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November 2005 Volume 23, Issue 11 MEETING NIGHT -
NOVEMBER 8th - 7:00pm Elections Director-at-Large Treasurer
VP & Tournament Chairman SIGN UP @ Meeting for December 18 - Christmas Shotgun Tournament Nov 6 - SCGA Drive Trip Oct 15 - Dreaded Orange Ball Results President's Corner Meeting
Minutes Tournament Chairman The Dreaded Orange Ball is history. Each year we look down at the darn thing and hope we don’t screw up when it is our responsibility to play the hole with it. Many many funny stories, hope everyone had a good time this year. We are coming up on our last away trip of the year, the SCGA course in Temecula. The weekender to Temecula Creek was a great success, if you were not able to attend I hope you will be able to make it next year. The course is undergoing the last part of the scheduled maintenance for the year. The greens have recovered and Eddie is currently over seeding the fairways, should be in great shape for our November individual Nassau. If you are not signed up, see Rich Dennison, he may have a few openings. The elections for next years Board of Directors will be held at the November Meeting. We have multiple people running for two different spots, Director and Treasurer, make sure you are there to cast your vote. It will also be a sign up for the Christmas Tournament this year. Remember that we will be playing two threesome’s in each group, and you can name the group. If you want to play be at the meeting to reserve your spot, space is limited. Hope to see all of you at the meeting. Tom Link
The monthly meeting was held October 11, 2005 under the El Dorado Park Golf Course restaurant auxiliary tent. The restaurant provided a food selection of a beef roast, grilled chicken breast, rice and salad 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, Greg O’Brien, and Bob Livingstone. Life members present were Bob Livingstone and Fred Gibson. The Minutes and Treasurer’s report as printed in the newsletter were accepted. No new members were at the meeting tonight. Announcements: Bob Livingstone took the podium to advise the membership that the elections for the 2006 Board of Directors will take place at the November meeting. Bob noted the proposed slate and asked for nominations from the floor for those positions. President – Rich Dennison, no nominations from the floor, Vice President – Dennis Tramer and Jerry Leininger, Paul Wilde nominated but declined, Secretary – Mike Vaughn, no nominations, Treasurer – Al Ostberg and Bret Holloway, no nominations, Directors At Large – Rick Evans, Terry Fulford, Doug Jones, and Tom McCutcheon. Jon Monat was nominated and accepted. Elections are to be held the first thing at the November meeting so results can be made know before the meeting comes to an end. Bob further discussed upcoming tournaments in Long Beach. Eddie Grattini from American Golf was at the meeting tonight. Quick updates noted were the green aerifiction has just been completed. They are expected to be fully recovered in 5 – 6 days. The fairways will be punched but should not be a hindrance to the play. Questions followed, including the about the condition of the bunkers. Eddie noted that a lot of sand is scheduled to be here is December. Pres. Link noted the passing of Donna Yeager. Donna was very pleased with our action of making her a member of our Club as approved during the September meeting. Donna was a very good person and will definitely be missed. Team Play: Roger Scaife – Thursday captain made quick comment on his team while John Davis – Saturday captain noted the first round is scheduled for Oct. 22 at 8:00 am. Committee Reports: Golf Commission – Ray McElhenney: Ray noted the tourney sponsored by Cal Olsen that was so well received last year only has three (3) 4-somes signed up so far. Ray gave Jay Carballo a list of things that need to be done at El Dorado. Members