CELEBRATING 23 YEARS OF SINGLES GOLF IN AMERICA Orlando Chapter - American Singles Golf Association September 2014 President s Remarks What a great time we had at the outing at Titusville. Thank you, Claudine Mogg, for inviting us to your lovely home. Jim Smith, you did a great job planning this weekend event. Job well done. Hopefully we can duplicate this with another event in the next month or two. Just a reminder - we are due in October to elect officers to the Board of Directors. Keep potential candidates for the upcoming year in all the categories in mind. We look forward to new faces to keep our chapter alive and growing. As always, we look forward to many future new friends and events. We are definitely in the growth mode and want our chapter to be one of the best in the country. Have a great summers end. Now that the weather is cooling down, we hope we can get more golfers on the weekends. ~Bruce Misko Chapter News The Orlando Chapter wishes to congratulate member Peggy Pasterchik on becoming a new grandmother! Her grandson Hudson David was born right after our Getaway Golf Weekend in Titusville! ~Linda Marcet Social Chair Glad to hear everyone had a good time in Titusville at the La Cita Golf and Country Club! Thank you for your help Linda Marcet, Claudine Mogg, Brian Hanlon, and Sandy Splaine. We had fun with the parties and enjoyed dinner at Dixie Crossroads. Great party at Claudine's, thank you! ~Jim Smith Communications Chair Our longtime members are pretty familiar with our sign up procedures for weekly golf events and social events, so this is primarily for our newest members. Our chapter uses the EVITE system as the "official" sign up method for our events. Once a week, usually on Tuesday or Wednesday, you should receive an email from EVITE which is your invitation to join us for golf the following weekend (in other words, you should expect to receive the EVITE approximately ten days before the golf round). The email will be from ASGA Orlando (info@mailva.evite.com), and it will give you an opportunity to click on YES, NO, or MAYBE, and also an opportunity to OPEN the EVITE to view the invitation and see the details about the event. You should view the EVITE and decide if you want to attend. It is a good idea to respond to the Evite as soon as you receive it so that you don't lose it in your Inbox and don't get left out on the very popular courses where we might fill up. We use MEETUP as an auxiliary method to promote our chapter, and it is primarily a way to reach out to the community and hopefully attract more members to our club. You are encouraged to sign up for a golf event on MEETUP - if you sign up on Meetup, it does tend to show other Meetup members that we have a good turnout for the event. However, signing up on MEETUP does NOT count as the official sign up. That is always done with EVITE. If you want to play golf with the Orlando Chapter, sign up on EVITE! If you have any questions at all about the EVITE system, please contact me. ~Linda M. Pro Tip As most of us know this time of year is when we get those quick "pop-up" thunderstorms in Florida. These storms are not a joke and can carry strong winds, rain and lightning. Wind and rain won't ruin Upcoming Events Include (see SinglesGolf.com/events) ASGA's Western Caribbean Cruise - November 16-23, 2014. Sail out of Ft. Lauderdale for seven nights. Details at SinglesGolf.com/cruise ASGA National's (Belated) New Year's Event - "Somewhere in Florida" - January 4-7, 2015 Orlando's Sunshine Fling - March 12-15, 2015. Details released in the coming months. For more information, contact Barney Coomes at bcoomes@cfl.rr.com Office Hours: 9:00am to 2:00pm, M-F (Eastern) National Office: 704-889-4600 or 1-888-GOLFMATE Regular Meeting Date: Second Wednesday of each month Next Meeting: TBD Meeting Location: TBD Our Website: https://sites.google.com/site/orlandoasga/ Our Hotline: (407) 647-9388 (See next page for list of officers and board members.) To join, renew dues, make a change of address, phone, etc., call National Hotline at left or go to www.singlesgolf.com/join
ORLANDO CHAPTER of the American Singles Golf Association President Bruce Misko 407-320-1922 / 313-220-8000 brucemisko@yahoo.com Communication Chair Linda Marcet 407-448-2588 ljmarcet@gmail.com Golf Chair Barney Coomes 407-432-6318 bcoomes@cfl.rr.com Membership Chair Carolyn Aldorfer 407-292-2708 Caldorfer@cfl.rr.com Social Chair Jim Smith 407-375-2719 floridadad924@aol.com Treasurer Steve Hall 321-662-7340 steve_23@earthlink.net Secretary Suzanne Casto 407-699-7808 suz923@gmail.com your day for more than a couple of hours. Lightning can change lives forever. Don't take chances on the course. If you hear thunder or see lightning off in the distance, stop playing and get to cover. Remember there's 365 days in a year. Not finishing a round of golf will not kill you. But trying to finish a round as a storm approaches very well could. Have fun on the course and enjoy the game! Golf News We had some wonderful outings in August at Grande