2021 Newsletters

Happy New Year to All.

Well here I am back filling in for Dennis, as he has moved to the desert. It is always an honor to serve all of you guys once again. I will only be here a year. The Board of Directors has been working, trying to get some golf for the members, Steve Cook has an away trip this month, Team Play is trying to figure out a way to play. We also still have a Golfer of the Month each month. Hopefully, we well have tournaments back by March or April.

I was a Director last month and ran the Golfer Of The Month. We only had 3 cards turned in. Omar Diaz wins Gross Golfer of the Month over Steve Giroux. They both shot 71, but Omar had 35 on back 9, but Steve had a 36. But Steve wins Net with and net 66. Corey Smith turned in the other card with a net 70. Make sure you turn your good scores in for GOM.

Stay Safe and see at the course,
Terry

Happy New Year to all!

Haven't seen any of you at the last 9 General Meetings so calling hundreds of names until I got to mine has been very stressful for me, but at least I'm $450 ahead.

Just a quick reminder to remember to renew your membership when it comes due. SCGA should remind you 30 days prior to the due date with an email and for all those whose renewal date is between December 1, 2020 and November 30, 2021 (which is everyone in the Club) the annual dues include a one-time rebate of $30 so you should only be charged $80. If for some reason you renewed on time but were erroneously charged $110 please contact our esteemed Treasurer Bob Livingstone and he'll be glad to reimburse you.

Unfortunately if you forgot to renew in a timely manner you are considered a New Member and will be charged $130. And 50 bucks will still buy at least 4 rolls of toilet paper so pay attention.

Hope to see you all soon.

Gentlemen,

2021 is here and we’re anxiously hoping to have a Men’s Club tournament at El Dorado. As your Board of Directors, we have been meeting regularly in an effort to conduct as many events as possible. It’s difficult to anticipate when that will happen and under what restrictions we will be under, but we will be ready to go!

Please keep in mind you must be a current member to participate in our monthly tournaments when we resume. If you are up for renewal, now’s the time to renew at a reduced rate!

Fairways and greens!
Don Didier

Happy New Year and good riddance to 2020! We have had some very good results collecting winnings out of the Blue Box; down to 66 left to be collected, started with 112. To be clear, the 90-day count down (to collect scrip/winnings) has not begun and will not start until monthly meetings resume. Everyone stay safe out there and play Golf!

Brad

Happy New Years to all. Redhawk is a go and we are about 3/4 full. I have room for a couple foursomes and it looks like a couple singles or a 2-some. If you are going, please signup ASAP and send $$$$$.

Treasurer's Report - December 31, 2020

Balance on November 30, 2020		26,502.28
Income
Memberships	19,080.00
Interest	0.00
Total December Income	19,080.00
Expenses
Membership Dues - SCGA		8,208.00
Pros Shop Thank You		150.00
Stamps		11.00
Website Hosting Fee		295.75
T of CC Entry - N. Busch		150.00
Geek Squad Computer Protection		99.99
Club Champion Trophy		139.30
Flights Trophies		525.65
GOM Plaques		151.58
Total December Expenses		9,731.27
Balance on December 31, 2020		35,851.01

Respectfully submitted,
Bob Livingstone, Treasurer

Year End Notes:

We have $580 in pre paid 2021 expenses for Away Trip Deposits.

The Hole In One Insurance is currently $855 (of which $300 is in the scrip box for use on the day of a Hole In One).

We have approximately 28 previously purchased Club Logoed Shirts available for re-sale at cost.

Since September, we have received $23,010 in new members (less $9,396 in SCGA dues); that $13,614 will go to the 2021 budget.

We will be carrying forward $21,382.01 in funds that were unused in 2020 into 2021, in hopes of resuming normal subsidized activities.

As always, please feel free to contact me with any questions.

Hope this letter finds everybody healthy and safe.

We as a Board are doing everything possible to get our members some kind of tournament, but we are having no luck with our home tournaments with the City not allowing any gatherings. We had an away tournament to Redhawk with a good turnout of 48 players. We still have Golfer of the Month each month, so if you shot a good round make sure to turn your card in to the Pro Shop.

We are keeping are fingers crossed, hoping to have a tournament as soon as April but feel confident we well have one in May. We are working on a ways to pay online as we have no idea when we can have a general meeting.

Any questions fell free to e-mail me, hope to see you at the course.

Terry

Congratulations to Steve Cook for putting together our 1st Men’s Club tournament of 2021 at Redhawk in Temecula. Great turnout, beautiful day and a reminder of my love/hate relationship with that golf course!

I’m anxious to have a home tournament as soon as the city/county/state (pick your level of frustration) Health Department allows.

Until then, fairways and greens!

Don Didier

Ok, here we go, the 2021 season has begun with the first away tournament @ Redhawk. I think everything went well with no reported injuries or arrests! We had good weather & decent course conditions. For those who attended please send me any feedback, good or bad. Results will be out soon and this round will qualify for the first event of the coveted "Little Brown Jug" competition.

Next up we have Goose Creek on Sunday, March 28th followed by the Weekender @ San Vicente the weekend of April 9-10-11 (Masters Weekend). The "optional" Friday event will be at Mt. Woodson which is only about 20 minutes from San Vicente. Details & sign-ups will be on the Eldo Website soon.

Thank you to all that attended the Redhawk Trip. See Ya all soon.

Well, if you watched the Farmers Insurance Open, you got to see a little bruhaha involving Patrick Reed and an embedded ball! As part of the Rules of Golf changes in 2019, some things changed about embedded ball (as well as ball that is cut or cracked, which with today's ball has become very uncommon). In the past, if someone wanted to check a ball for any of those things, he or she had to offer their marker or a fellow competitor the ability to watch the process and inspect the ball.

Now, however, under Rule 16.4, a player can lift his or her ball to check those things so long as there is a reasonable belief that the ball could be embedded or cut or cracked. Since the ball Reed hit left on #10 was a high shot that he could not see bounce, and since the volunteer who had marked its position with an irrigation flag responded to a question from him that she had not seen the ball bounce (remember, neither Reed nor the volunteer was watching the CBS telecast) he had a reasonable belief that the ball could have been embedded.

Based on that reasonable possibility, he yelled to his two fellow competitors that he was going to check if it was embedded. He marked the position of the ball (which you must do anytime the ball could have to be replaced on a spot) and lifted it to check the lie. He believed a part of the ball was "below the level of the ground" but wasn't sure, so he called for an official to verify that he was entitled to relief. The official verified this, determined Reed's relief area - which for an embedded ball is a spot directly behind the embed mark and then one club length in any direction not nearer the hole - and dropped the ball. All good!

Read Rule 16.3 and take a look at Diagram 16.3a to understand when a ball is embedded.

See you at the course, Omar

Treasurer's Report - January 31, 2021

Balance on December 31, 2020		35,851.01
Income
Memberships	3,710.00
Redhawk Away Trip	4,765.00
Interest	1.15
Total January Income	8,476.15
Expenses
SCGA Dues		1,800.00
GOM Trophies		75.79
Refund Membership (less SCGA dues)		94.00
Total January Expenses		1,969.79
Balance on January 31, 2021		42,357.37

Respectfully submitted,
Bob Livingstone
Treasurer

Hi Guys,

Hope this letter finds everybody healthy and safe, getting your Covid shot when they become available.

We are hearing some promising news from the city, they are allowing youth sports to start playing. So we are preparing in anticipation of having a tournament in April on the 18th, so save the date and wait for further info from the tournament chairman.

We are having a couple away trips, one this month at Goose Creek and the Weekender at San Vicente on first part of April.

Looking forward to seeing everybody soon.

Terry

Congratulations to the January Golfers of the Month:

Gross - Omar Diaz - 71
Net - Greg Englant - 65

If you have a good round at El Dorado, and you played from at least the white tees and with another member of the Club, turn in a GOM card! You need to have your name, your GHIN Number, the date and the tees you played, your 6 month Low Index (which can be found on the Club Website) and whether you want to win Net, Gross or "either" listed on the scorecard.

The card must be signed by you and another member of the Club who played with you. Have the starter place the completed card in the Men's Club Drawer in the Golf Shop.

We hope that the County and City will lift the prohibition on group play in early March. In anticipation of that, we are planning to have the Golfer of the Year Tournament on Sunday, March 21. If you won a GOM last year you should have received an email from Bob Livingstone to sign up for this; the Club picks up the greens fees for this event. If you did not get that email, let him or me know.

Good Luck,
Ziggy

This marks the 12th consecutive month we will not have a men’s club home tournament. Pretty sad. Hoping on (but not counting on) a return to tournament golf soon. We are prepared to have a home tournament as soon as the county and city allow. Covid-19 restrictions aside, we’ve now hear concerns that tournaments would further burden already busy golf courses.

Frustrated, but still trying,
Don Didier

February we got our first away tournament in the books in over 12 months, a big thank you to Mr. Cook for a great job in getting us out there. I have all the winnings (RedHawk) that have not been passed out yet, I will be emailing those of you still waiting to collect. With any luck we can get a tournament in at El Do with in the next couple of months, fingers crossed.

