St Louis Golf District

[Club Rat]

A letter from the Executive Director of the Metropolitan Amateur Golf Association, Missouri and Southern Illinois area.
MAGA is excited to announce they are looking make an addition to the full-time staff of the Association.  The new position will be titled the Director, Operations.
The role of the Director, Operations is to work under the direction of Executive Director Curt Rohe in carrying out the Association’s core services which include the conduct of both the Association’s championships and USGA qualifying rounds and implementation of our handicap and course rating services.

St Louis Golf District

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MAGA has a couple exciting announcements to make.  We are currently taking resumes in search of a new fulltime staff member for 2017, the Director, Operations will be involved in all aspects of the day-to-day operations of MAGA with an emphasis on the tournament schedule.  MAGA and the Southern Illinois Golf Association (SIGA) have reached a collaboration agreement for MAGA to provide SIGA members with GHIN handicapping services in 2017.  This will also allow SIGA clubs the benefit of receiving the new USGA Tournament Management powered by Golf Genius software package.  A formal announcement should be rolled out in the coming weeks.  If you would like to reach out, please email me at curt@metga.org.  
Curt

 

[WUTiger]

Good posting, @Club Rat. Glad to hear that MAGA will be getting a full-time Ops position - Curt deserves to get some help in keeping things running.

For St. Louis area golfers, step up and volunteer here and there if you can. Many of the core MAGA and USGA volunteers are 70ish in age, and a new crew needs to learn how to help out.

MAGA also handles the USGA Course Rating program for the St. Louis region. Recently I went out for the first time with a team that rated The Prairies golf course in Cahokia, IL. Teams do a hole-by-hole analysis of the course from each set of tees, and determine Course, Bogey and Slope Ratings.

A course is supposed to be re-rated every 10 years, or sooner if major changes to holes occur. For the basics... USGA Course Rating Primer