Meeting Minutes March 7th, 2007
Meeting called to order at 6:05 PM
Board Present: Bruce Greene, Jaan Palm-Leis, Vance Verderame, Torr Lewis, Don Prestosz, Eric Ladd, John Elerding and Michael Montgelas.
Bruce mentioned the following items
- Tee times for tournaments on the Old Course will begin at 6:30 am in April. He also mentioned new course rates will be implemented sometime in April or May
- All Board members have been doing a terrific job with their various assignments by dedicating a substantial amount of time to their specific
responsibilities. Their combined efforts are helping to forge many positive changes
- The Handicap Chairman (Andy Anagnostou is carefully monitoring members to make sure our Score Posting Policy is being followed. Andy posted 6 Penalty scores to one member’s account on 3/6/07 as a result of the member failing to post scores
- Bruce is forming a Handicap Committee to review data we have collected, which indicates our membership is experiencing unusually frequent T score results below net par, and to exercise action under USGA rule 8.4 & 10.3 if necessary. The primary objective of this committee will be to create and to exercise whatever action necessary to help support our efforts to maintain and to protect a level playing field
Rules issues were then addressed
- Torr Lewis talked about rules with regard to #16 hole and the chain link fence for out of bounds on right side of hole. White out of bounds fence posts are considered out of bounds. Therefore ball next to fence is out of bounds. Also talked about the Red and White post markers on the 18th hole. Interpretation of posts will be in March Linksletter later in month
Jaan update
Handed out budget report for Men’s Club
New rates for Men’s Quarterly events going up due to higher meal prices
Don mentioned
April 4th - Poppy Hills. Members play away event. Need to know by 3/17
John revealed
First seniors event is oversubscribed. Senior Members can get on waiting list. Hopefully this sold out event is a sign of increased participation this year. The Seniors have a great schedule and a new organizational structureto support the added interest
The meeting then transitioned to an open forum
Open Forum Issue I HMB Team Match Play format
- How to qualify members for teams as est 100 members may want to play
- Want to field teams that will win but also have fun
- Torr had come up with a special system for qualifying but it was deemed too complicated to implement
- Board decided to use a filtering system in conjunction with score results from March & April events to define qualification parameters
- Members will be notified in advance on how to qualify for Match Play
- Jaan and Eric will captain Sat Match Play team; Dan Bohnert and Jeff Atkinson will captain Thurs Match Play team
- For those who qualify and to be considered, priority will be given to those who can commit to most of the Match Play events as opposed to 1 or 2 dates
- Distribution of future Linksletters to members will be via email beginning in March. Club will send LL to each member with email, put LL on our website, and send hard copies to those members without email address.
Motion to adjourn at 7:20 pm