December

We are rapidly coming to the close of another year. If you have not put your entry in for the Christmas Shotgun do so quickly, it will fill up. I would like to thank everyone on the Board for the great job they have done this year. All of them have put in a lot of their time and effort to make sure that things continue to run smoothly. If you get a chance give them a pat on the back, it is deserved. We will have a few changes to the makeup of our Board next year. Don Russell is stepping down as News Editor, his input and sense of humor will be missed, thank you Don for your continued service to the Club. Bob Livingstone will be changing positions due to his busy schedule with Long Beach State; he will serve as our SCGA Delegate. Mike Montgomery will serve on the Board as our Past President ! (Are you sure you want to do this again?)

Mike Marmer is moving from Director to Communications Chairman. (We are renaming the former position of News Editor). Rick Evans is moving from Special Events Chairman to Director and his position will be filled by Doug Jones. This will be Doug’s first time on the Board (we have tried to warn him) and we are looking forward to having Doug’s input.

I wish all of you a very safe and prosperous Holiday Season and will look forward to serving as you President next year.

The monthly meeting was held November 9, 2004 under the El Dorado Park Golf Course restaurant auxiliary tent. The restaurant provided a chicken breast, beef, and gravy dinner tonight for your nominal donation of $6. President Tom Link called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. and led the membership in allegiance to our flag.

Past Presidents in attendance: Tom Conlisk, Richard Scoville, Steve Shure, Don Marmion, Ray McElhenney, Mike Montgomery, Greg O’Brien, and Bob Livingstone.

The Treasurer’s report as printed in the newsletter was accepted. The minutes from the October meeting were not published due to a problem in getting them emailed to Seaside Printing. They are available to review on our website, and will be published in the next Newsletter.

Immediate Past President, Bob Livingstone, orchestrated the election of our 2005 Board of Directors. Bob noted that the two Director at Large positions are the only positions being contested. Those running for these are Rick Evans, Mike Marmer, and Dennis Tramer. Ballots were handed out to the attending members. The membership accepted and approved that only these positions are listed on the ballots. After a few moments to make your selection(s) the ballots were collected and taken for counting.

Ray McElhenney – Golf Commission: Ray noted that more trimming of the trees is going to be happening. The existing trimmings to the right of hole #11 will be cleaned up and removed. At this time the City is going through their golf course policies and procedures. Call or email Ray if you have some ideas on things that could / should be changed. It is antiquated and does need to be updated. Steve Shure wants the City to know that the low number of people playing the back 9 at both here and Rec. Park on weekends is less than 10, not their normal 48. Is this due to the condition of the course?

Jerry Leininger – Handicap: Jerry wants to review what he placed in the Newsletter on what yardage to post after playing a round. You must take the overall yardage played into consideration. Best rule of thumb is that if you played the white markers post white. If you played the blue markers post blue. Lastly members can now perform peer review on the SCGA website. Check it out, it’s real easy.

Nick Zamora – Entertainment: Played SCGA last Sunday with no rain, what a break that was. It had a fun format of 2 scores on the par 3, 3 on the par 4, and all 4 on the par 5 holes. Nick noted that the team of Cairo Piercy, Rick Rolph, Mike McMahon, and Mike Drew took 1^st place net. Nick thanked the Tramer team for coming. Something about being 31 strokes behind Cairo’s Clan. Nick has a lot of new courses set for next year. The Weekender will be at Temecula Creek. It is planned to post links to the courses we are playing through our Club website for hosting additional information.

President Link noted that Mel Collins took 1^st place in the San Clemente City Championship. The Club gave Mel a nice round of applause.

Mel Collins – Rules: If your ball gets caught up in the shredded tree materials along holes #7 and #11 we have enacted local rule to allow free drop of the ball on the fairway side of the cart path. You must try to find the ball. If it cannot be found and everyone agrees it is in the rubble you may still take the free drop.

Mike Marmer – Director: No putting contest this month. 2 cards for Net G.O.M. Dennis Tramer turned in an 82 – 15 = 67 but it wasn’t good enough. Net winner was Terry Fulford who carded a fine 78 –13 = 65. The Gross contest had a few more entries. Tom McCutcheon shot a 72. Mike said something about shooting his age. Jim Fuchs shot a 69, but lost to Steve Friend who carded a 68 in the Orange Ball tourney. Nice round Steve.

Bob Livingstone reported back that the election ballots have been counted. Directors at Large of 2005 will be Rick Evans and Dennis Tramer. Motion to destroy the ballots was made and accepted. Joining Rick and Dennis on the elected board will be President – Tom Link, Vice President – Rich Dennison, Secretary – Mike Vaughn, and Treasurer – Al Ostberg.

Dennis Tramer – Director: El Dorado Cup is winding itself up. Only a few matches are yet to be played. Winners will get $100 in Scrip and a plaque. Runners up will receive $60 in Scrip. Dennis then read the finals pairings.

Rich Dennison – Tournaments: Modified Stableford this Saturday. Sheets will be on the tournament table to define the points to be earned for the scoring. A lot of interest is being shown for the Christmas tournament. This is always a fun event with a lot of money in it. Derbies will follow the regular tournament. We have the course for the whole day.