Stay Safe

Brad

Now that we have one event under our belts it's time to focus on Goose Creek. This event is full with 40 players. Currently we have 3 on the waiting list. Goose Creek would not give us any more tee times, sorry! First I want to apologize for not providing clear instructions on signing up for away tournaments online. I will try to clear it up here.

1. ALL players need to sign up online (some are having trouble logging on). Please try a couple times & if it still doesn't work let me know.

2. Use the special request space to tell me who you're playing with or anything else I need to know.

3. San Vicente is filling up fast. You need to sign up by March 12th to guarantee a spot and a room. After that I need to release the un-booked rooms back to SV.

4. Mt. Woodson - Friday, April 9th. This is the "optional" event for the Weekender.

It is open to all members whether you are going to the Weekender @ San Vicente or not! Format is still to be determined based on participation.

5. The next 2 events "The Golf Club @ Rancho California" & "Soboba" are booked for 60 players.

If you have any questions feel free to give me a call.

Thanks, your not so entertaining "Entertainment Chairman".

Treasurer's Report - February 28, 2021

Balance January 31, 2021		42,357.37
Income
Member Dues	1,080.00
Interest	0.68
Total February Income	1,080.68
Expenses
Redhawk Greens Fees		3,080.00
Redhawk Prize Fund		960.00
Redhawk Skins		445.00
Redhawk Subsidy from Club*		200.00
Board Meeting		67.00
USGA Membership		150.00
SCGA Dues		396.00
Total February Expenses		5,298.00
Balance on February 28, 2021		38,140.05

Respectfully submitted,
Bob Livingstone
Treasurer

NOTES: The Club added $200 to the purse of the Redhawk Drive Trip

Hi Guys,

Hope everyone is getting or has gotten their Covid vaccine.

Looks like golf is coming back. We have had 2 away tournaments and are having our 1st home tournament this month. Steve Cook has been doing a great job with our away tournaments. Don Didier has our 1st home tournament already booked and the payments are due by the 3rd of this month. The Board has been working hard to try and get as much golf for our members as possible.

We are having our Weekender at San Vicente early this month. Steve has been really busy this month!

Looking forward to seeing everybody soon.

Terry

Once again there are no Meeting Minutes to report because we had no meeting. Maybe with warm weather and more daylight hours, and if restrictions continue to loosen if no surge occurs, we'll be able to get together one of these months.

Rest assured the the absence of a meeting didn't prevent the awarding of the "$50 if your name is called " part of the meeting that I know everyone looks forward to. And once again I ran through quite a few names before getting to mine. That's 12 months in a row now.

What are all you guys doing - isn't anyone playing some good golf? We only had one card turned in for Golfer of the Month (GOM) in March.

Congratulations to Taylor Cameron for his 70 gross...Taylor has been really playing well and his handicap is showing it!

As a reminder, if you play El Dorado from at least the white tees, putt 'em all out, and play with another member, you can turn in a Golfer of the Month (GOM) card in the drawer in the Golf Shop. Put your name, the date, your GHIN number, whether you would like to be considered for Gross, Net or either award and list your 6 Month Low Index (LI), which can be found on the Eldo Website under the Handicaps tab on the top blue menu bar. Each month's winner receives a plaque, a paid invite to the Golfer of the Year Tournament (usually played in March of the following year) and of course either tremendous adulation or pointed disdain from your fellow members!

Speaking of Golfer of the Year, we were able to invite all of the 2020 GOM winners to play a complimentary round on March 21st. Dave Rubin's 70 helped him coast to a win as Gross GOY and Brian Dauk had a brilliant back nine to win Net GOY with a net 70. Good playing, guys!

See you at the course,
Ziggy

Gentlemen,

April 18th is our return of El Dorado Men’s Club Monthly Tournaments! A big thanks to the vast majority of members who signed up thru the website and submitted your fees in a timely manner. Until we return to having General Membership Monthly Meetings, monthly tournament sign-ups will be done thru the website. By the way, hats off to our webmaster, Mark Miller! We couldn’t have done it without you!

Member-Member Tournament will be a two-day event, May 22 & 23. Find yourself a partner and enjoy two days of a fun golf! This event is normally preceded by a Friday night Pairings Party, but with restrictions still in place, that is highly unlikely.

Sign ups for the Member-Member Tournament will start in a couple of weeks. Email notification will be sent when sign-ups are open.

Fairways & greens!

Don Didier

Hey there everyone, it's so nice to report that our Special Events for our April Tournament will be: Honey Pot (net 69 or better) & North of Willow (holes 4,5,6 & 7). Its is going to seem a little different with only foursomes, but really looking forward to getting out there on our home course. Let's have some fun.

If you're still looking to collect past winnings, look me up.

I play at El Do most every Wednesday and Saturday, usually finishing my rounds at 12:30/1:00’ish and I can meet with you, in addition I work there Tuesday and Thursday filling divots from 9:00 to 12:00. So if anyone wants to make arrangements with me a day or so ahead of time I can bring your winnings and meet you at El Do.

If these days and times don’t meet your schedule I understand and want you to understand there is no time line in place that you have to pick these winning up by a certain date, once we get back in the swing of having meetings I will announce when the 90 window will start again.

I hope this helps and look forward to seeing you soon!

Brad

Sorry, not very entertaining, but short, sweet & to the point.

Goose Creek has come & gone. Results are posted. Kinda hot out there but I think most of us had a good time. The course was in great condition. I have sent an email to book this course again next year.

The Weekender @ San Vicente is here and we have 44 members playing. The club is buying lot's of booze so this should be entertaining!

Signups are open for Rancho California. We have room for 60 Players.

See ya all soon.

You may have seen the awkward situation between Dustin Johnson and Kevin Na at the Dell Match Play. The situation was that DJ had putted up to about 6 inches and thought he heard Kevin say the remaining kick-in was good, so he batted it away. The issue was that Kevin had not verbally conceded the putt!

Rather than fret over that while putting his own 2 and 1/2 footer, Kevin called DJ over and said he hadn't given him the little putt before he batted it away, but he was getting ready to give it to him, so it wasn't a huge deal. Is that kosher or should Kevin have claimed that DJ had missed a stroke that hadn't been conceded?

The key to answering this is that Dustin thought he had actually heard Kevin give him the putt...since that was Kevin's plan, the point was settled and they went on to finish the match. If Dustin felt he heard the concession and Kevin wasn't planning to give it to him, he would have to replace the ball without penalty and make the putt.

HOWEVER...if Dustin had not felt he heard Kevin concede the putt and just whacked it away, Kevin would have to require that DJ replace the ball with a 1-shot penalty for moving a ball in play and putt out. In the potential scenario of DJ not hearing or thinking he heard a concession, if Kevin just said no biggie and gave him the batted ball, both of them would have been disqualified for agreeing to the ignore the Rules.

The bottom line? In match play be very clear about both giving putts or being sure you heard your opponent make that concession. Good luck to Thursday Team Play the rest of this year, and watch those concessions!

Omar

Treasurer's Report - March 31, 2021

Balance February 28, 2021		38,140.05
Income
Hole In One Insurance	155.00
Away Goose Creek Entries	4,760.00
Interest	0.69
Total March Income	4,915.69
Expenses
March BOD Mtg.		80.00
P. O. Box Fee		246.00
Directors Outing Deposit		250.00
GOM Trophies		75.79
Thursday Team Play Entry		250.00
GOY Green Fees		516.00
Away Goose Creek Green Fees		3,300.00
Away Goose Creek Prize Fund		800.00
Away Goose Creek Skins		360.00
Away Goose Creek Subsidy		200.00
Gabriela Mendez Donation*		1,300.00
Total March Expenses		7,377.79
Balance on March 31, 2021		35,677.95

Respectfully submitted,
Bob Livingstone
Treasurer

NOTES: Members of the Board and the Webmaster chose to take $100 of their annual stipend and donate it to Gabriela "Gabby" Mendez upon the sudden death of her husband. The Hole-In-One Insurance is now $1,010.

Here we are in May for our 2nd tournament of the year. Our first major tournament of the year is this month's 2-day Member-Member on the 22nd and 23rd. Don’t miss out, make sure you get signed up on line. I am sure DD will do a great Job as he did last month with our 1st tournament in over a year.

There will be NO pairings party the Friday before the tournament.

I want to thank Steve Cook for putting on a great Weekender at San Vicente. If you didn't go you missed a great time.

I am trying to get them to let us start having our Member Meetings again, maybe in June hopefully.

See you at the course,
Terry

The Weekender @ San Vicente is now history. You should have been there! Let me start by thanking everyone for making this a fun weekend.

First, the Ladies for everything they did to help and for adding some class to this band of misfits! Second, the BOD members for all their support and help to make sure I didn't screw things up too bad! And finally the members, what a great group, I hope you all had fun. Sorry for the delay on results, they will be posted semi-soon. We paid 15 out of 22 teams so if you didn't cash, I'm sorry.

