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Southern Senior Golf Tour  LLC
 



The SSGT is a senior golf tour for professional and amateur golfers age 47 and
older. The SSGT is open to players that do not currently have full exempt status on
the Champions Tour, The European Senior, PGA, and Nationwide Tour. Players that
had full exempt status, on any of the four major tours from in the past 3 years are
not eligible. If you have the desire to compete at a very high level, and test your
ability against some of the finest senior players in the country, this tour is an
excellent proving ground.
The SSGT will be conducting senior professional events honoring our United States
military service members and their families during the 2010 season. Events will be
held at military installations throughout the south central region of the country. The
host installations have given the tour a gracious welcoming, and are very excited
about having the tour players compete at their respective golf courses.
2010
"New Grooves Rule"
The Southern Senior Golf Tour will comply with the 2010 rule change
concerning the use of irons/wedges, hybrid clubs, and fairway woods.
The USGA has an informational database for clubs that will and will not
conform for play under the rule of "Condition of Competition"as of January
1st 2010.  You can click below, scroll to the bottom, click on proceed to search,
enter information about clubs that will conform for use on the SSGT in 2010.

After much discussion with players about the new grooves rule, the SSGT feels
it has made the correct decision by adopting this rule for the 2010 season.
While there are other professional tours throughout the country, that have
chosen not to adopt this rule, the SSGT feels it would not be in the best interest
of the players, to ask them to play with non-conforming clubs. Players
competing in US Senior Open qualifying, Champions Tour qualifiers will be
required to use conforming clubs.

Feb 9th 2010-  I spoke with Carter Rich at the USGA test center to get
clarification about clubs that are not listed in the informational data base. He
informed me, that if a player has a club that is not on the list, and wishes to use
it during an event, to call the USGA test center to find out if they have tested
that particular club. It is the players responsibility to insure that each club used
in an SSGT event conforms to the new rule. If a club is found to conform, yet is
not on the conforming list, the player is required to submit the club information
to the SSGT for confirmation. There are, and will be clubs manufactured in
2010 that conform, but are not in the data base. Again, please contact the
USGA test center prior to putting them in play.
News & Notes
The first event of the 2010
season will be played at Warrior
Hills GC Ft. Polk La, March
29th-April 1st. The following
week we will be honoring the
military members at Barksdale
AFB, Shreveport La. Due to the
total length of the golf course,
the event will be held at
Shreveport Country Club, April
6th-8th.  Lackland AFB, San
Antonio will host the third
event of the season April 19th -
22rd followed by Fort Sam
Houston, San Antonio April
26th -29th. In May the tour will
be in northern Texas, Dyess
AFB, Abilene, Sheppard AFB,
Wichita Falls. In June the tour
stops in Colorado to play Fort
Carson and Peterson AFB in
Colorado Springs. The tour has
worked out all of the details
with Fort Leonard Wood, Mo
and will coincide with the Fort
Riley Kansas event.
Welcome to the Southern Senior Golf Tour
2010 PGA
Merchandise Show
The SSGT wants to thank all of the merchandise companies
for  their time, and kind words for the tour, and it's players.
The SSGT is proud to announce
that the 1st place prize for the
Fort Polk and the Barksdale AFB
events will be a guaranteed
minimum of:
$5000.00
"Update"
Cheyenne Shadows GC
Fort Carson, Colorado
June 28th - July 1st
Dornick Hills CC
Winstar Golf & Casino
added to 2010 schedule

The SSGT will conduct four additional
events in August and September.
These events will be in southern
Oklahoma,and northern Texas. The
goal of the events is to assist in
raising funds to purchase cell phones,
and cell minutes for troops serving
our country overseas. Scheduled for
the month of September are, Dornick
Hills Country Club, Ardmore Ok,
Sept 2nd- 5th, Winstar Golf Course
& Casino Thackerville Ok Sept 13th
-16th. Cross Timbers Golf Course
Azle Tx August 16th - 19th has just
been added to the schedule.
September 1st - 3rd
2010


Players that earned their
Champions Tour, Senior
European Tour card through
Qualifying School in the past 3
years are not eligible.
Conditional players on these
tours are eligible. Players that
qualify for an event on these
tours, remain eligible for play
on the SSGT. Please contact
the tour office if there are any
questions concerning this issue.
Eligibility Clarification