Southern Hills Plantation Hosts PGA Q-School

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. –Southern Hills Plantation Club, a private, Pete Dye-designed Club in the Tampa area, hosted the PGA Tour’s second-stage Q-School event Nov. 12-15. Approximately 78 players competed at Southern Hills in the event in an attempt to get one step closer to securing a PGA Tour Card for the 2009 season.  Southern Hills is one of only six golf clubs nationwide chosen to host a second-stage Q-School event.

Q-School is a grueling three-stage process that determines the last 25 golfers who will receive PGA Tour Cards for each season.  Finalists in Q-School who don’t qualify for Tour Cards receive fully exempt or conditionally exempt status on the Nationwide Tour depending on their scores.

Southern Hills Plantation Club, ranked in the top 100 residential courses and the top 50 new courses in America by Golfweek magazine, and was also a qualifying site for the Canadian Professional Golf Tour in March.  The championship course features elevations from 60 to nearly 250 feet and presents challenges for golfers of every skill level.

Southern Hills Plantation Club is part of Hampton Golf: a company founded by MG Orender and Ed Burr in 1998 that operates 11 golf clubs in the Florida and Southeast Georgia region.  Hampton Golf strives to provide excellent designs, world-class service and superior course conditions at its courses while upholding the traditions of the game of golf.  The company offers the most innovative programs to help grow interest and participation in the game, while actively working to fulfill every golfer’s vision of the perfect round of golf.   For more information about golf membership or to have your next event at Southern Hills Plantation, please call (352) 277-5000.