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2019 Senior Open Tour Champions


WELCOME TO THE SENIOR OPEN TOUR
The Senior Open Tour was extablished exclusively for senior male golfers who are 50 years of age and over. The Tour is owned and operated by DCI Golf, a division of DeSilva Communications, Inc. The Tour was founded in 2013 to provide professionallay organized, tour style golf events at some of the finest priviate, semi-private and public golf courses. Tour events are held throughout the year with a Tour Championship held annually.

The Tour has Two Separate Divisions:
•  An Open Division for Senior Professionals
•  An Indexed Division for Senior Scratch & Amateur golfers

The Tour has Two Age Divisions:
•  Ages 50 - 64 Senior Division
•  Ages 65 & above - Super Senior Division

Tour Membership:
Tour Membership is not mandatory to play Tournaments on the Senior Open Tour. However, Senior Open Tour Members will receive:
• The Lowest Tournament Entry Fees
• Eligibility to participate in the Annual Senior Open Tour Championship

Tour Administration:
In order to cover Administration Costs, the Senior Open Tour will only take up to $20 per day from each Player's Tournament Entry Fee, in addition to all non-member and late entry fees. The Tour will pay 1/3 of the field for each Senior Open Tour event.

Flights & Yardages:
• Senior Professional Division: Approximately. 6,300 - 6,600 yards
• Super Senior Professional Division: Approximtely 6,200 - 6,400 yards
• Amateur Championship: 0 - 3.9 index, approximately 6,200 to, 6,400 yards
• Amateur A Flight: 4 - 7.9 index, approximately 6,000 to 6,200 yards
• Amateur B Flight: 8 - 11.9 index, approximately 6,000 to 6,200 yards
• Amateur C Flight: 12 - 15.9 index, approximately 6,000 to 6,200 yards

Senior Professionals:
Senior Pros. can choose to join the Senior Open Tour for an Annual Membership Fee.
All Senior Professionals must have a W-9 on file with the Tour.
All winners are paid at the conclusion of the event.

Senior Amateurs:
All Senior Amateurs will compete with fellow golfers at their skill level within their Flight. All winners in each Flight are determined by overall low gross score.

Senior Amateurs can choose to join the Senior Open Tour for an Annual Membership Fee. All senior golfers who want to participate in a Senior Open Tour event must have an active, verifiable USGA/GHIN handicap index of 0 - 15.9. If you don't have a handicap index, you can obain a USGA/GHIN Handicap through the Senior Open Tour. Your GHIN Handicap Index will be used to initially place you in a Flight for competition. Thereafter, the Senior Open Tour will create a Tournament Handicap Index based on your Tournament Scores in order to flight you in Tour events.

A Tournament Handicap Index will be established for all Amateur Players after participation in (4) events and will factor only scores from the tournament. Tournament Index is calculated based on the following: 2 scores-lowest 1, 3 scores-lowest 2, 4 scores-lowest 3, 5 scores-lowest 4, 6 scores-lowest 5 and so on... up to 10 acceptable scores. Tournament Officials reserve the right to Re-Flight Amateur players at any time.