2012 BGA JUNIOR TOUR SIGN UP IS OPEN!

I'm excited to let you know that our 2012 Junior Tour sign up is open and ongoing. The schedule is listed right here on our website. Go to the top left of this homepage under the Schedule tab, click the Tournaments tab and you will see it.

We are thrilled to have 20 one-day events (two more than last year) and our two-day Junior Championship. 

New one-day venues this year include Hoover CC, Bent Brook GC (Windmill & Brook nines), Inverness CC and Vestavia CC. And we are delighted that Old Overton Club will host our two-day Junior Championship, July 23-24.

The format will be the same as last year in that your entry fee gets your child in six regular events. Sign up for the events began on April 16.

If you were a member last year, simply log in to your account using your Player's Club ID and password (if you have forgotten these there is a button you can press beneath this box to be sent it again) and go through the steps to rejoin.

If you are a NEW member, you will have to create an account first. Do this in the box marked Member Registration.

As a reminder, there are four age groups. Eligibility for boys and girls is as follows: 10-11 must have reached 10th birthday but not 12th birthday by July 23, 2012. 12-13 must have reached 12th birthday but not 14th birthday by July 23, 2012. 14-15 must have reached 14th birthday but not 16th birthday by July 23, 2012. 16-17 must have reached 16th birthday but not 18th birthday by July 23, 2012. Any child is eligible to play “up” to the next age group. However, if the decision is made to play “up”, that child must stay in the new age group for the rest of the season.

10-11 age group play nine hole events and will pay $210. All other age groups will play 18 hole events and pay $225. Even though we have had to go up slightly in price, I believe this still represents an outstanding value given the quality of the venues. Should your child qualify for the Junior Championship, the entry fee remains the same ($75), which includes the awards banquet on the Monday night and lunch after play on Tuesday.

The Tournaments Sign Up box is where you sign up for the actual events.

If an event is full, you will be given the option to go on the waiting list for that event or choose another event.

Shoal Creek, Country Club of Birmingham and Vestavia are designated as Premium events and, as such, you may choose only two of those three events. Of course, you can choose one of them or none of them and make up you total of six in a combination thereof.

Thanks for your support of the BGA's Junior Tour.

Ian Thompson

Click Here for a link to photos from the 2011 BGA Junior Championship

Click Here for a link to photos from the 2011 BGA Hall of Fame Banquet

Feel free to contact BGA Executive Director Ian Thompson with any questions via email:

ithompson@bgagolf.org

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 2013 Metro Amateur to return to Hoover Country Club

We are delighted to announce that the Metro Amateur Championship will return to Hoover Country Club April 6-7, 2013.

This year's event featured 46 teams, with a Mid-Amateur division and a Senior division. Woodie Eubanks and Will Swift won the Mid-Amateur division, while Mike McFarland and Alan Seigel were the Senior division champions. The format in 2013 will be the same and we hope for even more teams to play in this, the city championship.

April 6-7 is the Saturday-Sunday after Easter and the weekend before The Masters.

Thanks again to Hoover CC for being such a gracious host this year and in advance for hosting us again next year.

2012 Hall of Fame Inductees announced

We are thrilled to announce that Mary Isbell and Gene Hallman were inducted into our Hall of Fame on March 31 at a dinner to be held at Hoover CC in conjunction with the Metro Amateur.

BGA Hall of Famers gathered March 31 at Hoover CC for this year's dinner and induction ceremony

2012 BGA Hall of Fame inductee Gene Hallman

2012 BGA Hall of Fame inductee Mary Isbell

The Birmingham Golf Association Hall of Fame has a long and storied history dating to 1965.

 CLICK HERE to read more about this year's inductees:

Woodie Eubanks and Will Swift win the Metro Amateur Championship

Congratulations to Woodie Eubanks and Will Swift who shot rounds of 63-62--125 to win the Mid-Amateur Division of the Metro Amateur Championship at Hoover Country Club. This HCC team beat another HCC team (Andy McRae and Max McClain) by six shots. The runners-up shot 65-66--131.

BGA Metro Amateur Mid-Amateur champions Will Swift (center) and Woodie Eubanks (right), with BGA Executive Director Ian Thompson (left)

The Senior Division was won by Pine Tree members Mike McFarland and Alan Seigel who beat Steve Hudson and Jimmy Tom Goosetree and Rick Clay and Don Manuel in a multi-hole playoff after all three teams finished on four-under-par 140.

BGA Metro Amateur Senior Amateur champions Mike McFarland and Alan Seigel