Jimmy Clay pairings are now available.

Our October 5 event (rescheduled from Oct 19) at Teravista was our 1st official 2018 tournament.

• Again, our October 28 event at Jimmy Clay was changed to a 4 Player Team event to break the monotony of too many Individual format events in a row.

JIMMY CLAY TOURNAMENT SPECIFICS

Make sure you know your…..

• Scheduled start time
• Assigned Tees to Play
• CTGA Conditions of Competition

All players should be at the course, signed in and ready to play at least 30 minutes prior to your scheduled start time.

Steve Barnes and new At-Large Director John Vayo will be the Directors in charge of this event, assisted by Eddie Nunez.  Please direct tournament day questions or concerns to them.

FORMAT:  4 Player 6+6+6

1st Tee Time:  10:32    

TRASH FLIGHT CARRYOVER:   No Carryover in either Trash Flight this event.

TEES TO PLAY:  See Pairing Sheet

CLOSE TO PIN HOLES:  1st Trash Flight - #2 & #12;    2nd Trash Flight - #5 & #14.

KODAK CHALLENGE HOLES:  #1 and #13.

JIMMY CLAY DRESS CODE:  They have no specific dress code requirement.  However, CTGA asks that all players dress consistent with Country Club attire, so please dress accordingly.  They are a Soft Spike facility.

SATURDAY WEATHER FORECAST:   Cool with a slight breeze expected..  If the weather does turn bad, call Eddie (512-797-0566) after 9:00 on Saturday as he’ll be in touch with the course by then..

Fall Classic results are now available

• The Golf Gods were with us again this year….the weather for our Fall Classic was almost perfect.  A bit breezy for a while on Sunday, but otherwise as good as it can be.
• As we mentioned at our Annual Meeting, there are several issues that your Directors will be working on over the next few weeks as we prepare for the start of our 2018 CTGA Tournament Year.  Once complete, we will send the information out to all members.

2017 FALL CLASSIC RESULTS

No other golf league in the greater Austin area offers the diverse competitions CTGA provides throughout the year and culminating at our year-end Fall Classic.  To those who played this final event, we hope you had a great time and we look forward to seeing you there again next October.  To those who, unfortunately had to miss our Classic, we hope you’ll make it next year.

Attached are the 3 major results of our 2-Day event, including:

• Medal Play and Trash Results
• 2-Player Team Results
• Year-long FedEx Cup Finals Results

Our Year-long Kodak Challenge Final Results will be out within the week.

Congratulations to all our Fall Classic competition winners.  I won’t even try to list all our weekend winners here, so enjoy the attachments.

As I do every year, I have to single out several important members who are the backbone of our league and who helped make our Fall Classic another great success…….

• Kevin Lowe, Scott Preece and Steve Barnes, our At Large Directors, who were the ones who made all our tournaments run like a Rolls Royce machine.  We’re glad they’ll be back again in 2017.
• Sean Nunez, who has the responsibility for managing all the aspects of our finances every tournament.  It’s his commitment that ensures the success of our annual Fall Classic.
• John Vayo for his help and continuing support as our new At Large Director for 2018;
• Cooper Nunez for his help posting Medal Play Scores and his uncanny ability to draw Julie Torres’ ticket for yet another year of free membership (her 3rd in a row).
• To our members who took it upon themselves to chip in with assistance on Saturday and Sunday;
• To the 61 CTGA members who joined us on this picture perfect weekend.
• And finally, again to Kevin Lowe who, after 5 years as a CTGA At Large Director, finds it necessary to resign.  His work during these 5 years has helped CTGA’s continuing growth.  We’ll miss you, Kevin.

As with every year after our Fall Classic, there’s no rest for the weary…..Although our October 5 Teravista event will be counted as our first official 2018 tournament, our 2nd event is on Saturday, October 28 at Jimmy Clay.  Format will be our 4-Player Team 6+6+6 event.  To those not familiar with this format, the 1st 6 holes will count the two Low Net Scores of the Team, the 2nd 6 holes the 3 Low Net Scores and the last 6 holes will count all 4 player Net Scores.  A fun format that gets all Team players involved.  Sign up deadline for this event is Monday, October 10.

Pairings for the Fall Classic are now available.

Cowan Creek has given CTGA the entire course both mornings so we’ll be starting every group on holes 1 thru 17.  It’s important that we complete our tournament by  as they have a member shotgun event starting at .  Please work hard to ensure your foursome completes play in  or less.

Pace of Play will be enforced this tournament.  If your foursome gets more than a hole behind the group in front, makes no effort to close the gap in reasonable time, and it’s obvious that you are causing excessive delays to the foursomes behind you, all players in your foursome will be penalized for Excessive Slow Play.

