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The weekly schedules for our 18 hole weekly tournaments are now set and published.
Where are they??
View the schedules in our Events Calendar (EVENTS menu tab). You can also download the schedules into a file that will upload into your Google Calendar. Instructions here.
View a one page summary for all divisions – CLICK HERE.
You can also view and download the individual division schedule pages sorted by date here.
HAPPT NEW YEAR!
The 2021 schedule for all the Special Events and Metro Plus is loaded in our website events calendar.
The weekly division 1-5 schedules are nearly complete and will be added later.
As a reminder, you can download our events calendar to your own calendar. CLICK HERE for the instructions.
There was an issue with the Special Events Sign Up Form for the Last Chance event. The most you could sign up was 2 players. This is a 4-person event. The issue has been corrected.
If you had to sign up as a 2-person team (or other combination) but have a 4-person team, send an email to me (Joe Lerch), Frank McLaughlin, or Bob Roussin with the names of your 4-person team and I will get you paired when I start loading the rosters.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Happy New Years
Special Events signup will be available at 12:01 AM on 1 January 2021
For information on the 2021 Special Events and how to sign up, go to the Metro Seniors Home Page and click the link at the bottom of the page – Special Events Signup
There are two ways to sign-up for Special Event participation:
A PayPal account is not required to sign up on-line
METRO SENIORS WILL AT NO TIME HANDLE, STORE, LOOK AT, POSSESS, OR IN ANY OTHER WAY BE INVOLVED WITH ANYONE’S CREDIT CARDS INFORMATION!
For those who do not have a credit card, or computer, or who just prefer paper checks and forms, we are offering the paper option using the 2021 Special Events Signup Form.
Click on the mail in form above to see the complete form. You can download and / or print the form. Complete it manually and total your selections. Enclose a check for the total amount and send with the completed form to the address at the bottom of the form. Keep a copy of the form for your records.
Special Events are very popular and fill up fast. There is a maximum of 128 players, except the Lou Luketich Founders’ Day event which will be a max of 144 players. You can sign up and list your partners. And you can sign up and pay for your partners if you want. Be aware that signups are time stamped (postmark for check payment) and the first 128 or 144 players that pay will be placed on the Confirmed List. Players that pay after the max number has been reached will be placed on a Wait List in time stamp order. Players on the Wait List will be moved up to the Confirmed List as cancellations are received. Every effort will be made to match players with the team they want to play with.
You can complete the form for any or all selections anytime during the season.
The renewal period for 2021 membership dues has been extended until January 15th at 11:00 PM. Renewals are $65.00. If payment is made by check, it must be received by the 15th, (not postmarked) to Dennis Carter, Treasurer. His address is on the form that must included with payment. Payment made by credit/debit card is automatically received by the treasurer.
Starting January 1st @ 12:01 AM, Metro Seniors members who were not members in Metro Plus may join. Cost is $40.00. Click on this link: Metro Plus Membership Application – Metro St. Louis Seniors Golf to view the complete schedule for the 2021 season. Additional information will be sent to each new member within 48 hrs after joining. View this link “Live the Golfer Dream” to see everything Metro Plus has to offer.
Starting January 1st, the cost to renew will increase automatically to $70.00. If you wish to renew at the $65.00 rate please do so, by 12/31 at 11:59 PM. All renewals will automatically increase to $70.00 at that time. Payments must be received by the treasurer on that date and time, not postmarked!
You still have until January 31st to renew and guarantee placement in your same division as last year. On February 1st 2021 the “Renewal” link at the top of the website will automatically disappear.
We finally received the prices for the Find Your Swing and Lou Luketich Founders’ Day events. The updated schedule as been posted to the Metro Seniors web site.
The cost of golf is going up! If we want to continue playing on Friday, which I do, we are going to have to embrace that golf is going to cost more on Friday vs Thursday at many courses. Members that play on Friday generally don’t want to switch to Thursday or start playing on another day. Even if it cost a few dollars more, Friday golfers prefer to play on Friday. If price dictates when you play then Thursday may be a better option for you. It’s a choice.
