The meeting was called to order at 10:40am by Chair Ann LaJoie who welcomed the attendants and introduced the Executive.

Chair- Ann LaJoie; Hcp/Course Rater- Jo-Anne Vail;  Vice-Chair- Nancy Dyke;  Rules Chair- June Linklater;  Secretary- Edith Skiber;   Rules Asst.- Ishbell Mucklow;  Treasurer- Diane Richards;  T & T Chair- Shirl Ketch;    T & T Asst-. Billie Chang;   Jr. Girls Asst./ BCGA Rep-. Dee Horie

Absent: Nominating Chair Virginia Porter    Jr. Girls Chair Christina Proteau 

Roll call was taken with 20 clubs present, representing a quorum.

REPORTS:

Treasurer’s Report: Diane reported that we have a current balance of $5,404.72. 

Rules: June reported that we have reviewed the five Zone Tournaments and want to make all the Zone events better. Devices may be used to measure yardage only. If anyone reports other usage of these devices, the player using the device incorrectly will be disqualified. Zone Rules Committee will be available to hold seminars for clubs as required.

Handicap/Course Rating: Jo-Anne reminded all players that the handicap system is there to enable all players to play at an equal level. "T" scores that must be entered are: Qualifying Rounds for Pro Lady, CTC, and Four Ball. Regular play for Dorothy Olive Franklin, Two Ball, Pro Lady,, Beat the Champ, your own Club Championship and all Zone Events. Do not enter Match games as "T" scores. For handicap purposes Zone 4 ball scores must be entered with the most likely score being entered if the ball is picked up. If your club has changed anything on your course, such as yardage, water hazards, bunkers etc please contact Jo-Anne to have your course rating checked.

Teams & Tournaments: Shirl reported that we have updated forms this year and on-line registration is now available. Teams and Tournaments ask that all the captains support the zone events. Shirl also asked that for the CTC Tournament that one cheque be sent from each club for the total of the entrants.

Junior Girls:  Dee reported on behalf of the Jr. Chair. Junior girls are currently alternating Championships between north and south locations, with the Zone 5 & 6 event this year being held in Alberni on May 28th. A women’s intermediate clinic will be held the same day with focus on the short game. The Women’s BC Amateur & Mid Am is also being held in Alberni from June 28 - July 1st.

School programs are now being expanded from elementary schools to middle and high schools. School participation has increased between Apr 2007 and Mar 2011 from 1883 to 7068 girls, 1968 boys to 7362 and the schools involved has increased from 24 to 122.

BCGA Director: Dee reported from the Spring AGM in Vancouver. British Columbia Golf in reorganizing to set up

Zone Councils to lead BC Golf and reduce the number of Directors. This will be presented to the Board in the fall of 2011 and to the membership in the Spring of 2012. Current Zone 6 membership is as follows: Players Club 148 men 55 women 0 Jr girls 1 Jr. boy

Total Members 4,607 men 1879 women 51 Jr. girls 506 Jr. boys New Membership cards are available at your Pro Shop and should be activated when you receive them. Check out the BC Golf web site to learn more about what benefits you can receive from your cards. Dope testing is now mandatory for Western Canada Games. Governance: Anne Peabody review of By- Laws and look at zone plan to have women and men work together to decide future progress in Zones. Vancouver Isl. Jr. Girls Championship will be held May 28th in Alberni. A Women’s short game clinic will be held the same day.

 Motion to adjourn 12:00PM 

The meeting was called to order by Chair Virginia Porter at 10:30am.

Chair Virginia Porter Teams & Tournaments Shirl Ketch

Vice Chair Ann LaJoie Rules Assistant June Linklater

Treasurer Diane Richards T & T Assistant Billie Chang

Secretary Edith Skiber BCGA Director & Jr. Asst. Dee Horie

Handicap/Course Rater Jo-Anne Vail

Absent: Jr Girls - Christina Spence-Proteau.

Role call was taken with a total of 19 clubs present, representing a quarum.

Moved by Edith Skiber, seconded by Cheri Holder that the minutes of the 2009 AGM be adopted as circulated. Carried.

Errors or omissions - None forthcoming.

Business arising from the minutes - None forthcoming.

TREASURER: Diane Richards tabled a report from outgoing treasurer Rosemary Heath on the finances ending Sept 30th, 2010 reporting a closing balance of $6,914.86. Copies of the financial statements where circulated on the tables.