Moving on, Rancho California was cancelled due to lack of interest. Not sure why, timing, bad reviews or what but I won't put it on next years schedule.

Soboba sign-ups are now open & we have room for 60. Hopefully this one fills up fast. That's all folks!

Hi guys, we are having some great weather, so let the good times roll!

Entries for the Flights Championship are almost ready to be taken! A note will be sent to all members advising on the Championship to be single elimination Match play format. Your $20 entry fee will be due to me ASAP. You can place $20 in cash or a $20 check made payable to “Mike Vaughn” in the Men’s Club drawer in the Pro-Shop in an envelope noted Flights entry / Mike Vaughn. You can also mail the check to my home address 320 Magpie Lane, Fountain Valley, CA 92708. That address is also noted on the mass email sent to all prospective participants. Also, you can pay me if you see me at El Dorado or at the June or July home tournaments. All entry money will create the prize pool.

Looking forward to seeing everyone,

Mike Vaughn

What's up EldoNation!

Another month has gone by and it looks like restrictions are getting lighter at the golf course. So that means more golf and more chances to turn in score cards for Golfer of the Month.

Last month for April, we had only four cards turned in and all of them were from the April tournament. As a reminder, GOM is from scores posted at El Dorado. Cards must be dated, signed by yourself and another Eldo member that played with you that day. Make sure you write your full name and GHIN number on the card. GOM will use your 6 month LI and will be verified. No cards are accepted from Away Tournaments or Sunday golf with the kids at Little Rec.

So with that said, Tom Seidel had a nice 74 gross and 65 Net....but at San Vicente. Sorry Tom but a nice round! Our Gross GOM had two gentlemen shooting 72. Gene Milner and CJ Triola. The card off goes to Gene shooting 36 versus CJ’s 37 on the back nine. Our net winner goes to Jason Brendle with a net 64. Brent Huntington was the next closest at net 68. Again congrats to Gene and Jason for being our April Golfers of the Month! Remember to turn in those cards!

See you on the course!
Ziggy

April 18th 1 Gross/2 Net, our 1st tournament since March 2020, is in the books! The 1 Gross/2 Net format proved a bit tougher with foursomes rather than our usual fivesomes. Pace of play was excellent! Even our final group (#42) finished in 4-1/2 hours. Well done!

A Flight winners (Net 210) Ketan Dhawan, Brit Reiner, Jason Brendle, and Andrew Cochrane were lead by Jason’s career low round of Net 62! Don Marmion, Mark Ziegenhagen, Mickey Miller, and Lawrence Darlak tied for 2nd (Net 212) with Justin Vanderbroek, David Rubin, Omar Diaz, and Matt Huntington.

Michael Dugan, John Jameson, Cj Triola, and Dennis Cartwright won B Flight in a card-off (Net 212) against Chris Plumridge, Sebastian Sturdevant, Kevin Mehlbrech, and Sheldon Drantch. In 3rd Place, 5 shots back (Net 217), we had the group of Wally Huntington, Brent Huntington, John Hasselman, and Drew Kroner.

C Flight was a runaway (Net 213) by Mark Schmillen, Mike Filbey, Terry Fletcher, and Tom Turner. 8 shots back, 2nd Place, was the group of Darryl Lee, Lloyd Lee, Dave Garcia, and Greg Sharp. Another shot back in 3rd Place we had Mel Collins, Terry Fulford, Raymond Cousins, and Lee McCullough.
Results have been posted on the website.

Our next tournament will be May 22 & 23 Member-Member. This is one of our bigger events so find yourself a partner! Online Sign Up is going strong. We have 105 registered as of this posting. If you want to play and don’t have a partner, Sign Up through the website and I will pair you up!

Member-Member Format:
Two Man Teams
Flighted: A Flight, B Flight, C Flight and “Gap 8”. You are welcome to play with any member, but if your handicap spread is 8 or more, the team is automatically in the “Gap 8” Flight.

Saturday: Two Man Best Ball: Blue Tees, Handicap will be 90% of your 6 Month LI

Sunday: Two Man Aggregate (Count them All): White Tees, Handicap will be your 6 Month LI

Sweeps both days: $40 per team

Special Events
Saturday: Gross Skins, Hole #9 In the Circle/On the Green (C Flight), Up Livy’s Creek
Sunday: Gross Skins, Honey Pot

Looking Forward to a great Member-Member!

June 19th Blind Draw Tournament Sign Up will be start May 11th. An email will be sent out to remind you.

Fairways and greens!

Don Didier

Well we finally did it - our first Home Tournament in over a year and I must say VP Don Didier did a great job in putting things in place for a successful first time back!! Well done.

Special Event results have been posted; here are a couple observations.

A Flight: Did a pretty job with 3 different Eagles for Skins worth $125 each along with the lone Birdie; if Chris Martin would have entered (SE) they would have been worth $25 less so Chris is our first No Balls Award winner of 2021. Don’t worry Chris, there are more participants waiting to join you!

B Flight: Well lets start off with our VP of Tournaments Don Didier with a fine showing of 2 skins for a nice $160, not quite good enough as Dewayne Kirksey took a skin plus Honey Pot for a $163 total - great job guys. Well those skins were worth a little more because Brian Redican (our 2nd No Balls Award recipient) didn’t enter SE. Lets not forget to mention Kerry Bryan did not enter North of Willow and could have been $30 richer but instead he gets the No Balls Award! Maybe next time.

C Flight: Had lots of skins to split up, 7 overall Birdies on 2,7,9,10,11,12 & 13; way to spread the winnings around, there were no NBA winners for C flight skins. However SE Honey Pot had Sheldon Drantch & Matt Lesenyie both win No Balls Awards as they did not enter this event. Maybe next time? Moving on to the North of Willow, Jack Witherspoon, Matt Lesenyie (his 2nd award this month) & Dan Cormack all earned wards this month.

Up Coming Event
2021 May Member-Member Tournament Special Events

Sweeps $20/player: Top 3 twosomes $$ each Flight, each day
**Both players must be in the Sweeps**
Card-off will be used for all ties

Saturday Special Events:
$10 Gross Skins each flight
$5 Hole #9 in the circle A & B Flights, C Flight on the green
$5 Up Livy’s Creek, Net Par on holes #1, 2, 8, 11, 13 & 15
Pays 5 places each flight

Sunday Special Events:
$10 Gross Skins each flight
$10 Honey Pot
Pays Net 69 or Better

$60 All In! Man Up, or you may qualify for the “No Balls Award”!

Hit them Straight!

Brad

Treasurer's Report - April 30, 2021

Balance March 31, 2021		35,677.95
Income
April Tournament Entries	13,355.00
San Vicente Entries	12,792.00
Interest	0.58
Memberships	3,030.00
Total April Income	29,177.58
Expenses
San Vicente Green Fees		6,802.00
Mt. Woodson Green Fees		1,430.00
San Vicente Hospitality Subsidy		1,495.34
San Vicente Prize Fund/Skins		4,560.00
April Tourney Green Fees		7,138.00
April Tourney Cart Fees		1,648.00
Board Meeting		55.00
SCGA Dues		936.00
GOM Trophies		76.72
GOY Trophies		170.54
Total April Expenses		24,311.60
Balance on April 30, 2021		40,543.93

Respectfully submitted,
Bob Livingstone
Treasurer

I'd like to thank Don and the rest of the BOD for running our annual Member/Member tournament. The tournament was very successful.

Matt and Don will be running the Club Championship tournament in June. The dates for this are 6/19, 6/26, and 6/27. Each participant will need to sign up for the June Blind Draw tournament on 6/19 to be able to play in the Club Championship the following weekend.

Well, finally we are going to be able to have a Member Meeting on July 13th in the big tent. We now have sand bottles on carts and rakes in the bunkers, you are also able to remove the flagstick again if you wish...Omar talks more about this in his article. Seems like we are getting a little closer to being back to normal.

See you at the course,
Terry

Well, we still don't have any minutes from a General Meeting, but that could change in July, as it looks like we will be allowed to have a Membership Meeting on July 13th. If we do, the Board has approved having two winners for the $50 Membership Drawing for those in attendance (well, as I have been promising, it is highly likely that my name will be drawn first, but if it is, at least one other attendee at the meeting will still win $50!).

Hope to see some of you new members at the meeting, which will begin at 7:00 under the Big Tent.

Rob Kuehn
Secretary and Membership Chairman

Congratulations to the winner of the May Net Golfer of the Month (GOM), Jeff Bennedetti, who shot a 74, less his 6-Month LI of 10, for a very impressive net 64. Your 6-Month LI (Low Index) can be found on the front page of the Club's website in the little black personalized box. There were no gross cards turned in last month for GOM. Well, I don't think there were, but one card was turned in with no name on it (hey Webmaster can we get the head slap emoji for something like this?). Just kidding!

As a reminder, if you think you may have shot the best net or gross score of any member at El Dorado in a given month, turn in a GOM card! It doesn't have to be in a Club-sponsored event, it just has to have been played at Eldo, from at least the white tees and have been played with another member of the Men's Club. The card needs to include:

Your name
The date the round was played
The tees you played
Your GHIN number
Your 6-Month LI (if for net consideration)
Signatures from you and the member with whom you played

Put the scorecard into the drawer in the Pro Shop and indicate if you want to be considered for net or gross (or whichever you mighty win) and I collect them at the end of each month.

