Last Updated: 02/19/2012

What's New for This Year?
 

The GTGP Board of Directors has been hard at work this off-season seeking out ways to improve our club for the new season.  A few important changes for this year are noted below:

  • Upcoming GTGP Schedule

  • Time to mix it up with some great courses!!!
    The new GTGP schedule includes  new courses, none of which have ever hosted a GTGP event.  This year, the Tour visits Odessa National,  LULU Country Club & Blue Bell CC.  Several courses return after an absence last year, including White Clay Creek, Deerwood, Bucks County Country Club & 5 Ponds .  At the same time, several favorites from our first seven seasons remain on the schedule.

  • The GTGP Tour Championship, a season-ending 36-hole stroke play event, moves to Raven's Claw  & 5 Ponds.  As in the past the purse is a total of $20,000,000.  Of this, $5,000,000 will be awarded for each weekend's play, with a bonus $10,000,000 purse awarded for the total 36-hole competition.

  • The duration of the GTGP season schedule is set  at 18 regular season events, running from March to September.

  • GTGP will travel to a yet to be determined site for the 2012 Mason-Dixon Cup against the Washington Wormburners Golf Club.    The matches consist of a 2-player better ball competition on Saturday afternoon and individual net singles matches on Sunday morning.  Qualifying provisions for the Mason-Dixon Cup team remain the same as for last season, with the team being selected from the Top 8 players on the final GTGP Money List, and each of the players with the lowest ten Adjusted Net and lowest ten Adjusted Gross scores who have not already qualified.  Members must play in a minimum of ten events to qualify.

  • New Club Policies

  • The membership fee of $100 now includes a USGA handicap through the Golf Association of Philadelphia (GAP).  This will provide you, our members, with a $25 savings over previous seasons when the handicap fee was charged separately. As our long-time members know, our annual membership fee of $100 has remained unchanged since our inaugural 2005 season.

  • All members will be required to keep their handicap updated through the GHIN system.  This will help to streamline the Board's updating of handicaps in preparation for the events.

  • Clarifications have been made to the policy for cancelling events due to inclement weather.  If an event is cancelled in advance by the Board of Directors due to the forecast of inclement weather, the cancellation will be posted on the club web site not later than noon on the day before the event.  Please see the Club Policies page for more information.

  • A formal policy has been established (just in case!) that requires a minimum of twelve registered members for an event to be considered an official GTGP event counting toward the season ending championship.

  • New Local Rules

  • There are no changes to local rules for this year.

  • Web Site Updates

  • You will note our web site has a new look.  The format remains essentially the same, however, so members should not have difficulty finding content.