Hills Course Golf Committee

Meeting Minutes

 

Thursday April 2, 2009 @ 6:00pm at Stonebridge Clubhouse

 

Attendees:

Bruce Cox (Chair), Robey Canaday, Suzy Finn, Matt Mitchell, Jerry Obenour, Trudy Stewart, Lin Tanner, Steve Torrance, Sharon Yunt, Stan Chavez

 

Bruce called the meeting to order at 6:00 PM.

Trudy Stewart volunteered to take minutes.

The March 2009 minutes were approved as submitted.

 

Update on Members

Sharon Yunt will be replacing Chris Lamb on the committee.

 

Update on Course Maintenance (Robey Canaday)

Aerification of the greens has been completed in spite of the bad weather. 

Aerification of the rough will start April 13 or later.

Aerification of the fairways is scheduled to begin May 18 or later.

Tree trimming will begin tomorrow morning.

Stonebridge Ranch is in the process of qualifying for Audubon Certification which involves being a sanctuary for wildlife, completing a wildlife census, habitat, education outreach, and water and chemical management. Robey is open for help. 

 

Update on Golf Operations (Matt Mitchell)

Even though membership is down, lots are joining Stonebridge Ranch.  Membership is ahead of plans for added members..

Overall rounds are up because of guest rounds using Reward Certificates.  Rounds for members for 2/25 to 3/24 are down 4% to budget and 3% to same time last

The MGA Houston Open Tournament participation this coming Saturday is down with only 50 players rather than the usual 100+ player participants.

 

Upcoming Calendar Events

April 18th Parrot Head Scramble

May 2nd and 3rd MGA Spring Classic

May 13th-15th RLGA Member/Guest

May 18th Fairway Aerification

 

Pull Cart Update (Bruce Cox)

The Stonebridge Board of Governors is now discussing the pull cart issue.  Over 400 responses have been received to the survey sent to membership.  It was mentioned that not all members have received the survey.  The results will be presented at next Thursdays  board meeting.           

 

New Scorecard (Matt)

The proof of the new card is being done now and the new card should be ready by the end of May.  The proof will be sent to the committee.

The Pin Location Sheet is also going to be changed.

 

Update on Schools “Paying Back”  (Matt)

After the District Tournaments on 4/13 and 4/14, plans will be made for the schools using the course to be paying back for their use by assisting perhaps with filling divots, repairing ball marks and picking up trash.

One team has been suspended for two weeks with two players suspended for a month.

 

PRIDE Action Plan (Bruce)

The major focus of our committee is the PRIDE Action Plan.  Last year divot tools were distributed.  Suggestions should be made of other ways to implement the PRIDE plan at our next meeting.  Stan Chavez suggested that the starters remind players to put sand in divots, repair ball marks on the green, etc.

 

New Business

Steve Torrance is leaving Stonebridge for Gleneagles.  Thanks to Steve for his work on the Golf Committee.

The question of the size and speed of Friday’s Noon Game was brought up.  Matt said that the size is limited and that the people who had their game interrupted played a fast round.

The next committee meeting will be on May 7th at 6:00 pm.

Bruce asked the ladies representing the RLGA and the Nine Hole Ladies stay after the meeting.

 

 

Meeting was  adjourned at 7:10pm.