Southern Nevada Golf Association for Business Women

SNGABW meets the second Tuesday evening of each month at Charlie's Lakeside on the corner of Durango and Sahara. Members and visitors are encouraged to attend. We discuss current business of the club, upcoming tournaments and "play days" which are available to the membership and we review the rules of golf. This is a social opportunity to make new friends and to network through the game of Golf.

Southern Nevada Golf Association for Business Women General Meeting—October 20, 2019

The regular meeting of the Southern Nevada Golf Association for Business Women was held on October 20, 2019 at Las Vegas National Golf Club. Five Board Members were present (President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer & WSNGA Rep). A total of 30 members attended this meeting. The meeting was called to order at 12:20pm by the Play Chairs presenting the winners for the game.

COMMITTEE and CHAIRPERSONS REPORTS

Las Vegas National—October 20—7:30am SG—Nancy Lauback & Christine Soscia

Game of the day was Ghosts and Goblins, 5 longest yard holes and 5 shortest yard holes minus 1/2 handicap.

Witches Flight:

1st- Kathy Faber 39.5

2nd- Monica Fairbanks 40 (card off)

3rd-Linda Berardo 40 (card off)

Ghosts Flight:

1st- Shana Bott 38.5

2nd- Nancy Lauback 40.5

3rd- Nicole Nolan 41.5

Goblins Flight:

1st- Bonnie Steffen 37 (card off)

2nd- Sara Schuman 37 (card off)

3rd- Suzanne Desmarais 39

OFFICERS REPORTS

President – Karen Huckabay: Thank you everyone for playing today, great job winners of the Game, with that said, today’s general meeting is not following the order of the agenda. Note: meeting officially started at 12:20pm. Reminder the multi-membership rebate form is available on SNGA.org website for those who belong to more than one Club to fill out your rebate forms. Log on to SNGA.org and fill out the Rebate form to receive $20 for every additional Club after the first club you’ve joined within the year. SNGA will mail you a check sometime in October or November.

Vice President - Margie Cashwell: I like to inform the membership the changes coming from GHIN starting January 2020. Posting of your scores from every round of play must be posted on the day of play. Therefore, handicap index will be updated each time scores are posted. It will not be updated on bi-weekly basis anymore. If you checked into golf course and played a round but if you neglect to post your score on the day of play, GHIN will calculate your index by using your lowest score or the last posted score on record.

Business Women being a traveling club will have to look into a system where will need back-up GHIN Admin other than Kathy Faber to post our game day scores. Particularly if Kathy Faber is absent from the round, we will have to have another GHIN Administrator (Board Member) available to post scores from the various golf courses. Clarification from Deb Koch, the reason for your scores posted on the day of play is in the new GHIN system it will take into account the weather condition of the day and factor that into calculation of your handicap index. Example, high winds, rain, extreme heat or severe cold conditions etc. We will have more discussion on this process and the Board members will be meeting on this in the next couple of months.

SilverCup Tournament- Margie Cashwell: This was an amazing experience for all our players. Each round, the matches were played very well against the North team. They were close matches, although the South Team lost the cup back to the North this year, it wasn’t without a good fight with every match going down to wire. Playing SilverCup is a tremendous experience playing good competitive golf with teammates from different golf clubs that you don’t normally play with. I really want to encourage everyone to please come out and try out for the SilverCup team in the Qualifier tournament. You will gain great experience playing with the various levels of good women golfers throughout Las Vegas. There were several Business Women members on the team: Myself, Danielle Kaylor, Theresa Prospero, Theresa Summers, Christine Soscia, Karen Herness & Rusty Beckel (Captains) which makes our Club’s participation pretty significant on the team. This is my 2nd year playing and it is A LOT OF FUN! Please think about playing for the South team and try out for the SilverCup team during the Qualifier tournament around June/July. Next year, 2020 the SilverCup tournament will be played here at PAIUTE Golf Club.

Treasurer’s Report – Nicole Nolan: “First” reading of the Treasurer’s Report - Beginning bank balance of $8,621.95. Income received: Fall Trip to AZ $566.72. Total Income of $9,188.67. Disbursements: Fall trip-Courtyard Hotel $1,420.69; Eagle Mountain Golf $1,960.20; Talking Stick Golf $1402.49. Total Disbursements: $4,783.38. Ending Bank Balance (9/30/19) $4,405.29. Outstanding Checks of $25.00. Actual Bank Balance (10/01/19) $4,380.29. Jingle Balls account balance of $15,802.74. There were no questions or corrections from the floor. Treasurer report will be filed for audit.

Secretary Report – Lai Rippee: No additional questions or corrections on August’s report. Connie Hill motioned to approve. Monica Fairbanks 2nd the motion. All in favor. August 2019 minutes passed and report will be filed as written.

OLD BUSINESS

Fall Trip Summary-Michelle Bradford Michelle was absent. Brief recap from Rose Coker, Karen Huckabay & Margie Cashwell. All & all Scottsdale AZ was very successful golf trip, although very “hot” but the golf courses and hotel accommodations were great. We had a fun time with grab-bag prizes, CP’s etc.

NEW BUSINESS

Sierra NV Cup Teams: Margie Cashwell began the team selection for Blue and Silver teams. Total of 40 players divided into 7 groups of “like” handicaps. In tandem random order, names were drawn for Blue and Silver teams. Results of players for both teams are listed at the bottom.

