Sterling Farms Men’s Club

A few years ago our bulletin board was filled with members comments as well as those looking for tee-times.  The past few years the boards have seen less and less traffic.  Along with building a new website we have installed a new forum for our members.  We have tried to set it up so it will get maximum use once again!

We have set it up so anyone can come onto the forum and read through the topics.  Only members who register can start topics or reply to an existing topic.

We have set up three categories to make things easier.
1. General
2. Find a partner
3. Buy, sell, trade

So come on over to the forum at http://www.sfmensclub.com/forum/. If you are a member, please register. 

Remember the Board of Governors is always seeking out feedback from our members.  Feel free to utilize our feedback form (http://sfmensclub.com/feedback.html) or post a topic for discussion on the forum.

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The team of Angela Aulenti (Sterling Farms Pro Shop, Head Golf Pro) and Kammy Maxfeldt (from Norwalk, CT) won the LPGA “Teaching and Club Professional” National Team Championship.  This is a two day event that was held on December 15th and 16th, 2008.  There were 62 two-person teams competing in this event that was held at Palm Valley Country Club, in Palm Desert, CA.

Angela and Kammy’s team score for the two rounds was 69 & 60 for a total of 129. They beat out the second place team by 1 point at 130. For their victory, they took home the winning team purse of $6,000.

Congratulations to Angela and Kammy!

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It is well known that we update our event results on a consistent basis.  But for 2009 there is even more information we will provide on a regular basis.

The first is our monthly Board of Governors Meeting Minutes.  We have never made these available to the membership before.  Now we have a web page that displays all of our minutes going back to beginning of 2008.  New minutes will be posted each month.

The second is the handicap index’s of each of our members for each revision.  We now provide a pdf document that shows all of our members handicap index by both alphabetical listing as well as by index (lowest to highest).  This is a great way to see where you stand in our club as well as if you are improving or not.  The new membership index’s will be posted after each revision.

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One topic I did not discuss from the previous post is “timely updates” of results on the website.  This has been a hot topic for years!  This year we are striving to provide more timely updates on the website.

First I would like to say what it will not be.  We will not have a “live” leaderboard displaying the immediate results of our members.

For our normal weekend events there are some logistics that must take place. 

1. On Monday morning the pro-shop takes down our score sheets.
2. Usually they will score our weekend event between Monday and Thursday.
3. They will create a Word document of the results. 
4. They will then post the results on the Bulletin Board outside the pro-shop and send us the results. 

Last year they would fax us the results.  This meant a volunteer would have to re-key everything and then post it to the website.  This year we are hoping to receive an email with the Word document of the results attached. This will make the process smoother and quicker for all of us.  At worst, the results should be posted on our website by Thursday evening.  Hopefully we can start getting the results posted much earlier than this.

For our Special Tournaments, we are going to try to post results even earlier.  Our goal is to have them up on the website by Monday morning.

If you want to volunteer your time in helping the Men’s Club, please email us!  You can find our emails and contact information at: http://www.sfmensclub.com/contact_us.html

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Last year we used a web service that provided the Sterling Farms Men’s Club with a good looking website.  Unfortunately to many of our members it was not user friendly. The Board of Governors heard many complaints about log-in issues, navigation issues and the lack of timely updates.

Over the past few months I have taught myself how to build a website and have re-created our website that can be found at http://www.sfmensclub.com/.  Sean Sullivan has been helping with the administrative side of things. This includes setting up our new web host provider (HostGator), setting up the email system, installing the forum/bulletin board script and installing this blog script (and I’m sure many other things I have forgotten).  Dean Pedon has also helped immensely in our discussions on the direction of the website.

So the three of us have come up with what you can see on our website.  I would like to add that the total costs of everything we have done is less than $120 per year for our entire web/email presence.  This is extraordinarily less than last years costs and approximately 75% less than we have ever spent on our web presence.

So let us know what you think of the work we have accomplished.  On our website we have set up a “Feedback Form”.  Send us the good, bad and ugly comments.  We want to continue to make the website a better tool to communicate with our members.

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This is where the Board of Governors will provide random commentary about golf and Sterling Farms among other things. 

We will also use the blog to archive emails sent to the membership.

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