Thanks and keep those cards coming!

Ziggy

We are hopeful that we will be allowed to have our first Membership Meeting in a long time on Tuesday, July 13th. If we do, I encourage all of our new members to attend and get a feel for how we operate your Club - arguably the most active and organized men's club in the SCGA.

One of the things we do at our monthly meetings is to have any new members introduce themselves, tell the other members about their profession and what their handicap is (then we usually give them a little friendly ribbing about that). Then we take all the new members aside and give them some of the practices the Club follows like how to sign up for our popular and crowded tournaments and away trips, how our Golfer of the Month awards work, our Hole In One insurance, and more.

If you are a new member and can attend, we would love to meet you and welcome you into the Club and chat about how you can be involved.

Cliff Aichele
Past President

I will be running the 2021 Club Championship. We will have a Championship (scratch) Flight and if there are enough entries, two net or handicap flights based on each player's 6-Month Low Index. The first round is the June Tournament on June 19 and the final 2 rounds will be the following weekend, June 26-27.

In order to play in the gross or net Club Championships, you must be entered in the June Blind Draw Tournament on June 19th and also enter the Club Championship. You enter each of these by going to the Member Portal found in the upper left box on the Club Website that shows your current and 6 Month Low Index. Your member ID is the club email we have for you and the password is your GHIN number.

Your first round time will be determined by our Tournament Chairman's priority draw for starting times for each group, and the following week, the times will start around 8AM.

I hope to see a lot of participation!

Matt Huntington
Special Assignments Director

The Member-Member Tournament was a great success! Generally speaking, our membership has become pretty adapt at using our online Sign Ups and payment methods. Big shout out to our webmaster, Mark Miller!

There was some very good golf played over the 2 day event. Doug Jones and Mel Collins shot an even par 216 to win A Flight Gross by 4 shots over Nick Mardesich and Michael Peterson. Bob Livingstone rode Noah Busch to an A Flight Net victory (Net 217) by one shot over Aaron Debreceni and Mark Baldwin.

B Flight was dominated by Tom Seidl and Greg Marks firing a Net 210 to win by 2 shots over Michael Appy and Mark Bernardini. Brad Wilcox and Clark Izu were another 5 shots back in 3rd.

Kerry Bryan and Michael Collins took 1st in C Flight with a Net 218. Kyle Day and Lance Breedlove were 2 shots back in 2nd followed by Kevin Irvine and Matt Lesenyie in third at Net 222.

Gap 8 Flight had Brett Latzsch and Paul Yoon winning a card-off over Pingo Zamarripa and Henry DeGraaff (Net 215). Mark Schmillen and Mike Filbey tied for 3rd (net 219) with Andrew Pulido and Steven Sterry.

All results are posted on the website.

June 19th is our Partner Best Ball Blind Draw Tournament as well as the 1st round of our Club Championship. If you have not Signed Up for the Blind Draw, please do so ASAP. Players can play with your usual groups and we will handle a random Blind Draw thru our scoring system. Tournament will be flighted using combined handicaps. If you are playing in the Club Championship, a separate scorecard will be issued. To avoid confusion, all putts must be holed in this tournament!

Club Championship Sign Up is currently open. If you have not done so, Sign Up ASAP. 2nd and 3rd rounds of Club Championship will be played June 26 & 27.

Sign Ups for July 17th Red-White-Blue Tournament will open on June 8th.

Fairways and Greens!

Don Didier

Well I hope everyone had as good a time as I did at our 2021 Member/Member tournament, well done Don! What a great format, can’t wait to do it again. Special Events had some very interesting results with some pretty good payouts as well.

Lets start off with Saturdays event’s, Up Livy’s Creek had 11 winners out of 129 entries ($58 ea).

Hole #9 (In the Circle/On the Green) A Flight had two sharp shooters: Tom Retterath and Mike Villarreal with nice shots and $130 ea. B Flight only had one winner: Terry Cormack $215. Kyle Sharp did put his name on the sheet but forgot to enter the event so you do win the “No Balls Award” though; maybe next time Kyle. C Flight had three winners hit the green for $56ea: Greg Ramsey, Craig Gantz & John Darnell. Kerry Bryan also hit the green and put his name on the sheet but forgot to enter the event, you also win another “No Balls Award”.

Saturday Sweeps
A Flight winners Livingstone & Bush -7
B Flight winners Seidl & Marks -8
C Flight winners Bryan & Collins -6
G-8 Flight winners Dranch & Mehlbrech -6

Sunday Events

Honey Pot was very lucrative for two of our members, Greg Ramsey and Mike Appy, with a couple of real nice net 69’s on a very tough day to shoot low, well done guys!

Sunday Sweeps

A Flight Pagett & Paul with +5 (149)
B Flight Appy & Bernardini +1 (145)
C Flight Bryan & Collins (again!) +8 (152)
G-8 Flight Zamarripa & deGraaff E (144)
One team gets the “NO Balls Award” C flight team of Faris & Serge would have took third place had they entered. You have to spend money to win money!!!

All payouts are listed on the website.

Join us next month for our Blind Draw tournament, Special Events will be:
- In the Circle/On the Green hole #12 ($5)
- Net Par on first 3 (1,2 & 3) last 3 (16,17 & 18) ($5)
- Gross Skins ($10)

Get out there and enter to win!

Brad

On June 1st, the Long Beach Health and Human Services Department updated the "Golf Course Re-Opening Protocols" which allowed the return of rakes, sand bottles, touching flagsticks and double rider carts (if both riders have been vaccinated). Hallelujah! For our Club, this means that we will no longer be operating under two temporary Local Rules brought on by COVID.

Going forward, we may again touch flagsticks and choose to remove them for putts or chips...under the Rules of Golf, we may also still choose to leave the flagstick in the hole during a stroke. We will also no longer be using "Lift, Clean and Place" for a ball in bunkers...play them as you find them, guys. As a side note, Sung and Marc have asked for money to get some desperately needed new sand for some of the bunkers. We don't know when that may be approved, but likely not before the Club Championship (have you signed up for that yet?) so I recommend avoiding the bunkers, or playing hard if you get in one!

See you at the course.

Omar

Treasurer's Report - May 31, 2021

Balance April 30, 2021		40,543.93
Income
April Tournament Entries (incl Special Events)	1,824.00
Member Member Entries (incl Special Events)	10,800.00
June Tourney Entries	765.00
Credit Card Entries *	17,413.00
Membership Fees	2,190.00
Hole In One Insurance **	275.00
Logoed Men's Club Shirts	350.00
Interest	0.54
Total May Income	33,617.54
Expenses
SCGA Dues		648.00
Board Meeting		65.00
Tax Prep Fee		110.00
New Poles/Supports for Club Shade Tent		263.99
April Scrip		3,840.00
April Special Events		2,800.00
Member-Member Green Fees		12,470.00
Member-Member Tee Prizes ***		2,432.00
Member-Member Scrip		7,100.00
Member-Member Special Events		5,607.00
Printer Cartridge		126.85
Credit Card Fees/Charges/Refunds		129.95
Printing Deposit Slips		49.09
Total May Expenses		35,641.88
Balance on May 31, 2021		38,519.59

Respectfully submitted,
Bob Livingstone
Treasurer

* As we enter the era of credit card entries for tournaments, trying to
get specific info from our bank on what each person paid for with a
credit card will take us a while to break down "entries" in our income
section of the Treasurer's Report so that we can clearly identify
tournament fees, special events fees and credit card fees. However,
the expense information in the monthly Treasurer's Report will clearly
identify all of those categories.

If anyone has specific questions, Tournament Chairman Don Didier
or I will have specific breakdowns of all income and all expenses
for each event that can be viewed upon request. We are working
for a better reporting system/printout from our bank. Thanks for
your understanding.

** Hole In One Fund is currently $1,285.

*** Cost of Mem-Mem tee prizes is directly from Club Budget, not
from entry fees.

Well June Blind Draw Partners went off with out any problems thanks to all DD's hard work. I would like to thank Ken Cruz for being my Blind Draw Partner and winning gross in my flight, he drew me to get him in Flight 3 to win gross.

Don also did a great job running the Club Championships, there were some really good scores. See all the results on the website. Special thanks to Mike Montgomery for working 1st tee both days.

Congratulations to our new Club Champions!
Champion flight: Sonny Nimkhum (3 time Champion)
A Flight: Tom Seidl
B Flight: Greg Marks

Well we are having our 1st General Meeting in over a year on the 13th of July. We will also be having a putting contest on the putting green next to the tent and a 9 hole tournament before the meeting. For the 9 hole you have to make your own tee time, play with another member and turn your score card in by 6:45. There well be a envelope in the pro shop to put your name on and $5 in for the 9 hole entry fee.

Make sure you come to the Meeting to get preferred tee times in the August Three Best Ball event.

