[Jeff M. – World Am]

Simply click on your name from the flight listing and it will show all of the course information: tee name, yardage, slope and rating, as well as the two 9’s you will play.

[Jeff M. – World Am]

Yes Bob. You can register on whichever day you wish. We only ask to have a general idea, but if you need to change from what you choose on the form, that is fine.

[Jeff M. – World Am]

The email is not a typo. Registration will be held at the NORTH STORE ONLY ON SATURDAY and the BROADWAY STORE ONLY ON SUNDAY. That is also stated on the schedule of events and will be reiterated in the Handicap Verification form, on the Course Assignment email and webpages and we will send a few more dedicated emails regarding that change. Please plan accordingly. Thank you for verifying. Have a good one.

[Jeff M. – World Am]

David, as always I appreciate your thoughtfulness amidst another’s thoughtlessness.

We generally have between 20-23% new players each year. Those number remain very consistent and we are currently at 21.8% for 2016. So as of right now we have 646 that have never played in the World Am. We’re excited about the opportunity to showcase the event to those players, and hope that the 2,400 past players are as well.

The 19th Hole is an amazing part of our golf tournament and we fully understand its importance to the vast majority of players. It is important to remember that our goal with the price increase was to maintain the level of experience that people have come to expect and to add value to prizes and courses. If we only focus on how many players we get each year, this event will die. The focus has to be on the experience and the value, not the number.

The notion of 100 player flight is a great one for us. It would mean less work throughout the flighting and scoring process, fewer handicap issues to deal with and a smaller prize budget. It isn’t better for you though, and that is why we don’t go back to it. More people win meaningful prizes with smaller flights. The amounts awarded to 1-5 are much better than awarding 1-10. Who wants a 9th place trophy or gift card amount when you can have 4th place?

A minimum of two players from each course go to the Friday round as it is right now. With ties, it comes out to about 1.25 per flight, which is 2.5 per course. So taking the top 2 from 100 player flight wouldn’t make any difference and the top 3 would only be a slight increase, because we would have to break a tie for the third player to go.

[Jeff M. – World Am]

David,

A handicap is about your potential, it is not an average of your scores. The USGA system does not use 50% of your scores until you reach 20 in your score history. The fewer scores you have, the fewer differentials they use to calculate your index. By using the USGA standard for this, we should technically only use your lowest single differential from last year if you only played 3 rounds. However, we made the decision to stick with average of the lowest two differentials for the World Am index.

It is important to remember that we are not penalizing players for playing well. We are simply using all of the relevant information at hand to assign an index to each player that most accurately reflects their recent, ultimate playing potential for our golf tournament.

Also, the only way the World Am index comes into play is if you have two differentials (in 3 days) that average out to lower than your lowest index in the last 12 months. That is not something that will affect a large number of people. If you continually have to play to a World Am index, it may mean that your actual USGA handicap index is inaccurate.

We’ll miss you at Calabash Cup this year. I enjoyed having these conversations in person!

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