Jingle Balls: Karen Huckabay informed us this year the entry fees was enough to “break even” covering the basic cost of the tournament. We do not have enough funds this year to pay for the materials needed for centerpieces. The printing cost of the program flyer & hole sponsor signs are donated by Rapid Colors or greatly discounted. For future Jingle Balls tournaments, we will need to discuss raising the entry fees. Board members will meet on this subject and we’ll put to vote by membership. Jingle Balls work day is on Nov. 16th at 11:00am. Location will be either at Christine Soscia or Karen Huckabay’s house. Final determination on which location will be announced by email and/or by next general meeting Nov. 2nd. Volunteer sign up sheet was passed around the room for people to please come help put together gift baskets, goodie bags and player’s packets.

SNGABW Membership Renewal: Nicole Nolan gave details & benefits of what SNGAW membership entails. For $55.00/yr which portion ($30.00) goes to SNGA for posting GHIN handicap. Our home course is Bear’s Best played once a month and the other 2 weekends, we travel playing at various golf courses throughout Las Vegas area. Our club also has 3 major tournaments a year--Club Championship, Maary Smith, Sierra NV Cup and Jingle Balls Invitational. Our club also have organized away trips either in Spring and/or Fall. This is a package comprised of 2 night accommodations and 2 rounds of golf. Membership renewal forms were emailed and another reminder email will be sent again in Nov. Membership fees must be submitted by the deadline of December 15, 2019 otherwise January 2020, you will be kicked out of GHIN system. If this happens, you will need to sign up again for GHIN and reinstate your previous GHIN number.

Christmas Party: Theresa Prospero was absent, Karen Huckabay informed us this year our event will be at Eagle Crest Golf Club who now has food and beverage services. They are very good to work with us and is very accommodating. Eagle Crest is giving us a good rate for a round of golf and nice menu for Christmas buffet luncheon. More specific information to come.

Board Member Nominees: Kathy Faber apologized for the problems in posting the scores for the past 2 play days. Some people’s scores did not get posted even though all the scores were double-checked, added and adjustments were made before posting. The glitches have been worked out and everything should be good, however please always double check if your scores got posted on GHIN and if not, please let me know right away to fix it immediately.

2020 Board Member nominee, Suzanne Desmarais is interested to serve. However, anyone who wishes to serve on the Board for any position is open to run. The position does not have to vacant before a member can serve. If there are more than ONE person interested in any particular Board position, all the names will be on the ballot to be voted by SNGABW membership.

Team Play: Margie Cashwell and Christine Soscia will be the Captains for next year’s team. Calling all members to come join the team! We want to encourage as many participants from Business Women to come out and play Team Play. It is a great experience and a lot of fun playing partner’s match play format. The matches are played on every other Monday, Team Play schedule is out with 1st match starting on January 27th at Bear’s Best. Business Women will have a “Bye” but we’ll be the hosting team and will need volunteers to be spotters & course marshals.

September Birthdays: September Birthdays: Valerie Catallozzi (3); Debbie Love (6); Margie Cashwell (7); Pauline Jackson (9); Suzanne Desmarais (26); Deanna Imboden (29)

October Birthdays: Denise Traniello (3); Patty Gerber (15); Sue Rambo (16); Christine Yun (17); Teresa Howe (20); Christy Smith (21); Sandra Hengels (25); Kay Taskashima Heine (30)

Meeting Adjourned at 12:58pm

Next meeting is November 2, 2019 at Bear’s Best

Written by: Lai Rippee – SNGABW Secretary

Southern Nevada Golf Association for Business Women

General Meeting—January 12, 2019

The regular meeting of the Southern Nevada Golf Association for Business Women was held on January 12, 2109 at Bear’s Best Golf Club. Three Board Members were present (President, Vice President, & Treasurer). A total of 37 members attended this meeting. The meeting was called to order at 2:05 pm by President Karen Huckabay.

Introductions – President Karen Huckabay opened the meeting by congratulating Mary Schweitzer who had a hole-in-one on #15 today. She acknowledged and welcomed playing with us today new member, Shayna Bott and two guests of Terry Howe, Kim Gross and Rhonda Sledge.

OFFICERS REPORTS

President – Karen Huckabay: Karen introduced the Board for 2019. All members were returning except for herself as President. She stated that Jan Hansen will continue to be Tournament Chair for 2019 responsible for the Maary Smith Match Play, Club Championship and Sierra Nevada Cup. Karen encouraged members to participate more in play dates understanding that work and family does come first.

Vice President - Margie Cashwell: Margie noted that we had 119 members as of December 31. Renewals have been slowly coming in and we are currently at 89 members. New members for 2019 include Shayna Bott, Rusty Beckel, Sue May, Wendy Deutsch and Kyoko Pizzo joined today. Margie stated that she will be following up with those members who have not yet renewed.

Treasurer’s Report – Jackie Pierson: Treasurer’s Report had a Beginning bank balance of $4205.08. Income received: Reimbursement for Christmas Party $2055.00 and Membership Dues of $2,750.00. Total Income of $9010.08. Disbursements: 2019 Team Play Dues of $25.00; Past President’s Gift of $156.78 and Christmas Party of $1,960.00. Ending Bank Balance (12/31/18) $6868.20. Outstanding Checks of $1,560.00. Actual Bank Balance (1/07/19) $8428.20. It was noted that the balance is high because the 2019 Handicap Fees have not been paid. This will occur in February.

Kirkwood Bank Account (Jingle Balls Account) balance of $765.24.

Jackie also reviewed the completed 2018 Budget results. We surpassed our estimated income by $580.00 due to new memberships. We were over budget on expenses by $324.00 due to an expected expense of printing new membership brochures and a memorial for Mary Tucker, but had saved in other expense items that were under budget. As a result, our working cash on hand as of 12/31/18 was $405.00.

Secretary Report – Lai Rippee: In Lai’s absence, Jan Hansen reviewed the minutes. There were no questions, and motion to approve December 2019 Minutes was passed. They will be filed as written.

