President's Letter

2010

Message from Your Chief Caddie

The message this year is real simple and yet requires a lot of work to accomplish, EWGA is for “Every Woman”. 
In trying to determine which programs to include this year, your board spent a lot of time asking the question, what do all of our members want and what are the recurring questions that keep surfacing.  In our research, we determined that the approximate skill level of our membership was as follows:

0-9 Handicap – 7%         10-19 Handicap – 48%
20-29 Handicap – 25%    30-39 Handicap – 10%
No Handicap Recorded – 11%

The reason that this is important is that in all my discussions with a large number of members the consistent comments were “I’m not good enough to compete or I didn’t know that higher handicappers could play in Chapter Championship”. 

The irony of this is that one of the differentiators between EWGA and other women’s golf organizations is that it’s the only one that offers competition for women with handicaps up to 40 on a national stage.  No where else can you get the feeling of competition at diverse skill levels and meet women from across the country. 
The other revelation came from our participation in the Texas Women’s Conference and we had over 60 women interested in learning how to play the game of golf to develop their careers.  We have also had feedback from all of our members that they would like to have more education opportunities.
Lastly, there were women who indicated that they just want the camaraderie of other women and play casual golf without the competition.
So, with all that information, your 2010 board has made the commitment to make this years program for “Every Woman”. 

Your board, or as I refer to them as Caddies because they “Carry the Club”, have planned
•    golf events with diversity in mind regarding formats of play and variety of courses and price ranges
•    education clinics this year to address specific golf skills for all player levels
•    a mentorship program that will go beyond “Girlfriend Golf” to assist players to go to their next level in playing the game and establishing a handicap 
•    a new program for our members called “Player & Caddie of the Year”, which will reward the top participants of the chapter based upon events played (Player) and volunteerism (Caddie).  For those of you who volunteered for any of the events after November 1st of last year, you have already been accumulating points!  “How Cool is that?” 

So, Ladies, help us make this Great Chapter for “Every Woman” by letting us know what you like and would like to improve, because you are the Player and your mission is to develop, grow and have fun in the process.

You Chief Caddie,

Lana Coble

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