This trend is going to continue until the pandemic is over and people who are working from home, go back and work in the office; golf is at a high demand. People now can leave their home, go play for 4-6 hours a round, come back home and work at their schedule/pace. Golf courses know as I know that in several years, when things will be back, they probably will be screaming for our Friday morning business. They know it! We have discussed it and there are chat groups that I participate in that acknowledge this, but for the time being, golf courses will charge more when they can. BTW, if you think after this is done prices will come back down. No way! Once the price is increased it is never coming back down.
Courses will tell you they lost thousands of dollars last year. The first few months there was no play or limited play due to single carts only. Courses had to rent carts for many more golf carts were tearing up their courses because twice as many were out there at the same time. For the most part, they had no tournaments and lost a great deal of revenue on Food and Beverage from those events. Who is going to pay for these losses? We are…. for the foreseeable future.
Many members in Metro Seniors think that because we are bringing 100 or so golfers to a course on a given day, we should get a significant discount. That is no longer the case. We request, at the minimum, we get the senior rate for that day. Many courses who we have been with for many years give us an additional discount for supporting them, but many do not, especially the most popular courses. Demand is high at them, so we usually don’t receive an additional discount.
We will also see many courses deciding for us to play “Single Tee” starts only (everyone starting from hole # 1). Financially it makes sense for them, and now that we are using tee time for all Metro Senior starts, you will know in advance when you are playing and whom you are playing with. For new members, there are always threesomes, twosomes and singles looking for new people to play with and if you work with the Division VP, I’m sure he can find you members to play with at your level, at any time you wish to play. If you don’t understand how financially courses benefit from single tees vs. split or shotgun, let’s get together. I’ll gladly explain the differences.
There has been discussion for years about playing the same course, more than once each year. I guess everyone assumes that courses have availability for us on 2 Fridays and 3 Thursdays additionally. There is a reason they are popular among us. It’s the same reason public play on them is in high demand. Scheduling is not an easy task, especially during the pandemic demand. New courses that we looked at could not accommodate us because they have “Senior Scrambles” or leagues on the days we play, so if there is course that you don’t like, don’t play that course that week. For every member who hates a course another one loves it.
The pandemic has changed the landscape of golf as we know it. Right now, with no other sports to participate in or none we can go watch, golf is seeing numbers that they haven’t enjoyed in many years. Many young people are finding the game and when demand is high the price increases. I’m sorry that we, who have been supporting these courses for many years have to endure the significant increasing in price, but it’s a sign of the times.
Larry Roth
President Metro Seniors Golf
The Special Events Committee has finalized the dates, courses, formats, and pricing for 4 of the 6 courses. We are still working on pricing for the Find Your Swing event at Sunset Hills CC and the Lou Luketetich Founders’ Day event at Whitmoor CC. Click here for the Schedule & Rules.
Signup for the 2021 Special Events will be opened up on 1 January 2021. You will be able to signup on-line and pay with a credit card. Or print out a form to pay by check, mailing address provided on the form. Links to both methods will be added to the Metro Seniors web site on 31 December 2020.
Special Events are very popular and fill up fast. There will be a maximum of 128 players in each event, except the Lou Luketetich Founders’ Day event which will remain a max of 144 players. Signups are time stamped and the first 128 or 144 players will be placed on the Confirmed Lists. Players that pay after the max number has been reached will be placed on a Wait List in time stamp order. Players on the Wait Lists will be moved up to the Confirmed Lists as cancellations are received.
You can find additional information on the Special Events by going to the Schedules/Signup box on the right side of the Metro Seniors Home Page and click on Special Event Tournaments. Instructions for each event can be found by going to the Metro Seniors Home Page, click on Schedules and Results on the top tool bar, scroll down to Special Events and open up Confirm – Wait – Pairings – Instructions. Click on the individual event link to find the instructions.