83-year-old Eddie Nunez says his secret to a long life is to have a positive outlook. As the tournament director for Central Texas Golf Association, Eddie’s outlook is also always focused ahead. With a whopping 32 golf tournaments to plan each year, he’s always looking far into the future to ensure the events he’s responsible for are mapped out well in advance.

An Austin resident since 1982, Eddie grew up in Arizona and spent over 30 years working in a variety of roles for Motorola. His expertise was in talent management, helping set up offices across Mexico and Asia. It was Motorola’s golf league that sparked the flame that’s made him so well-known in Central Texas. True to form, Eddie has had a hand in just about every piece of the Austin area’s golf scene since the 1990s. He loves the ethics of the game—equal to his distaste for extra mulligans or bending the honor code of the course—“If you cheat in golf, you’re just cheating yourself,” he says.

Eddie passed down his love of golf to his son, also an active member of the league. His golf journey brought him many lifelong friends, including his Alpha Tau Omega brothers.

Perhaps Eddie’s biggest impact on our community is in all the people he’s helped, through his professional career and his volunteer efforts over so many decades. After his first twenty years of volunteerism, he was honored with a dedicated bench on the sixth tee at the Roy Kizer Golf Course in Southeast Austin, inscribed with his name. Of course, Eddie’s first twenty years of impacting Austinites through the game of golf was just the beginning! Looking back on all those he’s helped over the years, Eddie says, “My entire life I’ve been helping people improve … and there’s nothing more pleasing than to help someone and afterward have them come tell you ‘thank you.’”