January, 2024 Board Minutes

PAGC Board Meeting

January 11th, 2024

Attendees – Doug Marinkovich, Chuck Pickett, Franco Montes, Christopher Walker, Nick Williams, Rafa

Carmona, Christopher Dierkes, Niraj Jain

Absent – John Driver

• December Meeting minutes approved.

• Board Roles for 2024

• Board of Directors

  • Doug Marinkovich – President & Tournament Chairman

  • Niraj Jain – Vice President/Tournaments

  • Christopher Walker – Secretary/Tournaments

  • Christopher Dierkes – Treasurer/Bookkeeper

  • Chuck Pickett – Tournaments/Golf Genius/Member Planet

  • Nicholas Williams – Handicap/Tournaments

  • Rafael Toscano Carmona – Membership

  • John Driver – Tournaments

  • Franco Montes – Communications Director/Tournaments

• Non-Board Roles:

  • Trevor Heathorn – Rules/Tournaments/Advisor

  • James Kaku – Golf Genius/Member Planet/Advisor

• Committees:

  • Tournament & Handicap – Doug, Chuck, John, Chris W & Nick

  • Communications – Franco, Doug, Bill Yang & Ken Arends for Facebook

  • Membership – Rafael

  • Audit – Chris W & Niraj

• We are locked out of Instagram and struggling to get back in. We are working on recovering the

password from the original creator, who is no longer part of the club.

• Finances – 2023 closing: we ended with about $7000 balance for the year (after a correction for

prize money charged at Baylands). Averaged 56 players per event. Baylands contacted former

members with money on the books about outstanding credits. Most of them donated the

money back to the club. The remainder is pending. Will discuss future policy about the length of

time money can sit on account.

• Club will make ball markers this year to give out at events. Waiting on some quotes.

• Some of the entry fees for NCGA events are increasing.

• The Honorary members list is still being finalized. The final list will be available next meeting.

• Communications – Hit rate on newsletter was about 75%. There was a refresh on the website,

with a notice for membership renewal.

• Membership – 306 current members, 85 non-renewals, 12 lapsed. Will put out last email

request tomorrow for members to renew, then move them to lapsed status after 48 hours. Will

likely pick up more members throughout the year to get back up near 400.

• TOC points proposal – Proposed change to points for major tournaments. For Directors Cup and

Stroke Play Championship, add 25 bonus points for overall low gross and overall low net. For

Match Play Championship, adjust top 4 to 100 points, Finalist to 110 points, and Winner to 125

points (to be consistent with winners of other majors) Pass unanimously.

• Handicap – One exceptional score. One extreme hard cap. Slow season, so not many scores

being posted.