When you sign up for the Cincinnati/ Dayton Golfweek Amateur Tour, we will place you into a flight based on your current USGA Index or by making a determination based on your average scores. During the tournaments, you will compete against other players from your flight in a true stoke play event. You will compete for VISA Gifts Cards and also an etched crystal trophy for the 1st place winner in each flight. 

Prize Pay-Outs are based on the amount of players in the field. A Prize Fee is already in your Tournament Entry. 

We also have optional cash games at each event. These include Skins Games based on Flight, Super Skins which includes all flights together and CTPs.

Then, based on what place you took in that tournament, you will be awarded season points no matter what place you finished for the event.  The Season Long Points Winner for each flight will be awarded a special trophy and a paid National Tournament! Please see details on the table of contents on our webpage.

Listed below are the flight assignments... 

• Championship Flight: 0 to 3.9 Handicap
• A Flight: 4.0 to 8.9 Handicap
• B Flight: 9.0 to 13.9 Handicap
• C Flight: 14.0 to 18.9 Handicap
• D Flight: 19.0 and Higher Handicap

TOURNAMENT CHECK IN
After you arrive, please locate our check in table before you warm up. Check in with either the tour director or assitants to let us know you arrived and to sign up for any optional cash side games you want to get in. No need to check in with the course. We require that you check in at least 30 minutes before Tee Time and Shotgun starts. Failure to do so may result in a 2 stroke penalty. 

Next, find your cart with your name on the cart card and stow your gear. Allow sufficient time to perform your normal warm-up routine.
Tee Time starts, be at the first tee 10 min before your scheduled tee time.
For shotgun starts, you must be in your carts 15 min early to hear the tournament annoucements before driving to your starting hole.

TOURNAMENT TEE BOXES
All flights will be from a set of tees customized at each tournament. The following guidelines will be used for determining length:
Championship Flight will play at 6,700 yards and up
“A” Flight will play at 6,500-6,800 yards.
“B” flight will play at 6,400-6,600 yards.
“C” flight will play at 6,200-6,500 yards
“D” Flight will play 6,000-6,300 yards.
Women will play from a tee box of the closest comparable slope rating to that of the men in the same flight. In the absence of a suitable tee box the local tour director will choose or designate a tee box or tee box combination the equivalent of 85-90% of the men's distance in the same flight.

Note: These also will be the typical yardages that will be used for the National Tour Championship

ON THE FIRST TEE
Be sure to pay attention to the tournament annocements going over tee boxes and course rules for the day. Each cart will also have a paper copy of the rule sheet to follow along.

For all events, you will be provided an official score card/cards. Once with your group is on the first hole, determine who will keep the paper scorecard and who will keep the Live Score on their phone. Both ways of scoring are manditory and Live Scoring will be our official copy at the end of the round. Upon completion of the round, make sure both paper and live scoring match before all golfers sign the paper card and turning it in to the scoring area.

Each player should identify his ball with a distinctive marking and show it to his playing partners. You must be able to positively identify that the ball you found is not one of the same brand and number that was lost by another player. If you cannot positively identify the ball as yours, then USGA rules deem your ball to be lost.

Range finders and GPS devices are allowed, but may not have slope or wind function turned on durung the event.
Also, no green reading devices can be used from yardage books or GPS. A few of our scheduled courses golf carts GPS systems will have this function built in and cannot be turned off. At which time with it being provided for all, is the only time it can be used at any AGT event.

Players may have a maximum of 14 clubs.

SCORING OUT OF FLIGHT

Tour flighting is based on a performance index system that groups together players of roughly similar skill level. The probability of an A or B Flight player scoring four strokes below his/her Tour Index is approximately 130 to 1. The same is true for a C or D Flight player scoring five strokes below his/her Tour Index. 

To maintain the integrity of each flight, the Golfweek Amateur Tour Index Committee (comprised of the Tour President and five Local Tour Directors) will review instances where members return a score that indicates their actual playing performance exceeds that of their current flight. If this occurs the Local Tour Director will contact the Committee prior to awarding flight prizes. The committee will then: 

• Evaluate the playing record of the individual (including but not limited to the number of rounds on Tour for established players versus rookies with few rounds, etc.) 
• Determine whether the player will be disqualified from the event (during 2-Day tournaments, the Committee will not make a final decision until after both rounds have been completed) 
• Share the final decision with the player and his/her Local Tour Director

In the event, the committee determines that the player should be disqualified, please kindly accept the decision and stop making any scene at the event. These decisions are hard to make and sometimes I have to make hard decision as a tour director on behalf of other tour members. This process is important to maintain the integrity of our tour and more importantly to maintain the integrity of the game of golf that we all love to play.

As a result, you will see following happening, but not limited:

• Tournament fee will not be refunded
• You will be moved up to a flight or two flights depending on the new HCP