SENIOR SERIES
2024 WV SENIOR SERIES PRESENTED BY LITTLE GENERAL STORES
The West Virginia Senior Series presented by Little General provides our senior golfing men a variety of courses, challenges, and fun with friends and competitors! The Series highlights many of the wonderful courses throughout the State and includes the most opportunities for playing amongst any age bracket we serve.
There are 3 divisions divided by age groups with gross and net winners. For more information, please click on the drop-down menus below.
Registration: All contestants must register and pay in advance for each tournament. Entries may be paid for via online registration. Registration into each event must be filed prior to the entry deadline. No “day of” payments will be accepted at any time. Please contact the WVGA if you have questions.
Eligibility: Contestants must be a male golfer, 50 years of age or older, who is an active member of the WVGA with a USGA Handicap Index.
Entry Fee: $65.00 per event. This fee includes greens and cart fees, as well as lunch and prizes. Each tournament also includes an optional skins game and raffle, at $5.00 each. **Some events on the schedule will not include lunch. At these events, the gift certificate payout will be increased.**
Entry Deadline: The entry deadline for each Senior Series event will be two days prior to each tournament date at 8:00am. No entries will be accepted after this time.
Withdrawal Policy: Refunds will be issued to those who properly withdraw before the entry deadline. A $8 processing fee will be assessed. Withdrawals made after the entry deadline will not be issued a refund, with the exception of a medical emergency or the like.
Transfer of Entry: For West Virginia Golf Association One-Day events only, players may transfer their entry fees to another one-day event site. To successfully transfer the entry fee, players must submit a written request to Sarah Cole, prior to the entry deadline from the specific event from which you are transferring.
Pairing Request / Pairings: The WVGA accepts pairing requests at each of Senior Series event. Players may email Sarah Cole to make pairing requests. Pairings will be made and released at least one day prior to each event and will be included in your Player Information email.
Contact: For any questions or concerns regarding the Senior Series presented by Little General, please contact Sarah Cole or by phone at 304-391-5000
Format: 18-hole individual stroke play with full USGA/WVGA handicaps. All Senior Series tournaments are 10:00AM shotgun start unless otherwise noted on the schedule below.
Optional Prizes: At each tournament, players will have the option to participate in a skins game or purchase a raffle ticket, at $5.00 each. These are purchased at the Registration Table.
Flights: Senior (50-59), Silver (60-69), Gold (70+), Diamond (80+)
Event Yardages: The WVGA strives in making sure that each age division is playing from an appropriate yardage at each of the Senior Series events. Yardage approximations for each division are listed below but please note that these could change slightly depending on host facility and/or weather.
Approximate Yardages: Senior Division (6,400 yds.), Silver Division (6,000 yds.), Gold Division (5,400 yds.), and Diamond Division (5,400 yds.)
Players Meeting / Announcements: A WVGA staff member will hold a player’s meeting 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the shotgun round. It is imperative that all players be at their golf carts at this time so that the WVGA staff can go over the Notice to Players for that particular day as well as any announcements from the host facility. Once concluded, players will be instructed to their starting holes.
Score Posting: At the conclusion of each event each player’s score will automatically be posted to the GHIN Handicap System. Please do not enter your own scores from the competitive round, as this will result in a double post.
Contact: For any questions or concerns regarding the Senior Series please contact Sarah Cole.
Points: Senior Series Player of the Year points will be awarded to the top 10 finishers in both gross and net divisions and will be updated to the Player of the Year Points Standings the day following each event.
WVGA Senior POY Points: (30 for 1st, 20 for 2nd, 10 for 3rd) Will be awarded to the Top 3 but must be WV Residents to earn these. Points will only be awarded to players who finish in 1st, 2nd, or 3rd. For example, a Non-Resident wins the 50-59 division and WV residents finish 2nd and 3rd, the player who finishes 2nd will receive 20 points and the player who finishes 3rd will receive 10 points. If Non Residents all finish in the top 3, there will be no WVGA points awarded for that event. *New for 2024
Exemption: The WV Resident with the most Gross points in the Senior Division will earn an exemption into the following year’s West Virginia Amateur and West Virginia Open. Qualification details CLICK HERE
Year-End Awards / Recognition: Winners of each division will be awarded year-end prizes at the final event as well as being recognized in front of their peers. Participation awards will also be given out for those participants who have completed in all or all but one of the season’s Senior Series events.
Contact: For any questions or concerns regarding the Senior Series please contact Sarah Cole.
Sponsorship: Little General stores continues to be the presenting sponsor of the WV Senior Series and we couldn’t be more proud of the relationship that we have cultivated with them over their many years of support of amateur golf in West Virginia. We encourage all of our Senior Series participants to visit their Little General locations across the state of West Virginia in support of this great sponsor. In 2024, John Bumgarner State Farm Insurance and Emergency Physicians Resource Organization (EPRO) have teamed up to sponsor our newly renamed Diamond Division (80 & Over Division.)
Please click the link below to see a map of all Little General locations within West Virginia.
Players Who Miss Zero or One event during a season will receive a special gift from the WVGA for their loyalty.