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October 2004 Volume 22, Issue 10 MEETING NIGHT - OCTOBER 12th - 7:00pm MEETING NIGHT - Putting Contest & 9 Hole Tournament Dreaded Orange Ball - Oct 16 Nov 13 Stableford Tournament Signup Singing Hills Weekender - Oct 8-10 Nov 7 SCGA Members Club Away Trip Signup 2005 Elections-Nominations in October, Election in November
President's Corner Meeting
Minutes Tournament Chairman Congratulations to our new Club Champion John Dymon, the competition was very close with many players having a shot on the last day. John shot a very consistent total of 221, 5 over par. A very close second was Mike Hasselman with a 222 Total. How many of us can think of one shot we would like to have back in a three day event. Nice job Mike, better luck next year! We had a tie for the Senior Club Championship with Mel Collins winning a playoff over Steve Friend. Congrats to all that entered this year, I hope to see more participation next year. October brings us back to the Dreaded Orange Ball Tournament! Lots of fun, make sure that you get your team together and enter. See Rich Dennison for the particulars. Skylinks GC is due to open for play October 29th, which should relieve some of the play at El Dorado. We have not been informed as to what the green fees will be; hope to have that information at the October meeting. October is the month that our Nominating Committee takes nominations from the floor. These names will be added to the current slate of candidates. If you are interested in running for an office, please get someone to put your name in nomination at the General Meeting. If you are interested in serving on the Board please see me or talk to someone on the Board about how you can get involved. We need active members to keep our Club strong, we encourage you to get involved. See you at the meeting Tom Link
The monthly meeting was held September 14, 2004 under the El Dorado Park Golf Course restaurant auxiliary tent. The restaurant provided a nice Italian spread that included lasagna, and another pasta in a cream sauce tonight for your $6 donation. 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: Richard Scoville, Steve Shure, Don Marmion, Ray McElhenney, Mike Montgomery, and Greg O’Brien. Tom Burris, Bob Livingstone, Fred Gibson represented our life membership. The minutes from the last meeting and Treasurer’s report as printed in the newsletter were accepted. There were no new members at tonight’s meeting. Greg O’Brien, for absent Bob Livingstone, announced the 2005 slate for our Board of Directors, President – Tom Link, Vice President – Rich Dennison, Secretary – Mike Vaughn, Treasurer – Al Ostberg, and Directors at Large – Mike Marmer, Dennis Tramer, and Rick Evans. If you want to run for an office see Tom or any ‘Board member and they can answer any questions you might have. John Davis, Saturday Team Play captain, noted that approx. 40 members have signed up so far. Our competition this year is El Toro, Costa Mesa (Mesa Linda), and Los Verdes. Qualifying starts Saturday October 2 at 7:30. J.D will contact players as well as posted times on the website. J.D reminded players to be sure to get their due renewals made on time. Roger Scaife gave a short update on the Thursday team. Tom McCutcheon made know that the USGA is having a Senior Amateur at Bel Air October 9 –15. He is in receipt of a letter USGA has sent asking for volunteers. Bob Forster has been selected as an alternate. Volunteers will mostly be helping around the clubhouse. $25 gets you a shirt and hat. See Tom if you are interested. Committee Reports: Ray McElhenney – Gold Commission: The big-ticket item now is the fees that will be charged at the Long Beach courses. The Commission came back with the rates they have proposed. Nothing is defined and set in stone. Ray expects the increase to only be a couple of bucks (5.3%). The city will be posting what has been decided in the next few days. Ray expects Skylinks to be higher than here or at Rec Park. Steve Shure noted the conditions here are worse than they’ve been for years. The last few times it has been brought up that they aren’t keeping the course up to standard they’ve replied “It’ll get better”. Steve went on to suggest they rebate us a price as they were going to keep our course at a better condition. Steve also questioned if they are holding up to our agreement of care. Ray has and will continue to fight for this effort. The course is still set to open October 1. Rick Evans – Special Events: Rick noted the September raffle