Events and Format

2010 TOURNAMENTS

We will begin the 2010 Season with the TMGA Opener on Sunday, April 18^th at Chippewa. Your membership and entry fee for this event must be received by Tuesday, April 13^th if you wish to compete in this stroke-play event.

Then, starting in early May and concluding in late August, six other single-day events will be conducted. See the 2010 TMGA Schedule for details. Use regular TMGA entry forms for these events plus the TMGA Opener and TMGA Finale. More entry forms will be mailed in May to 2010 TMGA members (they can be downloaded from the website).

The TMGA Club Championship (two rounds) will be conducted on July 31^st at Woodlawn and August 1^st at Detwiler. Entry form is on the TMGA membership application form.

The TMGA will again conduct two open area-wide championships this year. The "28th Annual Great Lakes Spring Amateur Golf Championship" will be held on Saturday, June 5^th and Sunday, June 6^th at Maumee Bay State Park. (See the enclosed special flyer.) Again this year, for the 28th consecutive year, we are privileged to have Jack Kerin and the Great Lakes Engraving Corporation as our tournament sponsor. The GLSA is one of the top amateur events in the greater Toledo area and represents the first leg of the Toledo area Grand Slam of Golf.

The 2^nd Tom Wolf Memorial Classic (formerly Fall Classic) will be held on Saturday, September 11^th and Sunday, September 12^th at Heatherdowns CC and The Legacy respectively. The Classic represents the final leg of the Toledo area Grand Slam of Golf.

The S. P. Jermain Match Play Championship in July at Ottawa Park and The Toledo Amateur Championship at Detwiler are usually of special interest to TMGA members since these major area championships represent the middle legs of the Toledo area Grand Slam of Golf. We will mail in May the entry forms for these events (as well as the Tom Wolf Memorial) to all golfers on our mailing list (and they will be available on the web site).

We will conclude the 2010 Season with the TMGA Finale on Sunday, September 26^th at Valleywood. This event also includes dinner, awards presentations, and our annual meeting. (TMGA members may bring dinner guests if they wish for a nominal additional fee of $10.) We will again conduct an individual stroke-play event that afternoon using a modified Stableford point system format. Checks will be mailed in October to the high finishers (in both divisions) as well as the winners of field skins and closest-to-the pin awards.

TOURNAMENT FORMATS

ENTRY: Mailed entry forms/fees must be received no later than the Tuesday prior to each scheduled TMGA event. Phone entries are discouraged except for highly unusual circumstances. You may either enter by mail or in person after the round of play at previous tournament sites. Tournament entrants can obtain their tee times and pairings by visiting our website (www.toledometrogolf.com), beginning on the Thursdays before scheduled events. (Players who lack access to the Web should call Jim O'Neal at 419-381-9519 for their tee times and pairings). TMGA guest members are eligible to play in all single-day TMGA events for $20 in addition to each event's entry fee. Entries for the Toledo area Grand Slam Championship events must be received by the date noted on their separate entry forms. You must be a fully paid TMGA member to play in the TMGA Club Championship. Also, in order to be eligible for the TMGA Club Championship, you must have competed in three prior TMGA events.

FEES: Single-day event entry fees range from $55 to $65 (see TMGA entry forms) and include green fees (optional cart fees must be paid to the host course), prize money, and field skins. (Field skins are optional and players may subtract $5 from the event's entry fee if they wish to be excluded from that competition.) Full refunds will be granted only if the withdrawing player calls (or preferably e-mails oniegolf1@cs.com) TMGA President Jim O'Neal (419-381-9519) by 9 p.m. on the Tuesday preceding the event. Multi-day event fees are either $95 or $100 and are noted on their separate entry forms, which include all refund deadlines/policies. PAIRINGS: For all single-day events, players may make up their own foursomes by indicating their preferred playing partners on their official TMGA entry blank. For two-day events (Great Lakes Spring Amateur, TMGA Club Championship, and the Tom Wolf Memorial Classic), players may make their own foursomes for the first round, but second-round pairings will be determined by first-round scores without exception. Visit our website (www.toledometrogolf.com) or call Jim O'Neal at 419-381-9519 the Thursday before these events to find out your tee times. Please do not call the host course!