October 2022 Meeting Minutes

STLDGC October Meeting 10/6/22
Next Meeting: 11/21/22

Board Members: Joe Jaegers, Jeff Willems, Alex Neupert, Jeff Irwin, Allen Hooper, Ray Vuichard, Taylor Thomas, Jake Anderson, Hayley Day, Brett Elam
Board Ambassadors: Robert Eich, Charlie Akers
Other Attendees: Irina Neupert, Calvin Kinsella

Review Action Items

Memberships

2022 Memberships – 273 sold, 2 replacements

Ace Pool: $163 (pays $122)
– No STLO or Willmore Open club member aces
– BDO Bunker is the next eligible event

Finances

Outstanding liabilities
– Willmore Tee Signs
– Endicott Tee Signs
– Hillside Teepads

Sponsor commitments
– Hillside teesigns (see Brett’s action items)

General Discussion Items

Logan pond dive next week – We are paying the diver to do this and we need to get the word out about our regular schedule for dives and for players to not get in the water or park in the grass

JB clean up items before club champs

Suggested donations for course design

Storage unit

2023 club member tags – list courses on the back

2023 board member elections

2023 Schedule and STLO dates

2023 Course Caregiver: material getting / making – roll out January 2023

Custom shirt orders just after club champs a possibility

Norrenburn’s – we have unclaimed concrete here

Rob Newcomb – $13 owed from Tin Man CTP

Irwin has Innova sleeves, Brett has Gateway sleeves

Sioux Baskets

Events

9/16 – 9/18 – STLO
– Event Report
– Retrospective (what was good, what was bad, and how can we make it better)
– Future added cash – $5000 next year

10/1 – Willmore Open – Neupert
– Event Report

10/15-10/16 – Club Champs – Taylor, Brett Saturday – Ray, Willems Sunday
– Raffle with 2 Zucas
– Sunday – 18 at Bunker and front 9 at JB
– Kyle Potter for 2023 club champs tags
– Gateway mini and koozie ($30)
– 4 Hands Beer

11/25 – Turkey Toss at JB
– Raffle with 2 Zucas

Courses
Opportunity: Crestwood – Hooper, Irwin
– Need to call back to do a walkthrough with parks

Opportunity: Twin Oaks Park – Brett
– Walkthrough happened this week

Creve Coeur Lakeside – Jim McGowan, Mike Fritz, Jeff Irwin
– Concrete pads

Creve Coeur Hillside – Mike Fritz, Jeff Irwin
– Teepads targeted to be done by end of year, hope to use parks machinery and volunteers – potentially concrete per MIke Fritz
– Irwin working on artwork for teesigns to be created and installed (after teepads)
– Temporary tee signs in the meantime

Jefferson Barracks Park – Aaron Walther
– Plenty of materials and when parks can move them to the course, work days

Jefferson Barracks Bunker – Allen Hooper, Taylor Thomas
– Overhead map is in, looking to cover with tempered glass

Sioux Passage – Coaches – Freddie
– New baskets – MVP Portals (sponsorship for 400, get the old basket)

Briscoe Woods – Coaches – Paul Schnieder
– New baskets – MVP Portals (sponsorship for 400, get the old basket)
– Hold off on official tee signs due to possible changes – old holes potentially coming back

Sunset Lakes – Jeff Irwin, Lavan Lee
– Update

Carrollton – Coaches – Ethan Livaudais, Ray Vuichard
– Potential change in removing hole 14 and creating a new hole 2 for design/flow
– Eventually targeting two baskets per hole – 3 more ordered
– Concrete pads: short 1, new 2 to come back to “3” (remove 14), long 3, long 8, short 11, (short 13), long 18

Endicott – TC Brown, Jeremy Muehling
– Sleeves need replaced – Hooper to help coordinate (sleeves at Brett’s)
– To be fixed: hole 9 wall, hole 13 C
– Potential tweak in 11-13
– Teesigns in off season – Daniel Moss

Unger – Dan Adams, Joe Jaegers, Eric Clever
– Unger expansion disapproved for a few years
– Alternate pads

Willmore – John Hellwig, Allen Hooper
– Off season: Tee signs to be upgraded