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GOLF
WGA 18-Hole Group Submitted by Bonnie Beauchamp
September is here and so is the real heat with a social following play on Sept. 15 the “One Fun”; you have until the end
of central Texas! But our members keep at the Legacy Pavilion from 1 to 3 p.m. of 2015 to join the elite club and share
playing and having fun usually with a The Member/Member is always a fun in the winnings.
sweat towel or cooling towel in hand or tournament with Sept. 14 offering stroke
a cooler. What a hardy bunch of golfers! play, best ball gross and net and Sept. 15 We love to have new members join,
slated for alternate shot format. The two- and now that it is more than halfway
We have quite a few membership day totals produce our Member/Member through the season, joining our club is
offerings during the month of September. winners, and everyone is a winner when less expensive. If you have a love for the
On Sept. 1, we will have our general it comes to the social event. game and enjoy meeting new people,
membership meeting at 12:30 p.m. at check out our website with all of the
Cowan Creek after league play and all We had another hole-in-one shot by league information and contact people.
members are welcome and encouraged to Cathy Brickner at Legacy Hills #4 on Hopefully we’ll see many new faces at
attend the meeting. Our board is always July 11. A huge congratulations to Cathy the next meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 1.
willing to listen to the membership and and a challenge for more to join in on
many great ideas have been brought to
light through these meetings.
On Sept. 7 at 1 p.m. at Cowan Creek
Golf Course the 9-Holers will host this
year’s Fun Fest, which involves fun
play mixing the 9-hole and 18-hole
club members and then socializing at
the conclusion of play. We hope many
of our members sign up to play in this
once-a-year event.
Sept. 14-15 will be the dates for our
Member/Member golf tournament
MGA News
Submitted by Jeff Morgan, president, MGA Board of Directors
Contact: 512-591-7050, jsmorgan815gmail.com
There are four elements to the pace of expectations are met, it just makes the ahead of them. The MGA is committed
play during a round of golf at our golf round of golf more fun. to working on the other elements of
courses: (1) the support and coordination golf’s historic and ongoing pace of play
between a foursome, threesome or No one likes to wait and wait to hit a challenge.
twosome to keep the pace of play moving shot due to slow pace of play conditions. Just remember, fast play is fun and slow
(i.e. keep up with the group ahead of your The MGA board continues to work on play frustrates everyone.
group); (2) the type of game played (either pace of play improvements relative to
in a play day event or during a major the type of games played for play days 2015 MGA TOURNAMENTS
tournament; (3) the number of players and major tournaments and is trying Club Championship
out on the course during an event; and to provide a balance in the variety of Monday, September 7
(4) the way the course is set up for play. games played. Also, the MGA works
with the golf maintenance staff to make Wednesday, September 9
Efforts are continually made to make the course setups fair and reasonable. Friday, September 11
pace of play generally acceptable for In a perfect world, all of the elements Awards Banquet
the MGA. In the last couple of years, of pace of play would be taken care of.
there has been some improvement in the However, we all know there are times Saturday, September 12
time it takes to play MGA events. For that the pace of play is too slow. Fall Member/Member
example, during a recent play day (4-man Wednesday, October 7
team event), all 9-holers completed their The first line of defense for getting a good Thursday, October 8
round of golf at or less than 2 hours and pace of play rests with the players on the
5 minutes (the pace of play expectation) course: stay up with the group ahead of Member/Guest
and all 18-holers finished play at or less you. If a group gets out of position, work Friday, October 30
than 4 hours and 15 minutes (the pace of as a team playing ready golf to ensure Saturday, October 31
play expectation). When the pace of play that the group catches up to the group
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