Month: December 2018

Special Events and Metro Plus Registrations to start January 9, 2019

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Registration start for Special Events and Metro Plus are being delayed to January 9, 2019. This includes online/credit card and paper/check signup systems. This is to allow fair notification to all members for the date changes.

We temporarily halted all credit card transactions effective 12-28-2018 due to a communications problem with PayPal. All links to the CC forms and process were removed. The issue is being resolved now. We are delaying restart of credit card transactions until January 9, 2019 to allow confirmation problem resolution.

Membership Renewals, New Member Applications can continue but will require using the paper forms, check payment, and postal mail. Membership Renewals deadline will be extended to January 31, 2019 to allow for this change. Credit card payments for Member Renewals and New Member applications will also restart on January 9, 2019

Registration for Membership Renewals and New Memberships are still open with paper forms, check payments and postal mail delivery.

We regret this, but are working to get all issues resolved ASAP. We will update the membership when more detailed information is available.

Online Registrations and Credit Card Payments Temporarily Halted

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We have temporarily halted our credit card transactions effective 12-28-2018. All links to the CC forms and process have been removed.

Membership Renewals, New Member Applications can continue but will require using the paper forms, check payment, and postal mail. Membership Renewals deadline will be extended to January 31, 2019 to allow for this change.

The Credit Card issue appears to be in communicating transactions. It also appears to affect only a few membership transactions over the last 1 to 2 days. We are working with the CC system now to resolve any outstanding issues, but may require a few days to get this resolved.

Registration for Membership Renewals and New Memberships are still open with paper forms, check payments and postal mail delivery.

Special Events registrations using Online/Credit Card and Paper Form/Checks have been delayed to January 9.

We regret this, but are working to get all issues resolved ASAP. We will update the membership when more detailed information is available.

Division Challenge Tournament

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On July 5th 2019 at Deer Creek Golf Club to benefit our Military all 5 divisions will participate in a “Division Challenge”. Each Division will be represented by 28 golfers from their respective division for bragging rights and payment to all the winners. Price of $45.00 per golfer includes golf, lunch (served inside), skins, and all prize money. There will be at least 84 winners.

This event will be a 2-person scramble made up of 14 teams from each division. We will use the same handicap format as used in all Metro Senior Scramble events. Every score will count including handicap divided by 14 teams to come up with one final score for that division.

Each team must play from the same tee box. This must be decided before play starts. Included in the price will be a skins game from each tee box. There will be no CTP’s awards for this event.

Players may sign up as a 2-person team (from the same division) or as a single and be matched with other singles from their same division. Teams of 4 will consist of 2-twosomes, with each team from a different division.

Only the first 28 players from each division will be in the event. A wait list by division, if necessary, will be kept. Wait list golfers will be notified by July 1st.

Sign-up with Credit Card Online:

US Postal Mail-in W/Check Form:

Larry Roth

Metro Seniors VP

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

2019 Special Events Update

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There are a few updates to the Special Events for 2019:

  • The date for the Founders’ Day event at Whitmoor CC has been changed to                 20 August 2019
  • Bob Roussin will be the Event Leader for the Pick Your Partner 2-Person Scramble at Missouri Bluffs GC on 15 July 2019
  • Frank McLaughlin will be the Event Leader for the Best Ball 4-Person Scramble at Sunset Hills CC on 17 July 2019


Rules Roundtable

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Hello fellow metro senior members my name is Gary Brown I am the leagues Rules Chairman. The members of the Rules Committee and myself are going to be making regular monthly posts trying to clarify the rules that we all must play by. This will keep our league a great place to play the game we love both now and in the future. We all compete for the same thing, a spot in our championship, so it is important that we all play by the same rules and understand how the rules can be applied. Sometimes to our advantage and sometimes not so much.  I have decided to call it the “Rules Roundtable” and I will attempt to address a new rule every other week. I hope everyone finds this new segment interesting and enjoys learning more about the rules of golf.

As you all know we play by the USGA rules with some exceptions for the metro seniors. Those exceptions will be the target of my rules roundtable. We are a handicapped league to make it fair for everyone. So if you’re picking up putts or not counting all your strokes you may be unintentionally lowering your handicap and costing yourself strokes and prize money every week you play. By the way, none of our exceptions concern “gimmes” or “mulligans” and the USGA does not allow for either. Every stroke up to 9 must be counted to keep our league fair for everyone.

If you have other questions about rules you can send them to me at rules.questions@gkbrown.net. 

I recently attended a rules adherence meeting with the division VP’s, the President, other Board members and a few members of the Rules Committee. We discussed all types of rules violations and how to handle those violations. There were several solutions discussed. I must admit some were better than others and some were pretty harsh. The Executive Committee is serious about having everyone play by the same rules.

Let’s all hope for a great 2019 and a couple more rounds this year.

Author: Gary Brown

Look for our next post discussing the “Provisional Ball Rule” 

Membership Renewal – Get It Done Now!

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Time is running out! December 31 deadline!

As of Dec 10, about 2/3 of members have renewed their membership for 2019.  SMART!

Each Division 1-5 has about 50 members who have not yet renewed.  They really must renew before January 1 to :

  • Guarantee their spot in the same Division
  • Get the earliest registration for Special Events and possibly Metro Plus
  • Be able to register as a team for Special Events
  • Get new announcements for 2019

Make sure your playing partners are signed up now.  Don’t want any surprises in January. For more information on signups – CLICK HERE