Midway • After a four-year absence, the Utah State Amateur golf tournament returns to Soldier Hollow Golf Club this week with a whopping field of 288 golfers.
The 121st edition of the annual event billed as the longest continuously held golf tournament in the world begins Monday at the state-owned facility that features 36 holes — the Silver and Gold courses — in the foothills above the Heber Valley.
Who will survive six days and possibly 162 holes and be left standing Saturday afternoon?
“It will be a player who can hit the ball straight and far, but who can also get hot with the putter,” said defending champion Preston Summerhays, who did all of that last year at Oakridge Country Club.