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Sun City Texas to host 2016 UIL State Golf Championship

Submitted by Josh Lockhart, PGA, Head Golf Professional, Tournament Director, Cowan Creek Golf Course

Sun City Texas will be hosting the 2016 tournament play. If you do access the cart looking forward to having a great event!
UIL State Golf Championship at the path on the golf course, please keep your
Legacy Hills Golf Course on April 25 golf carts on the cart path. Thank you for Thank you again for your support of such
and 26. The Sun City Staff, with help your cooperation and support as we are a prestigious tournament and we hope to
from many resident volunteers, looks see you all watching Texas’ finest.
forward to providing the experience of a
lifetime to the best players in the State of Revised Pace of Play Guidelines:
Texas. Since 1948, this tournament has
hosted many players who have gone on to Enforcement begins May 1
shape the game of golf, including Charles
Coody, Tom Kite, Ben Crenshaw, Justin Submitted by Erik Beyer, PGA, Head Golf Professional, Legacy Hills Golf Club
Leonard and Jordan Spieth. Please join
us in welcoming 144 of the state’s best Across the golf industry, pace of play is one of the biggest challenges golf courses
high school golfers as they compete for face and one of the biggest reasons golfers don’t play more golf. After much
the championship. discussion among the Golf Staff and Golf Committee, Sun City Texas will be
revising its pace of play guidelines to improve the pace of play and make golf
This tournament will put some additional more enjoyable to Sun City Texas golfers. Beginning May 1, the new pace of
restrictions on tee time availability for play expectation will be a maximum allowable time of 4 hours 20 minutes for 18
residents but it is an opportunity that holes and 2 hours 10 minutes for 9 holes. Golfers should make efforts to improve
cannot be passed up. We appreciate your their ready golf behavior to meet these new expectations. Please remember these
understanding during this great event. are maximum times and golfers should always strive to be as far under this
There will be many volunteer positions expectation as possible. Once again, beginning May 1, marshals, and the golf
available, such as crossing guard, parking staff as a whole, will be enforcing these new expectations.
attendant and shuttling. We highly recom-
mend the position of volunteer spectating. PHOTO BY KAY ATKINS
You will see some great golf from some
of Texas’ finest young golfers. We will be GREAT GOLFING GALS
posting volunteer positions in the Golf Congratulations to these 2015 WGA 18-Hole Group hole-in-one winners. Shown
Communicator and NRO Bulletin. If you from left to right: Ege Reichert, Cathy Brickner, Jan Perry and Pat Blankenship.
would like to participate you can sign up
with our Head Pro, Josh Lockhart, at the
Cowan Creek golf shop.

Many residents have expressed an inter-
est in watching this event as these are
the best high school golfers in the state.
Residents will be permitted to use their
carts to watch. We do ask that residents
utilize community streets to get around
to different parts of the golf course and
avoid driving the actual course as much
as possible. There will be many family
spectators that are required to walk and
this will help avoid excessive traffic during

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