Adminintration

2025 Year End Membership Meeting

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The 2025 season is coming to a close. We are completing another successful Metro Seniors golf season. Plan on attending the year end Membership Meeting to hear about the successes of the 2025 season and plans for the upcoming 2026 season.

The meeting offers the opportunity to meet the Board Members, get updates on the 2026 season, status on year end checks, and ask that burning question you have been holding all year.

The meeting will be held on Monday, 3 November starting at Noon. It will be held at the Kirkwood Community Center gym. 111 South Geyer Road, Kirkwood, MO 63122

Food for Thought – Metro Seniors needs a new Treasurer and a Board Secretary. The St Louis Metro Seniors Golf Association is successful because of the volunteers that help run the association. Contact your Division VP if you think you might want to fill one of these positions.

Last Chance Special Event

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One last Special Event. The Last Chance Special Event will be held on Monday, 8 September 2025 at Cardinal Creek GC. The format will be a 2-Man Ryder Cup format. Cost is $77 and includes Range Balls and Lunch.

Cardinal Creek is a great course, they always have a good lunch, and the 2-Man Ryder Cup is a lot of fun. There are plenty of spots available. Get a partner and signup.

Greetings

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Very soon the snow will be gone, temperatures will increase and we’ll be back on the tee box.  The 2025 Metro Seniors golf season is just around the corner!

Join us on Thursday, February 27th to hear about the upcoming Metro Seniors golf season beginning 10-11 April 2025.

2025 General Membership pre-season meeting:

Thursday, February 27, 2025 Noon – 2 PM Kirkwood Community Center Gymnasium 111 South Geyer Road Kirkwood, MO 63122

Wishing you many greenies and 1 putts in 2025.

Brent VanConia President Metro St Louis Seniors Golf Association

Financial Audits for 2019 and 2020

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The detailed financial Audits for 2019 and 2020 have been posted.

The Board and Officers all have a fiduciary responsibility to manage your money while bringing you opportunities to enjoy golf with your Metro Seniors friends. We must account for your money completely, fairly and accurately. Proper financial controls and documents are critical.

The Audits or 2019 and 2020 identified significant problems and made recommendations to resolve these. These included inadequate control, approval and documentation for course contracts, prize distribution, and budget control.

Most of the current problems have centered on Metro Plus management. However, similar issues are included in a variety budgeted items in administration for all of Metro Seniors.

The Board and Treasurer have not been provided with proper documentation, review, approval, and use of course contracts for comparison to invoices or receipts. Further, terms and conditions – minimum guarantees, cancellation terms, deposit terms and details ae unknown. As a result, all of Metro Seniors may be exposed to significant liabilities.

We had similar issues several years ago with Special Events. With changes in leadership and financial controls the issues were resolved quickly. Now Special Events operations are a model of good governance, excellent financial control, and transparency and efficiency for prize payments and refunds.

The same management and financial control must be implemented for Metro Plus.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS

Events Calendar Updated

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The Events Calendar has be revised for the opening of our golf season in June.

Weekly Tournaments for June have been rescheduled for Missouri courses. All but one date for Division 1 have been confirmed for June. We are confirming new schedules each month as conditions change. July reschedules are expected in mid-June.

Special Events have been canceled for April, May and June. We are hopeful to play the remaining schedule, but must reconfirm in June.

Metro Plus events are rescheduled through June with later dates awaiting input from courses and states.

Division 9 Tournaments will resume in June. Details on signup and play are being developed for each Wednesday with Riverside Golf Club.

Most important requirements for health distancing have required changes in our operations. Please watch for updates on the website and from you Division VP for information you will need each week.

  • Health (social) distancing is required everywhere
  • Only one player allowed per cart
  • Advance reservations for tee times is required each week
  • Players limited for weekly tournaments by carts available from a low of 56 up to 100
  • Some play rules have changed

Impact of Social Distancing

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COVID-19 transmission based on rational mathematical simulations: https://lnkd.in/eiEJ5Hf

Social Distancing or reducing personal contacts or “personal isolation” is the most important way to reduce spread of disease like COVID-19. Trying to quarantine just a small hot spot or just people infected will not work. Quarantine borders are impossible to close completely.

Metro Seniors’ postponement of the season eliminates potentially thousands of prolonged direct, in-person contact interactions of our members – 4 hours in a golf cart or 2 hours as Starter / Scorer.

Want to stay “connected” with your golf buddies with social distance? Give them a call or SKYPE them. Send an email or text. Tell them a joke. Share your stories with them. Use the weekly golf hours to connect with family or friends. Set up a video conferencing happy hour with your foursome via ZOOM.

Share your stories with all of us at Metro Seniors via comments on the website. What are you doing while in “isolation”?

The Executive Committee, Board, and Committees will be working to make Metro Seniors Golf better, easier to run, more resilient for the future. Volunteer to help.

Read this article and try the simulations to see how it works. Pass it on to your network so others understand, too.

This is a great article on COVID-19 transmission based on rational mathematical simulations: https://lnkd.in/eiEJ5Hf

General Membership Meeting

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All members are encouraged to attend the General Membership Meeting on Tuesday, November 12, 2019.  The meeting will start at 1:00 PM at the Kirkwood Community Center on Geyer Road.

Come to meet, thank and confirm your leadership (officers and committee members).  In addition:

  • Bring a SMILE – Craig Carothers is taking pictures for the online roster.
  • Visit with golf buddies and find a new foursome
  • Bring a friend to join
  • 2019 Year End Report
    • Organization Status
    • Membership and Participation
    • Finances
  • Celebrate our Winners
    • Championship Flight Winners
    • Metro Plus Flight Winners
  • 2020 Preview
    • Volunteer for Committee or possible Board / Officer Positions
    • New rules and procedures for 2020

Metro Plus 2019 – Information

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Starting in 2019 Metro Seniors will have a new “Premium League” called Metro Plus. This division for Metro Senior members, will be played at upscale public,semi private public, and private country clubs. For 2019 there will be 8 golfing events on various Monday’s or Tuesday’s. starting in April. Metro Plus will differ from Metro Seniors rules and provide a“premium choice” for members if they choose to join this league.

For$40.00 Metro Senior members may join this league starting January 1st,by signing up using the credit card/print version on the Metro Seniors website. For a complete email on the “new” Metro Plus league and rules, send a request to Larry Roth, Metro Seniors VP at larry@lgr-sri.com

The initial response to join has been overwhelming and we will only take the first 140 Metro Seniors members who sign up and pay $40.00 starting January 1st,so if this sounds like your league you have been looking for, sign upstarting January 1st at www.golfstlseniors.org

This is the schedule for 2019:

TimeDateDayCourseFormatFee
07:30 AM4/30TuesdayTapawingoSplit Tee$45
08:00 AM5/28TuesdayAnnbriarSplit Tee$33
08:00 AM6/25TuesdayPevely FarmsSplit Tee$35
08:30 AM7/22MondayWinghavenShotgun$63
07:00 AM8/12MondayOld HickoryShotgun$58
08:00 AM8/26MondayFox CreekSplit Tee$25
08:30 AM9/30MondayBogey HillsSplit Tee$65
08:30 AM10/15TuesdayWhitmoorShotgun$49

Larry Roth

Metro Seniors VP