can expect a $1 surcharge to each cart rider to help fund the GPS system that will be installed on the carts. The Hall Of Fame committee will be meeting at 2:30 pm at Skylinks on October 26. The CIP fund is a major item of discussion. Discussion followed on the $1 surcharge and if they will be assessed if they don’t use it. Ray noted the USGA has allowed for GPS assistance in tournament play in the 2006 Rules of Golf. Jerry Leininger – Handicap: Jerry had nothing to discuss. No one had any questions. Nick Zamora – Entertainment: Tom Link noted the Weekender went well and that Nick did a great job. Nick thanked everyone who participated and helped out with making it happen. We had 33 teams at the Weekender this year, which is great! He paid out to about 60% of the field. Results are posted in the hallway and on the website. The hospitality room was a bit too small. He is working on going there again next year if we can get the same good package deal we got this year. November 6 is the next away trip to SCGA Member course in Rancho California. Mel Collins - Rules: No report, no questions. Communications – Mike Marmer: No report, no questions. Rick Evans – Director: Tonight was the last Putting Tourney of the year. We had a 3-way tie for $16 each between Paul Djukich, Terry Henson, and Larry Grant. GOM winners for October were Gross; Ed Fernandez, 68, and Net; Todd Thiele 72 – 10 = 62. Both of these rounds were shot on the first day of the Club Championship. Dennis Tramer – Director: Dennis had 23 players in today’s 9-Hole tourney. 3rd place and $25 went to Tom Baker, 2nd place and $40 to Terry Fulford, with 1st place and $50 to Dennis Smith (40 – 12 ½). Dennis you are to report to Jerry Leininger’s Handicap office immediately. Rich Dennison – Tournaments: This Saturday we play the Orange Ball. Blind draw will be for the player in the same card position as a vacant player. All “Blind Draw” replacement players will be filling the Orange Ball holes the needing group has to fill. This is a version of the “Conlisk Rule”. The November tournament will not be a Stableford as a lot of players have voiced their opposition to that format. It will be a Nassau format. The December tournament will not be a blind draw tourney this year, but teams will assemble themselves as a 3-some. Players can sign up two (2) 3-somes for the 6-some time. Cost to ride will be $58, not the $67 noted in the Newsletter. We need at least 192 players signed up for the Christmas tourney as we have to pay for 220. The more people who play this tournament the better it will be. If we can get this many players we will have more money to give away to the players in the Christmas tournament. The Club Championship went real well. Rich called the winners up to receive their trophies as follows: “C” Flight – Tim Yee, “B” Flight – Todd Thiele, “A” Flight – Terry Henson, Sr. Flight – Don Picovich, and the this year’s Champion is Ian McCutcheon. Ian was not at the meeting. It was noted that Ina had to make a 12 foot snake of a putt on 18 to force a playoff which he did, and then went on to win a playoff Vs Mel Collins. Old Business: None New Business: Pres. Link called for a showing of hands for those that would and those that would not use the GPS system when it becomes available. The majority showed that it will be used. Pres. Link called the first 10 names for the November tournament sign up. Raffle tickets continued to be sold. Prizes included all the usual goodies, balls, hats, range cards, etc… Dennis Tramer drew the tickets from the drum, and Doug Jones called the numbers and handed out the prizes. Meeting adjourned. 50-50 Drawing tonight was for $30. The repeat winner was Frank Followell. That was a quick $15 for Frank and $15 for Jr. Golf. The membership drawing tonight was for $100. The number of Ed Gavaldon was drawn. Ed was not at the meeting. Next month the prize will increase to $110.
