WGC Minutes – Committee meeting 2^nd January 2010

Present : Graeme, Steven, Greg, Mike, Stan, John

Absent : Chris, Lee

• Troy resigned as Treasurer due to home commitments that mean he cannot attend as much as he wants to
• Lee Miners has volunteered and been accepted as Treasurer and new committee member in place of Troy
• New Handicap system that is to be implemented officially in Australia in early 2010 was discussed. Greg now feels is worth pursuing as he knows of another club who are using it and feel is working well. Is just a matter of obtaining the right software to efficiently introduce it. Greg will liaise with another club member (Daniel) to see if they can come up with something. Decision on hold as whether/when we adopt this handicap system. Steve said is based on 20 games rolling handicap system, with lesser games allowed until 20 scorecards available. Greg will check to confirm.
• A barbecue is arranged after next Saturday’s club game at Marri Park. Graeme will purchase food and ask members to help when needed.
• Challenge match on 31^st January 2010 has now been confirmed. Other club has said discussions to go through Chris (Greenkeeper) who is a member of each club. They want match as pure matchplay with handicaps closest together playing each other.
• Discussion was undertaken regards matchplay format. Steven suggested the 16 qualifiers split into 4 groups of fairly equally handicapped players so that early rounds is more traditional matchplay format where match is closer to off the stick in terms of not many shots between the players. A vote was taken and was 2-2 with other abstaining. So we put that aside.
• Then more discussion took place where Steven suggested we needed a set format so that players knew what to expect in terms of how many qualifiers there are, and that if there are byes in the first round, they are given to the players who finished top of the qualifying. Again a long discussion and no agreement could be reached on a format. Greg suggested that some players wanted to play more matchplay games. Also he suggested a different format that he was going to provide more details on later.
• It was agreed to come up with another format and discuss at a later date. It was also noted that there is no mention of it in the standing rules so as in past years, the committee can decide on the format. (** Note since meeting Steven has found another club with a similar format that does involve minimum of 3 games for all players and top four qualifiers for semi finals (has been emailed to Greg to look at), so we can discuss that and other suggestions at next meeting **)
• It was agreed that as per the standing rules, a player should not be eligible to win the days competition (or 2^nd,3^rd,4^th) if they are not financial. Hence the previous partners fixture one of the winners should not have been given the winners prize. This was a mistake and the committee will take steps to make sure does not happen again.
• No General Business
• Next meeting likely at Marri Park 13^th February 2010

Steven O’Neil

Club President