The 2004 World Amateur Handicap Championship

Myrtle Beach, SC -
The elements are simple, but the result is incredible...a golfing bonanza filled with thousands and thousands of golfers attacking 75 championship Myrtle Beach golf courses! As if that alone wouldn't blow you mind, there's over $500,000 in available prizes plus the unbelievable camaraderie that is shared over 4 days and 4 nights...it's the DuPont World Amateur Handicap Championship, rather incredible, wouldn't you say?

With almost 100 golf courses within reasonable driving distance, Myrtle Beach, the "Golf Capital of the World" is the obvious choice for this event.

Or would you? Each evening everyone gathers to compare scores and swap tales at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center...most definitely the "World's Largest 19th Hole!" It houses plenty of complimentary food and drink, the golf expo, clinics and demos, celebrity guests, games and live entertainment...a complete revolution of FUN! From August 30th to September 3rd, you can match your skills against other amateurs around the world in the only golf tournament that can offer YOU the chance to be "World Champion!"

With almost 100 golf courses within reasonable driving distance, Myrtle Beach, the "Golf Capital of the World" is the obvious choice for this event. Besides golf, there are 60 miles of beautiful beaches with tens of thousands of affordable places to stay...and restaurants galore to satisfy everyone's tastes. And there's plenty of entertainment with a capital E! Every imaginable form of entertainment, from kiddie rides to sophisticated night clubs, first-rate music theaters, top theme restaurants like Hard Rock Café, Planet Hollywood, NASCAR Café, House of Blues and more welcome you. Care for a little shopping when you're not on the golf course? Myrtle Beach is shopping nirvana with Broadway at the Beach, Barefoot Landing, and the Myrtle Beach Factory Stores just lined up for the most serious shop-till-you-droppers. If you still have some energy left and you just keep going and going...Celebrity Square is where it's at for the "late night" crowd! In other words...you want it?!
Myrtle Beach has it! Let's look at it this way, everyone's here to have fun both on the course and off, and Myrtle Beach is hands down, the place for everyone.

The concept and format of the tournament has changed very little since its origin in 1984. Within each Division, participants are assigned to closely-matched-handicap flights of approximately 100 players each, and each flight is assigned to play four appropriately-suited courses with flight make-up remaining constant throughout the four days of regulation play. Foursomes, however, change daily, so there is a fair chance that the dozen players who make up your foursomes can include a gaucho from Guatemala, and electrician from Ecuador, a program designer from Panama, and a school chum from your hometown you've not seen in a dozen years. Then, on the 5th day, all flight winners and ties meet in head-to-head competition for the title.

But there's so much more to this unique event...food and drink, seminars... exhibits at the Convention Center and at night, it's one big party. You'll be trading in those golfin' shoes for your best dancin' shoes as everyone boogies the night away to live music at the 19th Hole. The tournament boasts plenty of cash prizes... as in real "moolah," but it doesn't stop there. Clever play often reaps its own rewards but the top ten in each flight will receive gifts of fine merchandise...closest-to-the pin, long drive, and hole-in-one skills will earn rewards,too, but "token gifts" such as exotic trips, custom clubs, and a brand new luxury car may be awarded simply because your name's drawn from a bowl!

It would be hard to find a better host than Myrtle Beach! What's not to like about Myrtle Beach? The Beach area itself is perfect for any event but it's the camaraderie and extraordinary bonding with fellow golfers from all over the world that makes the DUPONT WORLD AMATEUR HANDICAP CHAMPIONSHIP, the world's greatest golfing experience!