Newsletter – February, 2012
Welcome, HVGA golfers!
HVGA would like to welcome new golfers to the 2012 golf season, and also welcome back HVGA members from previous years. Now that we’ve had plenty of rest from several months of “HVGA down time,” it’s time to prepare for another exciting year’s worth of good golf, starting with the season opener at Eagle Point Golf Course. This year’s line up of tournament golf courses is just as enticing as last year’s lineup, and more. Invite your friends, neighbors and co-workers to come out and join us at each tournament to expand HVGA’s reach across this great city. It is our goal to ultimately turn HVGA into a household name.
Recently, the HVGA Committee held a meeting and invited all members to attend and plan for the upcoming golf season. Several members showed up and shared their views. Among them were Thomas Nguyen, Vinh P Nguyen, Johnny Dang and Alex Nguyen. The HVGA Committee would like to extend our gratitude to these members for devoting their time to improve the club. Many decisions that were made during this meeting dictate the policies for this year. We will continue to invite all members to key meetings throughout the year, so if your schedule permits, please join us so we can all put our heads together in an effort to improve the club. Thank you in advance for all your efforts.
Because the HVGA Committee has had to make many decisions for the club in the past, we decided to involve members’ inputs for some of the decisions that will affect policies and procedures for 2012 and beyond. To that end, the committee solicited a survey on our website that was announced to all our members via email at the end of last year. The results from the survey revealed many of our members’ opinions that helped the committee to implement a few changes for 2012. One such change is the trophy designs. You will be seeing trophy design changes as soon as February or March of this year, and hopefully, you’ll be holding one in your hands. A good percentage of those who took the survey thought having a monthly tourney on a Sunday instead of Saturday was a good idea, so we will try to schedule a monthly tourney on Sunday either this year or the next. There’s also talk of a gimmie putt, but that topic may need more time to plan for.
For the 2012 season, HVGA is starting with a zero balance due to extra spending in 2011 events in an effort to make them more fun for everyone. We spent more money than usual on the Crawfish Boil event to make sure we don’t run out of food like previous years. We also spent more money at the yearend dinner to provide better menu and more prizes. We also handed out a few more trophies this year to recognize more achievements that we haven’t in the past. All-in-all, it was money well spent since everyone had such a blast at those events. We will try to identify more sources of revenue and donations this year to continue our traditions, and still carry over a positive balance for next year’s budget or for use at the end of the year “fun” tourneys.
Hope everyone will have a great start for the golf season 2012, and even a better finish.
Kiet Luong
HVGA President