Eligibility: Both professionals and amateurs are welcome. There is an open and amateur division. The amateur division will compete for net prizes. Amateurs are welcome to participate in both divisions. However, they must pay separate entries, but only one walk/ride fee. Amateurs will receive gift certificates at the host club.

Event Registration: MANDATORY – To sign up for an event you must either email Jamie Shaffer at shaffer004@aol.com or text at (215) 915-3809.

Starting Times: All events will be 10:15 shotgun starts. Please let me know you are playing, so the host facility can be appropriately prepared! Also, be on time or we will start without you.

Fees: Cash only. No checks will be accepted.

Tour Registration: $70.00 – must be paid at the first event you play.

Entry Fees: Open Division $70.00 per person, which includes the walk/ride fee – $5.00 per person of entry will go into a skins pool. In the event there are no skins, the skin money will go into that day’s purse. Amateur Division $70.00 per person, which includes the walk/ride fee – $5.00 per person of entry will go into an optional skins pool.

Handicaps: Amateurs will play with their USGA course handicaps – maximum handicap of 16. If you do not have a handicap, one will be assigned to you.

Birdie Race: Open Division players only. The birdie race will pay three places for the total number of birdies made for the year. Players will get credit for their own birdies in individual and better ball events. Players are responsible for notifying scorers of their birdie total at each event. No card – No birdies. Eagles and aces count as two birdies.

Conduct: Clubs hosting the FDS Winter Tour have been very generous and hospitable to host us. It is in our collective best interest to return this consideration with respect to the club, the golf course, and the members and staff. Your sportsmanlike behavior will ensure our continued welcome at these clubs.

Championship: To be eligible for the championship, you must have paid entries in over 50 percent of the events that are played. You may prepay an entry (and not play) on or before the date of that particular event, and it will count toward your total for the championship.

Rules of Play: “Winter Rules” – lift, clean and place within one club length, no closer to the hole, everywhere. The ball must remain in the same condition – i.e. rough stays in rough, fairway stays in fairway, ball in the water stays in the water (you can go no closer to the hole in more shallow water, but it must stay in the water).

Information: Call or text Jamie Shaffer at (215) 915-3809 or email at shaffer004@aol.com, if you have any questions. The first person to email me the correct answer to the following question will receive a free entry. How many screws and rods were put in my back when I had surgery in September (total combined number). You get one guess only.