• Cowan Creek requires that all players MUST KEEP THEIR GOLF BAGS ON A CART.  A player can walk, but cannot use a pull cart or carry his/her bag.  CTGA is obligated to comply with this policy….so any player who might decide to pull his/her bag off the cart once on the course will be disqualified.  Please comply!!!!
• Our post-play refreshments will not include drinks (beer, soda, etc) this year, so if you want drinks, you can BRING YOUR OWN COOLER.
• We will be sending out our PAY ONLINE information later tonight and are encouraging all players to pre-pay before Saturday to avoid a long line after play.  This is optional, but we encourage it.
• Last call for Classic Teams will be during Saturday’s Pre-Start Announcements before start of play.  If you want in this competition and haven’t identified a partner, we’ll try to make it happen at this time.

Post play activities will be at the Legacy Hills Pavilion across the street from the course.  Please leave your cart at the course and drive to the Pavilion.  Make sure you bring your official scorecards.

Attached is the full agenda for our 2017 CTGA Fall Classic, including our Medal Play and Trash competitions, FedEx Cup Finals, Kodak Challenge Finals, our optional 2 Player Team competition,  and an insight to our post play activities both days…..

Our yearly Annual CTGA Member Meeting will be held on Saturday, October 14 after the first round of our Fall Classic.  This important meeting is to address any issues our members may have, possible 2018 By-Law changes and the election of our 2018 Board of Directors.  Our 2017 Directors will be elected by member vote.

FALL CLASSIC TOURNAMENT SPECIFICS

Make sure you know your…..

1.   Assigned Starting Hole

2.     Assigned Tees to Play

3.     CTGA Conditions of Competition

All players should be at the course, signed in and ready to play by 7:30 as we’ll be going to our starting holes at 7:55.

Kevin Lowe, Scott Preece and Steve Barnes will be the Directors in charge of this event, assisted by Eddie Nunez.  Please direct tournament day questions or concerns to them.

FORMAT:  Medal Play (and FedEx Cup Round 1 Finals)

SHOTGUN START:  8:00 …… both days

TRASH FLIGHT CARRYOVER:   No Carryover in either Trash Flight this event.

TEES TO PLAY:  Refer to the attached Pairing Sheet

CLOSE TO PIN HOLES:  1st Trash Flight - #4 & #16;    2nd Trash Flight - #8 & #12

KODAK CHALLENGE HOLES:  #5 and #15.

COWAN CREEK DRESS CODE:  They do have a dress code consistent with Country Club attire.  They are a Soft Spike facility.

WEEKEND WEATHER FORECAST:  COOL, in the low 60’s at tee time.  It looks like CTGA will finally have a “PERFECT WEEKEND” for our Fall Classic.  If the weather turns bad, call Eddie Nunez (512-797-0566) after 7:00 for status of play.

Teravista results are now available.

•  As a reminder to all…our Fall Classic is the only tournament of the year that we don’t have “Preferred Foursomes”.  Foursomes for Saturday are determined by handicap and Sunday pairings are determined by Saturdayresults.

TERAVISTA TOURNAMENT RESULTS

I apologize first for being late with the Results and secondly for not being at this tournament, but I was on an incredible Caribbean Cruise.

I was told the Pace of Play on Thursday was extremely slow, but that it was because of the general public play ahead of our lead group.   Great that CTGA Pace was good.

In addition to our Medal Play winners, Special KUDOS to the following…..

• Rick Spigarelli with Individual Low Gross Round of the Day – 76
• Scott Toland with Individual Low Net Rounds of the Day - 62
• Closest Par 3 winning shots of the day in each Trash Flight:

1st Trash Flight:  Larry Frazer – 1’ 10” on #11

2nd Trash Flight:  John Vayo – 3’ 1” on #Juan Morales and Scott Toland for the only Deuces in the 2nd Trash Flight

• Greg Sawruk with his Eagle 3 on hole #4

Teravista pairings are now available.

• If you haven’t signed up for Teravista yet and want to play, please call Sean Nunez at 512-656-3278…..
• Lastly, don’t forget that the date of our Fall Classic has moved from September 30~October 1 to October 14~15

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TERAVISTA TOURNAMENT SPECIFICS

Make sure you know your…..

• Assigned Starting Hole (to be assigned at course on Saturday)
• Assigned Tees to Play
• CTGA Conditions of Competition

All players should be at the course, signed in and ready to play no later than 12:00 as we’ll be going to our starting holes at 12:25.

Steve Barnes will be the Director in charge of this event, assisted by John Vayo.  Please direct tournament day questions or concerns to them.

FORMAT:  Medal Play

Shotgun Start:  12:30    

TRASH FLIGHT CARRYOVER:   No Carryover in either Trash Flight this event.

TEES TO PLAY:  See Pairing Sheet

CLOSE TO PIN HOLES:  1st Trash Flight - #3 & #15;    2nd Trash Flight - #7 & #11

KODAK CHALLENGE HOLES:  #6 and #17.

TERAVISTA DRESS CODE:  Their dress code is consistent with Country Club attire, so please dress accordingly.  They are a Soft Spike facility.

THURSDAY WEATHER FORECAST:   Forecast as of now shows light clouds, 72° at start time and mid-80’s at finish with a slight chance of showers.  If the weather does turn bad, call Sean (512-656-3278) after 11:00 on Thursday as he’ll be in touch with the course by then.