WSNGA Rep Report - Nancy Lauback: Margie Cashwell gave the report in Nancy’s absence. All tournament info is located at www.wsnga.org. The State Partners is scheduled for April 28-29 at Mt. Falls. Southern Nevada Sr. Amateur is May 21-22 at LV National and the Amateur/Silver Cup Qualifier is June 11-12 at Boulder Creek. The next WSNGA meeting is January 21 at LV National with the Team Play Captains meeting to follow.

COMMITTEE and CHAIRPERSONS REPORTS

Bear’s Best—Jan. 12—9:00am SG—Jackie Pierson

Low Gross & Low Net. Three flights awards for 1st & 2nd place in both gross and net. 37 Players

First Flight Gross Net

1st Place:             Michelle Bradford, 79 Monica Fairbanks, 72

2nd Place:             My Paulsen, 84 Gail Chow, 73

Second Flight

1st Place:              Lorna Daniels, 87 Janis Lunde, 72

2nd Place:             Jan Hansen, 94 Barb Ford, 74

Third Flight

1st Place:              Teruko Sczcepanski, 96 Shayna Bott, 71

2nd Place:             Tomoko Miyazono, 97 Mary Schweitzer, 75

President Huckabay noted that in the future all Play Day Chairs will be sending out the results to all members instead of including them in the General Meeting.

OLD BUSINESS

Jingle Balls Invitational - Jan Hansen: Jan read a thank you note from Carrie Ostria of The Little Miss Hannah Foundation. “Thank you for your incredible donation and continued support of our organization! Your group has made such a great impact in allowing us to continue to work with these amazing kids.”

2019 Calendar: Karen stated that the calendar is almost complete. Jan has a few more dates to fill in in September and October. Karen noted that she has had a great response from members who have volunteered to be play day chairs and thanked those members for stepping up to help.

Team Play: Theresa Prospero stated we have 17 members who are on the team for this year. Shirts have been ordered and should be here before our first match on February 4 at TPC Summerlin.

NEW BUSINESS

Survey: Margie Cashwell reviewed the results of the Away Trip survey that was sent out to all members. She noted there were 60 responses to the survey and gave a summary of the results. A majority of the members are still in favor of having two trips, are willing to travel up to 300 miles, are willing to pay up to $400, and job/family and time of year prevented participation. Margie also stated the comments were great and very helpful. She will be sending out a complete summary of the survey to all members in the near future.

Rules Chair: President Huckabay stated that she would like to renew our commitment to having a Rules Chair review rules at each General Meeting. Janis Lunde and Deb Koch have agreed to be our Rules Chairs. Janis reminded everyone that the process of dropping a ball is different under the new rules. Take a look at the picture in the pamphlet handed out by Sue May at the seminar and in the new Rules Book. Also, there are great videos at usga.org. Janis also cleared up a rumor that had been circulating in some groups that no one is allowed to stand on the teeing area when is a player is ready to hit. This is NOT true. A playing partner may not stand behind a player on the tee, on the green or along the line of play on the green.

January Birthdays: Barb Ford (1); Teruko Szczepanski (1); Robin Sharp (5); Patty Speer (7); Tina Lipschutz (18); Janis Lunde (18); Michelle Schwartz (19); Ashley Vaughn (27).

Meeting Adjourned at 2:50 pm

Next meeting is February 9, 2019 @ Bear’s Best

Written by: Jan Hansen for Lai Rippee – SNGABW Secretary

                                                                 Southern Nevada Golf Association for Business Women

General Meeting—December 8, 2018

The regular meeting of the Southern Nevada Golf Association for Business Women was held on December 8, 2018 at Desert Willow GC. Five Board Members were present (President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer & WSNGA Rep. A total of 42 members attended this meeting. The meeting was called to order at 12:42pm by President Jan Hansen.

Introductions – President Jan Hansen opened the meeting by thanking everyone for playing today in our annual Holiday Party. She acknowledged and welcomed playing with us today new member, Sandy Barletta and two guests, Sandy Scitti (Peggy Gore) and Lynne Miller (Debbie Love).

OFFICERS REPORTS

President – Jan Hansen: Thank you Monica and Peggy for putting together the Holiday party for us and making all the arrangements with Desert Willow. You ladies did a great job! The golf course was in great shape and what a gorgeous day.

Vice President - Margie Cashwell: Welcome back Jan! We have no new members joining as of November and December, closing the year 2018 with total of 120 SNGABW members. Renewal membership forms have been sent out to all members to fill out and submit your dues to Jackie Pierson before end of this year December 31, 2018! From our last meeting we had discussed taking a survey from membership regarding play days and planned trips in the Spring or Fall. The survey will be coming to everyone, please look for the email.

Treasurer Report – Jackie Pierson: Treasurer’s Report had a Beginning bank balance of $ 4,451.82. Income received: Reimbursement for Christmas Party $110.00. Total Income of $4,561.82. Disbursements: Fall Trip Reimbursements $356.74 Ending Bank Balance (11/30/18) $4,205.08. Outstanding Checks of $1,100. Actual Bank Balance (12/05/18) $5,305.08.

Kirkwood Bank Account (Jingle Balls Account) balance of $4,465.24.

Secretary Report – Lai Rippee: There were no questions, motion to approve November 2018 Minutes Report was passed as written.

Worthy Note: “Congratulations” to our Southern Nevada Silver Cup Team for bringing back the Cup to the

south on November 12-14 at Chimera Golf Club! Our Southern Nevada ladies ROCKED with 7 of the team members were Business Women—3 rookies: Margie Cashwell, Christine Soscia and Nicole Nolan along with 3 veterans: Debbie Love, Monica Fairbanks, Masako Brown and newest BW member Captain Karen Herness!!!

