Bennett Valley Golf Club

Meeting 08/06/05

 

 

Present: John Christenson, Gary Davis, Jim Gordon, Bob Andrews, George Elbert, Ralph Thomas, Mike Duggan, Vic Shellenberg, Steve Pasadis & Wayne Thompson

 

Absent: Stu Diamond & Steve Orlick

 

Call to Order: 7:07 AM by Steve

 

Minutes: Were read and approved.

 

Treasurer’s Report: The Club has $3,398.53 in the CD and $25,964.76 in the checking account for a total of $29,363.29. We expect to pay down this amount substantially in the next few months.

 

Publicity: None to speak of-tee times posted for the next tournament are all at 7:00 AM.

 

NCGA: No report available.

 

Membership: We are at around 750, which is typical for this time of year.

 

Tournaments: There will be 32 foursomes playing in the Shotgun Tournament. The format will be the same as last year-a 4 Man Scramble. It will be handicapped with foursomes adding their handicaps up, dividing by 4 and taking half (or taking the total and dividing by 8 or dividing by 16 and multiplying by 2…).

We have contracted for 150 lunches, which will consist of tri tip, chicken, beans, 2 types of salad, roll and cookie. We decided to buy enough sodas so that the members can get a drink in line without having to chase one down inside. We will make out the scorecards and staple 4 tickets per card-one part for the lunch and one for the raffle. It was decided to offer 20, $50 dollar gift certificates at the end of the lunch with the winners needing to be present. The cost of the lunch, aside from the raffle, will be $1,920-$1,800 to Jeff Bodwin and $120 for the sodas.

Ralph and Gary will do the pairings for the Club Championship. It was noted that the format may be tweaked in future years.

Once again we have been late for entry into an NCGA tournament-this one being the Senior 2 Man Better Ball. While Gary felt that he had mailed the forms into the PO Box in San Francisco in plenty of time, by the time snail mail took them to Monterrey, where they were opened, it was too late. No latitude was given by the NCGA. After discussion, it was decided to in the future, register all entries with a return reply requested so that the NCGA can’t weasel out again. Gary also noted that it is sometimes difficult to track down qualifiers’ birth dates and phone numbers. We will include this request for information in the next year’s mailer.

 

Old Business: It was moved and passed that we hold an on line election in November, but since nobody knew who was running, we couldn’t appoint a nominating committee. That issue was tabled until next month’s meeting

New Business: None.

Meeting adjourned at 7:55

Respectfully Submitted,

John Christenson, Secretary