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The Masters is over for an additional 12 months however there may be one other match to look ahead to on the horizon.
Golf Digest is launching a brand new nationwide, two-person group best-ball match permitting novice golfers to compete for a $1,000 money prize in addition to inclusion in an upcoming difficulty of the journal.
The Golf Digest Open will encompass eight regional qualifiers contested by 400 groups over the summer season earlier than 32 groups will advance to a two-day nationwide championship on October 30 and thirty first.
“We’ve simply launched and we’ve already seen registrations. We predict we’re going to promote out actual quick,” Joshua Stern, Golf Digest’s Vice-President of Enterprise Operations and Advertising Partnerships, instructed CNN’s Don Riddell.
The highest two groups from every qualifier in each the Gross and Web divisions will play within the nationwide championship, held on the model new OMNI PGA Frisco Resort in Texas, which is about to host plenty of prestigious occasions, together with the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship in 2025 and the boys’s PGA Championship in 2027.
There, the groups with the bottom cumulative 36-hole rating in every division might be topped champions.
“It’s going to really feel very aggressive as a result of we’re doing gross and internet divisions so the chance for a golfer of any ability to take part and truly win their native qualifying match and get into the nationwide championship might be excessive,” Stern mentioned.
Timed to coincide with golf’s enlargement after the Covid-19 pandemic, the Golf Digest Open “might develop into the brand new nationwide novice match,” Stern added.
The entry charge for the qualifiers is $500 per participant, protecting greens charges, cart charges, observe vary entry, breakfast and/or lunch, and a present, whereas entry for the Nationwide Championship prices $1,000 per participant together with inexperienced charges, two-nights lodging on the resort and meals at some point of the nationwide championship.
The match begins on June 12 at The Customary Membership in Atlanta, a Golf Digest Finest in State course, and the Mesa Nation Membership, which was designed by the person who constructed the famed Torrey Pines Golf Course. Among the many different programs internet hosting occasions are Kemper Lakes Golf Membership, host of the 1989 PGA Championship, and Aviara Golf Membership in California, which hosts the annual LPGA Tour occasion.
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