News >> NGA Hooters Tour Announces Venue Change
Longs, SC—The NGA Hooters Tour announced today that the 15th event of the 2010 season, scheduled for the week of August 9th thru 15th, will be moved from Callaway Gardens to Overlook Golf Links in LaGrange, Ga.
“Due to issues beyond our control and that of Callaway Gardens, we felt it was best for all parties involved to postpone the Callaway Gardens event to a future date, possibly sometime later this season,” said Robin L. Waters, President of the NGA Hooters Golf Tour. “The replacement venue for the week will be Overlook Golf Links in LaGrange, Ga., where we’ve cosponsored a midseason pro-am benefiting the Chattahoochee Hospice Foundation for the past 10 years. It will make a great event, which is already extremely popular with our professionals, an even better one.”
Overlook Golf Links sits on the highest point in Troup Country, Ga. The 18-hole course features Champion Ultra Dwarf Bermuda greens and a Scottish links layout. The course is located approximately 30 to 40 minutes west of Atlanta, Ga.
The NGA/Hooters Tour is the 3rd largest men’s 72-hole professional golf tour in the country behind the PGA and Nationwide Tours, and boasts alumni like 2009 British Open Champion Stewart Cink, 2007 Masters Champion Zach Johnson, 2003 PGA Champion Shaun Micheel, 2003 British Open winner Ben Curtis, 2003 US Open winner Jim Furyk, two time U.S. Open winner Lee Janzen, British Open and PGA Champion John Daly, as well as British Open winner Tom Lehman, PGA Champion David Toms, 2003 Tour Championship Winner Chad Campbell, 2004 & 2005 Reno Tahoe Open winner Vaughn Taylor and TPC winner Craig Perks to name just a few. All told, the NGA/Hooters Tour’s alumni have an incredible 11 “Majors” to their credit. The NGA/Hooters Tour has helped more than 100 professionals acquire their PGA, Senior PGA, and Nationwide Tour cards. In fact, 48% of the players that earned their 2010 PGA Tour card, and 53% of the players that earned full exempt status on the Nationwide Tour started their careers on the NGA/Hooters Tour.
For more information about the NGA/Hooters Tour, please visit our web site, www.NGAHOOTERSTOUR.com.
