Tournament Director's Message
CTGA tournament year 2010 has come and gone as has the first 5 events of our 2011 schedule. It’s always interesting to look back to reflect on the positives of the past year and to compare it to the year before. 2010 was definitely a year of change for CTGA from several perspectives. We started the year with fewer active Members than in 2009 and ended the year with more. Although it was a year of nominal growth, we had more new Members join than in the past several years and we had fewer Members leave. Our tournament schedule remained the same, but our total Member rounds played was down by 10% over 2009.
Of significant importance for 2010 was the implementation our new Online Sign Up procedure. Although it actually got started late in the year, our Members have accepted it as our primary tournament sign up tool. Of equal importance is our new Pace of Play initiative. We still have a long way to go with this process, but it has been accepted by our Members and we’re beginning to see positive results. We look for 2011 to show that CTGA can be the benchmark Association in Austin for acceptable Pace of Play.
Danny Lufkin, our CTGA Webmaster, is putting the final touches on the new look of our CTGA Website. We hope to unveil it very soon.
Our 2011 CTGA Tournament Schedule is now complete. We dropped 4 courses from our 2010 schedule due to undesirable conditions or significant fee increases. We’ve added 5 new courses, including White Wing and Legacy Hills (Sun City), Quicksand (Wimberly), Starcke Park (Seguin), and Clear Creek (Ft Hood). All are excellent courses and are offering very good rates.
You asked and we delivered. Our 2011 Fall Classic 2-day event will be at Cowan Creek (Sun City). We made the request to them and they agreed without hesitation.
A new addition to our 2011 lineup of competitions is our version of the Kodak Challenge. Like our FedEx Cup, it’ll be a year long competition with the winners announced at our 2011 Fall Classic.
On behalf of your 2011 CTGA Board of Directors, I’d like to thank all Members for your great support and efforts to make CTGA the best Golf League in the greater Austin area. Your commitment to sportsmanship, fair play and the spirit of true golf makes us what we are.
Eddie Nunez Tournament Director
Sean Nunez Finance Director
Jeff Bowman At Large Director
Jeff Jones At Large Director
Chris Wadle At Large Director
Danny Lufkin Webmaster