The Concussion

Golf Channel is doing a story on the Australian that Gorecki hit in St. Andrews!!

Re-live the story here.

Family Tree

Pointless content to rattle some cages. Below is a somewhat accurate view of who is responsible for everyone in the league. The free web creator wouldn't allow for incestuous relationships, so I know I'll be told the "Growler/Frat/Fidoucheiary" section in the middle is all jumbled.

Whatever. Happy Thanksgiving week. Pour one out for Reid, JW, Gorecki and Katie... all of whom have 100% "dead children" in this chart.

Winter 2019 Board Meeting

It might not be "Blog Season," but we have some things to report.

The Board of Directors met last night to go over any proposed changes to the Club for 2020. Since we're such a well-oiled machine, there's really not much to tweak. Nevertheless, below are my notes of the meeting, which are covered in wing sauce:

By-Law items need 5 of 5 approval. Non-By-Law items need 4 of 5 for approval.

• Dave asked us to consider changing the number of events needed to qualify for the World Golf Rankings (and thus the Rapture) from 10 to 8 in a rolling 18-tournament span. This was denied by the Board, 4 to 1. Only John voted "yes." No change next year. You'll still need 10 rounds in an 18-tournament span to make the list.

•  JW wanted to revisit the rule requiring you to play in at least ONE event in the first 3 weeks in order to compete the rest of the season for money and points. The Board approved 4 to 1 to expand this to ONE event in the first 4 WEEKS. Only John voted "no."

• Gorecki wanted us to consider making the Skins game a $30 entry, where $10 was awarded based on stroke-play results. This was shot down unanimously. John instructed me to put on the record that he emphatically said: "That's stupid!"

• Gorecki also suggested if his first proposal didn't pass, that we divide the $20 Skins entry into $10 for the Skins and $10 for the stroke-play. This was also shot down unanimously. The feeling is there isn't an issue for one of our nine tournaments to be different in the way it pays out. And that Points, which are still awarded based on stroke-play, are much more valuable than money.
  

• John proposed changes to the Eagle payments. Currently, it's $2 from everyone in that specific group. It's a number we arbitrarily decided on back in 2012, and never really gave it much thought since it took forever for someone to even record an eagle. Now the league has 10 of them. John wanted the payout to be $1 from everyone in the field that day. This proposal narrowly failed 3-2, with JW and Chandler voting "no" and blocking the move. Their reasons for "no" dealt with: 1) difficulty in collecting an additional dollar from everyone after the round 2) accounting annoyance if attempting to collect from membership balances 3) comparison to sandies, where you should have to see the eagle to pay out on it, thus making it group-specific.

•  JW proposed changing the name of "The Memorial" to "The Concussion." This led to a debate where ALL but the Skins and Match-Play events were considered for the name change. Ultimately, JW's original proposal passed unanimously. More tournament name changes might happen down the road, as is the case on all professional golf tours.

• Chandler asked if we needed to change By-Law Article III.8, requiring members to play in 6 events of a rolling 2 seasons to maintain membership. The Board unanimously voted to keep that in place without change.

• The Board unanimously approved a new By-Law dealing with the dissolution of the Club. In the event this ever happens, all unused dues would be returned to each individual, and all Hole-in-One money must be used on booze at a Dissolution Party hosted by the Board.

• The Board unanimously approved to keep calculating handicaps as we've been doing in 2020, despite the USGA switching over to the World Handicap System. Our goal is to become compliant and on the new system ASAP, but so far that would require us to become an FSGA regulated Club, who will then charge us $30+ per person per year to use the USGA's GHIN system. It'll be difficult to tell how different the new system is from the old, since the calculation is now going to be a USGA secret. The Board will have an emergency handicap meeting in late December to discuss the few changes we are able to implement. This does mean that until we are compliant, we can no longer provide Handicap Cards for use in other tournaments.

• Finally, the Board unanimously approved a new name for the Club, and a new logo. I need to get with our graphic design guy before we can move forward. Spoiler alert: we didn't go with "Putt Stuff."

Southern Hills Golf

Gary is going to make some tee times for Sunday. 10ish... but whenever they'll let us out.

Comment if you want some off-season practice.

Next season starts in 47 days. The Member Registration link is open. And you can start paying your Spring 2020 dues at any time. Seven of us owe nothing due to the ClubCredit system.

Get on it, or Christmas will be cancelled.

8 spots on Sunday - 10am
NO SPOTS OPEN

Club Update

Big news. You all suck at golf.

BGR Event

 Let’s put a stop to the rumors, yes it’s happening!

Date: Sunday, December 8th
Time: Late Morning
Course: TBD

Please reply in or out so we can get a headcount and finalize more of the details.