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The Southern Amateur is an amateur golf tournament. It has been played since 1902 and is organized by the Southern Golf Association. From 1902 to 1963, it was played at match play. Since 1964, it has been played at stroke play. In December 2021, the Southern Amateur joined with six other tournaments to form the Elite Amateur Golf Series. [1]
The United States Tennis Association (USTA) is the national governing body for tennis in the United States.A not-for-profit organization with more than 700,000 members, it invests 100% of its proceeds to promote and develop the growth of tennis, from the grass-roots to the professional levels.
The center hosts United States Tennis Association (USTA) and International Tennis Federation (ITF) Junior World Tour events, and serves as the training center for the University of Maryland's women's tennis team. [2] The center has 17 outdoor courts and 15 indoor courts, including hardcourts, Har-Tru courts, and red clay courts. [3] [2]
It originally controlled all of the tennis clubs west of the Alleghenies Mountains, and had great influence over the USTA at national meetings. When the USTA Midwest proposed a national clay court championship in 1910, the USTA agreed without dissent. In the 1920s, tennis became very popular in America and they started to train junior players.
The United States Junior Amateur Championship is one of the fourteen U.S. national golf championships organized by the United States Golf Association.It is open to amateur boys who are under 19 on the last day of the competition and have a USGA Handicap Index of 4.4 or less.
USTA Southern California, formerly known as the Southern California Tennis Association, is one of 17 sections that make up the United States Tennis Association. [1] Each non-profit section represents various geographic locations around North America with the goal to support players and promote the growth of tennis across the United States.
Tennessee is one of the nine states in the USTA's Southern Division, [3] functioning as the "Tennessee Tennis Patrons Foundation" established in 1988. The latter is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation governed by an eight-member volunteer board which is responsible for choosing the state's hall of fame inductees. [ 4 ]
The Southern Championships [1] also known as the Southern States Championships or Southern Sectional Championships was a men's and women's grass court then later clay tournament staged annually at various locations from 1885 until 1978. [2] The tournament is still being held today as the USTA Southern Championships. [3]