Old Business: Roger Scaife noted that if anyone can play on the Thursday Team Play team to contact him or Larry Lipman.

New Business: Roger and John Davis will be in contact with players who have made their teams on an individual basis.

Raffle tickets continued to be sold. Don Russell drew the tickets, Rick Evans called the numbers, and Mel Collins distributed the prizes. Prizes given away tonight, included golf balls, towels, range cards, gloves, and hats.

50-50 was $52 tonight. The winner was Tom Bentele. That was a quick $26 for Tom and $26 for Jr. Golf.

The membership drawing tonight was for $140. The number of John Bergendahl was drawn. John was not at the meeting. The prize will increase to $150 next month. Be sure to be at the meeting, as we will draw member’s numbers that night until we hit a number of a member who is there. That’ll be a nice Merry Christmas from the Club for someone.

Congratulations to all who cashed in the Stableford tournament. In the Gross Flight the winner was Mel Collins with a score of 33 points, Mel shot an outstanding score of 65 on that day. The A Flight was won by Brent Huntington with 32 points. The B Flight was won by Nick Fitzgerald with a score of 33 points. The C flight was won by Brian O’Malley with a score of 32 points. Nice playing gentlemen, I only can hope that my game will come back around someday so that I might cash again.

I owe an apology to all the Players in the Stabelford Tournament who where not told of a ruling on the morning of the tournament. The ruling was that you could bump your ball out of the little holes that were on the fairways caused by the over seeding, which in realty was lift clean and place. In the future if there has to be a last minute ruling before the tournament I will have a sign at the check-in table so that everyone can see it. I should not have left the information to word of mouth. I am sorry if I caused any grief to a player in the Tournament.

The end of the year is upon us and it has gone fast. The December Tournament is a Blind Draw 5-some. The first 180 Players to sign up are divided in 5 groups of 36, 1 out of each group is pulled and that makes up the 5-somes. The tournament will not be flighted or will there be a Gross. The Format will be 3 Best Balls. We have the Course all Day, so if your not in a Derby, you can play some more holes if you want, after the Tournament. YOU CAN NOT PLAY IN A DERBY IF YOU DO NOT PLAY IN THE TOURNAMENT... This is a fun Tournament, the last chance to sign up is the December meeting.

At the December 14^th meeting I will be taking sign ups for the January Scramble (for all you new members I’m at the end of the table). You must have your name in the Pitcher before the start of the meeting at 7pm to have a chance to be drawn for a starting time. Jan & Feb are short hour months and there are not a lot of times available. Remember the Dec meeting has the best Raffle of the year, so don’t miss it.


Beginning Balance			$33,719.97

DEPOSITS

Checking Interest	2.12
50/50	26.00
Skins Game	1,672.00
Nov. Tournament	3,659.00
Raffle	560.00
Dues '05	5,621.00
Xmas Tournament	3,793.00
SCGA Trip	3,654.00
Weekender	100.00
Hole-in-One	3.00

TOTAL CASH RECEIPTS	19,090.12

SUBTOTAL			$52,810.09

DEBITS
Seaside Printing		$ 703.21
Directors Meeting		$ 50.00
Weekender		$ 4,230.00
Raffle		$ 384.24
November Tournament		$ 6,520.00
Sprinkler Subsidy		$ 1,200.00
Los Altos Trophy		$ 120.68
ISP Oct Nov		$ 30.00
Postage/Misc		$ 74.00
Team Play		$ 450.00
SCGA Trip		$ 3,178.00
Skins Game		$ 1,672.00
05 Weekender Deposit		$ 500.00
TOTAL CASH DISBURSEMENTS		$19,112.13

ENDING BALANCE			$33,697.96

As you have probably read from President Link’s article or seen on the Schedule Card, I will not be on the Board of Directors next year, and I wanted to briefly inform you all of the reasoning behind my decision. I have been involved with the Board for over 20 years and I have enjoyed every minute of it, however, the travel schedule required by my job is such that I am forced to miss several tournaments and General Meetings every year. This is not fair to the other members of the Board who must cover my assignments. Our By-Laws designate a position on the Board be filled by “the most recent past President who is willing and able to serve” and Mike Montgomery has agreed to fill that spot in 2005. Mike has the time to give to the Club that I do not, and is very excited about helping out. Mike will be able to do more for the Club than I would, and therefore I believe he should be in that spot on the Board, and the other members of the Board agree.

I will not be completely uninvolved, however. I will always help where I can, and I have agreed to be the Club’s Delegate to the SCGA, which will make me a non-voting member of the Board, and will allow my knowledge of the history of the Club and the Board to still be heard at Board Meetings and in the decisions that the Board makes – although they have only listened to me like 3 or 4 times since Jimmy Carter left office, so I’m not sure how much impact that will actually have!

Anyway, I want to thank you all for your support and commitment to this Club. It is in good hands and I believe will continue to be an exemplary member of the SCGA.