WSNGA Rep Report - Nancy Lauback: Congratulations to Jan Hansen, Deb Koch and Sue May, elected on 2019 SNGA Executive Board of Directors

COMMITTEE and CHAIRPERSONS REPORTS

Highland Falls--Nov. 10--8:30am SG—Suzanne Desmarais, Kathy Faber

Here are the results of the game of the day which was:  Holes that begin with the letters in “Ones”, subtract half your handicap.

First Flight:

FIRST:                    KATHY FABER – 35.5

SECOND:              LAI RIPPEE – 36.5

THIRD:                  DANIELLE KAYLOR - 38

Second Flight:

FIRST:                    AUDREY JORDON – 33.5

SECOND:              CINDI CHITTENDEN – 38.5

THIRD:                  KAREN BERNARD – 39

Third Flight:

FIRST:                    MAGGIE BOWGREN – 36.5

SECOND:              ROSE COKER – 37.5

THIRD:                  JILL PAIGE – 38.5 (card off with Marcela Tannenbergova)

Bear’s Best—Dec. 1st—9:00am SG—Jackie Pierson

Low Gross & Low Net. Three flights awards for 1st & 2nd place in both gross and net. 42 Players

First Flight Gross Net

1st Place:             Theresa Prospero, 79 Gail Chow, 70

2nd Place:             Debbie Love, 83 Margie Cashwell, 72

Second Flight

1st Place:              Bernadette Devonshire, 86 Karen Bernard, 71

2nd Place:             Jan Hansen, 89 Kathy Faber, 75

Third Flight

1st Place:              Bonnie Steffen, 100 Judy Gardner, 76

2nd Place:             Fay Geddes, 101 Melissa Miller, 77

Holiday Party—Dec. 8—8:00am SG—Monica Fairbanks & Peggy Gore

The game was front or back best 9, minus half handicap

First Flight Gross Net

 1st Place Debbie Love, 28 Theresa Prospero, 28 (c/off)

 2nd Place Michelle Bradford, 32 Lai Rippee, 28

Second Flight

1st Place Monica Fairbanks, 35 (c/off) Millie Anderson, 28.5

2nd Place Jan Hansen, 35 Fay Geddes, 29 (c/off)

Third Flight

1st Place Sara Schuman, 36 Linda Pfeifle 24.5

2nd Place Karen Bernard, 37 Suzanne Desmarais 27.5

Sierra Nevada Cup—Bear’s Best, 8:00am SG--November 4—Jan Hansen

Here are the results from 2nd Round Matches:

Theresa Prospero/Melissa Miller (Silver) defeated Ellen Guerra/Kathy Faber  (Blue)

Michelle Bradford/Gail Chow  (Blue) halved with My Paulsen/Lai Rippee

Danielle Kaylor/Audrey Jordan (Blue) defeated Christine Soscia/Rose Coker  (Silver)

Maureen Coleman/Kathy Dunnuck (Blue) defeated Deb Koch/Lorna Daniels (Silver)

Monica Fairbanks/Nicole Nolan  (Silver) defeated Karen Huckabay/Nancy Lauback  (Blue)

Karen Herness/Margie Cashwell (Blue) defeated Penny Davis/Suzanne Desmarais  (Silver)

Karen Bernard/Angela Parker (Blue) defeated Bernadette Devonshire/Janet Veloz  (Silver)

Theresa Summers/Sara Schuman  (Silver) defeated Mary Schweitzer/Trinh Kern  (Blue)

Tomoko Miyazono/Connie Patterson (Silver) defeated Brenda Asato/Barb Ford  (Blue)

Round 2:  Blue 4 ½           Silver 4 ½

Round 1:  Blue 6                Silver 2

Total:  Blue 10 ½                Silver 6 ½

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE BLUE TEAM who are our 2018 Sierra Nevada Cup Champions!

OLD BUSINESS

Jingle Balls Invitational - Jan Hansen: Many “thanks” again to everyone for helping out with Jingle Balls tournament, President Jan Hansen has received many compliments and still receiving compliments for what a fun, very well run & organized event. We have finished up balancing the books for Jingle Balls and will be able to send $1,800 to each of our charities—Little Miss Hannah Foundation and Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation.  This will leave a balance in our Jingle Balls account of $865.24.  Thank you letters for our sponsors and donors are going out next week.  Thanks again to all of you for your support and help!

Looking at the calendar for 2019, Thanksgiving is very late on November 28th. Traditionally, we have Jingle Balls the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving, but this will push us into 1st week of December which may conflict with other Club invitationals. Jan proposed to membership moving Jingle Balls ahead a week to Tuesday, November 19, 2019. This proposal was approved by majority show of hands in the room.

2019 New Rules Seminar – Jan Hansen: On December 1st, Sue May gave our group the USGA “revised” rules seminar. We all received the new 2019 USGA Rules Booklet and the Newly Revised Rules Pamphlet. It was very informative and everyone must try to attend one of these seminars if you missed the one held for us at Bear’s Best. If you need the new rule booklets, please come see me or Margie Cashwell at the end of the meeting. IMPORTANT: SNGABW will NOT ADOPT a local rule taking 2 Strokes penalty for a ball out of bounds & be allowed to drop your ball from where it was lost or last seen crossing the out of bounds margin. This means we will continue to go back to the tee or where the ball was last played for any ball lost out of bounds. This is consistent with SNGA and WSNGA local rules.

NEW BUSINESS

2019 Calendar—Jan Hansen:

January complete and here are those dates:

January 12           Bear’s Best 9:00 a.m. shotgun $45  General Meeting to follow

January 19           Highland Falls 8:30 a.m. shotgun $45

January 27           Chimera 8:00 a.m. shotgun  $59  (Good practice round before Team Play on February 18)

March 16             Boulder City       7:30 a.m. SG       $38

May 4                    Boulder City       7:00 a.m. SG       $38

Club Championship moved from August to June 1st and 2nd. It will be a 7:00 a.m. shotgun each day with green fees of $45.

