December 10th, 2023

To all 2023 NSGA members,

Holiday greetings to our NSGA members. We hope this email finds you and your family both healthy and ready for another festive season. 

We will open up our membership for 2024 on December 15th later this week. You'll see a slight increase in our annual fees to $32 for our members, and $60 if you need your handicap provided by the NSGA. The web site is www.nebsrgolf.org and we will anticipate to be ready for your on-line 2024 membership on December 15th. 

All entries for membership and events will be on-line only in 2024. Over the last 3 years we've seen a steady increase in our % of online entries and it jumped again in 2023 to 86% while mail-in entries were 14%. As you can see it is the predominant choice of our members and it's time to take this step.  We appreciate your cooperation in this migration as it really streamlines our administrative chores and gives us a much better real-time view.  Moving forward if anyone has questions about making this transition themselves, please contact Glen Kampschneider on Membership entries or Tom Schulte with Event entries to help walk you through it.

Finalizing our annual Event Schedule is a cumbersome and a daily challenging process. Contacting these Pro's and signing contracts take time for multiple reasons.  We do intend and anticipate we'll have the events posted by Feb 1st, 2024, and will open entries around March 1, 2024.  Look for it to be similar to 2023 with a few price increases. Understand we pass on exactly what the courses charge us for your various event fees.  

This is also the time of year when we are seeking sponsors.  In 2023 sponsors provided over $8000 in support to cover our expenses and subsidize our prize pool. Big thanks to all those 2023 sponsors.... Austad’s, Baxter Toyota Lincoln, Moylan Kropp, Execu-Suites, Golf Tech, PGA, One Insurance Group, Bank and Credit Union Consulting, Sid Dillon Fremont, Stonebridge Insurance and Wealth Management, & Nebraska Golf Passport.  It is helpful for members to support these companies if it makes sense for you to utilize their offerings.  If you have any questions about any of these businesses, you can either click on their logo on the home page of our website and/or inquire with a board member.  If you can help or know a business or individual who may be interested in sponsoring NSGA, please get in touch with a board member.  

I encourage all members to recruit new members whenever possible.  Remember, recruiting 3 new members also rewards you with a free entry to one of our Single-Day events.  As courses are starting to ask for guarantees of 100 players from us, we need the membership base to support the events.

We're certainly looking forward to our 2024 schedule as well as seeing each of you on the course during our events.  As always if you have any questions, ideas, or concerns regarding what we do at NSGA please either respond directly to this email or contact a board member.

Have a safe and great Christmas and Holiday Season!

Charlie Wurtz

NSGA President