Shoreline Seniors
Golf Club
A Member Club of
the NCGA &USGA
PGA Pro: Joe
DeBode 2940 N. Shoreline Blvd Pro Shop: 650-903-GOLF
President: Sid
Cantwell VP: John Gannon Treasurer: Ted Roshinski
Secretary: Mike
Anderson Tournaments: Dave
Collins Sweeps: Stu Matheson
Tee Times: Lee
Tsai Greeters: Wilson Fong Website: Syed Hyder
Membership
Chairman: Jim Schmidt Social Chairman:
Frank Frankhauser
Handicap
Chairman: OJ Pilcher Greens Committee:
Harry Emerzian
City Liason: Vic
Calvo Newsletter Editors: Don Sutton
and Hideo Hashimoto
Website: shorelineseniorsgolfclub.org
Oct 2009
Dues are Due…
The NCGA has raised their dues by $6.00 for the 2010 year. Therefore, the
renewal fee of $76.00 ($45.00 for a Social Membership) reflects this increase.
The renewal deadline is November 30. Dues will incur a $10 additional fee after
that, increasing to $86.00 ($55.00 for Social Membership). The $76.00 breaks
down to $36.00 for the NCGA and $40.00 for the Club. Our Club dues of $40.00
are used to subsidize the cost of luncheons for the Member-Guest and Annual
Meeting Tournaments. In addition, our dues support junior golf and pay for door
prizes at the luncheons as well as defray costs for social events such as our
dinner dance. For information about renewing your membership, contact Ted
Roshinski at (408)-248-4065. A renewal form can be found at the end of
this Newsletter or on the Club Website. Also, renewal forms can be found at the
Greeter’s Table each week. Please be sure to renew by November 30, 2009 to help
the Board plan activities for the 2010 year. Thank you.
Wednesday Tournament
Sign-up Changes…
Effectively immediately, eight tee-time slots are
allocated to Shoreline Seniors for Wednesday play, first tee time at 7:30 AM.
Do come early and play and utilize all eight tee-time slots for 32 players. The
Board of Directors has decided that first come first served will apply, but you
can SIGN UP TO FOUR PLAYERS AND PAY FOR ALL FOUR PLAYERS.
Letter to Joe DeBode from Sid Cantwell regarding
Wednesday sign-up Changes:
“As a result of action
taken by the Board of Directors of the Shoreline Seniors Golf Club at its
meeting on July 23, 2009, I sent you a letter requesting a change in the method
of how our members signed up for play in our weekly Wednesday tournaments and,
also, how the foursomes were to be made up.
You agreed to our requests and implemented the revised procedures in September. As a result of general member dissatisfaction
with the changes the Board made, the matter was again raised at our board
meeting on Thursday, October 1st, and it was unanimously voted to return to the
system that was previously in effect. I
am writing to ask that you advise your employees of this request to immediately
revert to our procedures that were in effect prior to September. We will be communicating to our members that
our Club will will revert to our old, established policy of allowing members to
show up and pay the required fees of others with whom they are going to play in
order to secure tee times and defined foursomes.
I am sorry for the
inconvenience that these requests may have caused you and your staff, but thank
you for your continued help and cooperation.
Please contact me if you have any concerns about these revisions. By the way, the October 1st board meeting was
the last meeting of this Board for 2009.
John Gannon was elected President of our club for 2010 and will hold the
first meeting of the new board in January, 2010.”
General Membership Meeting, September 21, 2009...
At our General
Membership Meeting, Dave Biklen, Jim Chiochios, Jim Clark, Frank Frankhauser,
and Tom Konno were elected as new Board Members beginning January 1, 2010. Dave
Biklen will fill Frank Rucollo’s vacated Board position whose term will expire
on December 31, 2011. The terms of all other new Board Member will expire on
December 31, 2012. The Board wishes to thank outgoing Board Members Mike
Anderson, Wilson Fong, Frank Frankhauser, and Dick McLeod for their many years
of service to the Club. A particular thank-you to Sid Cantwell who has served
as Board President this past year and will remain on the Board for a fourth
year as past-president.
