SWGA Annual Meeting/Awards Luncheon

Shreveport Women’s Golf Association celebrated eighty-seven years with its annual meeting and awards luncheon on January 10 at East Ridge CC.  Yes, I said 87 YEARS!  What an organization!  And although membership numbers are falling through the years due to working women, the enthusiasm is still just as prevalent.  Forty-seven ladies (and one gentleman) attended this year and enjoyed the fun, fellowship, food, and recognition of accomplishments.

President Brenda Graves lead the group of officers for 2019 and handed the “virtual” gavel over to 2020 President Moise Allen of Southern Trace.  Other officers for the new year will be:

1^st Vice President: Daneita Adams, BWGA

2^nd Vice President: Phyllis Ryan, ERLGA

Secretary: Jane Smith, WGAS

Treasurer: Jill Litton, NLGA

Events Chairman: Gayle Gansfuss, BLGA


At the beginning of her term as President, Brenda introduced the idea of supporting ONE charity throughout the year.  Her choice was Woody’s Home for Vets, founded by Dr. Ronald Key for vets in need of continued psychiatric care.  We started the year by donating food items and generic clothing for the veterans.  It was very successful, but often ladies would forget their “stuff”, so they gave cash.  The cash idea caught on and we started collecting cash.

At the meeting, Dr. Key was presented $1710, combined with what we had already donated, for a total of $2103.  Thank you to all who donated so generously all year, with money and birthday/Christmas cards.  We hope you will continue to remember these vets into 2020 even though we have adopted a new charity for this year: Volunteers of America.

Events Chairman Jill Litton reported that our group played 333 rounds of golf in 2019.  That’s a lot of participation.  We had seven required events this year as well as Team Matches.  If you missed a required event but played in Team Matches, you were still considered a 100% participant.  Those that managed this feat were: Jill Litton, Mary Gallagher, Kathleen McCoy, Gayle Gansfuss, Cathy Buckley, Hui Bordelon, Kyong Lee, Daneita Adams, Brenda Graves, and Donna Ihle.  Congratulations ladies!

Other awards were based on participants’ best five scores:

Low Gross:  Mary Lynn Stuart – 80.4

Second Low Gross: Debbie Magee - 90

Low Net: Brenda Graves – 70.6

2^nd Low Net: Jill Litton – 71.2

3^rd Low Net: Hui Bordelon – 73.4

3^rd Low Net: Kyong Lee – 73.4

Low Putts: Mon Airhart – 31.75

2^nd Low Putts: Debbie Magee - 32

Most Improved:  Daneita Adams (from 22.6 to 16.5)


2020 President Moise Allen addressed the issue of the new World Handicap System, thanked everyone for being a part of the SWGA, and adjourned the meeting.

SWGA/SSWGA Jingle Bell Scramble

Who would have thought that the weather would be PERFECT for golfing on December 3rd? It was! It was short sleeve weather at Northwood Hills Golf Club for the annual Jingle Bell Scramble for the SWGA/SSWGA groups. Thanks to the Northwood Ladies' Association and Management for the warm hospitality.

Twenty-six ladies participated in the event that also included Toys for Tots for Providence House. The outpouring of love for the children was awesome. Representatives from Providence spoke to the group about how much this means to their mission. It was very informative and meaningful.

A tasty lunch of taco soup and salad and bread pudding was served, following by presentation of awards for the scramble winners.

See photos for the winning groups.

We also collected $55 for this year's charity.... Woody's Home for Vets. All the monies collected will be presented at our Annual Meeting.

The next event is our Annual SWGA Meeting/Luncheon/Election of Officers on January 10th at Eastridge CC at 11:30am. More info will be going to your email.

SWGA/SSWGA Turkey Scramble

Both the SWGA and SSWGA usually have their own Turkey Scramble in November; however, the weather was testing us this year, so the two organizations combined into one Turkey Scramble on November 21 at Crooked Hollow Golf Club. It turned out to be a great decision. The weather was great, the hospitality wonderful, the food excellent, and the fun was awesome.

