EVANSVILLE — There will be 167 golfers playing for 59 spots when the Courier & Press Men's City Golf Tournament qualifier tees off a week from today on July 24.
City tournament pairings chairman Mike Small said that 91 exempt players entered the tournament this year, leaving 59 spots available for the 150-player field for the first two rounds on Aug. 6-7.
The qualifier has again been split to two sites, with a similar percentage of players advancing from each. At Fendrich, 143 players will compete for 50 spots. At Helfrich Hills, 24 players will compete for nine. In the event of ties, playoffs will be held at either course.
"The 258 entries that we accepted and have validated are up a little from last year (when 249 players entered)," said Small. "The top 100 are exempt each year, and with 91 we got about the number we've grown to expect."
The tournament field peaked at 314 players in 2002, and has included as many as 297 players as recently as 2007. That dropped to 284 in 2008 then to 249.
Proceeds from entry fees help fund the Dan Scism Scholarship Award, given annually to a high school senior who plays in the tournament.
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