Meeting Minutes

EWMGA BOARD MEETING

AUGUST 2, 2011

The Eagle Watch Men’s Golf Association (EWMGA) Board meeting was started at 6:05 pm in the Eagle Watch Club House.  All Board members were present except Erik Rosengren,  Mark Dickson, Mike Smithson and Bruce Worthington.  Phil Suiter of the Canongate/Eagle Watch staff was also in attendance.

No current membership or Treasurer’s Report was available.

Bridgemill/Eagle Watch Ryder Cup:

Bob Smith presented a summary of the plans for the first annual Ryder Cup Challenge to be held between the Bridgemill and Eagle Watch MGA Board members.  This year the event will be held at Eagle Watch on September 17-18 with a pairing party at Bridgemill on September 16.  The formats and estimated costs were reviewed with Bob Smith serving as our Captain and Gary Janos as his assistant.  A motion was made, seconded and passed unanimously that the EWMGA Board will contribute a beer keg to this tournament.

Big Kahuna Skins Tournament:

This tournament will be held this Saturday (August 6^th) and Gary Janos reported that there are 42 sign-ups for this event as of now.  Efforts are continuing to increase this number.  Gary is the tournament chairman   Tournament participation fee is $50 per individual with $10 allocated to food and $40 to the skins payouts.  It was agreed that the EWMGA would provide one beer keg to this tournament.

EWMGA Member/Guest Tournament:

This event will be held on September 24-25 with Gary serving as tournament chairman and Erik Rosengren and Bruce Worthington assisting.  A draft budget was reviewed (based on a 32 team participation) which is estimated to require a $2,221 subsidy from the EWMGA.  The proposed format (based on last year’s format) was also reviewed and generally agreed upon.  It was recommended that the “shootout” should be based on a three-hole format and official scorers should be assigned to each team in the “shootout”.

It was also agreed that that the 10-stroke maximum handicap spread between the two team members rule would apply after adjustments for different tee playing positions.  It was also agreed that the established rule requiring members to have previously participated in at least two EWMGA events this year in order to play in this tournament would apply.  It was agreed that participation in the Thursday Night League would be recognized as event participation.  We also reserve the ability to make eligibility exception decisions on a case-by-case basis.

EWMGA-Sponsored Superintendent’s Revenge Tournament:

It was decided that this tournament, currently scheduled to be held on Sunday (September 11) would be rescheduled due to the number of events already occurring that month.  Gary Janos and Phil Suiter will coordinate a new date for this event.

Due to the upcoming activities, it was decided that another Board meeting would be held on Tuesday (August 30) starting at 6:00 pm.  The regular September Board meeting will be held on Tuesday (September 13) starting at 6:00 pm.

Respectively submitted:  Erik Rosengren - Treasurer