See you there,
Terry

Well it looks like we're finally going to have a General Meeting! For our several dozen new members (and our many dozen forgetful old members) our meetings are held the second Tuesday of the month in the big white tent. So this month that's Tuesday, July 13. Meetings start at 7:00 pm but come early for some serious camaraderie with old friends you haven't seen in 16 months and new friends whom you haven't met yet. A cash bar will be set up in the tent, and Chef Bing will be preparing a Michelin rated buffet style meal at a very reasonable price.

Directors will be giving updates on various Club activities and the ever-popular $50 drawing, expanded this month to two winners among those in attendance, will be held at the conclusion of the meeting.

Hope to see you all there.

Hi guys, hope you are enjoying the calm early summer weather.

We are going to be able to hold a General Meeting this month, the second Tuesday of the month, July 13 at 7:00 pm under the tent! I will also set up a Putting Contest! Be sure to get to the meeting early and bring your putter. Action will start at or about 5:15 and end NLT 6:45 pm on the south green. As noted in past years I do not like denying anyone a chance due to it being almost time for the meeting so it is up to you to arrive early enough to make your rounds.

We are in process of taking entries for the Flights Championship, but with the COVID in remission people are not so gung ho to get in. As of today we do not have enough entrants to fill (3) Flights. The Match play competition is set to begin August 1. If you want to play you need to let me know ASAP at my email mike.v@verizon.net and send your $20 entry fee to me at my home, 320 Magpie Lane, Fountain Valley, CA 92708. We have had five (5) full Brackets, 80 players the last several years. Flights tee times have been reserved through Championship Saturday November 20. Players will be kept updated through group emails. This is a great tournament as it is all up to you playing heads up against your opponent.

Looking forward to seeing everyone,

Mike Vaughn

Welcome to another month of sunshine, warm weather and long days of summer. That means lots of great golf! Last month we had our Club Championships so lots of good scores were passed into the Men's Club box in the Pro Shop. We had 8 total cards turned in for Gross and Net GOM. Remember tournaments count for GOM cards.

For our Gross GOM, we had three identical scores of 69. They all had the same front nine of 34 and back nine of 35. So the tie breaker comes down to total score of last 6 holes. Congrats to Dave Rubin who scored a total of 23 for those last 6 holes. Vern Followell (24) and Sonny Nimkhum (25) were very close. Also congrats to Sonny for winning the Club Championship.

For our Net GOM, there were some close ones as well. Congrats to Colin Boylan, who shot gross 72 and net 6 from the Blue Tees, netted a smooth 66. Honorable mention goes to Jeff Tanner and Frank Adinolfi with net 67's. Close but no cigar!

Remember to include Name, GHIN number, date played and what tees you played from that day on the card. Also signatures from you and your Eldo member. Please turn into Men's Club scorecards box in the Pro Shop.

This month, we will start 9 hole tournament on day of Meeting. There is a sheet in the Pro Shop. Include $5 and get a shot of the winnings for the day. The Men's Club throws in an additional $50. So Good Luck and hit them straight!

Ziggy

June was a busy month with the Blind Draw Partner and Club Championship. All results are posted on the website.

The Mark Baldwin/Mike Peterson Blind Draw carded a 64 to win Gross in Flight 1. Bob Livingstone/Sebastian Sturdevant paired up to take 1st Place Net with a 62.

Flight 2 Gross honors go to Jake Amado/Jeff DeGraaff with a 71. Bret Holloway/Jeff Tanner paired up to win 1st Place Net at 65.

Flight 3 Gross honors go to Ken Cruz/Terry Fulford with a 72. Tony Glorioso/Matt Lesenyle paired up to win 1st Place Net at 61.

Flight 4 Gross honors go to Philip Friess/Walter Lee with a 77. James Coates/Tom Conlisk paired up to win 1st Place Net at 59.

Next up will be our July Red-White-Blue Tournament on July 17th. If you haven’t done so, Sign Up thru the Member Portal on the website. When doing so, be sure to select Special Events if you so desire.

We are planning to have a General Men’s Club Meeting on July 13th (2nd Tuesday of the month). As is customary, priority tee times for the August tournament will be assigned to attending members. See you there!

Fairways & greens,

Don Didier

Well the 2021 Blind Draw is in the books, good time was had by all! Special Events break down goes like this:

First 3 Last 3 had 11 winners for $64 ea., 5 winners in A Flight, 4 winners in B Flight and 2 winners in C Flight, well done guys!

A Flight had 8 winners in the Circle on #12, there were 3 Skins, Bradley Wyatt Eagle #8, Mike Burka Birdie #17 & Mike Villarreal Eagle #7 paid out $166 ea. that's because Jake Amado didn’t get in Special Events and missed skins on #1 with the lone Birdie & #4 with the lone Eagle. For that Jake has earns the No Balls Award for June, don’t worry Jake you're not alone!

B Flight had 2 names on the card for in the Circle on #12 but only one of them had entered SE; Rich Gilmore long time member forgot to enter SE (I am pretty sure this will never happen again to Rich). With this being said, Eric Miller took home $255 for the only in the Circle. Eric, I think Rich needs a drink! Skins we paid out 5 birdies for $100 ea., Brian Redican on #5 & #18, Dewayne Kirksey on #7, Terry Cormack on #17, Aaron Debreceni on #6, Oops - Rich Gilmore would have won #12 if he had entered, Mr. Gilmore was our No Balls Winner in B Flight!

C Flight 5 winners for On The Green #12, Jeff Tanner, Jim Coates, Lance Breedlove Dwight Summers & Ian Thomas. Jerome Hodge did write his name on the card but forgot to enter SE, so Jerome earns the No Balls Award for not entering. He is not alone, as Michael Collins earned a No Balls Award too. Michael would have won First 3 Last 3 had he entered SE. Two skin winners, nice Birdies from Matt Lesenyie on #15 and John Rogers on #2, good job!

Everyone, please double check yourselves when entering our monthly tournament, make sure you have entered the Special Events so I don’t have to remind you after the fact!! Let's see everyone enter SE.

Red White & Blue Special Events are:
$10 Gross skins by Flight
$5 2nd shot in the circle #1
$5 closest to the pin #17 pays 5 places each flight

See you at the Blue Box

Well summer is here and it's getting hot! What's not hot is the interest & participation in the away tournaments this year! I have only 7 players currently signed up for San Juan Hills. I need your help to make these events better suit the majority membership of this great Club. I have already started looking for locations for the 2022 season. The cost of golf has gone up everywhere. I would really like your feedback & suggestions. You can email me (on the Club website to to the "The Club" drop down on the front page, then on the right side of the next page click on Board of Directors, then click on my picture to get my email link) or better yet show up at the next meeting so we can have a quick group discussion.

Thanks & hope to see you soon!

We had two unfortunate situations in the recently completed Club Championship.

In the first round, a player signed for a higher score on one hole than he had actually made (the higher score stands - had he signed for a lower score than he actually made, he would have been Disqualified). In the final round, a former winner submitted his scorecard into the Scorecard Box inside the Bar/Scoring area, but he had forgotten to sign his card. While it can be impersonal, "The Box" serves a purpose, as it is "the point of no return" for making corrections to a scorecard.

While it is harsh, we simply do not have the manpower to conduct a scoring area like those found at Tour events or the US Open - so we have "The Box" which is your reminder to ensure that you have checked your scorecard for completeness and accuracy.

Hope to see you all at the July Meeting. Omar

Treasurer's Report - June 30, 2021

Balance May 31, 2021		38,519.59
Income
Memberships	2,270.00
Soboba Away Entries	1,180.00
Bind Draw Entries	3,511.00
Club Championship Entries	1,502.00
Red-White-Blue Entries	490.00
Reverse certain Bank/Credit Card Fees	40.00
Credit Card Entries - including Special Events	15,162.00
Interest	0.83
Total June Income	24,155.83
Expenses
SCGA Dues		684.00
Board Meeting		75.00
BOD Name Plates		17.14
Soboba Away Green Fees		1,080.00
Soboba Away Prize Fund		600.00
Soboba Away Prize Fund Subsidy		200.00
Soboba Away Skin Pot		200.00
4 Tournament Refunds		331.00
June Blind Draw Green Fees		6,880.00
June Blind Draw Special Events		2,795.00
June Blind Draw Scrip		3,515.00
Club Champ Green Fees		2,328.00
Club Champ Prize Fund		1,050.00
Club Champ Prize Fund Subsidy		450.00
Member-Member Scoreboards		18.74
BOD Printing & Labels for Club Tee Markers		57.71
Bank Fee (will get waived)		20.00
Credit Card Fees for May Entries		530.74
Total June Expenses		20,832.33
Balance on June 30, 2021		41,843.09

Respectfully submitted,
Bob Livingstone
Treasurer

Notes

* The Club added $200 to the Soboba Away Trip Prize Fund
* The Club added $150 to the Prize Fund in each Flight of the Club
Championship

We had our 1st General Meeting in over a year, I thought we would have had a larger turn out. Maybe people are still a little leery. Hopefully we can continue to have a meeting next month, they might make us wear masks at the August meeting if they don't close us down again.

