Lace up your spikes, get your gloves ready and clean your clubs for the Beaufort County Crime Stoppers’ 15th-annual golf tournament at the Cypress Landing Golf Club near Chocowinity on Tuesday.

Crime Stoppers’ major fundraiser for the year, the tournament raises money by seeking donations to assist law enforcement agencies in Beaufort County. Agencies such as the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office and police departments in Aurora, Belhaven, Chocowinity and Washington  receive support from the event.

The tournament format is a four-man superball captain’s choice with the first tee time scheduled for 1 p.m. Players may register from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The rain date is April 19.

There will be prizes for a hole-in-one, closest to the pin and longest drive. Raffle prizes may be won.

The tournament offers several ways to support Crime Stoppers. Players may participate in a team as a foursome, sponsor a hole or a tee, donate a cash contribution or a prize, purchase raffle tickets or buy a ticket for the dinner at the end of the tournament. The awards ceremony will be held directly after the dinner.

An entry fee of $75 per player, or $350 per team, covers a greens fee, a golf cart, each player’s meal and beverages throughout the tournament and a goody bag.

Tournament officials said if players are interested in participating but do not have other teammates or enough players to field a team, they should be notified so they can arrange teams.

Teams will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. Anyone not interested in playing in the tournament but who wishes to participate may pay a $10 nonplaying guest fee.

Beaufort County Crime Stoppers is a nonprofit organization led by civilians in the local fight against crime. It offers rewards for information that leads to arrests. Informants do not have to give their names to receive rewards. Crime Stoppers attempts to combat three major problems faced by law enforcement agencies in generating information that helps them solve crimes: fear of reprisal, apathy and the reluctance to get involved.

According to Crime Stoppers, information provided to it during the past year has resulted in numerous arrests for crimes such as weapons violations, selling/possessing illegal drugs, bomb threats and homicides. Last fall, a Crime Stoppers tip resulted in the arrests of three people charged with murdering a Bath man.

Crime Stoppers is expanding to schools through Campus Crime Stoppers and assisting school resource officers by providing them with educational material to foster a trusting relationship between law enforcement officers and young children.

For more information, contact Capt. Kenny Watson or Investigator Karen Ball with the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office at 252-946-7111.