Eliot Staples Bering Sea Ice Golf Classic

Eliot Staples Bering Sea Ice Classic
StatusActive
GenreSports event
Date(s)Third Saturday of March
FrequencyAnnual
VenueNorton Sound
Location(s)Nome, Alaska
Coordinates64°29′52″N 165°24′32″W / 64.4977°N 165.4089°W / 64.4977; -165.4089
CountryUnited States
Years active1983-present
Inaugurated1983
FounderEliot Staples
ActivitySnow golf
SponsorLions Clubs International

The Eliot Staples Bering Sea Ice Classic is a snow golf tournament held annually on the third Saturday of March on frozen Norton Sound in Nome, Alaska. Founded in 1983, sixteen teams of four players participate. It has a $50 entry cost that contributes to a Lions Club scholarship fund. The course consists of six holes. Par is 42, and the lowest score that has been achieved, as of 2010, is 23. It coincides with the ending of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in the city. It is one of the northernmost golf tournaments in the world.

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