is going to be huge. This Saturday we have the tourney, Bar-B-Q, and raffle. Mike Montgomery sold over $1,000 in tickets tonight. Tickets are $5 each, 5 for $20, or 7 for $25. You do not have to be present to win. Rick reminded everyone to inform the tournament table of birdies and eagles at the end of their’ round. Nick Zamora – Entertainment: Noted that he missed the August meeting and thanked Dennis Tramer for covering for him. The weekender is October 8 – 10 at Singing Hills. Let him know if you are playing all 3-days. $75 entry for the SCGA Member’s course in November. Nick is taking signups for this tournament. Plans for next year have been made, and will advise on them at a later date. Mel Collins – Rules: Mel discussed the ruling to be made on a ball in a depression on the fairway from a player swinging at the ball and it becoming embedded in the ground a matter of two-feet in front of its’ originally lie. The item that determines if this is free relief is whether the ball got airborne. A lot of thoughts followed this. Tom McCutcheon is going to look this up and advise. Mike Marmer – Director: G.O.M. and Putting Contest – Tonight was a good putting tournament. Mike raised the stakes to $2 per round. We had a 5-way tie for second place (Terry Henson, Dennis Tramer, Steve Giroux, Larry Grant, and Greg Englant) for $20 each. The winner was Mike Marmer. Better turnout for G.O.M. this month. Net winner was Brad Wilcox (76-11=65), and Gross went to Mel Collins shooting a 69. Lastly, “Sweeps” money is in the “money box” so be sure to collect anything you’ve won. Dennis Tramer – Director: Dennis noted that Flights are moving right along. The competition is good. Dennis is looking to get 80 players into this tourney next year (another flight). Your second round must be completed NLT Sunday October 3. Call Dennis if you are having any problems in scheduling your match. Tonight’s 9-Hole tourney was played from the white tees today. Bob Breen and Tom Baker tied to take 2nd and 3rd, while Terry Fulford took top honors with a net 32. Rich Dennison – Tournaments: Starting times this Saturday from split-tees will be from 6:25 to 8:51. Rich wants all groups to play their’ front 9 in 2:15. Be sure to stay with the group in front of you. Do not lose pace. You are to move on whenever you can by stealing minutes when it becomes available. Bottom line is we must play in less than 5 hours. The first person checking in at the tournament table will get packages of tickets; raffle ticket for each player, and tickets for a sandwich and a drink. We will be having the raffle in the restaurant. If you can’t be at the raffle and win a prize we will call you once. October 15 is the Orange ball tournament. Saturday’s format is 2 on par 3, 3 on par 4, and 4 on par 5, with three net flights and one gross. Pres. Link discussed the flyers that are on each table requesting we pay $1,200 of the $3,600 expenditure for sprinkler head markings. American Golf asked us to pay half ($1,800). Bill Johnson asked how they came up with us paying half. Pres. Link replied that Rec Park split the cost for the markings over there. Steve Liebeck made motion that we don’t pay until they get the course into better condition. Dick Reagan seconded the motion. Pres. Link noted that this is not the course we are taking. Reagan then asked what the count of the BOD vote was and Tom replied it was based on a majority, but didn’t give a ratio. The majority of the Club at the meeting voted to pay the $1,200 (one-third total cost). Steve Shure commented that many years ago they marked the course but when markings came loose and fell of that they were never replaced, and that if this is the intention we do not want to spend our money on it. Pres. Link will inform them that we need a condition of care and upkeep. Pat Nohalty asked for a copy of the letter to be sent to the membership. Tom replied that he would post it on our website. 10 names were called for October signup. Old Business: None New Business: None Meeting adjourned. Raffle tickets continued to be sold. Rick Evans drew the tickets and called the numbers, while Dennis Tramer distributed the prizes. A lot of prizes were given away that included golf balls, towels, range cards, gloves, and hats. 50-50 was $65 tonight. The winner was Greg Englant. That was a quick $32.50 for Tom and $32.50 for Jr. Golf. The membership drawing tonight was for $120. The number of Larry Grant was drawn. Larry had been at the meeting earlier but had already left. The prize will increase to $130 next month.
