April

I believe that the March 18^th Waltz had to have been colder than last years Christmas tournament, that’s my excuse for my team not in the cash zone again, overall I believe the day went very well, with some very low scores.

The course is in great shape compared to a year ago, I know this because after last years Waltz all I heard was how bad the course was. Remember in the pro Shop there are complaint forms to fill out, but they are also used to let them know that they our doing a better job. Little things like the waterspout at the first tee to wet your towel, and the scorecard box at #2 tee, the new tee markers on all the tees are all little things that make our course better.

The April 29^th away trip is at the SCGA Members Course, call or see Nick at the April 10^th General meeting for a spot.

The Member-Member Tournament is on the 19^th & 20^th of May this year, this is a tournament that you fill out an entry form, the earlier you get it in the better your chances are you can have a special request on a tee time. The Friday night Cocktail party and Putting contest on the 18^th has turned into quit a popular event, do not miss it. The Quad club Tournament is on April 28^th at Recreation Park, this year the green fee price is $30, look for the sign up sheet in the hallway, on the El Dorado Men’s Club Bulletin Board.

If you have, any questions or concerns about the club feel free to contact any of the Board Members at any time.

The monthly meeting was held March 13, 2007 in the El Dorado Park Golf Course restaurant bar area. The restaurant provided an offering of beef burgundy, mashed potatoes, rolls, and the normal offering of salad, and coffee or ice tea for your nominal donation of $7. There was a complimentary keg of beer for the membership to share thanks to Glenn Cantin and Bill Hunt, each acing a par 3 in the February tournament. President Rich Dennison called the meeting to order at 7:03 p.m. and led the membership in allegiance to our flag.

Past Presidents in attendance: Don Marmion, Ray McElhenney, Mike Montgomery, and Bob Livingstone.

The Minutes and Treasurer’s report as printed in the newsletter were accepted.

Pres. Dennison noted that over 300 gophers have been killed. The Board has decided to donate $1 for each of the gophers to the maintenance crew. Also, we are getting new tee markers. The blue tees will be marked El Dorado Park Men’s Club.

Ray McElhenney – Golf Commission: Ray noted the Long Beach Festival is on line at lbgolffestival.com. The City is working on a project to tie the drain line to the riverbed. A locking gate will be installed at the south side entrance to the course. The Park rangers have had to run the homeless out of the area at night (watching the TV). They are not able to arrest them as the site is not secured. Fencing around the golf course, cart barn, and other items are on the forefront. Several questions from the membership followed. Pres. Dennison noted Jason has done the best job with our course than any GM in a long time.

Bob Livingstone – SCGA Rep: Hole-In-One fund needs members to renew their insurance. Glenn Cantin and Bill Hunt scored Aces in the February tournament.

Several new members introduced themselves, stating their name, occupation, and presumed handicap. They all went with Bob Livingstone for the informative tour.

Bret Holloway – Special Events: Keep you receipt for the carts. There will be skins games this weekend. Down The Stretch net par or better on each hole for holes 15 – 16- 17- 18.

Mel Collins – Rules: Mel discussed an incident from the Saturday Team Play. If a claim is made against you do not accept the claim, but play the hole out. The decision will be made at the end of the round by others. Also, when you are replacing a ball, if the ball rolls it is OK, so long as it is not closer to the pin. Replace to position. If it rolls again the ball is in play do not pick it up.

Dennis Tramer – Director: Quad Club is April 28 at Recreation Park, $30 + cart + prize funds. GOY took place last Saturday. Two (2) Net 71; Mark Burkes and Don “Yellow Dog” Marmion. Don won on a card off. Gross winner was Clay McCutcheon who birdied the last three holes to shot a 71. Mel Collins was second with a 73. 9-hole tourney had 22 golfers. (3) Net 34’s; Terry Henson, Paul Wildy, and Cliff Aichele. Cliff won on the card off.

Terry Fulford – Director: Tonight we started the Putting Contest. Four (4) people tied with 3 Aces for $17 each; Jay O’Brien, Jim Byers, Terry Henson and Steve Shure. Net GOM for January was Mike Gilmore, 64. Net for February winner was Frank Kolb (81-18=63) while Gross went to Mike “Spanky” Hasselman for his 69. Saturday Team Play playoffs start this Saturday.

Nick Zamora – Entertainment: Nick has the prize monies available for Cross Creek and Jurupa Hills. Our next Away trip is to SCGA on Sunday 4/29. Hope to have as many as 72 players. Format will be a 1-2-3 Waltz. This year’s Weekender will be at Singing Hills. They have (2) courses with a casino nearby.

Jerry Leininger – Tournaments: This Sunday we will play a 1-2-3-4 Waltz for approximately the blue tees. We will try to move the boxes up and back without changing the pin locations. Post from the blue tees. Starting times are on the website. Your time may change by a position or two. Check it or call Jerry to be sure. April tourney will be a 1-Gross, 2-Net. May is the Member-Member with Saturday as a Better Ball and Sunday as Aggregate. Price for the M-M will be $95 / player, $18 / team. We plan to provide you with a coupon for a sandwich and 2 beverages for use on either day. Jerry will try to put you with the people you want to play with (money talks, bullshit walks). One other thing, we need to decide if we will hold a Member-Guest in July. The vote was to not hold a Member-Guest. We will have a regular tourney in July, format to be determined.

Old Business: We purchased a new Toshiba laptop for $600. It has all the bells and whistles. This was $400 less than we expected

New Business: Your Secretary advised that there was so much noise tonight that there were times he could not here what was being said. Contributing causes were the tent and the free beer.