Thank you from Shoreline
Golf Links...
Thank you to the Shoreline Seniors, Shoreline Women’s, and Shoreline Golf Club for assisting with the Shoreline Junior Classic and US Kids Tournaments either through providing funding for trophies and/or volunteering to work the event. The tournaments were a big success with over 300 youth participating. We have received many positive comments from participants and parents and appreciate the clubs’ support.
Notes from
Advisory Greens Committee Meeting by Harry Emerzian...
1: Dave
Serge,Utility Services Manager, explained that a blend of reclaimed water and
potable water will be used at the Golf Course. Dave also gave a brief outline
how the water system works and talked about the City’s effort to conserve
water.
2: Jack
Smith mentioned that on Saturday, July 18, Par Valley Golf Club was conducting
a tournament and one of their members suffered heart failure. The Pro Shop was
called by a Course Marshall who was at the 13th hole. The Head Golf
Professional took the A.E.D. (Automated External Defibrillator) with him. While
waiting for emergency services to arrive, their member went into cardiac arrest
and stopped breathing. The Head Golf Professional and Course Marshall performed
CPR and used the portable defibrillator to revive the victim and sustain him
until the Fire Department arrived. Editor’s
note: Isn’t it nice that we have an A.E. D. close by..and personnel who know
how to use it! Good Job, Joe!
3: Jack
Smith gave an update regarding the goose and coot management. He mentioned that
the Goose Poop Remover has been operating approximately 20 hours per week on
the Course and 10 hours per week in other areas of Shoreline. Losee’s Goose
control continues to operate 5 days a week.
Jack also reported that due to the success of
reducing the number of American coots on the golf course last winter by more
than half, the City of Mountain View will not fill the three hazard ponds
between holes #11 and #12 and near holes #17 and #10. The City of Mountain View
will continue active management of roosting coots and geese using motorized
boats and herding dogs and will install fencing between hazard ponds and
adjacent turf to make it more difficult for birds to move between roosting and
foraging areas. The City will also continue the process of goose population
stabilization on a Regional basis in the spring. The City is in the process of
developing a long term solution to the problem using information learned from
the management practices instituted in the last couple of years.
4: Steve
Crane reported that verti cutting of the greens have improved their condition.
There were some issues with the irrigation system in mid July that forced
manually operating the irrigation system for a few days. Steve added that
aerification of greens will take place September 29 and 30. The new dirt mounds
along the 18th fairway will be hydro seeded. Jack Smith reported that tees #2 white, #12 red, white and blue, #17
white, #7 black and blue, #9 red and #15 blue will be leveled starting in late
September or early October. Jack also mentioned that pathways on #3, #12 and #18
will be repaired the last week of September.
5: Jack mentioned that there were
64,958 paid rounds in 2008 and 09 which were down 2,736 from the previous year.
SHORELINE SENIORS GOLF CLUB
RENEWAL FORM FOR FISCAL 2010
(Please
read the entire form before signing and returning)
Club Membership dues for
Year 2010 are $76.00 ($40 Club, $36 NCGA) for Regular Member and $45.00 for Social Member.
Dues are delinquent after November 30, 2009. After November
30th, the dues go up $10.00 to $86.00
for Regular Member and $55.00 for
Social Member. Deadline for Year 2010
Renewal is December 15, 2009. Make checks payable to Shoreline Seniors Golf Club
and mail with lower portion of this application to:
Ted Roshinski, 2460 Golf
links Circle, Santa Clara, CA 95050-7013
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Name
____________________________________ Home Phone ____________
Street _______________________________City______________________
ZIP_________
Birth Date ______________NCGA#
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Email
Address___________________________________________________
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be published in the Membership Directory and/or
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Check one category
(applying for): _____Regular Member _____Social Member
In applying for renewal,
you agree to; (1) comply with the By-Laws, Rules and Procedures of this Club;
(2) abide by all agreements that have been entered into by said Club and all
agreements that the Board of Directors of this Club enter into subsequent to
the date of application and (3) serve as a greeter at least once a year, as of
the date of application.
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