA Index or by making a determination based on your average scores. During the tournaments, you will compete against other players within your flight in a true stroke play event. You will compete for VISA Gifts Cards and also an etched crystal trophy for the 1st place winner in each flight.
Prize Pay-Outs are based on the amount of players in each flight. A Prize Fee is already in your Tournament Entry. View the Nashville 2022 Prize Matrix on the home page.
We also have optional cash games at each event.
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Tournament Day Money Games Per Round at Check In
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Per Player
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Tournament Skins Game (within each flight): In this game you are competing to make the best single score on a hole. All ties cancel. You are only wagering with players in your flight who enter the game.
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$15.00
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Tournament SUPER SKINS Game (all flights contribute to a single purse) In this game you are competing to make the best single score on a hole. All ties cancel. You are wagering with players from any flight who enter the game.
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$10.00
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Closest to the Pin In the closest to the pin contest, you have chances to win a split of all money collected for the CPT contest for each par 3 on the course. $1.00 of this entry goes to the Hole In one purse. Minimum Hole in One payout will be $500 within the Nashville Tour if you bought into the CTP’s. ($100 if you are from a visiting Tour or did not buy into the CTP’s). The Hole In One Purse will build all season, and if there are no Hole in Ones throughout the year the money will be added to the CTPs for our Local Club Championship.
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$5.00
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Points Game The points game has 2 parts. The first part is $5 per player to each flight. Points are calculated by gaining or losing points based on your per hole score. The point system used is a modified Stableford system. The players AGT or handicap also factors into the game because players will be given their equivalent number of points based on their handicap. The second part of the game will be a random draw partnership (across all flights) with both players points being totalled for a score.
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$10.00
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50/50 Raffle Half of the pot goes to a player selected at random using a random number generator. The other half of the pot is collected for a yearly donation to the charity of our choice - Currently our charity of choice is Stand Up to Cancer.
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$10.00
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Then, based on what place you took in that tournament, you will be awarded season points no matter what place you finished for the event. At the end of the season the Season Long Points Winner for each flight will be awarded a special Championship Jacket and the Top-3 from Each Flight will receive a VISA Gift Card.
Listed below are the flight assignmentsâ€Â¦
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Championship Flight: 0 to 3.9 Handicap
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A Flight: 4.0 to 8.9 Handicap
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B Flight: 9.0 to 13.9 Handicap
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C Flight: 14.0 to 18.9 Handicap
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D Flight: 19.0 and Higher Handicap
TOURNAMENT CHECK IN
Sign in at tournaments with either the Tour Director or at the sign-in table. We require that you check in at least 20 minutes before your assigned tee time or pairing. Failure to do so may result in a 2 stroke penalty.
The local Tour Director will provide the official score card and offer entrance to the skins pool at the Check In Table. Check the official score card to verify that your flight is correct. Since flights are assigned via handicaps, it is important that we have your handicap on file correctly.
Next, find your cart with your name on the cart card and stow your gear. Allow sufficient time to perform your normal warm-up routine. For shotgun starts, your tee time is the time you must be in your cart in the marshaling area to hear the local course brief before driving to your starting hole.
TOURNAMENT TEE BOXES
All flights will be from a set of tees customized at each tournament. The following guidelines will be used for determining length:
Championship Flight will play at 6200 yards and up - optimally 6400 yards.
“A” Flight will play at 6000-6200 yards - optimally 6200 yards.
“B” flight will play at 5800-6000 yards - optimally 6000 yards.
“C” flight will play at 5800-6000 yards - optimally 5800 yards.
“D” Flight will play 5600-5800 yards - optimally 5600 yards.
Maintaining the appropriate course length is a hallmark of the Nashville Senior Amateur Tour. We attempt to hit the optimal distances in every tournament. It ensures fair play across all our flights, levels out handicaps, cuts down on sandbagging, evens out CTP contests, and allows men, women and seniors to play together fairly.
Women will play from a tee box of the closest comparable slope rating to that of the men in the same flight. In the absence of a suitable tee box the local tour director will choose or designate a tee box or tee box combination the equivalent of 85-90% of the men's distance in the same flight.
Note: These also will be the typical yardages that will be used for the National Tour Championship
ON THE FIRST TEE
For all events, you will be provided an official score card/cards. As soon as you get it, BEFORE players tee off, check your scorecard to verify all the player information is correct. In the event that a piece of information is incorrect, clear it up with the Tour Director. If he is not immediately available, please advise your group and mark the problem on the scorecard so that adjustments can be made at the turn or at the end of the round (before you sign your card).
Do not delay play to fix information that does not affect the conduct of your round (e.g. an incorrect handicap or wrong tee box is not a reason to hold up play if your group knows the correct tee box for your flight. However, information you cannot resolve that would cause you to play from the wrong tee box needs to be fixed before you start.)
It is recommended that every player in the group keep their own score on a course scorecard. But one player in each group is required to keep the OFFICIAL hard copy scorecard, and a different player in the group IS REQUIRED to post scores to LiveScore during the round. It is recommended that at the turn or after 9 holes everyone checks their scores to make sure they match the official scorecard and that LiveScore is accurate. After the round check and double check scorecards to LiveScore and to your individual scorecards. Fix any discrepancies before EVERYONE signs the official scorecard and it is turned in. The official scorecard is final and takes precedence over LiveScore.
The Tour Director or starter will provide local course rules. Local rules take precedence over Tour or USGA rules.
Each player should identify his ball with a distinctive marking and show it to his playing partners. You must be able to positively identify that the ball you found is not one of the same brand and number that was lost by another player. If you cannot positively identify the ball as yours, then USGA rules deem your ball to be lost.
Tee off and have fun!