Moved by Sue Wilmer, seconded by Betty Lund that the report be adopted. Carried.

Virginian thanked the executive for assisting her this summer as she copped with her surgery. She requested that all clubs select a member to be in charge of all Zone Tournaments. This is necessary to improve the communication between the clubs and their members regarding these events.

Virginia advised of the upcoming Provincial Amateur/Mid Amateur being held in Port Alberni this coming summer at which she will be Tournament Chair. She requests that everyone do their best to fill the field. Everyone has a chance to win. Virginia also advised that she is retiring after four years as Captain, and thanked all the great people and good friends for making her job very fulfilling.

RULES: June Linklater is the new Rules chair for the Zone, and introduced Ishbel Mucklow as her assistant. They will try to get local rules seminars at all the clubs this year. Please contact June if you wish to have a seminar at your club.

HANDICAP AND COURSE RATING: Jo-Anne Vail reported that the closing date for entering scores in our zone is November 15th. However, if conditions at your course become such that it may be unreasonable to post scores made before the inactive season takes effect, your club may close their book sooner than November 15th. It is up to the committee in charge to make the determination. There have been problems with the entering of scores and it is hoped that the Handicap Chairs at Club level will follow up on this.

This year, all the ratings were done with the men and it is felt that this makes both the men and ladies ratings more accurate. If your club has changed anything on your course such as yardage, water hazards, bunkers etc, you must contact the Zone Course Rater and make them aware.

TEAMS AND TOURNAMENTS: Shirl Ketch reported that there was a better turnout this year for most of the Zone Tournaments. However, the Amateur Senior had lower numbers than we had hoped. Also concerns about the attendance at the Net Tournament which is designed for the higher handicap golfers. Shirl also reported that Teams and Tournaments ended the year with a balance of $267.42 after starting the year with a balance of $1,056.83. Showing a net loss of $789.41for the year.

Questions/Discussion:

• Is there a way to make the Net Tournament sound more exciting? There was no response, but it is a point to consider.
• It appears that the events that we have qualifiers for are better attended, should we consider this for all events? This will be an ongoing discussion by the executive.
• There was a suggestion that we should consider standardizing the distances for the events. This was discussed and will be considered by the committee.
• If we had a qualifier for all events, there may be some people who may wish to enter, but the club quota has already been met.

JUNIOR CHAIR: Christina is unable to attend meetings during the week, due to work commitments, however, she has prepared her report to be presented by her assistant, Dee Horie.

From Zone 6, we had the Centennial Cup winner, Michelle McCann of Glacier Greens, and the overall Centennial Cup winner (based on differential points) was Shirin Anjarwalla of Nanaimo. Other notable winners were:

Monica Huang (Pheasant Glen) BC Women’s Amateur 17th place tie.

Michelle McCann (Glacier Greens) BC Jr Girls 22nd place tie.

Monica Huang (Pheasant Glen) BC Jr. Grils 27th place tie

Emily Adams (Mt. Brenton) BC Juvenile 24th

Monica Huang (Pheasant Glen) RCGA Canadian Amateur 71st place tie

Monica Huang ( " " ) RCGA Canadian Jr. Girls 28th place tie

Clinics were held at Pheasant Glen on July 10th & 17th. The clinics target girls 6 - 10yrs. In 2009, 41 particpated and this year we only had 7 attend. The Alberni clinic was cancelled, but should have drawn a good number of participants. Christine has requested that the BCGA save the unused funding for next year. The junior Ryder cup was held on Thanksgiving weekend with Shirin Anjarwalla, Emma Rigsby and Emily Adams participating for Zone 6, Unfortunately, the zone 6 boys and girls came up one point short. Christine thanks all those who donated at the Zone Am/Sr. to help offset travel expenses for the junior girls.

"Beat the Champ" brought in $300.00 and the winners were: Kathy White (Alberni), Diane Johnson (Eaglecrest), Karen Salminen (Storey Creek) Lynn Demings (March Meadows) and Shaune Munro (Arrowsmith)

Update: Michelle McCann has graduated the Jr. ranks and is now at Simon Fraser University and is part of their inaugural women’s golf team this year. Shirin Anjarwalls is now ten and continues to impress with her attitude on and off the course, and her sheer raw talent. Juniors to watch!

Dee reported on her role as BCGA director and events that come from Golf BC, please find the complete report as an addendum to these minutes.

