the GWSJR TOUR mission statement

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The GWSJR TOUR mission is to schedule a set of fundraising golf tournaments at various Texas golf courses each year, with the goal of awarding scholarships to assist students with furthering their education, to honor Gary Wayne's memory, and to promote the game of golf as a lifelong sport to 5th - 12th grade students across the State of Texas, thru the use of a unique, and one of a kind, 4-person scramble type golf tournament format, that encourages both teamwork and individual shot making abilities. 

The GWSJR TOUR is modeled after the 35-year history of the Gary Wayne Schoen Jr. Annual Memorial Golf Tournament that takes place at Perry Country Club in Hamilton Texas on the last weekend in July each year.  To read more about the Gary Wayne Schoen Jr. Annual Memorial Golf Tournament and Scholarship Fund, please visit our website at https://gwsjr.org/

The GWSJR TOUR is about awarding scholarships to Junior Golfers.  The spirit of these tournaments, and those that enter their teams to compete in these tournaments, is about Junior Golfers recruiting their Family and Friends to be on their team and for Family and Friends of a Junior Golfer to encourage and recruit them to be on their team and register for a tournament.  Tournament registrations are tentatively scheduled to open in January 2027.  To pre register for the GWSJR TOUR 2027, please email gwsjrtour@gmail.com and include name, email, cell phone, address, and a message about your team.  

The GWSJR TOUR, just like the Gary Wayne Schoen Jr. Annual Memorial Golf Tournament and Scholarship Fund, is one big Family.  In order for this tournament series to be successful, especially with 2027 being our inaugural year and launch of the tournament series, we need your support!  Join us on our mission and together we will make an impact on the lives of Junior Golfers across the Great State of Texas!

Current Draft Tournament Format

• 4-person scramble teams consisting of 3 Adults and 1 Junior Golfer in 5th-12th grade with 1 Junior Golfer on each team as a requirement
• Teams can consist of 2 Adults and 2 Junior Golfers if Junior Golfers are siblings or related, e.g., Parents and their kids
• Tournaments are 1 day tournaments on Saturday or Sunday, in June and July, 30 team max on 18 hole and 9 hole courses, one 18 hole round
• Shotgun start at 9am unless otherwise noted, registration/scorers table opens at 8am

• To make a tournament there is a minimum of 20 teams needed, grouped in flights of 10 teams, playing for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place within that flight
• Flights will be post flighted after the scorecards are all turned in and verified with phone app scorecards, tiebreakers will be scorecard playoff
• Scorecard playoff will be front to back countback method, lowest back 9 score wins, then 18th hole score, 17th, and so on until the tie is broken
• If a tournament reaches the max of 30 teams, further registrations will be put on a waiting list

• Tournament scoring takes place on a paper scorecard as well as a cell phone app and website - updating the leaderboard in real time with paper backup
• All golfers tee off from the forwardmost set of tee boxes, the red(pink) tees, on all 18 holes for the tournament with no gimmie putts, putt it out
• Bogey is your friend rule, as soon as Par is missed, teams pick up and move to the next hole scoring a bogey for that hole
• Team Captain is responsible for team registration, trading and scoring their paired team scorecard, selecting best ball, and hitting order

• Entry fees of $300-$500 per team, depending on hosting clubs greens fees negotiated
• 1st place team in each flight of 10 teams, Junior receives a $700-$900 scholarship (if 2 Juniors, they split the scholarship award)
• 2nd place team in each flight of 10 teams, Junior receives a $600-$800 scholarship (if 2 Juniors, they split the scholarship award)
• 3rd place team in each flight of 10 teams, Junior receives a $500-$700 scholarship (if 2 Juniors, they split the scholarship award)

• High School Seniors scholarship awards will be sent directly to their College Financial Aid office of enrollment in their name
• 5th-11th scholarship awards will be held in an escrow account in the students name and sent directly to their college of enrollment once they graduate HS
• At the conclusion of the 2027 GWSJR TOUR Series, we will announce the winner of the Gary Wayne Schoen Jr. Award, a single $(TBD) scholarship award

Current Draft Schedule of GWSJR TOUR Tournament dates are: 

• Saturday, June 5, 2027 in Hamilton TX at Perry Country Club | PCC Facebook | (*pending board approval) Register here --> (Opens January 2027)
• Saturday, June 12, 2027 in Comanche TX at PAR Country Club | PAR CC Facebook | Register here --> (Opens January 2027)
• Saturday, June 19 or Sunday, June 20, 2027
• Saturday, June 26 or Sunday, June 27, 2027
• SKIP Weekend for July 4th holiday weekend 
• Saturday, July 10 or Sunday, July 11, 2027
• Saturday, July 17 or Sunday, July 18, 2027
• SKIP Weekend for 35th Annual Gary Wayne Schoen Jr. Memorial Golf Tournament
• Saturday, July 31 or Sunday, August 1, 2027

Golf Course/High School Locations we are targeting for the 2027 GWSJR TOUR Series inaugural year include, but are not limited to the following locations:

• Hamilton, TX - Crawford, TX - Glen Rose, TX - Stephenville, TX - Comanche, TX - Cisco, TX - Eastland, TX - Abilene, TX - Brownwood, TX - Gatesville, TX - San Saba, TX - Lampasas, TX - Llano, TX - Mason, TX - Sonora, TX - San Angelo, TX - Sweetwater, TX - Snyder, TX - Andrews, TX

Tournament Logistics & Supplemental Costs

• Our goal with tournaments on the GWSJR TOUR Series is to facilitate golf tournaments that are as frictionless as possible, as well as maximizing scholarship awards by cutting down on supplemental costs that can be incurred. 
• Rental golf carts at hosting golf courses is the number one friction point when hosting tournaments.  Some courses will have plenty of rental carts and others will not have enough for demand.  To avoid this issue, we would encourage trailering in your own golf cart(s) for use during the tournaments.  We do not plan at this point to bring in additional rental golf carts to supplement the hosting clubs rental fleet
• Another area would be food and beverage and whether to bring in catering(lunch) for participating golfers and spectators to supplement the hosting clubs food and beverage counter.  We do not plan at this point to bring in additional food and beverage to supplement the hosting clubs F&B counter
• To speed up play within the tournaments, we do not plan to offer contests like closest to the pin on Par 3's or longest drive competitions on Par 5's.

GWSJR TOUR Sponsorships are available and includes digital media footprint of logo across all websites/apps:

• Hole sponsors are available at $100
• GWSJR TOUR Tournament Series Hole Sponsor at $500, sponsors all tournaments in 2027 tournament series
• Food Sponsor at $500, helps supplement lunch expenses for 1 tournament location 
• Greens Fees Sponsor at $500, helps supplement greens fees expenses for 1 tournament location 
• Sponsor the Gary Wayne Schoen Jr. Award, a single $(TBD) scholarship award, awarded at the conclusion of the 2027 GWSJR TOUR Series

Promise Yourself

To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.  To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.  To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.

To think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best.  To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.  To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.  To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words but great deeds.  To live in faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you.