Pines, Disney, and Orange County National, where Suzanne Casto won the two free rounds of golf for CTP and we had 15 Tampa members join us for the outing, We then went to Metro West and played a two person shamble and Bruce Misko and Virginia Borchert were the winners of a free round of golf. Next BIG news is the Florida Cup to be held Oct. 18th and 19th at the Eagles Golf Club, 16101 Nine Eagle Drive, Odessa, FL 33556. On the 18th it will be a 1:00 shotgun start; the Lakes course for the Florida Cup and the Forest course for the fun competitions. On the 19th, 9:00 shotgun on the Forest course for the Florida Cup and the Lakes course for the fun game. Dinner after golf on the 18th and lunch and awards on the 19th. The Florida Cup will have teams from Tampa, Jacksonville, Villages, Sarasota, and Orlando, playing the first day man & woman team handicapped scramble, the second day will be a one on one handicapped match play event. All others will play in the fun games of a shamble and scramble. You get all this in the package for $139.50 and if you stay overnight the Tampa chapter has secured a special price on lodging at a Holiday Inn Express for $75.00 for single and $37.50 for DBL OCCP. The Orlando Chapter has secured its mens team and alternates which consist of Steve Hall, Craig Malaney, Robert Majors, Carroll Hagood, Jim Smith, Paul Yamin, and Barney Coomes. We have one lady signed up so far - Suzanne Casto - and Sandy Splaine will join the fun games. We are still looking for a CAPTAIN for our team. The duties would be to set our teams, select team colors, work with the Tampa chapter on the rules, team competioins, etc. Now on to other golf which we have scheduled for the month of September. On the 6th we will be at Falcons Fire, on the 14th we travel to Clermont and play the Legends, on the 20th we will play again at Disney on the Magnolia course, the 28th is TBD. We are getting a lot of requests from people wanting to play with certain people and requesting certain pairings and tee times, or to play a shamble or scramble. If you would be kind enough to put those requests in the comment section after you have signed up to play on the EVITE, I will try to make that happen. Also when you need to cancel please let me know in advance of the day of play so I can make changes to the pairings. One last item, I have a few open dates in November and December. If there is a course you want to play let me know and I will see about getting it on our schedule. ~Barney Coomes Another Golf Joke!!! It was a sunny morning, a little before 8.00 am, on the first hole of a busy course, and I was beginning my pre-shot routine, visualizing my upcoming shot with a few practice swings when a piercing voice came over the club house loud speaker, "Would the gentleman on the woman's tee back up to the men's tee please!" I could feel every eye on the course looking at me. I was still deep in my routine, seemingly impervious to the interruption. Again the announcement, "Would the man on the woman's tee kindly back up to the men's tee." I simply ignored the guy and kept concentrating, When once more, the Man yelled, "Would the man on the woman's tee back up to the men's tee, please!" I finally stopped, turned, cupped my hands and shouted back.. "Would the asshole with the microphone kindly keep quiet and let me play my second shot! When Does Your Membership Expire? Simply go to this site: SinglesGolf.com/RUAMember and select your chapter and enter your last name. Add 12 or more months to your membership by going to: SinglesGolf.com/join
About Our Members Happy Birthday to these members: Josephine Barket - 09/01 Wayne Canner - 10/09 Suzanne Casto - 09/23 Steve Hall - 09/26 Chris Huffnagle - 10/07 Russell McDonald - 09/16 Bruce Misko - 10/12 Gary Mudge - 09/24 Jim Smith - 09/24 Paul Thompson - 09/21 Disney s Lake Buena Vista - 8/10/14 These members are up for renewal: (date shown is last day of membership) Tracy Bolles - 09/30/2014 Bill Cole - 09/30/2014 Donna Garreau - 09/30/2014 David Graham - 09/30/2014 Pam Russell - 09/30/2014 Welcome newest members: Margaret Chryplewicz - Joined 07/14/2014 Loralei Hanson - Joined 08/14/2014 Alice Jacobs - Joined 08/29/2014 Sharon Keith - Joined 07/24/2014 Russell McDonald - Joined 07/14/2014 Mohammad Sajjad - Joined 08/11/2014 Christopher Stinson - Joined 08/04/2014 These members recently renewed: Beverly Cammerata Fred Haddad These members did not renew their dues: (date shown is date membership expired) John Alexander - 08/31/2014 Cheryl Barton - 07/31/2014 Judith Bernier - 08/31/2014 Douglas Canter - 07/31/2014 Irene Phillips - 07/31/2014 Susan Walther - 08/31/2014 Aurora Wilson - 07/31/2014 Our chapter currently has 78 members. HELP GROW OUR CHAPTER! New Members Are Our Lifeblood. Please print-out the Single? Play Golf? sign and post it where our future members will see it. Sign is on the last page of this newsletter and remember to cut the tabs at the bottom. (Try to post one sign each month and use bright yellow or colored paper if you have it.)