• Web site update Edith reported that the web site next year will have interactive registration forms for the zone events, and click on titles for the news items so we don’t have to scroll down through everything there. The interactive registration will not be able to accept funds as this is a very costly process, however, it will enable people to get their entries in sooner so T&T can get the information ready for the events. Clubs may wish to have their Chair collect the funds and send it all at once. If anyone has any information or suggestions for the web site, please let Edith know. (250-757-9930 or skiber@shaw.ca)
• Super Senior: It was suggested that we have a super senior event added to Champion of Champions (60+)
• Can we add a link for the rules for each event on the Web page? We currently have the outline of the games on the web page, but it would be hard to get the rules there as they are usually only completed just prior to the event when rules reviews the course for the event.
• The question was asked about the cost of Zone events - this is determined by the bids that are received from the clubs and many of our zone events are subsidized for the players.
• Question regarding the payment of Zone events when being played at your own club. The zone requires that all participants pay the zone directly for all Zone events. In the past, some clubs have made an agreement with their players regarding the cost of green fees.
• Players Club: A motion was passed at the Executive Meeting to reflect the position of the Zone to deal with Players Club involvement. The Motion is : Moved by Jo-Anne Vail, seconded by June Linklater that all players club members must form their own club with an elected committee in order to participate in Zone team events. Carried.

The question was asked whether or not the players club have to pay the $7.00 levy to the Zone?

The answer is yes, they will have to pay prior to May 31st and provide a list of names.

A question was also asked about seasonal memberships, they may play in zone events if they have paid the $7.00 levy.

Dorothy Olive Franklin Lorraine Perpick Arrowsmith

BC Pin Round 18 Hole Jan Walker Arrowsmith

Volunteer Recognition Award Jo-Anne Vail Arrowsmith

Edith Skiber Arrowsmith

The positions for election this year are Zone Chair, and Zone Vice Chair.

Virginia opened elections with the nomination of Ann LaJoie for Chair, no other names were received from the floor and Ann Lajoie was elected by acclamation.

Virginia also placed the name of Nancy Dyke for election for Vice-Chair, no other names were received from the floor, and Nancy Dyke was elected by acclamation.

Meeting adjourned at 11:30am

Submitted by

Zone 6 Secretary

SPRING CAPTAINS MEETING   APRIL 4, 2011 - EAGLECREST

Hi, I’m Dee Horie, your Zone 6 Representative, I would like to share some of the success stories about our fellow competitors, partners and friends of many of the players from Zone 6.

Let’s start with the CN Future Links program, Golf Canada’s efforts to give kids ages 6-18, numbering more the 110,000 just last year, the opportunity to enjoy the game of golf.

Our best female performer this year was Szu-Husan Huang, from Pheasant Glen. She was

Tough playing conditions but a good fair test of golf in a very experienced field.

-BC Womens Amateur at Arbutus Ridge; saw Christina finishing T5 despite shooting a final round 71, she missed joining Team BC by one shot.

-Amanda Baker of Nanaimo T14, Kenzie Janzen(Mt.B) & Kylie Frederick (Eag.)T29.

-Net Results: Dar Michell of Mt. Breton was Champion, Judy Hook T5, Karen Kloskie of March Meadows T26.

-Finally, the BC Junior Girls at Gorge Vale saw Amanda Baker T5, Michelle McCann of Glacier Greens T22. However, Michelle was the Low Net Champion.

Pat Irwin’s Zone 6 Jr. tour: repeat Champions,:Brayden Erickson and Michelle McCann

Next season he plans the Spring Tour to be a more partners based, fun training time, to be then followed by the more competitive Summer Tour and qualifier events & OOM pts.

Well done to all. We appreciate your support of all these efforts, to not only represent your home club and Zone 6, but most importantly to be a part of these often terrifying and challenging experiences, in order to grow our game. I know the players really appreciate the financial support and positive thoughts from the Executive and all our members, which really boosts our golfers wherever they go to play competitively.

Heads Up for 2011 Provincial Championships:

- Mens Mid Am. at Storey Creek June 7-9

- Senior Womens at Cranbrook June 14-16

-Womens Amie & Mid Am at Alberni June 28-July 1

-Junior Boys & Girls at Myrtle Point Aug. 17-19

Note: Canadian Senior Womens Championship in Spallumcheen, in Vernon, 2015.

It’s never too early to start travel plans!

The BCGA Fall Meetings take place Oct 27-30 & I will update you on any major announcements.

Thanks for your attention. Cheers,dee