President's Message - February 2012

 

Hello Ladies. Please read on as this is an important topic.

A few things have been brought to my attention in recent days. First and foremost it is necessary to point out that there have been a lot of cancellations and no shows on Tuesday Sweep's day. This has been for the last two weeks and more, so the fact that it rained last Tuesday has nothing to do with it. This is not acceptable for our club's success when we negotiate with Ron and Roger. I do not know if it is our members, or if it is those ladies outside of our club that insist on taking our times. It is an unfortunate situation. Therefore, I am suggesting that the following points be read, understood and hopefully respected as the policies of our club.

1. As members of CWGC, please only sign up yourself and a maximum of three other MEMBERS for a tee time on Tuesdays.
2. Be sure when you do sign up others, that you check to be sure they have not already signed you up, or have already been signed up by someone else.

Another issue that is rearing it's ugly head again is slow play. The marshals are only doing their job when they monitor the pace of play. They are instructed to be sure that the pace of play for the mornings, any morning, is 4:30 minutes. It is our job to stay up with the group in front of us. If you are on the tee on a par three, and the group in front of you is not on the green, you are behind. If the group in front of you has wings on their feet, then be sure you stay on track for a 4:30 round. Ways to remedy this if you are playing slowly and can't help it: let the group behind you play through on a par three; don't take longer than 2-3 minutes to find a lost ball; hit a provisional ball off the tee when you feel you may be out of bounds or may be lost.

Ramifications: If we do not do our part, we could lose our tee times again. It is very hard to say that we need more tee times, if we go out on Tuesdays as threesomes or twosomes. I hope you all understand where I am coming from here. The board has discussed this long and hard and have tried to find remedies. We need your help and cooperation.

Betsy Andersen will be helping us by monitoring the tee sheets after play to find out if it is our members or non-members that are causing this problem. Please cooperate with her in every way. She is trying to help us help you.

Thank you for your time and understanding.
Susie Vetter