Raffle tickets continued to be sold. During the raffle, the prizes included all the usual goodies.

The 50-50 drawing was for $20 tonight. Tony Jimenez won $10 while we donated $10 to Jr. Golf

The membership drawing tonight was for $70. The number of Tim Barnes was drawn. Tim was at the meeting earlier but was not present at the drawing. Next month the prize will increase to $80.

Our March Waltz was played in great weather and with Daylight Savings time, all 200 plus players finished their rounds. We had some very good scores so I guess some of you liked Mel Collins set up. Thanks Mel and we appreciate your work on the bunkers in the morning.

Look for the complete list of winners in the newsletter and thanks to all who participated.

A quick reminder before I review upcoming events. I appreciate those who fill in your teams after the meeting night sign ups, but please let me know what you have done as soon as possible. I fill in teams off the stand by list after the meeting and if I do not know what you have done, there is a great chance I will have overbooked teams, and incorrect scorecards. Send me an Email or call me as soon as possible with your changes. Thanks.

Our April tournament is the 1 gross – 2 net. Your lowest score must be used as the Gross – No exceptions – then your 2 lowest Net scores. A score can not be used as both Gross and Net at any time.

I will have 1 Gross and 4 Net flights and we will play from the Blue tee markers.

I am working off the stand by list at this time so contact me if you did not get on the list or want a time late in the afternoon. .

Our Member-Member is a” mail in” sign up tournament. Please fill out the sign up form in this newsletter and enclose your payment in a Men’s Club envelope. Entry forms may be mailed in or placed in the Men’s Club drawer in the Pro shop.

Starting times for Saturday will be based on when your PAID entry is received. This tournament always fills up quickly, so do not delay getting your team together and entry paid. I plan on having a field of 90 - 2 man teams.

The format on Saturday will be Partner’s Best Ball and Sunday brings the Aggregate format. Sunday’s format is always makes for great stories.

Handicaps will be the lower of your Assigned Index or SCGA Low Index. Sunday’s round will be posted as a Tournament round.

June brings back the 4 Club Tournament on the 23^rd. As stated, you may only used 4 clubs for the entire round. Yes, putters must be counted.

The 3 best balls per team will be counted on each hole. Our flights will be determined on the number of entries. We will play White tees and this round is not a score to post.

I will also have a limited number of starting times for Father’s Day, June 17^th, that I will take sign ups for at the May General Meeting. If you sign up for a time, you are responsible for the payment of the complete group. I will discuss this more at the next meeting if you have any questions.

Beginning Balance Checking Account			$ 14,925.78

DEPOSITS
Dues 2007	$ 1,850.00
Mar. Tournament	$ 3,835.00
Feb. Tournament	$ 8,575.00
Jurupa	$ 2,068.00
Cross Creek	$ 5,050.00
Checking Interest	$ 2.29

TOTAL CASH RECEIPTS	$ 21,380.29

SUBTOTAL			$ 36,306.07

DEBITS
Los Altos Trophy		$ 93.75
Hole-in-One		$ 276.00
06 GOY Subsidy		$ 288.00
07 SCGA Dues		$ 995.00
Jan Tournament		$ 2,245.00
ISP		$ 15.00
Feb Tournament		$ 8,497.75
Laptop Computer		$ 669.99
Photos & Nameplates		$ 120.52
Seaside Printing		$ 653.44

TOTAL CASH DISBURSEMENTS		$ 13,854.45
CHECKING ACCOUNT BALANCE			$ 22,451.62
		CD	$ 10,000.00

		TOTAL FUNDS	$ 32,451.62

Well another month has come to a close. We just wrapped up our monthly commissioners meeting. Nothing really exciting happening, so I will cover just the basics. The rounds of golf are down compared to last year. For all the courses, the month to date % is down by 4.05. El Dorado is down 2.09%. Year to date the courses are down 2.79%, with our course being down 0.40%. Generated revenue for March was a little over 1.1 million. 289 thousand going to the city. Our course generated over 330 thousand alone!!.

The Jr. Golf program continues to flourish. That account stands at 142 thousand. The membership has already grown to 374. They expect to exceed 500 members by year end. Speaking of the Jr. Golf program. coming back this August the 2nd annual Mayor's Trophy event will be held at Skylinks with all the proceeds going to Jr. Golf. The date is Monday August 13. It will be an eleven o'clock shotgun. The cost is $175.00 per person, or $700.00 per foursome. I played last year and it was outstanding; it would be super if our club get could several groups to play. I have brochures, and I believe there are some in the pro shop.

Our CIP committee met earlier this month. We had some high priority projects, and some medium priority projects, that we have recommended be put into motion. Again no set time frames. The projects at our course included drainage system, fence replacement around the perimeter, extending the cart barn, addressing the storage bins, and putting a wrought iron gate in the foyer. Tee areas will also be addressed!! The city has tested a new system for killing gophers. It is a gas type system that actually implodes their caves, along with basically "gassing" them to death. There are no side effects and it does not cause any damage to the course. The system was tested at our course, and the results were outstanding!! T

he defibrillators have been purchased and are at each course. The training for all AGC employees will begin very soon. I have not been informed of the dates, and if this training is going to be available to anyone else?? By the time you read this article, or not, the greens will have been aerified. That took place on Monday April 2nd. Lastly, if anyone has any type of golf memorabilia, please let "Livvy" or myself know. Enough for this time. See you at the course!!!