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Event Will Cap a Weekend of Activities Raising Money for Folds of Honor Foundation

One of America’s best and most scenic courses is hosting an event to benefit one of the nation’s most worthwhile charities.

The second annual Tidewater Patriot Day Charity Golf Tournament will be played September 7 at Tidewater Golf Club, capping a weekend full of activities to raise money for the Folds of Honor Foundation.

“This event is one the highlights of our year,” said Archie Lemon, Tidewater Golf Club’s general manager. “There is so much to do throughout the weekend and it’s a wonderful time, but we never lost sight of why we do it: to raise money for the families of American service men and women, who were killed or disabled in battle. The Folds of Honor Foundation does wonderful work and we are delighted to help them.”

The tournament will tee-off at 9 a.m. at Tidewater, a top 100-caliber course that is in superb condition following a 2014 renovation project that included the installation of new greens. The day will begin with registration at 7:30 a.m. and include pre-tournament ceremonies on the driving range.

Entry into the tournament is $600 per team and more information is available at www.TidewaterCharityTournament.com.

In addition to golf, the Labor Day weekend activities will also include a charity bowling event, highlighted by an appearance by Rhino Page, a three-time winner on the PBA Tour, a Zumbathon with Sara McGrail, a golf clinic led by LPGA instructor Meredith Kirk, one of Golf.com’s most beautiful women in golf, and keynote speaker Robin Carpenter, the mother of Medal of Honor recipient Kyle Carpenter.

Information on how to participate in all of the weekend’s event is available at www.TidewaterCharityTournament.com.

About Folds of Honor
The Folds of Honor Foundation provides post secondary educational scholarships for children and spouses of military men and women killed or disabled while serving our great nation. FHF offers two types of scholarships:

Immediate-Use Scholarships: Awarded to spouses and children of service members currently or recently accepted into a 4-year or 2-year degree program at an institute of higher education, or vocational program.

Future-Use Scholarships: Awarded to the young children of service members and invested by FHF on their behalf. Eligible applicants are infants up to, and including, students enrolled in the 11th grade. Scholarship funds are distributed to the post-secondary educational institution at the time of enrollment.

Children’s Scholarship Fund: Awarded to children (K-12 grades) of eligible service members. This program provides support for their growth through services devoted to the mind, body and spirit.

Nearly 3,400 golfers from 48 states and 28 countries are preparing to descend on the Grand Strand for the 32nd annual Myrtle Beach World Amateur Handicap Championship, golf’s largest and most inclusive event.

A 72-hole, net stroke play tournament, the World Am will be played August 31-September 4 on 57 Myrtle Beach golf courses. Players will be separated into six divisions and 72 flights based on age, gender and handicap. After four rounds of competition, all flight winners and ties advance to the World Championship Playoff at Barefoot Resort’s Dye Club.

At the heart of the World Am’s competitive success is the game’s best and most aggressively enforced handicap monitoring system, which levels the playing field for all participants.

Myrtle Beach, the game’s most popular destination, is the only place capable of hosting a tournament as large as the World Am, and the depth and quality of the area’s courses, are a primary attraction. Of the 57 courses hosting the event, 11 have been ranked among the nation’s top 100 public courses in recent years.

As important as the golf is, it’s only half the fun at the World Am. Each night players gather at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center to enjoy the “World’s Largest 19th Hole,” a 120,000-square-foot golf extravaganza. Players receive free food and drinks, live entertainment, including former American Idol winner Taylor Hicks this year, a golf expo and celebrity guests, among many other activities.

Joining the nearly 3,400 golfers at this year’s tournament will be two-time major champion John Daly, former PGA Tour player and Golf Channel analyst Charlie Rymer, television personality Win McMurry, and national radio hosts Brian Katrek and John Maginnes.

The World Am is a one-of-a-kind event, bringing golfers from different cultures, ability levels and backgrounds together to celebrate the game.

Here are some numbers to digest as the 2015 Myrtle Beach World Amateur Handicap Championship approaches:

•    6: Number of competitive divisions, ranging from men 49 and under to the super seniors (70+), a women’s division and the recently created gross division
•    36: Courses used daily
•    57: Courses utilized for the entire week
•    72: Total number of flights
•    92: Approximate number of players at each course daily
•    5,000: Estimated participants and guests visiting the World’s Largest 19th Hole nightly at the Sheraton Hotel and Convention Center
•    102: Estimated kegs of beer consumed for the week at the 19th Hole
•    +3-40.4: Range of handicaps in the competition
•    16,579 kilometers: The approximate distance from Adelaide, Australia – Christopher Kay’s home – to Myrtle Beach, the farthest commute of any 2015 competitor.?

Golf’s Most Inclusive Amateur Event is Expected to Attract 3,400+ Players

The 32nd annual Myrtle Beach World Amateur Handicap Championship, the world’s most popular and inclusive single-site tournament, is now accepting entries. The event, which is expected to attract more than 3,400 players from across the globe, will be played August 31 – September 4 in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

Registration for the four-day, 72-hole tournament is $475 through May 15, a $100 savings off the regular entry fee of $575. Players can register online at www.MyrtleBeachWorldAmateur.com.

??Participants that register by April 7 will be eligible to win more than $10,000 in random drawing prizes tournament organizers are giving away. Included among the items are two sets of TaylorMade AeroBurner irons, 12 AeroBurner Drivers, and eight TaylorMade Ghost Tour Black putters.

Golfers from 30+ countries will play on more than 60 of Myrtle Beach’s best courses as part of the tournament. Among the renowned layouts that will be hosting the event are the Norman, Fazio and Love courses at Barefoot Resort, Caledonia Golf & Fish Club, Grande Dunes Resort Course and Glen Dornoch Waterway Golf Links.

The World Am is a net stroke play event that flights players into five competitive divisions based on age, gender and handicap. After four rounds of competition, all flight winners and ties advance to the World Championship Playoff, where a champion is crowned.

While competition is at the heart of the World Am’s appeal, it’s only half the fun. A participant’s entry fee also includes nightly admission to the “World’s Largest 19th Hole” at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center. The 19th Hole, which utilizes 120,000-square feet in the convention center, provides players free food, open bar, equipment demos, live entertainment, a 60-exhibitor golf expo and more.

World Am players are flighted according to USGA indexes with competitive divisions ranging from men / women under 49 years old to super seniors 70 and above. The event’s inclusiveness is apparent in its past champions as winners with handicaps as low as three and as high as 34 have won. Four women have hoisted the championship trophy.

The World Am is a Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday event.