Kansas City Golf Association

7451 Switzer Road, Suite 100

Shawnee, KS 66203

916 649-5242

SHORT SHOTS The KCGA currently has 75

member facilities and

15,231 individual golfing

members.

The KCGA and its client as-

sociations and events will

spend $408,872 on tourna-

ment expenses related to

golf in and around the Kan-

sas City area.

The KCGA staff and volun-

teer corps conducted over

8,000 round of competition

in 2012.

The KCGA eNewsletter

reaches over 7,250 golfers

twice a month

The average male handicap

index in 2012 is 14.2 and

26.5 for women for those

that are members of state

and regional golf associa-

tions

KCGA Annual Report to

Member Clubs 2012 Men’s KC Cup Champions—Wolf Creek

Celebrating 100 Years of Service to Golf! In 1912, a small group of golf clubs in Kansas City got together to discuss the fu-

ture of the game in the metro area. The list of clubs included Kansas City Coun-

try Club, Evanston Golf Club, Elm Ridge Race Track and Golf Club (later known

as Blue Hills) Tomahawk Hills and a free public nine-hole course within the gates

of Swope Park. In that meeting, the Kansas City Golf Association was formed to

promote and grow the game of golf in the Kansas City area.

One hundred years later, the KCGA is still working to fulfill its initial charge. The golfing landscape in Kansas City has changed since that first meeting of a handful of clubs to include over 75 member facilities in and around the metro area. We invite you to take a few moments to review an astounding amount of Kansas City Golf history written by Don Kuehn at jimmythecaddie.com Don has done a tre-mendous amount of research on behalf of the association and you are sure to learn something about golf in our region by perusing through the many articles he has created. Perhaps the most significant change in the life of the Kansas City Golf Associa-

tion occurred when the association began to implement the USGA handicapping

system as part of its club service offerings. A little known, but extremely im-

portant part of the handicapping system is the course rating process. In the past

five years the KCGA has rated 236 different tees in order to establish slope and

rating for member clubs. In addition, the KCGA now manages the posting and

revision of over 471,000 scores ——- continued on back page >

The Next 100 Years

There are 75 member golf

courses in the Kansas City Golf

Association. Here are some in-

teresting facts regarding our

association:

There are roughly twice as

many golf courses as

WalMarts in the Metro ar-

ea.

If you could place each hole

in Kansas City end to end,

from the back tees you

could play from Kansas City

to St. Louis without playing

the same hole twice.

If you averaged fifteen

minutes a hole it would

take roughly fourteen days

to play every hole in the

Kansas City Golf Associa-

tion.

If the average KCGA mem-

ber loses 3 golf balls per

round and plays 14 rounds a

year that is 639,702 golf

balls lost each year. That’s

a lot of penalty strokes.

Over one million scores

have been posted through

the GHIN Mobile App na-

tionwide in 2012.

The KCGA joined the GHIN

network for handicap ser-

vices in 1985.

annually by KCGA members. This tremendous task has been simplified over the

years through the use of technology and we are able to provide more services

today to our individual members than ever before including mobile app technol-

ogy for posting scores.

The most visible part of the KCGA continues to be the competitions that our as-

sociation conducts each year. This year, the KCGA conducted over 8,000 rounds

of competition for 2,000 different competitors. On behalf of the member clubs

of the KCGA, we would like to congratulate every champion of a KCGA event

in 2012 and thank each participant for their interest in KCGA activities. In addi-

tion, we would like to thank all of the facilities that hosted KCGA events in 2012.

Without your membership and support, there would not be a Kansas City Golf

Association.

The most popular competition for the KCGA continues to be the Men’s and

Women’s Kansas City Cup Matches. Over 1,000 different competitors participat-

ed in a Kansas City Cup match in 2012. Congratulations to Blue Hills Country

Club and Wolf Creek Golf Club for winning this year’s women’s and men’s Kan-

sas City Cup respectively.

The KCGA would also like to congratulate Steve Groom (Fred Arbanas G.C.)

whose victory at the Kansas City Amateur enabled him to secure both the KCGA

Player of the Year and Senior Player of the Year titles in 2012. On the women’s

side, we congratulate Rachel Halloran (Fred Arbanas G.C.) who captured this

year’s Women’s Amateur of Kansas City. The Association’s Junior Champions

were Nick Rehmer (Adams Pointe G.C.) and Ashley Judd (Lawrence C.C.) by vir-

tue of their victories at the Heartland Junior Championship. Finally, in the last

KCGA “major” championship of the year, Ben Juffer and Curtis Yonke, both Kan-

sas State students, were victorious at the 51st Heart of America Four Ball Champi-

onship.

The KCGA is very proud of its Junior Golf Tours and the StateLine Amateur Tour

for recreational golfers. These tours have allowed 537 different members to pur-

sue competitive golf throughout the year. It has also allowed the KCGA to make

a substantial financial impact on its member clubs. For example, the KCGA dis-

tributed $18,741 worth of gift certificates that can be redeemed at any KCGA

member club for StateLine Amateur Tour events alone in 2012.

Looking to the future, the KCGA is continually evaluating its programs to help

get more people involved in the game of golf. Like all other parts of the golf in-

dustry, the decline in golf participation is a major concern. We will continue to

work with the allied golf entities in our region to find better ways to make the

game prosper in our region.

Finally, our association strives to be as open and transparent as possible. The

KCGA board of directors that governs our association is always looking for guid-

ance and input on KCGA activities and we welcome your feedback. Please feel

free to contact the KCGA office at any time at 913 649-5242 or at staff@kcgolf.org

SHORT SHOTS

Sincerely,

Richard J. Sauer, KCGA President Matthew D. Williams, Executive Director

Nick Rehmer kisses the Heartland Junior Trophy