We will also be adding to our play days golf courses such as: Royal Links, Bali Hai, Rhodes Ranch, Boulder City Municipal, Reflection Bay, Coyote Springs, etc.

Other suggested golf courses to look into for TBD: Primm, Rio Secco, Arroyo, Siena

SNGA Membership Benefits–Jan Hansen: Please check out the membership benefits on SNGA.org website. There are some pretty good discounts as SNGA member you are able to receive if you explore and go through some of these benefits on “Green Saver card” and Affinity Travel. Also fill out your rebate forms for handicap dues if you belong to more than one SNGA club. It’s $20 per additional club you belong to so long as that Club has paid its handicap dues.

Team Play—Nancy Lauback & Theresa Prospero: Nancy announced this year there are 17 players signed up for team play…Wahoo! We’re very proud of our team last year by winning overall gross. We have even more desire to uphold our title. Theresa and I will be in contact with the team after the holidays when we have the Captain’s meeting. The kick off team play match is February 4th, 2019. Here’s a quote from Jack Nicklaus for our team…

“Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s level of aspiration and expectations”

Team Play Coordinator—Jackie Pierson: Due to the untimely passing of Dee Trimble, Jackie Pierson will be SNGA Team Play Coordinator for 2019.

Installation 2019 Officers—Jan Hansen: The Executive Board Officers for 2019 ceremony with officially sworn in Board Officers: Karen Huckabay as President and Lai Rippee as Secretary. In honor of our current and outgoing President, Jan Hansen, we presented her with a crystal plaque from SNGABW Membership for the outstanding leadership and dedication Jan Hansen has provided to the club. Our heart-felt gratitude & appreciation to Jan! Standing ovation & applauses!!!

2019 SNGABW Executive Officers

President: Karen Huckabay

Vice President: Margie Cashwell

Treasurer: Jackie Pierson

Secretary: Lai Rippee

WSNGA Rep: Nancy Lauback

December Birthdays: Masako Brown (3); Jill Paige (6); Mary Schweitzer (6); Deb Koch (13); Theresa Prospero (22); Marcela Tannenbergova (24); Carole Kennedy (27); Melissa Miller (28); Kim Bazzelle (29); Nancy Scoble (29); Erin Thornton (31)

Meeting Adjourn at 1:­­­10pm

Next meeting is January 12, 2019 @ Bear’s Best

Written by: Lai Rippee – SNGABW Secretary

Southern Nevada Golf Association for Business Women

General Meeting—November 4, 2018

The regular meeting of the Southern Nevada Golf Association for Business Women was held on November 4, 2018 at Bear’s Best GC. Three Board Members were present (Vice President, Secretary & WSNGA Rep. A total of 36 members attended this meeting. The meeting was called to order at 1:15pm by Vice President, Margie Cashwell in President Jan Hansen’s absence.

Introductions – Vice President, Margie Cashwell opened the meeting by thanking everyone for playing today 2nd Round of SIERA CUP: Silver Team vs. Blue Team. Today’s weather turned out to be another beautiful warm autumn day.

OFFICERS REPORTS

President – Jan Hansen Absent: Margie Cashwell read for Jan Hansen.

On October 29th Dee Trimble passed away after suffering a serious fall.  She had recently joined our group and many of you may remember her from Team Play as she was one of Team Play Coordinators for WSNGA.  She was a great supporter of the golfing community and her presence will be missed from her untimely passing.

Vice President - Margie Cashwell: Welcomed Rusty Beckel, our guest playing with us today. We have no new members.

Treasurer Report – Jackie Pierson Absent: Margie Cashwell read for Jackie Pierson.

Treasure Report had a beginning Bank balance of $ 4,788.27. Income received: Refund for Club Championship gifts $40; New memberships (2) $85.00; Fall trip $4129.39. Total Income of $9,042.66

Disbursements: Web Domain Name $13.95; Fall Trip Hotel Rooms $2642.73; Fall Trip Golf $1530; (2x) Fall Trip Golf Reimbursements $180 ($90 each); (2x) Handicap fees $60; Bank Charge renewed checks & stamp $164.16 for Total Disbursement amount of $4,590.84. ENDING BANK BALANCE (10/31/18) $4,451.82 with Outstanding Checks of $386.74. Actual Balance (11/01/18) $4,065.08.

Kirkwood Bank Account (Jingle Balls Account) balance of $904.67.

Secretary Report – Lai Rippee: There were no questions, motion to approve the Minutes was passed as written. Handicap Rebate checks have gone out and if you filled out the SNGA rebate form online, you will be getting your check soon if you haven’t yet. I received mine this past week. If you didn’t get the information from previous meetings and you belong to multiple clubs, go online to www.snga.org and fill out the rebate form. A refund of $20 for each additional Club Membership you belonged to for calendar year.

WSNGA Rep Report - Nancy Lauback:

Congratulations to both My Paulsen and Monica Fairbanks for the achievements in the State Am Tournament!

Silver Cup Tournament is November 12-14 at Chimera Golf Club. We need to give our support to South Nevada Team and come out to the tournament. Captains Karen Herness and Rusty Beckel are asking for volunteers to help with the 3-day event.

