Curtis Henley Takes 34th Myrtle Beach World Amateur Handicap Championship

Curtis Henley of Poquoson, Va., shot a gross 82, good for a net 66, to win the World Championship Playoff at the 34th annual Myrtle Beach World Amateur Handicap Championship Friday at Barefoot Resort's Dye Club.

Henley edged James Dupont of Meadville, Pa., and Charlotte’s Jim Acord, who shot net 67s to finish tied for second place.

Hilton Head’s Wes Long fired a sizzling 68 to win the Gross Division and finished five rounds with a cumulative, gross score of 1-under par.

Making his first appearance in the event, Carl Myers of Dallas, Texas won the Senior Gross Division in a sudden death playoff against Kim Mansfield of High Point, N.C. Myers won on the first playoff hole with a par.

Virginians Ted Hartung and Thomas “Duke” Wagner won the Pairs Competition and along with it a trip to any destination in the world that GolfBreaks.com offers.

A 72-hole, net stroke play tournament, the World Am was contested on more than 50 of Myrtle Beach’s best golf courses.

Players from 49 states and 20 countries competed in the event, which was open to all men and women 18 years of age and older, and players were flighted based on age, gender and handicap. Each flight played a different course every day and after four rounds of competition, all flight winners and ties advanced to the World Championship Playoff at the Dye Club. The playoff was an 18-shootout to crown the event’s winner.

While the competition is initially what lures players to the tournament, it’s only part of what keeps them coming back. At the heart of the World Am’s appeal is the camaraderie among its participants and much of that kinship is fostered at the World’s Largest 19th Hole.

Each night of the event, the 19th Hole overtook all 120,000-square feet of the Myrtle Beach Convention Center, providing participants with free food and drinks, live entertainment, celebrity guest appearances, a golf expo and more.

Among the big names that appeared at the 19th Hole this year were Golf Channel personalities Charlie Rymer, Damon Hack and Chantel McCabe, billiards legend Ewa Laurance and Paige Spiranac, one of the game’s fastest rising personalities. Players also received a gift bag that included a logo’d hat, shirt, PGA Tour Superstore gift card, NexBelt, and an assortment of other goodies.

For more information, visit www.MyrtleBeachWorldAmateur.com.

2017 World Am

Great once again to spend part of the week in Myrtle Beach a the 2017 Myrtle Beach World Amateur.

The largest golf tournament in the world with over 3000 entrants.

Read all about it as it wraps up on Friday at http://myrtlebeachworldamateur.com

2016 World Am is Underway

Over 3000 entrants, the 2016 Myrtle Beach World Am is underway, and we've already had out first hole-in-one.

Myrtle Beach World Am Underway

Almost 3,500 golfers competing this year in the Myrtle Beach World Am.

All this week, in Myrtle Beach.

After a wet start to the tournament on Monday, Tuesday was just perfect.

Denis Rasku Takes 2014 Myrtle Beach World Am Title

From: www.worldamgolf.com

Myrtle Beach, S.C. – Dennis Rasku of Pompano Beach, Fl., made a net birdie (gross par) on the first hole to win a 3-way, sudden death playoff and the World Championship Playoff at 31st annual Myrtle Beach World Amateur Handicap Championship at Barefoot Resort’s Dye Club.

Rasku, a 9 handicap, Tony Wallace, a 5 handicap from Fayetteville, N.C., and Ben Hamby, a 7 handicap from Winter Springs, Fla., all shot net 72s to get into the playoff.

Rasku hit his approach to 22 feet and two-putted for par on the Dye Club's ninth hole, a 410-yard par 4, besting Wallace and Hamby, neither of whom received a stroke on the hole.

“From the weather to the World’s Largest 19th Hole, we enjoyed a wonderful week at the Myrtle Beach World Amateur Handicap Championship,” said Jeff Monday, World Am tournament director. “Congratulations to Dennis on earning the right to call himself World Champion and to our entire field for a great week of golf.”

Mark Gardiner of Mascoutah, Ill., shot a 1-under par 71 to win the World’s Am first Gross Division Championship. Gardiner’s score was the best of the day, net or gross.

Additionally, Brazilians Joao Tomazelli and Denis Song Min Cho shot a team total of 155 to win the International Pairs event and earn the right to compete in Scotland next year in the IP World Finals.

The World Championship Playoff is the annual culmination of the Myrtle Beach World Am, a 72-hole net, stroke play event. This year, more than 3,400 players from 48 states and 34 countries vied for the honor of hoisting the victor’s trophy.

Players were arranged into flights according to their handicap and at the conclusion of the four rounds, all flight winners (and ties) advanced to the 18-hole world championship playoff.

The World Am features five competitive divisions, ranging from men and women 49 years-of-age and under to the super seniors, who are 70 years-of-age and older. Players with handicaps as low as three and as high as 34 have won the event.

The weather throughout the week was ideal. The Dye Club, which has been ranked among America’s 100 Greatest Public Courses, was in pristine condition and provided an excellent test of golf for the finals.

The World Am web site www.worldamgolf.com offers a daily glimpse of the tournament with updated standings, news releases and photographs.

The 32nd annual Myrtle Beach World Amateur Handicap Championship will be held August 31 – Sept. 4, 2015.