We had a good turn out for last months RWB and everybody seemed to keep up with the group in front of them. I think the last group finished in 4 1/2 hours, good job guys. Next month we have our 3 Best Ball which is going to be a little harder with only 4 players.

I am running the Senior Club Championship on August 28th and 29th so get signed up asap if you want to play. Entrees close on August 23rd.

JULY 2021 MEETING MINUTES

On Tuesday, July 13, 2021, for the first time in 16 months the monthly meeting of the El Dorado Park Men’s Golf Club was held in the Big White Tent. The Welcome Back pre-meeting dinner included salad, meat loaf, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn and cookies for desert. The meeting was called to order at 7:00 pm by President Terry Fulford who led us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

There were approximately 75 members in attendance including Past Presidents Mike Montgomery, Richard Scoville, Cliff Aichele, Dennis Tramer, Nick Zamora, Terry Fulford (he was President before too) and (Life Member) Bob Livingstone. New Members Jack Witherspoon, Eric Miller (son of Mike Miller), Tom Choi, Rich Koskela and Ron Searcy introduced themselves, gave us a little info about themselves, and were given the New Member Spiel by Cliff Aichele.

Secretary Kuehn (that good looking slightly balding guy) then proposed two motions to be voted on: one, to approve all of the Board’s actions that have been listed electronically in the newsletter since April 2020, specifically to approve the nomination process and the appointment of officers of the Club for 2020; and two, to approve the Treasurer’s Reports that have been submitted in the Newsletter since April 2020. Both motions were seconded and unanimously approved.

President Fulford announced that he would be running the Senior Club Championship on August 28-29. Cost will be $115 ( $118 if paying by credit card) and is due no later than August 23. Contact Terry if you have any questions. Terry also announced that the Club Champion for the year is Sonny Nimkhum. Good job Sonny!

Directors’ Reports were as follow:

Director Mike Montgomery announced that he would be hanging out at the first tee for several months due to some shoulder issues, so be sure to be ready when it’s your time to tee off or you might end up with a very undesirable tee time next month. Mike also requested a moment of silence in honor of Greg O’Brien and Don Bellamy, both of whom passed away since our last meeting.

Director Omar Diaz, our Rules Guru, discussed various rules specific to Match Play as our Flights Championship is about to begin. He specifically noted that if there is a question it must be resolved at the time – you can’t play two balls and get a ruling afterward. If you have a question during a match, contact Omar or Bob Livingstone.

Director Mike Vaughn announced the results of the first putting contest in 16 months. Tying for second were Todd Thiele, Cliff Aichele and Brian Dauk. First place went to Bret Holloway and Tim Mincarelli. Mike also noted that he only had 32 members signed up for the Match Play Tournament, half of last year’s entrants. Come on you Slackers! Call Mike and sign up now!

Director and Entertainment Chairman Steve Cook noted that the San Juan Hills Away Tournament is set for July 31 and there are still plenty of spots available. Steve then asked the membership what he could do to get more guys playing in the Away Tournaments and what would be attractive as a Weekender for next year. Please contact Steve if you have any thoughts on these matters.

Director Bob Livingstone announced that the Pre-Meeting 9-Hole Tournament was won by Henry DeGraaf, with Wally Gordon finishing second and Andrew Pulido third. GOM winners for the past three months include Gene Milner (Gross) and Jason Brendle (Net) for April; Jeff Benedetti (Net) for May – no gross winner: and Colin Boylan (Net) and Dave Rubin (Gross) for June.

Director/Past President Cliff Aichele noted that there was a lot of money in the Hole-in-One Fund so be sure to give Cliff $5 if you’re not already in.

Vice President/Tournament Chairman Don Didier discussed results of the June Tournament and explained the format for July’s Red-White-Blue Tournament. Holes with red flags will count 3 scores, holes with white flags 2 scores and holes with blue flags 1 score. We’ll be using the Combo Tees and there are 166 players signed up.

Director/Handicap Chairman Nick Zamora discussed the relatively new “Net Double Bogey” scoring system for recording scores, and reminded everyone how important it is to post your scores. He also noted that rules specific to our tournaments will be spelled out on the back of the scorecard. Call Nick if you have any handicap questions.

Special Events Director Brad Wilcox discussed results of the June Tournament. For July the events will be Gross Skins, Second shot in the circle on Hole #1, and Closest to the pin on Hole #17.

New Business: We are changing the priority for tee times at the tournaments. You still sign up to play and pay on line but first priority for tee times will be given to those members who attend the meeting. Remaining times will be randomly drawn for those playing but not attending the meeting.

We plan to hold the August General Meeting as scheduled on August 10 in the big white tent. If that changes due to State/County/City/Golf Course issues, we'll let you know.

Also a special thanks to Mark Miller, our Webmaster, for all the hard work he has put in to help keep us functioning during the past very difficult 16 months.

Old Business : There was no Old Business.

The $50 Drawing winners (we did two) were Mark Schmillen and Frank Adinolfi.
The meeting was adjourned at 7:45.

Rob Kuehn
Secretary/Membership Director

July Membership is 451.

The July Putting Contest was our first in 2 years! It was an Aces Only format. July winner was Bret Holloway with (4) Aces. Todd Thiele, Cliff Aichele, Brian Dauk and Tim Mincarelli tied for 2nd with making (3) Aces each. The August putting tournament will again be held on meeting night starting at or near 5:15 pm on the south green. Be sure to get there to participate. This is a good way to sharpen you flat stick skills.

The Flights Championship Match Play has 80 signed participants! The Brackets and supporting documents were distributed to the players this week. The August match is to be played between August 1 and August 31.

Reserved Match Play times have been secured for Saturday and Sunday morning beginning in August and continuing through Championship Saturday, November 20. Players can secure these times from me. Dates and Times for August have been sent to all participants on the Brackets email. Reserved times not filled must be released back to American Golf on the Wednesday of the week of your match. More details on the Flight Championships will follow in group emails to the participants. We will see what sort of restrictions LA County will be putting us under with this new outbreak of another virus as well as COVID-19. Enjoy this exciting heads up competition.

See you there,

Mike Vaughn

Hello fellow members!

This month of July gave us some more activities in the club. We welcomed our first group meeting, 9 hole tournament, putting tournament and another great monthly with the Red, White and Blue.

Remember on the day of our monthly meetings we have a 9 hole tournament. ITS VERY SIMPLE. When you check in for your time, make sure you have $5 cash and fill your name out on the sheet with handicap index/number. At the end of round turn in your score card signed and dated with tees that you played. That's it! Then show up to meeting and collect your prize fund. For our first 9 Hole tournament, we had some good scores. Henry deGraaff (net 32) 50 duckets, Wally Gordon (net 34) 40 duckets, Andrew Pulido (net 35) 25 duckets and Tom Turner (net 35.5) 15 duckets. Thanks for playing and remember the club throws in $50 extra for prize fund.

For July GOM, we had a few cards turned in the box. Our GROSS GOM was Andrew Cochrane with a nice 70! Honorable mention to Nick Delia with a 74.
Our NET GOM goes to Timothy Hodge with a net 67. Honorable mention goes to Wally Gordon who turned in two cards with nets of 68 and 69. Keep grinding Wally!

On a side note, Last month had a mistake for Gross GOM. Dave Rubin was presented as winner. But Dave had already won in January. So the 2nd place winner Vern Followell receives the honor. Thanks to Dave Hasslemen for pointing out that you can only win once. My Rookie mistake. So Congrats Vern...trophy in the mail! Please continue to turn in your cards and see you at the next meeting!

Go LONG,
ZIGGY

Looking forward to a General Meeting on August 10th. We will have a Trophy Presentation for our Club Champions, Sonny Nimkhum, Tom Seidl and Greg Marks. Hope to see you all there!

July’s Red-White-Blue Waltz was a really good tournament and marked the first tournament where we had a Sign-In Table. Good to see all the old and new members! Pace of Play was great! I believe the final group made it around in just over 4-1/2 hrs.

No-Shows: Tournaments are always a bit dynamic, things changing all the way up to Tournament day. We can accommodate most situations, but not showing up is not fair to your playing partners and costs the club greens fees. Our Policy for not making a Tournament Tee Time is 48 hours notification and we will almost always refund regardless of reason. Anything after 48 hours we only refund for an emergency or if we fill the spot the day of. You are responsible to cover greens fees before you can enter another tournament.

Winners by Flight:
A Flight Gross at 136: Robert Lopez, Tony Castaneda, Andrew Kiemm, Christian Villalobos
A Flight Net at 123: Brian Gonzales, Jason Gonzales, Robert Jojola, Nick Mardesich
B Flight Gross at 144: Jim Cox, Jeff DeGraaff, Scott Dietschak, Arthur Zamarripa
B Flight Net at 124: Colin Boylan, John Rogers, Trey Cox, Bret Hudzietz
C Flight Gross at 155: Jayson Huett, Geno DeAngelis, Lance Breedlove, Kyle Day
C Flight Net at 122: Brett Latzsch, Walter Lee, Steven Canales, Pete Whitehead
Complete results are posted on the Website.