COMMITTEE and CHAIRPERSONS REPORTS

Fall Trip, Prescott AZ—Antelope Hills Golf Club, SOUTH Course--October 20th 9am SG—Lai Rippee

The game was “all about 3’s” Take your best scores for (3) Par 3’s, 4’s and 5’s minus half your handicap. Prize awarded to 1st place for Gross & Net for three flights:

Flight A

1st Gross—Sherry Jackson, 38 (3-way card off with Debbie Love & Michelle Bradford)

1st Net – Monica Fairbanks, 33.5

Flight B

1st Gross—Jan Hansen, 40

1st Net – Audrey Jordan, 31.5

Flight C

1st Gross—Karen Bernard, 41

1st Net – Marcela Tannenbergova, 30

Fall Trip, Prescott AZ—Antelope Hills Golf Club, NORTH Course--October 21th 9am SG—Lai Rippee

3-person Scramble, team handicap breakdown: 25% A player, 15% B player, 10% C player. Prize to 1st & 2nd place team NET total.

First place team: Monica Fairbanks, Audrey Jordan, Nicole Nolan--Net 62

Second place team: Michelle Bradford, Jessica Ng, Suzanne Desmarais—Net 64

Painted Desert—October 28—7:30am SG—Suzanne Desmarais for Margie Cashwell

The game was take your best 9 holes and deduct half your handicap.  Net scores were rewarded for 1st, 2nd & 3rd place.

First Flight

1st Place:             Theresa Summers, 28

2nd Place:             Kathy Dunnuck, 29

3rd Place:              Kathy Faber, 31

Second Flight

1st Place:              Melissa Causey, 23.5

2nd Place:             Sue Silcott, 25.5

3rd Place:              Millie Anderson, 29

OLD BUSINESS

NEW BUSINESS

2019 Executive Board—Margie Cashwell: The Executive Board Officers for 2019 are:

President: Karen Huckabay

Vice President: Margie Cashwell

Treasurer: Jackie Pierson

Secretary: Lai Rippee

WSNGA Rep: Nancy Lauback

The new board will be installed at the Holiday Party scheduled for December 8th 2018 at Desert Willow.

SNGABW Future Trips—Lai Rippee: As discussed in previous meeting, we want to take a membership poll, few to obtain feedback about the viability of future planned club trips. For example, there is some consensus to have ONE trip per year versus two and timing of the trip would be better served in Spring/early summer etc. Thank you for those of you who have sent your responses to Jan Hansen. If you haven’t and do have feedback you’d like to share, please send your questions to Jan. She will condense our response and send them for the membership to review. Let’s try to get this done within the next two weeks so we can have it wrapped up before year-end.

Siera Cup – Margie Cashwell: The 2nd Round at Bear’s Best Golf Club.

Today’s round was very close, the points were split exactly in half with 4.5 points won by each team. Nevertheless, it wasn’t enough with combined 2 round results, the Team winning 2018 Siera Cup is the BLUE Team with 10.5 points over the SILVER team with 6.5 points. Many “thanks” to great job done by the Team Captains: Theresa Prospero, Christine Soscia, Karen Herness and Nancy Lauback.

Jingle Balls—Margie Cashwell: Our donations for raffle prizes are coming along and Jan will keep sending the updated list. Donation request letters are available if anyone needs one to send as well as an email version has gone out for those working on procuring items for our raffles. We have TWO Special Grand prizes donated to us this year. One is for 2 nights stay in Suite Room at Westgate Hotel with $500 gift card & tickets to show secured by Nicole Nolan. The 2nd grand prize is 2 night stay at JW Marriott package secured by Barb Ford. These are great Raffle prizes and we will be selling the raffle tickets at $5.00 per ticket.

The Jingle Ball Work Day to assemble all the raffle gifts will be on Saturday, November 24th from 11am – 2pm at Lai Rippee’s house, address is 11294 Merado Peak Drive in Summerlin. We’ll need volunteers to come help assemble gift baskets on Sat. Nov. 24th. As in past, we will have work stations with the gift baskets being main assembly group. Please let Jan and Lai Rippee know if you would like to come help on Nov. 24th.

Rules Seminar--Dec. 1st – Margie Cashwell: Reminder to everyone we will hold the New Rules Seminar after play at Bear’s Best on Dec. 1st. Sue May will be conducting the seminar, please try to make this important seminar for the new USGA rules in effect January 1st 2019. Kathy Faber has volunteered to email our membership with online information such as detailed videos and demonstrations of what the new rule changes will be. Thank you Kathy!

2019 Calendar – Margie Cashwell: We’ve experiencing challenges with lack of participation on our play days. This has given rise for us to re-evaluate as we have 120 members but it seems there is only a core of 20-40 members who participate. Our calendar for entire year is set and the golf courses provide us with favorable rates due to our numbers we contract (40 spots). This will not be possible given some of our numbers have been very low at some of the golf courses. The golf clubs are not happy when we release back so many spots, as well as the play day Chairperson(s) have to re-work the game & scorecards with last minute changes etc. Please let Jan Hansen know any golf course suggestions you would like to play for next year and if there are golf courses you do not wish to play. Feel free to submit them to Jan confidentially.

Club Championship 2019 will be on JUNE 1st & 2nd, 2019

Holiday Party--Monica Fairbanks & Peggy Gore: The destination will be at Desert Willow Golf Club, 2020 Horizon Ridge Parkway in Henderson. The date is Saturday, December 8th at 8:00am. The price is $55.00 per person, $34 for golf and $21 for the lunch.

Please make check payment to SNGABW.

Please give MONICA FAIRBANKS your check, either in person or mail to 488 Eagle Vista Drive, Henderson NV 89012 ASAP. Please RSVP with Monica Fairbanks or Peggy Gore and send in your payment as soon as possible.