Mike
Vaughn The September BBQ and Raffle turned out to be a success with Rick Evans giving out $1,400 in Prizes and over $1,600 in cash. Thanks to all the Directors for their help and time, thanks to Mike Montgomery for his hard work at selling Raffle Tickets. The winners of the Gross Flight this month are the same as last month, the other gross players of this club better get out and practice because Mel Collins, Greg Lester, Doug Jones, Kevin Orr and Bob Forester are running away with all the wins. In the A Flight we have a new group of winners, Darrell Blore, Bob McCrea, Bill McCrea and Mike Supple it’s nice to see new names in the newsletter. The B Flight was won by Dennis Tramer Greg O’Brien, Jeff O’Brien, Bill Henigsman and Blind Draw. I’m sure Tramer will be looking for Mr. Draw to play in his group in the future. The C Flight was won by Stan Farris, Bill Jackson, Gene Scott, Paul Djukich and Ken Louie. This group is getting to be regulars in the winners circle, This Month they only won by 1 stroke, so were getting closer maybe next month we can knock them off. The Dreaded Orange Ball Tournament on October 16th has only a few single openings left, call and get and get on the list. We just got a new batch of hard orange balls so there will be plenty to go around. In November we have our Individual Stableford Tournament so be sure to come to the October 12th meeting to sign up as a group or an Individual. December 18th is our Shotgun Christmas Tournament it will cost $51 to walk and $63 to have a cart, there is only 180 spots available so hurry and get your sign up slip in. Remember you have had to have played in at least 3 tournaments (at home or away) to play in it, so if you have only played in 1 or 2 tournaments, Oct. & Nov. are important.
Rich
Dennison September 2004 Treasurer's Report
Al
Ostberg No report this month. Nick Zamora Well gentlemen we have pushed another month behind us. Just completed our monthly Commissioners meeting. Nothing real special going on but I will give you a few updates. Regarding the rounds of golf played in September for all the courses, we were down by 1%. Year to date play is up 2%. For El Dorado during September the rounds were up .64%. Year to date we are up 4.92%. C.I.P. funds are at 431 thousand. The Junior Golf funds total 74 thousand. The revenue generated for the City in September was over 294 thousand!!!. A little information on the water coolers. It came to the attention of American Golf and the City that these coolers had to be basically washed every single day due to health regulations. So the restaurant has taken the responsibility of getting the coolers cleaned each evening and putting them back the following morning. Let see how that will work. If you notice that they are still missing, bring it to my attention so I can follow up. This year I will be on 4 different sub committees, C.I.P., Jr Golf, tournaments, and Hall of Fame. As you are aware Mez White is on a leave of absence, he is supposed to return October 1st. In the mean time Brett Skinner is filling in for Mez. Skylinks opening day was set back until the 29th of October. The main reasons were the construction of the club house basically has the parking areas blocked, and Edison was unable to get power to the course!!!. On the 29th the Pro Shop will be open, but the Club House will not be open. Finally a word or ten regarding the fees proposals. The proposal from American Golf, the proposal from the Commission and the one from the City will be discussed this Friday the 24th of September. Hopefully the City Manager can and will give us his decision that day??? As soon as I hear something I will let you know. Well that will do it for this go around. Ray McElhenney No report this month. Jerry Leininger As a reminder, elections for the 2005 Board of Directors will take place at the November General Meeting. In October, nominations will be accepted by anyone at the General Meeting. At the September Meeting, the names of those members who have expressed interest in running for an office will be presented by Greg O’Brien, as I will be returning from a trip to Oregon that day. If you are interested in running for a position on the Board (elective offices are President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and two Directors at Large) please contact Bob Livingstone as soon as possible. Bob Livingstone
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