Coming up August 14th is our 3-Best Ball Tournament. If you haven’t Signed Up please do so thru the Website. This is a Flighted Team Event playing the Combo Tees. This is a postable round and we will post for you. DO NOT POST!

September 18-19 is our Partner-Partner Tournament. This is a really fun tournament with different formats for each 9 holes with Sweeps and Special Events both days. Saturday starts off with you and your partner playing Blue Tees in a 2 Man Scramble on the front nine and Cross-Over on the back nine. The Tramer Handicap System will be utilized. Sunday is Combo Tees, 90% of current handicap playing Best Ball on the front nine and Count ‘em All (Aggregate) on the back nine. Sign Ups for This tournament coming soon!

Fairways and Greens!

Don Didier

July 2021 Red, White & Blue is in the books! Special Events had some very interesting payouts this time around, and yes there were couple of No Balls awards!

A Flight hole #1 in the Circle 2nd shot, 10 winners to many to name, you know who you are good job! CTP on hole#17 Bret Holloway with 5’8” shot to place 1st nice shot. Skins had Christian Villalobos with a nice Birdie on #8 & Eagle on #18, Eagle on #4 for Andrew Cochrane, Birdie on #9 for Scott Dietschak, Birdie on #11 for Larry Nielson.

B Flight Hole #1 in the Circle 2nd shot, 2 winners Brian Ball & Roger Marmion great shot boys! CTP on hole #17 Brian Redican with a nice shot at 7’1.5” for 1st. Skins on hole #1 Birdie for Kenny Tsuji, hole #3 Birdie for Mark Bernardini , hole #10 Birdie for Bill Henigsman, hole #12 Birdie for Steven Cook, hole #14 Birdie for Michael Wilson, hole #15 Birdie for Vern Cannon, Hole #17 Birdie for Brian Redican. Dean Ritter would have gotten a Skin with a Birdie on hole#2 but he forgot to enter!! For that the “No Balls Award”

C Flight Hole #1 in the Circle 2nd shot, well only one winner Nick Zamora well done Nicky!! CTP on hole #17 David Green with a nice shot at 12’4” to place 1st well done David. Skins went to Dan Cormack with a Birdie on #4, Ron Royster with a Birdie on #11, Stan Faris with a Birdie on #13, George Devries with a Birdie on hole#16, David Green with a Birdie on #17. No Balls Awards for Jim Cox hole #9 & Sohrob Taheri hole #1 both had forgot to enter SE, maybe next time.

August SE
Gross Skins ($10)
Net 70 or Better ($5)
Middle 6 Net Par or Better ($5)
(holes 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12)

See you at the Blue Box

Well the 2020 away tournament season has come to a close with San Juan Hills.
We had 20 players out of a club membership of almost 500 members! We had perfect weather & a lot of not so perfect scores! I hope you enjoyed it anyway. As I'm writing this I'm texting with a player from today that thought he was entered in special events but was not! Please be sure you check the boxes & confirm the totals before you submit your entry.

The 2022 away schedule has been completed and is as follows:
Big Rec - Sunday 1-30-22
San Dimas Canyon - Sunday 2-27-22
Lakewood - Sunday 3-27-22

Weekender Las Vegas - 4-2&3-22 Details coming soon.
Luxor Hotel
Reflection Bay & Boulder Creek

Knollwood Country Club - Sunday 5-8-22
Los Verdes - Saturday 7-30-22

Note: Navy is still not scheduling Tournaments.

Thanks, Steve

Hello gentlemen,

It has been a long time since we have been able to award a Most Improved Golfer. I think it was the 1Q of 2020. I am happy to announce we have a winner for the 2Q 2021 (April-June) based on the qualifying criteria. Our Most Improved Golfer is none other than...

1. Mel Collins, went from 3.4 index to +0.6 35.1% improvement
2. Dale Green, went from 11.1 index to 8.4 13.2%
3. Colin Boylan, went from 8.8 index to 6.6 11.8%
4. Matt Lesenyie, went from 20.2 index to 16.8 11.8%
5. Mark Lilleberg, went from 5.8 index to 4.0 11.3%

Congratulations to Mel for some great scores and hard work.

Treasurer's Report - July 31, 2021

Balance June 30, 2021		41,843.09
Income
Interest	0.85
Memberships	4,020.00
Red-White-Blue Entries	3,366.00
Reverse Minimum Bal. Fee	20.00
June Credit Card Entries *	12,485.00
Total July Income	19,882.85
Expenses
SCGA Dues		1,224.00
BOD Meeting		55.00
Scorecards		55.00
9-Hole Subsidy		50.00
Member Drawings (Schmillen & Adinolfi)		100.00
R-W-B Refunds		408.00
R-W-B Green Fees		6,837.00
R-W-B Special Events		2,785.00
R-W-B Scrip		3,455.00
June Credit Card Transaction Fees		463.33
GOM Trophies (April and May)		113.68
Club Champ Green Fees		1,800.00
Copies		4.63
Total July Expenses		17,350.64
Balance on July 31, 2021		44,375.30

Respectfully submitted,
Bob Livingstone
Treasurer

* NOTE: Credit Card Entries includes all payments received in June, comprised of Red-White-Blue entries and special events, San Juan Hills away trip entries and special events, and a few Senior Club Championship entries.

We had our Senior Club Championship last weekend on the 28th and 29th of August. We had a pretty good turnout of 36 players, I was hoping for more but we had some late cancellations.

We had a new member winning the Champion Flight, Ken Cruz with a nice even par 144. Coming in 2nd was Omar Diaz who slipped a little in the 1st round but shot even par in the 2nd round for a 149. Our B Flight winner was Clark Izu with a great 8 under par 136, coming in 2nd was Bryan Knigge at 139. Our C Flight winner was Henry deGraaff with a nice 146, coming in tied for 2nd was Kerry Bryan and Sheldon Drantch at 147.

I will have trophies and prize fund to hand out at the September 14th Meeting.

Hope everybody has entered the Partner/ Partner as this is a fun format.

See you at the course,
Terry

AUGUST 2021 MEETING MINUTES

On Tuesday, August 10, 2021, the monthly meeting of the El Dorado Park Men’s Golf Club was held in the Big White Tent. The pre-meeting dinner included salad, chips, salsa, beans, rice, cheese enchiladas, chicken fajitas and cookies for desert. At a pre-pandemic price of only $7 this is a heck of a deal.

The meeting was called to order at 7:00 pm by President Terry Fulford who led us in the Pledge of Allegiance. There were approximately 85 members in attendance including Past Presidents Mike Montgomery, Nick Zamora, Tom Retterath, Terry Fulford (he was President before too) and (Life Member) Bob Livingstone. The previous month’s Meeting Minutes and Treasurer’s Report were approved. New Members Jason Gonzales, Dave DePina, Sergio Piva, John Torpey, Steve Hampton, Sasha Bozic, Dave Collicutt, Robert Jojola, and Bill Heffern introduced themselves, gave us a little info about themselves, and were given the New Member Spiel by Nick Zamora.

President Fulford announced that he would be running the Senior Club Championship on August 28-29. Cost will be $115 ( $118 if paying by credit card) and is due no later than August 23. Contact Terry if you have any questions.

Director Livingstone gave a special Atta Boy recognition to three long time members who competed in the SCGA Match Play Tournament: Mel Collins, Gene Milner and Jeff Thomas.

Directors’ Reports were as follow:

Director Mike Montgomery announced that he still had several El Dorado Men’s Club golf shirts available for sale. See Mike if you’re interested.

Director Omar Diaz, our Rules Guru, discussed various rules specific to Match Play, specifically that hitting the wrong ball results in loss of the hole. If you have a question during a match, contact Omar.

Director Mike Vaughn was out of town so there was no pre-meeting Putting Competition this month.

Filling in for Director and Entertainment Chairman Steve Cook was Terry Fulford, who noted that results of the San Juan Hills Away Tournament were posted on the web site. This was our last scheduled Away Tournament of the year.

Director Bob Livingstone announced that the Pre-Meeting 9 Hole Tournament had a very good turnout of 32 players and was won by Tom Turner. Because we added the prize fund from the not happening Putting Tournament, we were able to pay 7 places. GOM winners for last month were Tim Hodge with a Net 67 and Andrew Cochrane with a Gross 70.

Vice President/Tournament Chairman Don Didier awarded trophies to our Three Club Champions – Sonny Nimkhum, Greg Marks and Tom Seidl. Congratulations to these three exceptional golfers. Don noted that the pace of play in July was very good – keep up the good work guys. Don iterated that if you’ve signed up and can’t play (for a very good reason, I assume) you must contact Don in a timely manner or you may get stuck for paying green fees for a tournament you didn’t play in. For the August 3 Best Ball Tournament Do Not Post. The Board will post for you. Don then explained the rather complicated format for the September Partner-Partner Tournament.

