Bill Oas — Francis A. Gross Men's Club

Bill Oas Profile

Current WHS Handicap = 14.6

Member of Gross Men’s Club since the mid 1990’s

Member of the Board of Directors for more than 20 years.

Currently the Club Treasurer

I was born in 1941 in Minneapolis and grew up in Hopkins, MN. I started playing golf at Meadowbrook and Lakeview with my parents and brothers as a teenager. I enjoyed playing golf, but it soon took a backseat to playing and coaching hockey, owning and driving late model stock cars, and to owning a local auto race track. My wife Lois and I are retired, live in New Brighton, and have two children and four grandchildren.

I returned to golf in the 1980’s and started playing at the Francis A. Gross course. I took a job at a company just off the 12th fairway on County Road C. The company I joined is an importer and allowed me to travel to many foreign countries, and play golf in many Asian countries including Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Macau, and mainland China.

I joined the Gross Men’s Club in 1996, and soon joined the Board of Directors.

I helped Bill Turner, our then Gross Men’s Club President, by assisting him with Gross Metro Seniors team, and I took over being captain of our Metro Seniors team in about 2006. I continued to be captain of our team through 2019. John Wicks will be the new captain in 2020 of the Gross Men’s Club team, and I will assist him. In addition to my duties with the Gross Metro Seniors team, I create and maintain the season league schedule for the 15 teams in The Metro Seniors Golf League.

I volunteered to become the Club Treasurer in 2011 taking over from Bob Schuette who retired that year, and continue to hold that position. As regards other Club duties, I have maintained our annual registration and membership files, assisted with golfing event registrations, and other Club activities. As a result of my long-term supporting the Gross Men’s Club and the Twin Cities Metro Seniors League, I was the recipient of the Minnesota Public Golf Associations annual Ron Self Memorial Award in 2016.

I have had 3 holes in one to date in my golfing career. The first one was at the Bridges Golf Course in Moundsview in a Sunday evening couples golf league with a pitching wedge on a 90-yard hole. The second was in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico on a 165 Yard hole with a 4 iron. The third was the most memorable when I had a hole in one on the 17th hole at Gross with a 21-degree rescue club during the final round of 2017 Gross Club Championship.

I have really enjoyed being a member of Gross Golf Men’s Club for the past 25 years, and look forward to a great 2020 season.

The famous Ace on #17 in the GMC Championship 2017