Mike
Vaughn The stories of the Orange Ball were being told all afternoon in the El Dorado Bar. It’s amassing how the color of a ball can change how you normally play a hole. Why do you hit the Orange Ball out of bounds on a hole when you have not done it in years? It just seems to happen when you are playing the Dreaded Orange Ball. The Gross winners this month are Mark Hanson, Brent Huntington, Chris Price, Bill Hasselman and John Hasselman. In the A-Flight, we had a team of regular players who we do not see in the winners circle very often, Brian Boeve, Bill Copeland, Brad Wilcox Tony Glorioso and Jerry Warner. Congratulations on a fine win. In the B-Flight, we had another team that likes the Orange ball two of the five won last year, Terry Sweet, Marty Suart, Wayne Setinek, Gary McIssac and Sebastian Sturdevant got the win this year. In the C-Flight, the group of Tom Conlisk, Don Russell, John Selby, Paul Wildy and Lector Orrick won with the lowest score of the day 192. Nice to see these people in the winners circle again. The November 12th Tournament will be an Individual Nassau Tournament. This is a new format for us. I am going to have a Gross payout and five net flights; we will pay out on a front nine score, a back nine score and total score. I have openings so give me a call and I will do my best to get you in. (562-822-2659) The December Christmas Tournament is just around the corner, so be sure to come to the November 8th meeting to vote and sign up as a 3-man team or a 6-some.It will be a lottery draw, I have room for 64, three man teams and I will take single sign ups to fill or make up teams. The cost for the Tournament will be $48 to walk or 61 to ride. (Last month I gave out incorrect pricing sorry) Remember you had to have played in at least three tournaments (home or away) to play in the tournament. The shotgun start will began at 7:30am, do not miss out this is a Fun one. Talk about Fun ones the weekender this year was the best deal in the club if you have not been on one make it a must on your calendar for next year... Rich
Dennison October 2005 Treasurer's Report
Al
Ostberg No report this month. Nick Zamora Just about done with 2005!!. Yesterday we had the grand opening of the new Hall Of Fame building at Skylinks Golf Course. The ceremony was very nice, and the actual Hall Of Fame room is looking good. If you get a chance go by and check it out. Plus as I have asked previously, any memorabilia you may have please let me know. The more we can put into this room, the more attractive it will become. Down to some business. Nothing real earth shattering this month. The usual suspects!! The rounds of golf for the month were down, by 4.71% for our course. Year to date our course is down by 16.4%. Overall for October the rounds were down 17.16%, and the yearly totals down by 6.23%. The revenue is not in bad shape however. For the month the gross income was 1.4 million, with 344 Thousand going to the city. The surcharge account stands at $126 grand. Again that is from Skylinks only, and going towards the C.I.P. funds. The Junior Golf account stands at 98 Thousand. Our course is now under going over seeding of the fairways. This means that cart path only golf will be in order for at least 3 weeks, beginning 11/1/05. Another item was brought to our attention, sand is on it's way for all of the bunkers at our course!! The GPS System is slated to get under way, installation, 11/1/05. By the end of November all the carts should be up and running. The cost is $1.00 per rider. Just a note regarding next years Golf Festival. It appears that the City is looking into really promoting this event, even going as far as possibly forming a tournament committee. This will consist of several Commissioners, outside folks and some sponsors!!! Like I have stated, they really want this to grow, especially the Woman's Championship. That event has slipped badly in the past several years. Well next month I will not be at the Commissioners meeting due to some business meetings I must attend. We do not meet in December, so you get lucky because this will be my last article for 2005. Like you really care!!?? Anyway questions are always welcome. I will see you at our next general meeting. Ray McElhenney Each year the SCGA increases the amount of information available to the handicap chairman on the Internet. This month I received a notice that most all of the reports I use to get in the mail are now available “paperless” over the Internet. Next year, all course computers will be “server” based and updates will be made daily. This will make posting accurate information more important than ever. If you have any changes to make, please call me as soon as possible. A part of the Handicap review process required by SCGA is the audit of 20% of the clubs scorecards. At present, we review the monthly tournament cards and away trip cards. That meets the SCGA requirement at this time. There is a good possibility that next year the SCGA will request audits of different clubs to make sure they are in compliance with their policy. El Dorado is in compliance but we may need to audit additional scorecards. Now is a good time to make sure we are in the habit of filling out our scorecards correctly. Information that should be included is your name, date of round played, SCGA number, gross score, your course handicap, Net score and any adjustments per the Equitable Stroke Control. Your scorecard must also be attested and signed to be official. The pre printed scorecards we have used for the last few years make this much easier for you to use but you should see some of the cards turned in during the monthly tournaments. If you need to track your personal bets, putts, fairways hit, or other information, I strongly suggest you use a scorecard from the pro shop. One additional item the board is looking into is Internet posting. We are just in the fact finding stage at this time but one thing I did find out is that if we audit a score posted by a member on the internet, the player has the responsibility to provide the scorecard as back up. If there is no scorecard, the round will be not accepted. I do not know at this time if any penalty would be issued, but that is a question I have on my list. More information on Internet posting will be discussed and presented to the membership for your consideration. I will keep you informed. Jerry Leininger No report this month. Bob Livingstone
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