News >> 2010 Hooters Tour Tentative Schedule Released

18 Events
168 Player Fields
Guaranteed $200,000 & $250,000 Purses
Cut to 70 and Ties
 
Longs, SC (December 3, 2009)…The National Golf Association’s Hooters Professional Golf Tour announces their 2010 Season Schedule which features eighteen (18) events, 168 player fields, each with GUARANTEED $200,000 & $250,000 purses regardless of field size.
 
The 2010 season will be the best yet with stops at Golden Hills Golf & Turf Club (Host course of US Women's Mid-Amateur), Rock Barn Golf & Spa (Host to the Champions Tour Greater Hickory Classic 2003-present), Cherry Blossom GC (Golfweek #1 in KY 5 years running), McCormick, SC (Consistently voted best event by players), The Auburn University Club (Host site of PGA Tour Q-School 2007-Present as well as the home course for Auburn University men’s and women’s golf teams), Callaway Gardens (Host to the PGA Tour’s Buick Challenge for 12 years as well as Stage 2 of PGA Tour Q-School 2008-present) as well as a stop at Mount Vintage Plantation (Host to the LPGA Tour’s Asahi Ryokuken International Championship 2001-2004).
 
The NGA/Hooters Tour is the only Tour in the country, besides the PGA & Nationwide Tours, to offer a full week of activities that include:
 
·         GUARANTEED $200,000 & $250,000 Purses REGARDLESS OF FIELD SIZE!!
·         Top 10 members on season ending points list will have 2011 PGA Tour Q-School fees reimbursed
·         Top 10 members on season ending money list will receive free membership into the 2010-11 Bridgestone Central Florida Winter Series
·         Player of Year receives a 12-month lease on a new GM vehicle
·         Minimum of four (4) Nationwide Tour exemptions w/no additional fees required
·         Complimentary practice rounds at each event
·         Complimentary Bridgestone range balls at every event
·         Complimentary Pepsi sponsored beverages and snacks each week
·         Paid participant pro-ams
·         $200 daily low round bonus
·         Paid participant Long Drive contests & Shootouts at selected events
·         2010 Hooters Tour membership includes Carolina Summer Series events
·         All events conducted at one (1) facility per week
·         72-hole (36-hole cut) tournaments – no carts or range finders allowed as in line with PGA & Nationwide Tour guidelines
·         All cuts made to 70 and ties ensuring minimum 42% of field paid each week
·         All events mirror PGA & Nationwide Tour models
·         USGA & PGA Certified Rules Officials
·         Member discounts with major club & clothing manufacturers


2010 TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
                                   
 
March 1-7                  Ocala, FL (Golden Hills Golf & Turf Club)
March 8-14                Fernandina Beach, FL (Amelia National Golf & CC)
 
March 22-28              Hickory, NC (Rock Barn Golf & Spa)
March 29-April 4       Gainesville, GA (Chattahoochee GC)
 
April 19-25                 Hampton, GA (Crystal Lake Golf Club)
April 26-May 2           McCormick, SC (Savannah Lakes)
                                   
May 10-16                  St. Louis, MO (Sunset Hills CC)
May 17-23                  Lexington, KY (Cherry Blossom GC)
 
June 7-13                   Bentonville, AR (Lost Springs)
June 14-20                 Miami, OK (Peoria Ridge GC)                
 
July 5-11                     Houston, TX (Golfcrest CC)
July 12-18                   Victoria, TX (Victoria CC)
July 26-Aug 1              Auburn, AL (Auburn University Club)
August 2-8                  Tunica, MS (Tunica National)
August 9-15                Pine Mtn, GA (Callaway Gardens- Mountain View) 
      
August 23-29              Hawkinsville, GA (Southern Hills GC)
August 30-Sept, 5      North Augusta, SC (Mount Vintage Plantation & Golf Club)
September 6-12         Columbia, SC (The Members Club at Woodcreek)