Harmon Invitational Up-Date

Hello all,

Our Tournament Committee is very excited about the upcoming Harmon Invitational, and we are striving to make this a very successful Harmon Invitational. We’ve all been working hard to drum up major sponsorships, organize the format and tournament particulars, as well as market it efficiently. I would like to ask all of you for a favor…..if each of you forward to golfers you know across the country, they could be from here in the Bay St. George Area, from across Newfoundland, or they could be friends from away. You never know who might want to come home for this! Regardless, we want people to see the array of prizes and entertainment this Harmon will offer. If they don’t come this year, they might next!

Also, the new format creates a less “pressured” style of setup with more competitive fun. Basically, you pick a partner who should be around your handicap (but doesn’t have to be). You and your partner play as a team the entire weekend. The team’s handicap will be based on the lower of the two RCGA handicaps, and that will place you into a Division (A, B or C). Within the Division there will be 1, 2 and 3rd prizes for Gross and Net. THIS IS NOT A SCRAMBLE. In other words, you play your own ball throughout, but the lowest score out of you and your partner on each hole will be the “team score” for the hole. As I said, since you will play with your partner the entire tournament, it will work in two great ways:
1) You will have the relaxed atmosphere of playing with your friend
2) You will still get to meet and play with new people in a foursome

The prizes for this tournament are amazing. Again, you don’t have to be the best golfer to get the best prizes. The major prizes are actually draw prizes on Saturday night, as well as the $250 closest to the Hole on three of the four par 3’s each day (which we know anyone can get!), and a hole in one prize each day as well. You will have to be present for the major draw prizes, but you’ll want to be there anyway for the steak dinner (after you play), and also the many fun events inside and out, and a party/dance Saturday night with a live band!

There are two early bird prizes, one for “in town” and one for “out of town”. The early bird eligibility is based on paying by July 16th, and it is non-fundable (for obvious reasons of being eligible). These prizes include “refreshments”, gift certificates, hotel for out of town, and other golf paraphernalia, prize packages total over $250 each.

We do not have a cap on the number of teams that we will be accepting, but if registrations get to a point where we think getting all players around before supper occur, we’ll then cut it off. So, please don’t wait to long to get your registrations in, it helps us in knowing what we are working with for numbers, and we can determine what we need for a tee times as well.

So, please forward this e-mail with the attachments (poster and registration form) to whomever you can!

Thanks to all, and hope to see you on the course!

Justin House
HSL Golf Captain