November Birthdays: Tomoko Miyazono (1); Lai Rippee (3); Peggy Gore (4); Verna Huiskamp (7); Connie Hill (10); Kathy Faber (11); Maggie Bowgren (17); Maureen Coleman (18); Penny Davis (20); Laura Kodama (20); Nancy Lauback (22); Karen Bernard (24); Kim Jeffreys (24)

Meeting Adjourn at 1:­­­50pm

Next meeting is December 8, 2018 Holiday Party @ Desert Willow

Written by: Lai Rippee – SNGABW Secretary

Southern Nevada Golf Association for Business Women

General Meeting—October 14, 2018

The regular meeting of the Southern Nevada Golf Association for Business Women was held on October 14, 2018 at Las Vegas National Golf Club. Four Board Members were present (President, Vice President, Secretary & WSNGA Rep. A total of 33 members attended this meeting. The meeting was called to order at 12:45pm by President, Jan Hansen.

Introductions – President Hansen opened the meeting by thanking everyone for playing today 1st Round of SIERA CUP: Silver Team vs. Blue Team. Today’s weather turned out beautiful warm autumn day with no wind.

OFFICERS REPORTS

President – Jan Hansen: Jan thanked our Canadian guests, friends of Laura Nalder for playing with us. Unfortunately they could not stay as one of her guests had an accident this morning and broke her wrist. Laura’s Canadian guests left after play and went to hospital to check in on their injured friend.

Vice President - Margie Cashwell: Welcomed new member Karen Herness playing with us today and one newest member joining to Business Women, Sandy Barletta. This brings our total membership to 120 members.

Treasurer Report – Jan Hansen read for Jackie Pierson: Reported August Treasurer’s Report had beginning bank balance of $4,717.36. Income received: new member $55; Club championship luncheon $408; SNJGA Contribution $300; 2018 Fall trip $580.11 for Total Income of $6,060.47. Disbursements: Club championship trophies $114.20; Club championship luncheon $408; Contribution to Junior Women’s Golf $600; Handicap fees to SNGA $150 for Total Disbursements of $1,272.20. ENDING BANK BALANCE 8/31/18 of $4,788.27.

September Treasurer’s Report had a beginning Bank balance of $ 4,788.27. No income was Deposited and no Disbursements made in September, ending Bank balance as of 9/30/18 is $4,788.27. Outstanding Checks (to be posted from fall trip payments) $4,120.44. Actual Balance (10/11/18) $8,908.71.

Kirkwood Bank Account (Jingle Balls Account) balance of $904.67.

Secretary Report – Lai Rippee: There were no questions regarding the August Minutes. Report was filled as written.

WSNGA Rep Report - Nancy Lauback: Emails sent regarding upcoming SNGA & WSNGA tournaments:

Boulder City Invitational on Tue. Oct. 9th at Boulder City Municipal GC

Los Prados Invitational “Devil Made Me Do It…Again” on Wed. Oct. 31st, 8:30am Shot gun

Jingle Balls Invitational on Tues. Nov. 27th, 9am Shot gun

Chimera Pearl Harbor Memorial Tournament on Thur. Dec. 6th, 9am Shot gun

Most of the invitationals are full with waiting list in place. There may be couple of spots left at Chimera. Contact Chimera Club directly or go online to www.snga.org for registration forms.

COMMITTEE and CHAIRPERSONS REPORTS

Palm Valley GC—August 12—7:00am SG—Kathy Faber/Suzanne Desmarais

The game was blind 9 holes. We had only front 9 holes available and played 2 times to make round of 18.

Flight 1—Rocky 2&3

Gail Chow, 37.5

Christine Soscia, 38

Theresa Prospero, 39.5

Flight 2—Bourne Supremacy 5

Deb Koch, 39

Connie Hill, 39 (card off with Deb)

Kathy Faber, 41.5

Flight 3—Superwoman 2

Angela Parker, 35.5

Penny Davis Schilling, 36

Suzanne Desmarais, 37

Las Vegas National—August 19—7:00am SG—Fay Geddes/Margie Cashwell

The game of the day was Tax Relief which meant we could throw out one Par 3, one Par 4 and one Par 5 and subtract all of our handicap.  The flights were named after some accountants in our group

Lydia Salo Flight

1st Place:             Nancy Lauback

2nd Place:             Marcela Tannenbergova

3rd Place:              Maggie Bowgren

Nicole Nolan Flight

1st Place:              Lorna Daniels

2nd Place:             Kathy Dunnuck

3rd Place:              Kathy Faber

Jackie Pierson Flight

1st Place:              Karen Huckabay

2nd Place:             Danielle Kaylor

3rd Place:              Peggy Gore

Painted Desert—August 26—7:00am SG—Margie Cashwell

Count all ODD numbered holes, and deduct half your handicap. We had two flights.

 Winners:

Flight 1:  

1st Gross             Monica Fairbanks – 43

1st Net                Barb Ford – 35.5

2nd Net               Lorna Daniels – 36

3rd Net                Maureen Coleman – 40.5

Flight 2:

1st Gross            Sam DeHart – 50

1st Net                Suzanne Desmarais – 37

2nd Net               Jill Paige – 38.5

3rd Net               Sue Silcott – 40

Closest to the Pin:            

Hole #4 – Margie Cashwell

Hole #8 – Monica Fairbanks

Hole #11 – Melissa Causey

Hole #16 – Bernadette Devonshire

Longest Drive – Hole #6:  Jill Paige

Mountain Falls GC—September 8—8:00am SG—Kathy Faber/Angela Parker

Better 9 holes scores, Front or Back minus half handicap.

