Gold Creek to hold Pro-Am golf tournament May 18

By Michele Hester

Gold Creek Golf Club’s head Professional Joan Delk probably knows Gold Creek better than any other golfer around. She will welcome 36 teams to Gold Creek to compete in Gold Creek’s Inaugural Pro-Am tournament May 18.

Have you always wanted to play a round of golf with a true professional? Gold Creek Golf Club is bringing you that chance in Gold Creek’s Inaugural Pro-Am Invitational May 18.

Some of Georgia’s top professional golfers will compete alongside amateurs in one of the largest one-day Pro-Am tournaments in Georgia.

With a $10,000 professional prize pool, the field will be limited to the first 36 teams to register and held in two flights. The professionals will compete against one another in stroke play format, while amateurs will play a modified best ball format using 50 percent of their total handicap.

The first four low net amateur teams will win awards. Professional will win cuts from the $10,000 purse. In order to qualify for the invitational, Georgia professionals will assemble a three men amateur team.

Gold Creek Golf Club originally opened as an 18-hole layout in 1995 and was named by Golf Digest as Georgia’s Best New Course. Over the years, nine more holes were added to create a 27-hole experience that will offer new excitement each time played.

When other North Georgia courses experienced damaged and diseased greens, Gold Creek’s rolling greens were saved and welcome the club’s first Pro-Am tournament. “It should be pretty exciting,” said Managing member Bob Tablak. “The tournament has the largest Pro-Am purse in Georgia.”

The Inaugural Gold Creek Pro-Am Invitation will be held Thursday, May 18 with a shotgun start at 11 a.m. The cost is $185 per amateur and $100 per Professional. Box lunches are included with hors d’oeuvres and cocktails to follow at Gold Creek Golf Club’s Eureka Café. For more information, call Carrie Dean at (706) 265-2700, extension 142.