If the title of this article doesn’t mean anything to you, that probably means you are still afraid of monsters. For the rest of us, we all know that monsters are blue, furry, and love cookies!
Cookie Monster and I have something in common. We both love the letter “C”, but for different reasons. Don’t get me wrong, I love a chocolate chip cookie as much as anyone—particularly dunked in a glass of cold milk.
For me, “C” stands for Caddie and that is good enough for me! I frequently tell people that the “C” in CGA stands for “Caddie” as much as it does Colorado. The CGA’s prioritization of youth caddies dates back to the early 1960s when we launched the Eisenhower Caddie Scholarship. That scholarship, named after the former president, was later merged with the Evans Scholarship and was known locally as the Eisenhower-Evans Scholarship for over 50 years.
As I reflect more deeply on the letter “C” there are many other words that begin with “C” that support the CGA’s mission to make golf and all it offers available to everyone. A few examples:
C stands for “CommonGround” – Ground zero of the CGA mission is CommonGround Golf Course—the home of the CGA and home of CGA programming that turns that mission into action.
C stands for “Collaboration” – The CGA believes in working with subject matter experts such as the Denver Botanic Gardens (floristic inventories and pollinator habitat encouragement at CommonGround); Junior Achievement (financial literacy for our Solich Caddie & Leadership Academy); and the Denver Field Ornithologists (birding outings at CommonGround). These are three notable examples of CGA collaboration in action.
C stands for “Community” – The CGA is a community of over 100,000 avid golfers who find meaning in the game. That larger CGA community is composed of varying sizes of sub-communities of people who coalesce around courses, golf simulators, driving ranges, par 3s, practice putting greens, etc. to share their love of the game.
C stands for “Competition” – The CGA was founded in 1915 to officially conduct Colorado’s state amateur championships. One hundred and eleven years later, we are still doing it—and doing it better than ever. But CGA competition is not limited to the elite players. Anyone who carries an official CGA-WHS handicap (and that is you) can track their progress against their peers and compete with themselves every time they post a score on the GHIN App.
Thank you for your membership in the CGA, which fuels our ability to deliver these “Cs” to more and more golfers every year.
Now, go enjoy a glass of milk with your favorite cookie!