Bennett Valley Golf Club

Meeting 01/15/05

 

 

Present: Steve Pasadis, Steve Orlick, John Christenson, Ralph Thomas, Gary Davis, Wayne Thompson, Mike Duggan &Bob Andrews

 

Absent: George Elbert, Vic Shellenberg, Stu Diamond & Jim Gordon

 

Call to Order: 7:19 AM by Steve P.

 

Minutes: Were read and approved.

 

Treasurer’s Report: The Club has a new number in the CD: $3,398.53. Combined with the $33,214.79 in the checking account, we have a total of $36,613.32.

 

Publicity: Steve P. has been monitoring the website and he reports that there have been numerous hits, lately. This is likely due to the members wanting to know their 2005 tournament tee times. It’s good to know that the members are relying more on the site for information. Steve will be posting the rules for the various tournaments, along with the scorecard formats soon.

Steve O. mentioned that he is still having trouble accessing the site with the Mac that he’s using. Steve P. will investigate.

 

NCGA: The Big News from the NCGA is that they will stop distributing written reports and stickers, starting in April of this year. All reporting will be done electronically. This led, after discussion, to Steve O., who will be without the onerous duty of sticker maintenance and with tutoring by Ralph, printing out the members’ monthly handicaps prior to tournaments.

 

Membership: We have around 600, which is still normal for this time of year.

 

Tournaments: The next tournament will be the Skins Game. There was some confusion over the dates of both the tournament and the Board meeting, but there shouldn’t be any more from February onward. Gary passed the sheet around for Directors to sign up for tournaments.

Ralph brought up the possibility of the Pro Shop monitoring the first few hours of the tournaments so that we could have a feel for the slow foursomes at the beginning of the field. This led to further refining of our year’s policy for slow play. After the obligatory discussion, it was decided to issue one warning and, should the subject group’s play remain out of position per the posted standards, that group would be assigned the last tee time in the following tournament. They would then return to their preferred tee time for the next tournament, but, should their slow play continue, they will inherit the last tee time for the remainder of the season. Bad attitudes will not be tolerated and can lead to disqualification, depending on the presiding Director’s judgment.

 

Old Business: Bob announced that the Board had given a 2 days’ stay in a Hyatt Regency suite to John Flachman and his wife.

 

New Business: None

 

Meeting adjourned at 8:15

Respectfully Submitted,

John Christenson, Secretary