What do we do now?

I get this question over and over again. Now that the tournament season is over what does the ASGA do now? Even though tournaments are a big part of what we do it certainly isn't nearly all that the ASGA does. Right now we are trying to put to bed our schedule for 2010 and when you have some 24 ASGA Sponsored events that gets to be a chore in itself. We are getting there and soon should have a tentative schedule posted on the ASGA website, www.asga.org.

But believe me there are plenty of other things going on at the ASGA now. Planning for next years courses that will need to be rated is a very important part of what we do. We have some 120 member clubs and courses and the USGA asks that they be rated at least every 10 years but we are trying to be a little more aggressive than that. We are trying to re-rate every 7 to 8 years keeping the clubs up to standard with their ratings which directly affects your handicap index. We have 3 women's rating teams and 3 men's rating teams all trained and certified to rate our courses. These teams are volunteer's and devote their time in doing this for the ASGA, your club and for you the golfer. We can never say thanks enough to these very special people.

So you see there is never a time when Jay, Terri or myself can push back and say, Wow I don't have anything to do.

We are in the planning stages for 2010 and there will be some exciting news forthcoming soon concerning some new benefits for our some 16000 individual members. Look for these exciting announcement coming soon!