Nominees, President's Cup, Picnic and Tribute. So Read It All Folks!!!!

 

Our ASGA year and season are coming to an exciting finish. Hang on for a lot of fun. Sam Mihalik, our current Treasurer, will set up shop at the Annual Meeting October 26 to collect your $10 renewal memberships for 2022. Make it easy on Sam and yourself. You can also renew online beginning at the same time, but in person is easy.

The Election

The Board of Directors under the management of Lino Oballo, Vice President and his committee have brought forth the following slate of officers that are recommended and will be put into nomination at the meeting following the picnic. Other nominations may be made from the floor.

Nominees

President                                    Sam Mihalik 
Vice President                            Lewis Howell
Secretary/Treasurer                    David Brader 
Event Chair                                Shawn Higgins
Handicap Chair                          Bill Burke
PARD City Board Rep               Jack Scruggs
Website Chair                             Bruce Jones
Immediate Past President          Travis McWhorter (Automatic per bylaws) 
General Membership Delegate  Greg Marshall       (Will be nominated from the floor per bylaws but is recommended by the Board) 

The voting will NOT take place in the lobby as Sam Mihalik mentioned in his advance notice of the meeting. The shotgun start will not make that voting feasible.  All voting, including the vote on expanding ASGA eligibility to age 60, will be handled by Travis McWhorter, current ASGA President, at the general annual meeting following the golf event and picnic. We will be meeting in the Clay/Kizer pavilions.

The President's Cup

The Captains and Assistant Captains have been selected and each person who signs up for golf for October 26th will be drafted by one of the teams to play match play. Super Fun!! You will know your team in advance. Your hole number for the shotgun start and your team and your foursome will be posted on our website Sunday the 24th.

The defending champion RED TEAM will be captained once again by Travis McWhorter with his new Assistant Captain Sam Mihalik. The challenger BLUE TEAM will be headed up by one of the ASGA's most interesting golfing stories, Maury Miller with Assistant Captain John Hirsch. 

All of us will be paying close attention to your golfing skills and desire to win the last couple of events as well as your history before meeting to draft the teams the Saturday before the annual picnic. The next News story to be released later this week will feature the history and comments from team leaders. The President's Cup is almost here.

The Picnic/Annual Meeting

You will need a ticket to get your meal at the picnic and to be eligible for the door prizes. The next 2 events will end the selling of the tickets as we will then place our food order. Look at the schedule of each event and you will see *** to the right of each board member's name that is playing golf that day. Find them and buy your super valued ticket for $12 each.

Tribute

Now that you have read all the latest NEWS  please scroll down and read a tribute to one of our iconic past ASGA members.

This News has been brought to you on behalf of the ASGA Board of Directors and The Austin Senior Golf League,

Travis McWhorter, President

President's Message - August 26, 2020

Your City has responded and your ASGA Board met via Zoom Thursday, August 20. The meeting resulted in many new plans for the future.

The Mayor's office finally was able to follow up with me and the result is that we are developing a new program to be presented to Parks and Recreation within the next few days.  The objective is to develop a program to comply with the current Covid-19 Risk-Based Guidelines and city golf course protocol  seamlessly. If our program is approved the very earliest we can return to playing our Tuesday events will be 9/15. Originally that date would have been for Jimmy Clay and have been the first day of our Annual Tournament. Since traditional tournaments are currently not authorized we have decided to cancel the Annual  Tournament. We are also canceling 9/08 at Morris Williams and the second date scheduled  for the annual  tournament 9/17. Shawn Higgins is working on the schedule from 9/15 for the balance of the year. He will update our website when he has it completed. We of course will advise you when we can officially resume in time to plan and make your tee times.

Your Board took the following actions:

1. At this point we have cancelled both annuals, so we are extending every current member at the end of this fiscal year for another year of membership at no cost.

2. The Grand Prix for 2020 will still be awarded. Should we not get to return to playing, the current standings will be the final standings. However, should we resume at some point the new points will be added as played. In either event the final tournament to count this year will be October 20. After that points will start accumulating for 2021 and on October 27 or soon thereafter we will announce the final standings for the 2020 Grand Prix.

3. Due to the group gathering rules currently in place for "banquets" and other meetings we will not attempt to schedule our annual meeting which also serves as our election on October 27. We will cancel it and replace with a digital vote as outlined in 4. below.

4. Your officers and directors have mostly met on-line this year and a couple have served much less than a year so did not get to gain experience for future roles. We were not able to pursue two out of three of our goals.  We were successful in developing and launching our on-line Tee Time Registration System, but could not pursue new memberships to grow our membership or create a new golf event involving young people. It is with this in mind that several members recommended that the officers and directors also have their roles extended for another year. The Board all agreed with the members blessing that they would so serve. 

What action do Members need to take:

The Board via our group email system will be sending an email asking for you to vote by return email either yes or no to extend the terms. If the total vote approves you will have authorized the waiving of normal procedure and give us an experienced board to continue to guide us through this pandemic and hopefully to more normal times next year. Please Vote As Soon as you receive the email outlining the voting procedure. You will have a limited time to vote.

We did not plan on having a pandemic, but together we have worked our way through it. Keep positive thoughts flowing while keeping safe and happy.

On behalf of the ASGA Board of Directors

Travis McWhorter

Tournament Signup Requirements

 ASGA handicaps are updated monthly and posted to the ASGA Status website.  Handicaps are sent on Monday to the course that is hosting the tournament the following week.  New memberships or membership renewals completed before the Monday