University of Idaho student Molly Loucks, student chair of the Student Alumni Relations Board, said the golf tournament hosted by SArb for Dads Weekend will be a chance for students to have fun with a parent.
“Students can compete with their father, or their mother if they want, on a team,” Loucks said.
The tournament will start with breakfast at 6:30 a.m. Saturday at the UI Golf Course.
“It’s up at the golf course pretty much all morning long,” Loucks said. “It’s big. We are expecting to be all sold out. We have like 85 teams right now, but it sells out every year.”
Katie Dahlinger, SArb adviser and young alumni program coordinator, said the limit is 100 teams.
“So 200 people participating in the golf tournament,” Dahlinger said.
Dahlinger said the tournament will be an alternate shot tournament, where the contestants will take turns teeing off and hitting the ball.
“We have two flights — a silver flight and a gold flight — for a nine-hole tournament,” Dahlinger said.
The 18-hole course will be split into the front nine and the back nine, with each flight assigned to one nine-hole course.
Dahlinger said the registered teams should arrive between 6:30 to 7:45 a.m. for breakfast.
“At 7:30, there will be a rules explanation by our student chairs, then everybody will go to their hole assignments, and they will do an air horn start,” Dahlinger said.
There will be a small awards ceremony at 11:30 a.m. at the clubhouse, Dahlinger said.
“We have some who are participating who will go right on to the barbecue at the amphitheater,” Dahlinger said. “Rob Spear will be at that event. Joe Vandal will be at that event, so they’ll come right off the course and come get some lunch, before the game.”
Each flight will have a first and second prize, as well as a prize for the team with the highest score, Dahlinger said.
“As well as some internal contests, like longest drive,” Dahlinger said, “like closest to the pin, most hit hazards.”
Loucks said the Homecoming Committee will also be at the event selling mulligans for $1 each to raise money for the fireworks.
“They(mulligans) cancel out a really bad shot, or something like that,” Loucks said. “And you can get rid of up to three shots, and it just lowers your golf score.”