How does pro am work

At a typical pro-am, the pro and four amateur partners compete as a best-ball fivesome, with the amateurs using their handicaps. Using this format, birdies are commonplace and the team score is often below At some events, the teams use a scramble format, selecting the best drive, best second shot, and so on until the ball is in the hole.

A lavish party and the awarding of prizes usually follows the event on Wednesday night. This revenue helps put a tournament in the black, which enables it to donate more money to charity. One indication of the importance of pro-ams to the PGA Tour was the disqualification of Jim Furyk from a tournament in for oversleeping and missing his pro-am tee time.

In an article posted on Golf. He advised hiring a caddie whose tour player isn't playing in the pro-am. You'll know exactly how far you are from the target on every shot.

Be ready to hit. Can they do it too? Are they ready? Will we dance with them? Not every event hosts ProAm contests, and each event interprets the contests differently. This was a win-win-win situation: students would be happy because they get to train and dance with an exceptionally competent partner, teachers would be happy for more business in creating, practicing and competing with routines, and events would be happy for the increased registration numbers that ProAm would bring.

The plan backfired, though: students were so successful with their teachers that they were less motivated to find a partner of their own level to compete with. ProAm became so popular in Ballroom and Country that events had to start contests at 7am or start weekends on Tuesday just to fit in all the ProAm entries. Hopefully it will never get to that point!

It runs in a heated format, usually in 2 heats: male Pros with female Ams, and female Pros with male Ams. Like Strictly Swing, this division involves predetermined partnerships but random music and no choreography.

Dancers enter by their WSDC division. Usually, teachers have multiple students to dance with, which means there are multiple small heats instead of few large heats. It is quite common for there to be only couples competing on the floor at a time. Each heat usually gets only one song, occasionally two. The judging system varies, depending on the rules of the event. Some ProAm Strictlys are judged exactly like a Strictly final, where the judges are asked to rank each competitor against the field.

In other ProAm Strictly contests, the Ams are given a grade like in school Bronze, Silver, Gold, Gold with Honours , which indicates their competency within the expectations of the division level, and is not related to the other competitors.

Awards are allocated based on these competency levels, usually in the form of certificates. There is no universal criteria for competency levels, so the judges are simply using an educated guess. Teachers might extend an invitation to their regular students to do ProAm Strictly, but otherwise it is up to the student to invite the teacher. Typically, Ams will ask their regular teacher to dance with them in the ProAm Strictly.

If you've ever wanted to play golf with a professional golfer, then you should strongly consider playing in a PGA Tour pro-am. And how do you go about playing in a PGA Tour, or another professional tour, pro-am? It's remarkable simple, believe it or not. Typically, there's a Monday pro-am and a Wednesday pro-am at professional golf events that have them the men's majors and most of the LPGA majors do not have them, for example.

The Monday pro-am typically features players that aren't nearly as well known as the ones who will be playing on Wednesday. That means playing in the Monday pro-am costs less money than the Wednesday pro-am. Often times, groups can buy whole foursomes for a slight discount. Ultimately, the proceeds from the pro-am help to defer some of the costs of running the tournament and also help fund the tournament's charitable contributions. Ahead of the pro-am, there is typically a pairings party, where the amateurs learn their pro and get to enjoy some time with many of the players who will be competing in the tournament.