The Elite Amateur Golfers Tour held its first event of the year Saturday at Carolina Springs Golf Club. The tour, handicapped and conducted in medal play format, is beginning its sixth year of operations. The group of 60 golfers that comprise this season's roster could well serve as a paradigm for the sport of amateur golf.
Occupations run the gamut, and ages span from teens to seniors.
Handicaps vary from three to 25 and consist of public course players as well as members of prestigious private clubs. Garrison Brown is the tour's founder and director. He organizes the tournaments and even serves as the starter and official. That would be an ideal number and about as many as I could handle and maintain the quality our players have come to expect. Brown emphasized that the tour is open to any amateur golfer with an established United States Golf Association handicap.