2010 SENIOR TOUR NEWS

INDEX

Interested Players

Steve Clark (SC)
Glen Davis (SC)
Rick Morton (NC)
Mark Fisher (PA)
Rocky Catalano (NY)
Tim Baldwin (NC)
Al Lowe (SC)
Jeff Hawthorne (SC)
Robert Smith (MS)
Tim Dudley (KY)
Bill Kungle (OH)
John Fowler (NC)
Steve Terry (SC)
Tom Tyndall (S-C)

July 7,2010
GSGT is adding a Senior Match Play Championship at the end of July to run concurrently with the regular tour Match Play Championship. Interested Seniors are encouraged to register on-line or contact Steve Clark @ (843) 457-9709. We need a minimum of 16 Seniors to build a bracket for the event. For more information, please click HERE.

May 16, 2010
Gentleman,
The following information is a collection of ideas, suggestions and comments from other seniors who are interested in the GSGT taking the next step to create a Senior Tour. If you are reading this page, we hope you are an interested senior that will take the next step to register your name as an interested player. (See left column) As an interested player, we also hope that you will pass along this information to other seniors that will register, comment and offer ideas and opinions. The more players that show interest, the closer we come to starting a new Senior Tour.

Our Ideas:
1.) Create an Independent Senior Tour.
2.) Offer 1-Day & 2-Day Events.
3.) Schedule events on the same dates as our Regular Tour Schedule.
4.) Entry fees to be similar if not the same as our Regular Tour.
5.) Membership Fee to be $75 for the 2010 Season with 90% going to Tour Championship.
6.) 98% of your entry goes to the Purse. 7.) Added Sponsor money on selected events.

YOUR Suggestions, Ideas & Comments:
1.) Consolidate both Seniors and Regular Tour players to build field and purse while spotting the seniors a tee box.
Our View: While this sounds like a good idea, we tried it a couple of years back and it was a disaster. We actually had many Regular Tour players quit our tour because of that decision. We feel that it is in the best interest of both tours to keep them independent of each other.

2.) Let Seniors DOUBLE-DIP.
Our View: This is actually a very good idea as long as these Seniors are willing to play from the Regular Tour Tee position. The Senior will have to pay a double entry but the second entry fee will be reduced because the player only has to pay for (1) course fee. This way a Senior can cash in either and/or possibly both events.

3.) Play year round Monday and Friday, this way you can grab the club pro and anyone who is coming to town for a three day weekend, they will know they have a good game to play in when they get to Myrtle Beach..
Our View: Another very good idea. We want to know when the players want to play. For the most part, we typically setup all events on Monday-Tuesday to give PGA and Apprentice more opportunities to play. We don't see too many tourist looking to compete but we are open to giving them the opportunity.

4.) Get your tour banner on one of the local courses web site, aka Legends, or Barefoot ??? play those course year round. Those web site receive traffic your web site does not.
Our View: We are working on this one. For the most part, this is a corporate issue that is difficult to navigate with courses. They see it as "Pay-As-You-Go" advertising and we see it as a partnership. FYI: The GSGT Website receives a monthly average of 10K clicks per week.

5.) Open year round events to all, maybe play Sr Am, Sr Pro, open Am, open pro. Skins pool open to all who play, and are members.
Our View: 7 month is about all we can handle for the regular tour right now. Since we don't make any money at this, we all need a break. Since the Senior our will be running a limited schedule, it's certainly worth considering. Every event is OPEN to all players that are members. With the low cost of membership. I don't see this changing.

6.) I'm not sure if this would work, but a local race track ,to grow its business had a weekly fantasy football draft every Friday for 5 dollars, they sold out of the tickets they printed the first three weeks, if you had a weekly draft for members of your tour, you might get new members who would have not regular played in a local tours.
Our View: Not really sure how this works but we are open and willing to learn new ways to bring in money and new players..

7.) Have you given consideration to some Match Play Events?
Our View: Great Idea!!.