Director/Handicap Chairman Nick Zamora announced that the Most Improved Golfer from the previous quarter was Mel Collins, who decreased his index from 3.4 to +0.6. This reflects a tremendous improvement at a level that most of us can only dream about. Outstanding Mel!

Special Events Director Brad Wilcox discussed results of the July Tournament, noting that there were significant pay-outs for several events. For August the events will be Gross Skins, Net 70 or Better, and The Middle Six (net par or better on each of holes 7 through 12). Brad noted that the Partner-Partner Tournament is scheduled for September 18 & 19. Brad also reminded us to do our part in helping to keep the course in good shape – repair divots and ball marks, smooth bunkers, etc.

New Business: There was no New Business.

Old Business There was no Old Business.

The $50 Drawing winner was George Manyak and the meeting was adjourned at 7:50.

Rob Kuehn
Secretary/Membership Director

August Membership is 460.

Hi guys,

We have had a comfortable summer and the course has been in good condition. Credit goes to our course management, with a special “Thank you” to our Superintendent, Marc Lilleberg.

I was out of the state in August so no Putting Contest was held. The format for September has not yet been determined but will try to spice it up to cover for no event in August. Be sure to get to the meeting early and bring your putter. Action will start at or about 5:15 and end NLT 6:45 pm on the south green

The Flights Championships are well underway. Round 1 is complete so we are now down to (40) players. Reserved Saturday and Sunday Flights tee times are set for the Flights through Championship Saturday. Players are kept updated through group emails. This is a great tournament as it is all up to you playing heads up against your opponent. The earlier in the month you play your match the easier it is to manage.

Look forward to seeing everyone on the putting green meeting night next Tuesday. It is great to see so many of you participate.

Mike Vaughn

Hello Members!

We had another great month of golf with the 3 Best Ball Tournament, Flight matches and Senior Club Championship. We had some great scores turned in this month for GOM. We had 10 cards turned in with 9 being NET scores and 1 card for GROSS.

Our GROSS GOM for August is Jim Fuchs. He carded a nice even par of 72. Congrats and nice shooting Jim! Our NET GOM was really competitive with some great scores. Our NET GOM for August goes to Tom Seidl. Tom shot a nice 74 in the Senior Club Championship giving him a net 66. We had some honorable mentions that were close but no cigar! Matt Lesenyie net 67, Ron Maden net 68, Mark Ziegenhagen net 68, John Suttie net 68 and Michael Wilson net 69. Nice shooting guys!

As a reminder, please Date, Sign (along with playing member) and what Tees you played from that day. If nothing is indicated, I will assume you played the red tees :-). Also Flight scores will not be accepted for GOM as putts and shots are given in match play. Your 6 month LI is used when turning in card.

Remember our 9 hole tournament before meeting on Sept 14th. Pay $5 to starter, put your name on envelope with current 6 mo. LI. Winners from last month were:
Tom Turner 33.5 ($50), Mike Filbey 34 ($45), Colin Boylan 34.5 ($40), Steve Sterry 34.5 ($40), Matt Lesenyie 35 ($30), Jeff DeGraaff 35 ($30) and Andrew Cochrane 35.5 ($20). Great job fellas!

See you at the course!
Ziggy

August 3-Best Ball was our biggest tournament this year. We had 45 groups and I played in the last group and finished in 4hrs 20 min. Excellent pace of play gents! We did have a few no-shows including a couple of repeat offenders. As I said before, this is not fair to playing partners nor the field of players. We have incorporated a Tournament Chairman’s “Dog House”. Once a player is confined to the “Pound”, he will not be able to Sign Up for any Tournament until the issue is satisfied between the Tournament Chairman and the individual. Grrrrrr!

3-Best Ball Winners by Flight:
A Flight Gross at 211: Jim Jameson, Tim Heffern, Bill Heffern & Steven Sterry. Great score for this format!
A Flight Net at 199: Brian Dauk, Jim Fuchs, Jim Zehmer & Mike Berka
B Flight Gross at 223: Andrew Cochrane, Ketan Dhawan, Jason Brendle & Brit Reiner
B Flight Net at 194: Tim Mincarelli, Bret Holloway, John Suttie & Randy Kervin
C Flight Gross at 255: George Manyak, Dewayne Kirksey, James Coates & Anthony Coyne
C Flight Net at 197: John Kilgore, Rich Koskela, Doug Freeman & Rodney Dickerson
Complete results are posted on the Website.

September 18-19 is our Partner-Partner Tournament. Sign Ups close September 10, payments are due September 14th, which is our next General Meeting night. This is a really fun tournament with different formats for each 9 holes with Sweeps and Special Events both days. Saturday starts off with you and your partner playing Blue Tees in a 2 Man Scramble on the front nine and Cross-Over on the back nine. The Tramer Handicap System will be utilized. Sunday is Combo Tees, 90% of current handicap playing Better Ball on the front nine and Count ‘em All (Aggregate) on the back nine.

Next Month we have The Dreaded Orange Ball on October 16th. This is a Flighted Team event. Each foursome is issued a sleeve of Dreaded Orange Balls and a predetermined rotation of that ball is used. Team Scoring is Dreaded Orange Ball plus 2 Best Balls. Sign Ups for this Tournament coming soon!

Fairways and Greens!
Don Didier

August 3 Best Ball is in the books with some real nice scores! Two Field events this month: Net 70 or Better & Middle 6. Net 70 or Better had 18 winners, with a net 59 carded by Rodney Dickerson, nice round Rodney. There would have been 19 winners had Mr. Fuchs entered, but instead gets the No Balls Award, maybe next time Jim. Middle 6 was a little tougher with only 11 winners ($68 ea.), nice job guys!

Skins for A flight had 4 winners Nick Mardesich with a very nice eagle on #2, Mike Appy with a birdie on #14, Ziggy birdies #17 & Pingo eagles #18. B flight Johnny Jimenez birdies #10, Tom Tuner birdies #13 & Dennis Cartwright birdies #14. C flight would have had three winners if Jack Witherspoon would have entered skins but instead earns the No Balls Award, maybe next time Jack! This leaves winners Henry "Money Bags" deGraaff Birdies #1 & Shaun Steenwyk Birdies #5 both earning $200 ea.

I would like to thank those Members of the Club who take the time during their rounds to help make El Dorado look and feel like our home course, whether it's picking up trash, fixing fallen ropes, filling your divots with sand or helping educate golfers who don't know proper golf etiquette. Thank You and keep up the good work, El Dorado is looking great, let’s keep it that way!

Partner-Partner Special Events (SE)

Par 3 Shoot Out
Saturday: ($5 ea.) in the Circle A & B flight, C flight on the green holes #3 & 12
Closest to the pin pays 5 places per flight holes #9 & 17

Sunday: ($5 ea.) in the Circle A & B flight, C flight on the green holes #9 & 17
Closest to the pin pays 5 places per flight holes #3 & 12

Saturday & Sunday Sweeps
$20 - both members of your team must be in and pay (covers both days) to be eligible.

$60 gets you in all SE for the weekend, don’t miss out!

See you at the Blue Box!

Brad

Sorry folks, nothing entertaining to talk about this month! 2022 Las Vegas Weekender details will be out soon.

Treasurer's Report - August 31, 2021

Balance July 31, 2021		44,375.30
Income
Memberships	4,470.00
Hole-In-One Insurance	60.00
Club Logo Shirts	220.00
San Juan Hills Away Cash/Check Entries	1,070.00
3 Best Ball Chash/Check Entries	3,436.00
Sr Club Champ Cash/Check Entries	1,064.00
Credit Card Entries in August	18,387.00
Cancel 2020 Los Verdes Away Deposit	100.00
Miscellaneous revenue	9.00
Interest	0.73
Total August Income	28,816.73
Expenses
SCGA Dues		1,404.00
GOM Trophies		75.79
Deposits for 2021 Away Trips		400.00
San Juan Hills Green Fees		1,880.00
San Juan Hills Prize Fund		420.00
San Juan Hills Special Events		275.00
3 Best Ball Green Fees		7,525.00
3BB Scrip		3,865.00
3BB Special Events		3,000.00
Sr Club Champ Green Fees		3,268.00
Sr Club Champ Prize Fund		1,400.00
July Credit Card Transaction Fees		362.92
Club Champ Trophies/Plates		422.81
9-hole Subsidy (No Putting Subsidy)		100.00
Member Drawing - Manyak		50.00
Director Stipend		300.00
Stamps		11.00
BOD & Sr CC Copies		20.51
Computer Mouse		22.04
SCGA FourBall Net Entries		500.00
RWB Refunds		245.00
Sr Club Champ Refunds		460.00
3BB Refund		85.00
Board Meeting		50.00
Total August Expenses		26,142.07
Balance on August 31, 2021		47,049.96

Respectfully submitted,
Bob Livingstone
Treasurer

Notes: The Club added $200 to the San Juan Hills Away trip and $298
to the Sr Club Championship. Since there was no August putting
tournament, that subsidy went to the 9-hole. The Club paid the entry
into the SCGA FourBall Qualifier for the top 2 available teams from
the Member-Member.