Glen Day can't wait for Nov. 16, 2015, to get here.
That's when the PGA Tour veteran from Little Rock turns 50, making him eligible to join the Champions Tour where he will get to play again against the likes of former Masters champions Fred Couples, Bernhard Langer and Vijay Singh as he did from the mid-1990s until recently.
ASGA Hall of Fame members
• Members of the Arkansas State Golf Association Hall of Fame:
2014 Glen Day, Barry Howard, Wes McNulty
2013 Ginger Brown-Lemm, John A. Cooper family, Ken Duke, Bev Hargraves, Orville Henry
2012 Petey King, Mack Moore, Dan Snider, Tim Zimmerebner
2011 Randy Beaver, Tom Raney
2010 Carolyn Creekmore, Horace Lacey, Mike Mitchell, Sam Spikes
2009 Bobby Baker, Rosey Bartlett, Jay Fox, Bob McGee
2008 Jeff Hamm, Carl Jackson, Al Rayford, Ralph Williams
2007 Joe Bushee, Pete Fleming, Sean Fister, E.B. Gee Jr., Chester Lowe Jr.
2006 Al Alexander, Jack Jordan, Louis Lee, Bill Martin, Tanna Lee Richard
2005 Cliff Calderwood, Harold Calderwood, Tommy Hanson, Jim Lindsey, Grover Poole, Don White
2004 Joe Brown, Paul Collum, Patricia Weis, Bob Ralston, Steve Ralston
2003 Richard Crawford, Charles Lewis III, L.E. “Gene” Keeney, Clyde “Sug” Wilson, Pat Summerall
2002 Jane Whitmore Chronister, John Daly, Walter Eugene Davis, George McKeown, Richard “Bubba” Smart, R.H. Sikes
2001 Martha Jett McAlister, Dick Murphy, Wyn Norwood, Frank Steidle, Tommy Stobaugh
2000 Robert Deman, Jack Fleck, Ed Harris, Ed Dell Wortz
1999 Byron Nelson, Ross Collins, Stan Lee, Lucy Byrd Mock
1998 Davis Love Jr., Mary Perrin, Jack Stephens, Willis Watkins
1997 Miller Barber, Fred Gordy Jr., Bill Henry, Charles Lewis Jr., Paul Lewis
1996 Ellis Bogan, Tommy Bolt, Alice Fryer, Lou Miller, Ron Richard, Charles “Monk” Wade
1995 S.W. Creekmore, Ted Darragh, E.J. “Dutch” Harrison, Jack Robinson, Hogan Rountree
1994 Walter “Junie” Dowell, Herman Hackbarth, Don Murphy, Paul Runyan, Hattie Turnage
ASGA honors
The following were recognized Thursday night at the Arkansas State Golf Association Awards and Hall of Fame Banquet:
HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
Glen Day, Barry Howard, Wes McNulty
PLAYERS OF THE YEAR
MEN Wes McNulty
WOMEN Julie Oxendine, Libby Croom
MID-SENIOR MEN Tracy Harris
SENIOR MEN Bobby Baker
SENIOR WOMEN Carrie Hall
SUPER SENIOR Oscar Taylor
JUNIOR BOYS Ryan Spurlock
JUNIOR GIRLS Elizabeth Moon
ARKANSAS PGA CHAPTER
PLAYER OF YEAR Bruce Baxley
PRO OF YEAR Dan Snider
In the meantime, Day, who lives in Little Rock, is working on his game for this season's PGA and Web.com tours.
Day joined Wes McNulty and Barry Howard as the newest inductees into the Arkansas State Golf Association's Hall of Fame on Thursday night at Chenal Valley Country Club in Little Rock. He said he can't help but keep the Champions Tour in the back of his mind.
"I will be 49 in a couple of weeks, and so I have a year to get there and I am really looking forward to that. This upcoming year I plan on doing about what I did this year. I am going to play in about 15 to 16 tournaments and just try to stay healthy and stay competitive.
"That way when I get to 50 I will be excited to play."
Day's only PGA Tour victory came in 1999 when he won the MCI Heritage in Hilton Head, S.C., in a playoff over Payne Stewart and Jeff Sluman. He proved he could still compete with the younger guys on the Tour while playing a limited schedule in 2014, making the cut at the John Deere Classic in July where he finished tied for 27th. He also made the cut in all nine Web.com events this year and had three top-25 finishes on the way to winning $43,234.
In 2016, Day will join players such as Jesper Parnevik, Lee Janzen, Davis Love III, Colin Montgomerie and Steve Stricker who have just joined the Champions Tour or will about the time he does. He said he doesn't expect joining the Champions Tour will translate to instant success.
"Within the next four to five years there are a lot of guys turning 50 that have stayed competitive, so I think it goes in cycles," Day said. "There have been different times where the group that turned 50 may have been in other businesses years before then they come back out and play. I think it is going to be extremely competitive."
Day joined his father in-law, Bob Ralston, and his teacher, Dan Snider, as members of the ASGA Hall of Fame on Thursday night. He said there is no equal to being recognized with the state's premier golfers.
"Besides my father in-law and my teacher, there are many other just extraordinary gentlemen in this hall of fame," Day said. "To be named in the same group as these people is a definite honor."
McNulty, of White Hall, double-dipped Thursday night. Not only was he inducted into the hall of fame, he was recognized for winning his fifth ASGA Player of the Year title, which was difficult considering he didn't add to any of his 10 state major titles in 2014.
"I wasn't expecting to win player of the year this year," McNulty said. "It was a great year. I wish I had played a little better in the majors. I played well in other tournaments and OK at stroke play, but wished I had played great in match play this summer."
Howard has been the head professional at Hot Springs Country Club since 1992 and its general manager and director of golf since 2002. In 2008, he became a certified club manager, one of only five PGA professionals to obtain the status at that time. Howard has won numerous PGA awards -- including professional of the year and merchandiser of the year -- and is a past PGA Chapter president.
"This is indescribable with people and my family, my seventh-grade basketball coach, people that meant so much to me in the business here to show support" Howard said. "I've received notes from so many, like a 92-year-old man that knew my grandfather. Kids I taught 20 years ago sent me notes. It's all pretty special."
Sports on 10/24/2014