Gentlemen,

 

This email announces the start of the 2025 EMGA Home & Away (H&A) season. Each year your H&A Committee coordinates with other golf clubs to set up friendly matches on courses we might not otherwise have the opportunity to play. We encourage you to review the below schedule and sign up to play in the matches you are interested in. Please review the schedule carefully because there is both a “Home” and an “Away” match, and when you sign up, you are committing to play in both rounds. We will create 12–20-man teams for each match from those that sign up and play a Home match at Eisenhower and an Away match at the hosted course. During a H&A match, we try to all wear the same color shirt so we will be identified as a team. There are three EMGA colored (red, white, and blue) shirts available for purchase through Don Becker, another longtime member of the EMGA. We like it if you have the EMGA logo shirts, but they are not mandatory.  You can wear whatever shirt you have, but please try to wear one in the same color as the rest of the team. 

 

Typically, the host team pays all the costs to play at their club, except for the Skins match, which costs $5.00 for each player. The cost to play in a H&A match (both at Eisenhower and the Away club) should be around $145, but the costs have not been finalized yet this year and may vary a little. This fee covers the cost of both you and your guest and pays for your guest’s green fees, the cart, range balls, breakfast snack, lunch, prize money, hole-in-one, and your entry in the Skins competition. If you are not an Annual Green Fee Member, you will also need to pay your green fees prior to the match. There will usually be some sort of light breakfast snack provided and range balls will be available at the course prior to play. After the match, the host club will provide lunch while the scores are tabulated, and winners determined. At the end of the lunch, prizes will be awarded for best ball play and skins winners. Points will be awarded to the teams based on play and these points will determine which club wins the match.

 

Signups for these matches are now open in Golf Genius.  If you’re interested in playing, please go to the EMGA H&A Portal Page, egc-2025ha.golfgenius.com sign in with your username and password, and select the H&As showing on the left-hand side of the opening page under Upcoming Rounds.  By selecting the Home date for that course, you’re signing up for both the Home and Away dates. You may notice our matches are on the same dates as many of our OPC matches and you can receive “credit” for the OPC, the appropriate Ringer and the Ike Cup when you play in the H&A match too, so don’t let these conflicts deter you from playing in the H&As. During H&A matches, we will only play from either the White or Gold tees. Please note there are two matches that are slightly different. The “Away” Heritage Eagle Bend match, scheduled for Tuesday, 5 August, will be a Shotgun start at 1230. Also, regarding the Broadmoor match, we will only play the “Home” match this year, and it will be played on Tuesday, 2 September.  The “Away” match will be scheduled sometime in 2026.

 

We will also send reminders/invitations for the individual H&A matches 3-4 weeks ahead of each match, so you will have more opportunities throughout the season to sign up.  The H&A Committee will select the team members 2-3 weeks before the match, so everyone will know whether they will play or not. If you’re not selected for a match, you will have priority for the next match you wish to play in.  We want to make sure everyone who wants to play gets an opportunity to do so.

 

If you have any questions, please contact Barry Patterson ([email protected]) or Abe Oros ([email protected]).

   Date                        Day                  Club                       Home/Away

28 May                   Wednesday             Valley                               Away     

29 May                   Thursday                 Valley                               Home   

10 Jun                    Tuesday               Perry Park                           Away     

17 Jun                    Tuesday               Perry Park                           Home   

26 Jun                    Thursday                 Pinery                              Home   

30 Jun                    Monday              Kissing Camels                     Away                       

3 Jul                       Thursday            Kissing Camels                     Home   

8 Jul                       Tuesday                 Pueblo                               Home   

9 Jul                       Wednesday            Pueblo                               Away     

5 Aug                     Tuesday               Heritage Eagle                     Away     

7 Aug                     Thursday             Heritage Eagle                     Home   

12 Aug                   Tuesday                 Pinery                                Away     

14 Aug                   Thursday              Glenmoor                            Away     

20 Aug                   Wednesday           Hollydot                              Away     

28 Aug                   Thursday               Hollydot                              Home   

2 Sep                     Tuesday               Broadmoor                          Home   

9 Sep                     Tuesday               Glenmoor                            Home   

23 Sep                   Tuesday               Red Rocks                          Home   

30 Sep                   Tuesday               Red Rocks                          Away

 

Look forward to seeing you on the course,

 

Barry Patterson and Abe Oros

2025 EMGA Home and Away Committee Co-Chairmen

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