Wounded Warrior Project Outing - 8/11/14
Getaway Weekend in Titusville
Policies of the American Singles Golf Association (Per your application form, you have agreed to these policies.) These policies are posted at www.singlesgolf.com/policy but re-printed in newsletters periodically. The purpose of these policies is to provide uniformity amongst all chapters of the American Singles Golf Association (ASGA, Inc., hereinafter referred to as ASGA. ). ASGA provides opportunities for single persons to meet and enjoy each others company through regular golf outings, membership meetings, and other social events. This is done primarily through its local chapters, which ASGA charters. As with any organization, these policies are subject to change as ASGA grows. Upon approval by ASGA, all policies will be posted at SinglesGolf.com. (Note that these are policies that apply to the membership base in general. Other policies, such as how your bank account should be set-up, event cancellation policy, membership applications, etc., are addressed throughout this website in their respective areas.) ASGA Roster Policy (established February 1996) The ASGA roster is for chapter use only and shall not be used for private or commercial solicitations. ASGA shall not distribute member data to any entity outside of ASGA for any reason whatsoever. Individual members have the right to have certain information omitted from their chapter roster by notifying ASGA. ASGA Advertising Policy (established February 1996) Local chapters may use the ASGA name and emblem for the purpose of promoting locally sanctioned events. The ASGA name or American Singles Golf Association may never be used in conjunction with a private function or offering made not on behalf of the local chapter. Local/Chapter Policies (established February, 1996) Chapters may establish policies that are in their own interest. Such policies may include payment for golf outings, cancellation policy, use of email addresses, discounted golf fees for event coordinators and additional fees for non members to name a few. Policies should be discussed at the committee level and adopted through the board of directors. Each chapter should maintain a policy manual for local policies. That manual should be turned over the new board each year. Keeping the policies on the chapter s website is also encouraged. Multi-Chapter Events Policy (established September 2000, amended January, 2004 and April, 2005) Local chapters of 20 or more members are encouraged to host joint events with other chapters, however, they shall not sponsor or promote multichapter events (MCE's) that involve more than three (3) chapters without coordination with National Headquarters. Host chapters are expected to follow established guidelines and templates for an MCE. Payment Policy (established September 2001) All monies paid by members for local events shall be paid directly to the local chapter, otherwise these events shall be deemed as non-asga related events. Individuals making payments to other individuals within the chapter shall do so at their own risk. ASGA is not to be held responsible for loss of monies from events or operations generated by local chapters and vice versa. Disassociation Policy (established October, 2002) ASGA is an organization involved in establishing official chapters that provide opportunities for singles to meet, primarily through golf and social activities. In as such, it shall be against the policy of ASGA for such chapters to become disassociated with ASGA without going through a certain due process, herein established. No chapter may become disassociated with ASGA simply for reasons relating to their preference to keep all dues income for themselves. However, if a chapter, by two-thirds majority vote of its Board of Directors, seeks to disassociate from ASGA because it believes ASGA is not providing the services to its members and chapter as promised (as outlined at its website at www.singlesgolf.com), then the chapter may submit to ASGA, via certified mail - return receipt requested, a list of grievances. Said list shall be referred to a grievance committee established by ASGA, consisting of one member from the subject chapter, one member from ASGA national headquarters or its representative, and three (3) neutral members chosen from random chapters. Such neutral members shall have served, or are presently serving, as local chapter presidents. One of the neutral members shall serve as chairperson of the committee and coordinate all activities. The grievance committee shall receive a copy of such written grievance and review the grievance with the subject chapter. It shall then review the same grievances with ASGA. If it is found that the grievances are frivolous, the grievance committee shall notify subject chapter and ASGA of such and the committee shall dissolve itself. If the committee finds that there is merit to the chapter s grievance, committee shall notify chapter and ASGA of such. ASGA shall be allowed thirty (30) days to correct such grievance and report back to the committee, who in turn shall report its conclusion report back to the subject chapter. If, in the opinion of the grievance committee, ASGA has not corrected the grievances outlined within the thirty (30) day allocation period, subject chapter shall be allowed to become disassociated from ASGA with no consequence from ASGA. In the event additional grievances are expressed by the subject chapter in the future, the same procedure shall be undertaken, by the same grievance committee members, if available, or selected in the same fashion as previously selected if the members are unavailable. In the event subject chapter elects to disassociate from ASGA in violation of the due process outlined above, subject chapter shall pay an amount of money to ASGA equal to a projected amount of dues subject chapter would have collected (by comparing subject chapter s city to other cities the same size) had it continued as an ASGA chapter for the next ten (10) years or twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00), whichever is greater. Such payment shall be made within ten (10) days of such disassociation, whether formally announced or formally voted upon by the Board of Directors, or otherwise. If such payment is not made timely, the subject chapter s officers and/or Board of Directors shall be personally responsible for said payment. ASGA reserves the right to pursue all other remedies allowed under state and federal law. It is the policy of ASGA to keep the organization alive and well by continuing to service local chapters and continue to create new chapters. ASGA believes that it serves its members best by having chapters operate as part of the national association as opposed to splintered, individual clubs.