Flight 1: 1st Gross—Debbie Love, 33

1st Net – Michelle Bradford, 31.5

2nd Net – Margie Cashwell, 32

Flight 2: 1st Gross – Tina Lipschutz, 40

1st Net – Nancy Lauback, 32.5

2nd Net – Kathy Faber, 33 (card off with Lorna Daniels)

Flight 3: 1st Gross – Angela Parker, 43

1st Net – Suzanne Desmarais, 32 (card off with Millie Anderson)

2nd Net – Millie Anderson, 32

Coyote Springs—September 15—8am SG—Theresa Prospero

We had a wonderful day, with the wind blowing only on the final few holes, and thanks to all who played.
The game of the day was pre chosen nine holes and Putts:
Gross winners
               Karen Herness
               Monica Fairbanks
Net winners
               Lai Rippee
               Rose Coker
Putts
               Michelle Bradford 
               Faye Geddes
               Karen Huckabay 
               Nicole Nolan

Bear’s Best—September 29—7:30am SG—Jackie Pierson

Boulder Creek GC—October 7—8:00am TT—Lai Rippee

The game was “YOUR BEST SIDE” whether you like your front or back side...score better, minus half handicap. Prize awarded to 1st place Gross and Net winners for 3 flights. The winners were:

Monster Flight 

Gross—Laura Nalder, 38

Net—Danielle Kaylor, 34 card off with Lai Rippee

Ghost Flight

Gross—Audrey Jordan, 45 card off with Lorna Daniels

Net—Lorna Daniels, 35

Gobblin Flight

Gross—Millie Anderson, 47

Net—Terry Howe, 33.5

OLD BUSINESS

NEW BUSINESS

Handicap Rebate—Jan Hansen: The rebate program is available as of September 1st for anyone who belongs to more than one SNGA Club. You will receive $20 back for every additional club you belonged to for the year. Go online at www.snga.org and fill out the rebate form. A check will be sent to you from SNGA.

Nominating Committee—Jan Hansen: Jan thanked Christine Soscia and Suzanne Desmarais for serving on the Nominating Committee. They presented the slate of officers for the 2019 Executive Board members as follows: Vice President, continued by Margie Cashwell; WSNGA Rep, continued by Nancy Lauback; Jackie Pierson will remain as Treasurer and Lai Rippee will continue to be Secretary for 2019. President will be Karen Huckabay. As there were no positions with more than one nominee, a motion was made by Barb Ford to accept the slate as presented to all present at the meeting for a vote. The motion was 2nd by Monica Fairbanks and the slate was passed by the membership. The new board will be installed at the Holiday Party scheduled for December 8th 2018.

Holiday Party: This year’s Holiday Party is organized by Monica Fairbanks. The destination will be at Desert Willow. Monica will send out email with more information.

Fall Trip—Lai Rippee: The Itinerary is sent out to the participants going to Prescott next week Friday, October 19 to 21, 2018. We will be staying at the Forest Villas Hotel and playing golf at Antelope Hills Golf Club North & South Course. I will need to know your carpooling arrangements if I don’t already. Otherwise, it’s going to be another expected fun time with nice small tight group!

SNGABW Trips—Jan Hansen: A discussion was held regarding the planning of future planned trips for Business Women. It seems the participation has been declining with the current Fall trip being the worse participation to date. Out of 120 members, only 15 members are participating in this trip. There is a lot of planning and work that goes into putting a trip together which is done months ahead of time. With participation falling far below expected numbers, the membership needs to re-evaluate the necessity of having a trip in the Spring and particularly, in the Fall. Fall seems to be an extra busy time as the calendar is full with Club Invitationals, State tournaments and Silver Cup. Moving forward, I would ask you to submit a few questions/reasons FOR or AGAINST us to having just ONE planned trip and not in the Fall time frame.

Jingle Balls Entry—Jan Hansen: Our donations for raffle prizes are coming along and she will keep sending the updated list. Donation request letters are available if anyone needs to take one to send as well as an email version has gone out for those working on procuring items for our raffles. We have a Special Grand prize donated to us this year secured by Nicole Nolan. This is for 2 nights stay in Suite Room at Westgate Hotel with a $500 gift card and tickets to a show. We will need to do a Grand Raffle Drawing for this prize and a suggestion was made to charge $5.00 per ticket. This suggestion was adopted by the membership.

Jan also asked for suggestions as to the TWO CHARITIES we support with our raffle sales. These charities should be in our local community. A suggestion was also made that we dedicate this year’s Jingle Balls Invitational to Mary Tucker. This was adopted by the membership.

Sierra Cup – Jan Hansen: The 1st Round results are in after play at Las Vegas National.

Blue Team is leading with 6 points to Silver Team 2points.

The 2nd Round will be on November 4th at Bear’s Best with our general membership meeting following play.

2019 Calendar – Jan Hansen: Jan indicated she is a bit behind this year in contacting all the golf courses and securing contracted dates for 2019 calendar play days. However, our play day numbers have also fallen and it seems out of 120 members, it’s the same core 20-40 members participating. Every year, everyone is asked to give me suggestions of where you all like to play and it’s contracted for our group for approx. 40 spots. This is becoming harder to do with lack of participation at some of the course. We will not be able to get favorable green fees if our play day numbers continue to stay at this level. Any feedback about the courses or reasons for not participating regularly can be sent to Jan confidentially.

September & October Birthdays: Valerie Catallozzi (3); Debbie Love (6); Margie Cashwell (7); Pauline Jackson (9); Laura Nalder (16); Suzanne Desmarais (26); Deanna Imboden (29); Denise Traniello (3); Patty Gerber (15); Sue Rambo (16); Christine Yun (17); Teresa Howe (20); Christy Smith (21); Sandra Hengels (25); Michelle French (27); Kay Takashima Heine (30); Ethney Hovanec (31)

Meeting Adjourn at 1:10pm

Next meeting is November 4, 2018 at Bear’s Best

Written by: Lai Rippee – SNGABW Secretary