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2012 Tournament Entries Now Open
Entries for 2012 KGA Championships, KGA Senior Series and KGA Mid-Amateur Series events are now being accepted. Click the links above to view the 2012 tournament schedules. Entries for the KJGA-Junior Golf program will be accepted beginning on Thursday, March 1st. Entries are accepted via online entry, postal mail or delivery to the KGA office in Lawrence. Click here for more information on 2012 KGA tournaments.2012 Kansas Cup Information
The 2012 Kansas Cup entry information is now posted and available for download. The match formats have been changed significantly after reviewing the competition with our club captains from previous years. The Kansas Cup is club team competition modeled after the popular Ryder Cup. Each team is comprised of sixteen players from the same member club. Matches are conducted within divisions of entered KGA member clubs and is designed to foster healthy competition amongst golfers of the state of Kansas in a team format. Click here for more information on the 2012 Kansas Cup and to download an entry form. Get Your Handicap By Email
If you have an e-mail address you can have your KGA/USGA Handicap Index information e-mailed to you automatically every revision! In addition to your KGA/USGA Handicap Index, the eRevision also contains other valuable information such as your handicap scoring record, Handicap Index History and Kansas Golf Association news. The eRevision also contains a convenient printable handicap card that you can cut out and use as proof of your Handicap Index. E-mail addresses are kept secure by the Kansas Golf Association. Click here to signup.Amateur victory Sparks player of the year run
Winning the Kansas Amateur Match Play Championship, and who you beat along the way, can be the key ingredients in a golfer’s effort to become Kansas Golf Association Player of the Year. In no season was that more apparent than this past summer. Wichita State University golfer Hunter Sparks defeated Kansas State’s Kyle Smell 2 and 1 in the final match of the 101st Kansas Amateur at Hallbrook Country Club in July, picking up 300 points and boosting his total to 590 in the season-long race. That was good enough to edge his only real competition for 2011 Player of the Year honors, Smell, by 20 points. “That’s probably one of my biggest accomplishments, so I’m really proud of it,” said Sparks, who added another KGA title earlier in the summer and 175 accompanying points when he captured the title in the first-ever, Railer, Kansas Stroke Play Championship. “I worked really hard and it’s a really big deal to be (Player of the Year).” Click here to read more about KGA Player of the Year Hunter Sparks.Groom pushes to victory in tight senior points race
The KGA's 2011 Senior Player of the Year race was a tight one with its top challengers getting a lot of face time as they came down the stretch this summer and early fall. When all was said and done, the final season point totals tallied, Raytown, Mo.'s Steve Groom had amassed 411 points and edged Wichita's Steve Newman by a mere five points. It is the first KGA Senior Player of the Year title for the 53 year old Groom who dominated KGA senior team events in 2011, opening the year with a third straight victory in the Senior Four-Ball and a runnerup finish in the Senior Team. Groom also tied for top honors in the Senior Division of the 2011 High Plains Amateur and also had a top 5 finish the Senior Amateur Championship. Click here to read more about KGA Senior Player of the Year Steve Groom.Tracy Chamberlin claims inaugural Mid-Am honor
The Kansas Golf Association has been recognizing a Player of the Year since 1985 when John Sinovic was its first honoree. In 1987, Charlie Stevens was the first Junior Player of the Year and in 1990 Dave Dennis became the first Senior Player of the Year. More than 20 years later the list of first-time POY winners has finally swelled to four as Wichita's Tracy Chamberlin has earned the KGA's first Mid-Amateur Player of the Year honors. Chamberlin claimed the 2011 KGA Public Links and the Masters Division of the High Plains Amateur. Chamberlin's season ending point total of 355 was enough to out-distance area rivals in Wellington's Derek Harrison and Wichita's Aaron Sheaks in the final standing. Click here to read more about KGA Mid-Amateur Player of the Year Tracy Chamberlin. Myles Miller named 2011 KGA Junior Player of the Year
The summer of 2011 in Kansas junior golf was most certainly Miller time. With a strong showing at this summer's Junior Amateur Championship and a dominate performance during "Junior Week" later at Mariah Hills, Wellington's Myles Miller rose to the top of the standings and captured long-awaited KGA Junior Player of the Year honors. Miller, now a freshman studying business finance at Wichita State University, was just short of winning a second Junior Amateur title and later walked away with both the Junior Section Team and Junior Match Play Championships in tallying 693 points for the 2011 season. Click here to read about Junior Player of the Year Myles Miller.USGA, R&A Announce Rules of Golf Changes for 2012
The United States Golf Association and the R&A have published the new Rules of Golf for 2012-15. Changes in the Rules - which for the first time have been designed, published and presented jointly by golf's governing bodies - include exonerating a player from penalty if it is known their ball was moved by the wind after address. Following an exhaustive, four-year review of golf's 34 playing Rules, nine principal Rules have been amended to improve clarity and ensure penalties are appropriate. Click here to view the complete changes to the Rules of Golf and Amateur Status.
