Greetings and Welcome to the Georgia Senior Women’s Golf Association.
It is an honor to serve as your President for 2025 and I, along with your Board Of Directors, will be working hard to build on our over sixty-year legacy of great golf and friendship.
Simplification – Sustainability – Sociability
Looking ahead for the next 60 years, the GSWGA Board of Directors will be focused on three concepts: Simplification, Sustainability and Sociability in all the work we do within our committees and for our tournaments.
Simplification
For 2025 and beyond, we have purchased our own premium package of Golf Genius at a great value given the scope of our work. This package affords us to wrap over 95% of our technology into one system, be more effective with our outreach and provide our members with easy registration for both membership and tournaments. Having our own Golf Genius also broadens our possibilities for country clubs for our tournaments. We now have fabulous country clubs on our radar that do not have the technology, but they will meet all the rest of our needs for our events.
We have also simplified and consolidated the roles of the Board of Directors. We will be operating with 11 BOD members in 2025 – down from 16 – and have consolidated the thirteen committees into seven. This will provide us with better coordination and more seamless workflow.
Also, in line with simplification, you will immediately notice that membership dues and tournament fees will be done by online payments only for 2025. Our dues will increase slightly and will seamlessly cover any fees and transaction costs. Online payments will provide our members with much greater financial security as well as reduced paperwork, travel time and bookkeeping for our treasurer.
Please join us early in the year with membership dues at $55 for 2025 and pay before March 15th. Later, dues will go up to $60.
Sustainability
2025 President - Janet Vandenbark
Our ladies who have been members for decades will be happy to know that we are planning out for future decades by incorporating systems that will carry us forward for years to come. With Sustainability in mind, we will have less paper and less waste during our events. Thank you in advance for helping us as we forge ahead being fun golfers and better stewards of our environment.
Sociability
The social aspect of the GSWGA golf tournaments is a feature that makes us unique! In 2024, we experimented with more social events by having a rum tasting at Richland Rum in Brunswick. We switched up our Monday evening gathering a bit at Chateau Elan by offering heavy hors d’oeuvres rather than a sit-down meal and received very good feedback on the format and fun!
Our sixtieth anniversary gave us a great excuse to get out there and find sponsors for the first time in our history. We will continue to foster relationship with people and companies that want to support our mission and group. Ideas are always welcomed!
We are looking forward to more fun outings and opportunities for the next two years. In 2025, we will have some standard events to try to fold in exciting new activities as well!
Finally, thank you for your membership and being part of this outstanding organization. I am looking forward to seeing you in Savannah and Albany in 2025!
Best regards,