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SURVEY FOR MEMBERS AND FRIENDS TO PROVIDE INPUT ON PROPOSED CHANGES TO NALGA NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Given the steady decline especially since the COVID shutdown in the number of members participating in National Championships, the 2024 NALGA Council resolved to seek members' feedback on the factors impacting on members attending national Championships.
Additionally, within the Council there was consensus that a stableford option should be introduced for all left-hand entrants who wanted to play stableford rather than stroke. This was strongly supported through a straw poll held on day two of the participants at the 2024 Nationals.
Subsequently, the Executive met, and proposed, consistent with the Council Meeting consensus the following
The Survey Form below provides for your input into both the proposal of introducing the stableford format as outlined above (or other variation you wish to be considered), and the factors important to you to attend (or not), future National Championships.
Please complete the suryey and then click on the send button.
This is probably the biggest change proposed over the 57 years of the NALGA Championships. Your view is important to us, so I urge you to complete the survey. We need to get this right and hopefully return the numbers attending Nationals to somewhere near the past.
Given the steady decline especially since the COVID shutdown in the number of members participating in National Championships, the 2024 NALGA Council resolved to seek members' feedback on the factors impacting on members attending national Championships.
Additionally, within the Council there was consensus that a stableford option should be introduced for all left-hand entrants who wanted to play stableford rather than stroke. This was strongly supported through a straw poll held on day two of the participants at the 2024 Nationals.
Subsequently, the Executive met, and proposed, consistent with the Council Meeting consensus the following
- The Gross Stroke format be retained for Major Championships events, (Men's, Women's, Veterans and Super Veterans Champions). To be eligible for these Major championship events, players will be required to submit on the completion of each stroke round, on each day, a signed 18-hole stroke card.
- All other 72 hole and daily left-hand events for future Nationals be based on stableford scores.
- An option be provided that at any time during the event, for participants to opt to withdraw from the stroke events and continue to play stableford only.
The Survey Form below provides for your input into both the proposal of introducing the stableford format as outlined above (or other variation you wish to be considered), and the factors important to you to attend (or not), future National Championships.
Please complete the suryey and then click on the send button.
This is probably the biggest change proposed over the 57 years of the NALGA Championships. Your view is important to us, so I urge you to complete the survey. We need to get this right and hopefully return the numbers attending Nationals to somewhere near the past.