The 24^th Annual Amer Ari at Waikoloa Beach Resort is slated for Thursday through Saturday, February 6-8 on the Waikoloa Kings Golf Course.
 
This year's 20-team includes seven of the top-25 NCAA Division I teams, a top-10 Division II team and an international team.
 
The DI field includes 2^nd-ranked Georgia Tech, 3^rd-ranked Oklahoma State University, 11^th-ranked Stanford University, 15^th-rankd UCLA, 17^th-ranked University of Texas, 18^th-ranked University of Washington and 25^th-ranked USC. The DI field is rounded out by Arizona State University, Auburn University, University of California-Davis, University of Colorado, University of Hawaii, University of Oregon, Oregon State University, Texas Christian University and Texas Tech University.
 
The DII field includes 7^th-ranked Cal State Monterey Bay and host University of Hawaii at Hilo. The final member of the tournament is Osaka Gakuin University of Japan.
 
Many of these teams are not new to the tournament as many are looking to add to their hardware collection from the Big Island with Oklahoma State and Georgia Tech winning five each, UCLA and Texas two, and USC, Stanford and Arizona one each.
 
The medalist race will also be very competitive as Stanford's Patrick Rodgers and Georgia Tech's Ollie Schniederjans are ranked second in the world amateur and NCAA golf stat rankings, respectively. There is also Washington's Cheng-Tsung Pan (ranked 10^th world amateur and 8^th by NCAA golf stat); Oklahoma State's Ian Davis (14^th by NCAA golf stat); UCLA's Lorens Chan (16^th by NCAA golf stat) and Georgia Tech's Anders Albertson (20^th by NCAA golf stat).
 
Over the years, Georgia Tech has also garnered six medalist honors followed by Oklahoma State with four.
 
A practice round will be held on Wednesday February 5 followed by 18-hole play on each of the next three days. Each round begins with a 7:30 a.m. shotgun.
 
Following Saturday's round an awards ceremony will follow the posting of final scores in the Kings' Course breezeway.
 
Fans can also follow the tournament with live scoring located at http://www.golfstat.com.