The event started early with the SSWGA's Annual meeting, during which officers were elected and awards given for accomplishments during 2019. Four ladies achieved 100% participation for attending all six required events (and also the Turkey Scramble which wasn't required). Those ladies were Daneita Adams, Jan Crowe, Gayle Gansfuss, and Kathleen McCoy. It's not easy to schedule yourself to make all these events as well as the home club events and SWGA events, so it is a great accomplishment.

The End of Year stroke play awards are based on the average of the best five scores during stroke play events. The winners were:

Senior Division Low Gross: Daneita Adams (91.6)

Senior Division Low Net: Nancy Young (74.2)

Senior Most Improved Handicap: Daneita Adams (-6.1)

Super Senior Low Gross: Gayle Gansfuss (96.2)

Super Senior Low Net: Jan Crowe (76.6)

Super Senior Low Putts: Mary Gallagher (33)

Super Senior Most Improved: Gayle Gansfuss (-.7)

There was a 10:00am shotgun start for the 3-lady scramble which included thirty-three ladies, a good showing for the week before Thanksgiving! When all the fun was over, the Net Winners were:

First place (61): Mary Gallagher, Joyce Middleton, Stella Rice.

Second place (63): Shirley Pettitt, Julie Butterfield, Kathleen McCoy

Third place (63): Vicki Cella, Gayle Gansfuss, Tommye Engelcke

Fourth place (64): Pat Mason, Mary Lynn Stuart, Kathy Davis

Fifth place (64): Karen Calvert, Judy McGrew, Hui Bordelon

Sixth place (64): Grace Ireland, Daneita Adams, Pat Rice

Closest to the Pin Winners were: Julie Butterfield, Mary Lynn Stuart

Closest to the Line: Kyong Lee

It was a great day of golf and we are so happy that the SWGA group (whose event had to be cancelled due to rain/cold) accepted our invitation to join the SSWGA's event. Perhaps we can do it again!!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

SSWGA Championship

East Ridge CC hosted the SSWGA Championship November 5 and 6....with ideal golfing weather! Sixteen began the contest and fifteen finished.

There are two divisions in this organization: Senior Division (ladies 50 to 69 years old) and Super Senior Division (those 70 and over). Our Senior Division is shrinking, so we need some new young blood to keep this going!!!

Our new Senior Champion is Brenda Graves (BLGA) who shot 83/79 to win the Senior Division and also was the first day Medalist. She also had only 59 putts! The Net Champion is Moise Allen (STCC).

The Super Senior Division was a larger group and the Champion this year is Gayle Gansfuss (NLGA) with scores of 98 and 94, winning by one stroke over Joyce Middleton who was the SS Medalist. The Net Champion is Jan Crowe (BWGA).

Congratulations ladies!

Stella Rice was the Championship Chairman this year and did a great job of organizing the event and working with ERCC management. Good job!

Our next SSWGA event is a Turkey Scramble on November 21, 9:00am. This is also our annual meeting and we have a couple important items to discuss, so please be there.

Barbara Faye White Cup (aka) SWGA Team Matches

Barbara Faye White Cup (aka) SWGA Team Matches is in the history book!!

This year, because of changes in Associate Club memberships changing demographically, our East and West Teams changed to Team Titleist (BWGA and STCC) and Team Pinnacle (WGAS, NLGA, ERLGA, and BLGA.

Forty seven ladies played during the two-day competition of 2-lady scramble, match play format on September 16 and 26.

Let's start with Day 2:  Team Titleist won the BFW Cup Championship!!! It was close...9.5 to 8.5!  Titleist team went into Day 2 with a 3 point lead, but Team Pinnacle came back strong on Day 2 and give a great effort.

