notroman
* Ace Member *
There are 576 players registered for both Pro and Am divisions. There are 8 courses in use (72 players per course). This makes it for 4-somes on each card which helps with the flow. You can't really add more courses. The immediate area only has 7 18-hole courses. The tournament is using 5 of those 7. Two of them have long/short tee layouts and there is also a temporary course set up on a golf course so that is where the 8 courses figure comes from. There are 2 more 18s in the area that aren't being used but one is on a college campus and super short (not ideal for a huge event) while the other course is in a town that was hit by an F5 tornado just over a year ago and is still rebuilding. There just aren't a lot of options to add additional courses. I'm sure they want more players, but the area at the moment just can't support more.