The Duel in the Desert-US Am Tour

[PatsFan]

Registration fee includes daily round trip coach transportation from The Mirage Hotel & Casino to Paiute, three rounds of golf (one on each of the host courses), plus practice range balls the day of the tournament, single use of golf cart as well as three night’s accommodation on Sunday (2/18), Monday (2/19) & Tuessday (2/20) at The Mirage Hotel & Casino, tee prizes, trophies for each flight winner, gift card payouts to the top 20% of each flight, box lunch and post round refreshments each tournament round at the golf courses.

The top 3 teams in each flight receive exemptions to the 2024 US Am Tour National Championships at the Innisbrook Resort in September of 2024. Additional details to follow.

My buddy Tom the Bounty hunter called me asking if I wanted to be his teammate for this event. Has anyone on THP gone to one of these?

The tournament is a 54-hole, two-person team competition. The teams are flighted based on a combination of the players handicap indexes. (See FAQ 9E for further explanation)

Day one (Monday) will be a Scramble format, day two (Tuesday) will be a Best Ball format, and day three (Wednesday) will be a Modified Alternate Shot format.
USGA® rules are in effect at all times during play.
All formats are stroke play and NOT match play.

The cost is pretty reasonable. It's 800 for just the tourney but it's only 1k for double occupancy with a room included at the Mirage.

 

[Jtubb17]

A buddy of mine plays it every year. They usually get a good turnout and it’s pretty competitive in every flight. He always talks about how fun it is but complains about sandbagging being pretty bad. He tries to talk me into going every year but I pass.