Sunbelt Senior Tour tournaments being held at Legends, minus a pair of side events

The Grand Strand-based Sunbelt Senior Tour is staging a pair of 54-hole tournaments at Legends Resort over the next two weeks, though the tour has had to cancel a pro-am and putting contest affiliated with the tournaments due to a lack of interest.

The 14th South Carolina Senior Open will be held on the Moorland Course from Wednesday through Friday and the Summer Solstice Championship will be played next Monday through Wednesday on the Heathland Course. Both events for players 47 and older have approximately 15 players and winner’s checks of about $2,500. The Summer Solstice is still accepting players.

But tour founder and director Don Barnes of Longs had scheduled a pro-am Tuesday at a cost of $125 per player or $100 for Legends members, and the innovative Hampton C. Auld Putting Championship on Saturday that was open to anyone.

The putting tournament was going to cost $100 per player and have a single-elimination 18-hole match play format and a 64-player tournament bracket. The format would require each player to putt out or concede each hole, and ties after 18 holes would be settled via a sudden-death playoff. The payout was $2,000 for the winner, $1,000 to the runner-up, $500 to semifinalists and $250 to quarterfinalists.

Players registered for the Sunbelt events include former PGA Tour member Charles Raulerson, two-time Web.com Tour winner Tim Conley, Web.com winner Rob McKelvey and two-time Web.com Tour runner-up Roger Rowland, who led the Sunbelt Tour in earning in 2015.

This story was originally published June 13, 2016 at 10:12 PM with the headline "Sunbelt Senior Tour tournaments being held at Legends, minus a pair of side events."