Since the BFW Cup started in 2009, we've never had last minute cancellations, but this year we had two emergencies that couldn't be avoided.  A special thanks to Audrey Northcutt (BWGA) who played alone against her two competitors on Day 1 and to Karen Calvert (BWGA) who played as a single on Day 2 and also won her match.  Also, a huge thank you to Becky Farr who was an alternate for Team Pinnacle.  She got a call at 7:20am on Day 2 asking if she could play, and she was there and ready to go with time to spare!

Congratulations to all the players!  You are ALL winners!

And thanks to Daneita Adams, Team Matches Chairman, who had never even PLAYED in Team Matches before this year, for putting on a great tournament in spite of the many unusual challenges this year.

We are looking forward to next year's BFW Cup which will be held at the Golf Club at Stonebridge.

SSWGA Playday at Southern Trace

It's been just over 2 1/2 months since our last SSWGA event! Seems impossible, but we finally got to play at Southern Trace on September 24th. Yep, it was still hot as blazes but it was fun since the course was in such good shape (as usual).

Broadmoor ladies took all the overall honors with the Low Gross score of 89 by Nancy Young, Low Net by Cathy Buckley with 75, and Low Putts of just 29 by Daneita Adams. Good golfing ladies!

I didn't get an opportunity to take any pictures since we started our shotgun a little early, so all I have is the "Results" page.
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It's time to start signing up for the next SSWGA playday which is October 10th at Bomber Bayou. This is the one that you have to provide your name as it appears on your driver's license, your driver's license state and number, your date of birth, and the last four digits of your social security number. Once again, if you THINK you might play submit this info to your club rep ASAP. You won't be able to add your name to the list at the last minute.

For those of you playing in the Barbara Faye White Cup (aka) Team Matches, see you tomorrow at Huntington to see who this year's winners will be. Team Titleist is up by 3 points over Team Pinnacle, but there are nine more points to be won tomorrow!!!

Team Matches Day 1

Thirty six ladies participated in the Barbara Faye White Cup aka Team Matches at Huntington Park Golf Club. This is a two lady match play, scramble event pitting local clubs against each other. 

Team Titleist is composed of Broadmoor and Southern Tracee ladies, while Team Pinnacle includes Northwood, Eastridge, Stonebridge and Bomber Bayou.

At the end of the day, Team Titlest has a three point lead over Team Pinnacle. ⁷⁶Our final day of competition will be September 26th.

SWGA Playday at Bomber Bayou

A great turnout for a hot August playday:  Bomber Bayou hosted the SWGA group on August 29^th with (appropriately) 29 ladies!  Before I forget, a big THANKS to the club for the hospitality and the wonderful lunch provided at no cost to us….a great surprise!

Now, to the numbers….Our SWGA Champion, Mary Lynn Stuart (ERLGA) had no problem negotiating the slow greens…or anything else….and scored a wonderful 72, eight strokes better than the closest contender: Mary Moore (BLGA) with an 80.  The lowest overall Net score (other than Mary Moore’s 62) was 65 by Judy McGrew (BLGA), followed by Mon Airhart (BWGA) with a 67.  Good golfing, ladies!  Overall low putts was also Mon Airhart with just 26 putts!!  Next fewest putts was 28 by Kathy Davis (BLGA).  Good putting ladies.  I know you had to be POUNDING THOSE PUTTS!  Check out the photo for all the flight winners.

We had a successful Woody’s goodies day also, with numerous bags of needed items as well as about $100 cash donations.  Thanks for your support!

Our next SWGA event is Team Matches which will be held September 16 and 26 at Huntington.  This is a 2-lady scramble, match play event, pitting Team Titleist (BWGA, STCC, and WGAS) against Team Pinnacle (NLGA, ERLGA, BLGA).  If you haven’t signed up yet, please contact your Club Rep no later than September 6^th.  Remember, if you missed an SWGA event during the year, participation in Team Matches is a “make-up” for that missed day.