President's Letter November 2025
2026 ASGA Board Launched November 6, 2025 In the Harvey Penick Room at Lions.
Members,
The Transitional Meeting that closes out the previous board and brings on the new one often is fairly limited as to activity.
This Board is a very experienced and with so many action items on the agenda, I set out to get them done.
1. The board led in discussion by our new Vice President, Dan Roberts, decided that The 2-Person Grand Prix should be modified slightly to allow more members a chance to win as the season progresses. The scores that will count toward your team's final score will be reduced from 11 to 9. Your best 9 at season end will count. In the event you do not play in 9 events it will be your total score from all events your team played. In addition to this improvement Greg Marshall has added 2 2-person events to this year's schedule. The Individual All-In Grand Prix will not be changed. The vote for this update was unanimous.
2. A few general members and a couple of board members pointed out that perhaps our 60 and up membership was too wide a span of ages. They made the observation that by starting at some other age like 65 would be of value and curtail our membership. Bruce Jones provided some analysis of members from each age bracket from 60 and up and all of them have current members including 90 and up having 4 members. The review of the reasons why ASGA changed to 60 and up a few years back revealed that ATX offers annual memberships for Seniors 60 and up. The board unanimously decided to leave our age groups as they are. We plan to continue to solve our growing membership another way. We believe we can solve it early next year before daylight saving comes back and shortens our good morning tee times. In the short run we have capped the membership and created a waiting list on our website. We really want to serve as many golfers in our area as possible, but we strive to make our rounds fun for all that are members now.
3. Renewing your membership is very important, even more so when we have people on the waiting list. At our annual membership meeting David Brader our Secretary/Treasurer sets up a booth and stays as long as you want to renew you annual membership. We also have a very convenient way to renew on our website. They all should be done, but they are not. You need to get it done before the end of December to avoid paying a higher fee in January 2026. You board unanimously voted this year to say if you do not renew by the end of January 31 2026 you will be making a mistake. If you plan on playing with us in 2026 renew now. If you wait until February, or other months later in the year you will sign up as a new member and should we be still on the waiting list for membership you will be added to that list. So, please come on, get it done. On February first we will adjust our membership based on all signed up or renewed. It is only fair. Help us out. Renew now!!!
4, Our newest board member is Ric Chapa. He serves the general membership with a focus on new members. He also is the perfect person to communicate with should you have an idea you think has merit. Ric will hear you out and get the proper hearing for your idea at the next board meeting. All of our board members are here to serve.
I am very honored to be your president this year. It will be my goal to see that we have a great year. The Board is one of the best I have seen.
Sincerely,
Travis McWhorter
ASGA President
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Chester Burks Passes
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| Chester Burks |
With sadness we report that long-time member Chester Burks passed away October 28th.
Not many of our current active members were playing before 2006. Chester was one of the few. He participated in over 740 total events, with 20 of those happening this year! Our heartfelt sympathy to his friends and family.
Here is a link to an on-line tribute to Chester.
Event Sign-Ups—What’s the Deal?
We are experiencing both our largest membership ever as well as our largest fields ever, which is impacting our ability to effectively manage our events. As you read above in the President’s letter, we have capped our membership at current level until we can reduce the size of our event signups. GolfATX is not allowing any further expansion, be it dual-courses or alternate days or additional single course tee times.
This will be the current signup methodology going forward.
All signups will be closed at 156 maximum. For any event where less than 156
will be allowed by GolfATX to play, removal will begin at last entry and work
backwards as needed. It is our understanding Lions Muny will be most impacted.
Hopefully we can quickly reduce our event size as we go forward.
Renewals Re-emphasized
It is important to re-emphasize another of the President’s messages.
If you fail to renew by Jan. 31, you will:
a)become inactive and therefore
not be able to compete in events; and
b)will have to re-activate via the waitlist, after those already waiting to join.
Finances
A big thank you to our Secretary/Treasurer David Brader, who has been in this role since fall of 2021, and has signed up to help us once again for 2025-2026. The annual financial report to members created each year by David is available in the “Minutes and Reports” section under the “Our Organization” tab.
On behalf of the Board,
Bruce Jones
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