(Continued... ) Application Policy (established April, 2005) Applications for membership are automatically approved upon payment of dues assuming all criteria established on the application are met. In the instance payment is made and an application form is submitted without a signature, whether on a printed application, on-line (website) application, or application and/or renewal of dues over the phone or fax, the applier acknowledges and agrees to abide by the same terms and conditions set forth on the application form as if application form was actually signed and submitted. Appointment Policy (established September, 2006) Chapters are required to elect a new chapter president each year. If such election is not held in accordance with the chapter Bylaws, then ASGA National may appoint a chapter president upon consultation with the current chapter's Board of Director members and other members. (Additional policy established November, 2009:) Upon the establishment of a new chapter or upon the re-constitution of an existing chapter, the appointed chapter president may fill any local Board position by making appointments as necessary without holding elections. Guest Policy (established January, 2008) Guests are allowed to attend one event (meeting, social or golf outing) prior to joining, however, guests must become members in order to participate in any additional events. Chapters may not create additional tiers of membership such as "guest members," "temporary member," or "local members only." Membership, Equality, Marriage and Termination of Membership (established April, 2008) ASGA membership is open to any person, 21 years of age or older, who is unmarried (i.e. never married, divorced, legally separated or widowed) without regard to race, creed, gender or national origin. Any official event sponsored by the national organization or local chapters must be open to all members on an equal basis subject to space availability. Members who marry during the term of their dues period shall remain members until the end of their dues period. The national office has the right to decline or terminate any member's membership if the national office determines that such membership is not in the best interest of ASGA. In such cases, dues will be refunded on a prorata basis. National Officer Ex-Officio Member of All Chapter (established January, 2011) The currently serving national president of ASGA shall also be an ex-officio, non-voting member of all chapters. Dues are not owed nor shall they be paid. Dues Rebates to Local Chapters (established January, 2011) Receiving a local chapter's monthly newsletter is a stated benefit for the individual who pays to join ASGA. Effective with the May, 2011 newsletters, any chapter not submitting such monthly newsletter to the national office will forego its portion of the dues rebate for that month. Chapter Dissolution (established January, 2014) In the event a chapter dissolves for any reason, the National Office of ASGA may transfer current members into another chapter of its choosing. After such transfer, if there is sufficient interest by members living in the original chapter location to re-establish a chapter, members may transfer back to the newly established chapter. A minimum of ten (10) existing or new members must indicate their desire to do so by notifying the National Office of ASGA. Reunions (established August, 2014) In the spirit of connecting former members with current members, the National Association and Local Chapters shall be allowed to host up to two (2) events each calendar year whereby former members, whether married or not, may be invited to and participate in those events. The event must be publicized as a "reunion event," and current members are to be notified that former members who are married or in a partnership relationship may attend. Event administers shall, in some form or fashion, notate to others attending the event, either through nametags and/or attendee listings in the program, that said former members are not current members. Any former member may be charged up to ten percent (10%) of the registration cost of the event. Comments? E-mail to: Tom Alsop, ASGA Founder and National President at GolfASGA@aol.com Local Bylaws: In addition to national policies, local chapters are governed by a set of bylaws and local policies administered by your chapter s Board of Directors. Each chapter elects and/or appoints a local Board in the Fall of each year and the new Board takes office January 1 of each year. Local policies should be posted on the chapters website. For a copy of your chapter bylaws, go to www.singlesgolf.com/bylaws
The Orlando Chapter of the American Singles Golf Association WANTS YOU! We re 3,000 members in 75 cities and we re ALL ABOUT HAVING FUN! So if you re single (i.e. divorced, widowed, legally separated or never married) and enjoy meeting others through the game of golf, you re invited to inquire about membership by calling the American Singles Golf Association directly at 1-888-465-3628 (1-TRIPLE-EIGHT-GOLFMATE) or visit our website at SinglesGolf.com