MISSING LINKS

CLUB BYLAWS

OFFICE-BEARERS

Captain: Mike Saunders – Responsible for The Club’s continuing reputation and traditions; recorder of history. Must ensure rules are adhered to and non-monetary fines are paid when due.

Treasurer: Mike Saunders – Responsible for collecting monthly subscriptions, monthly fees/fines, ensuring payment of cash side-bets on competition days. Responsible for embezzlement of any available funds and management of club bank account.

Secretary: Steve Dymond – Responsible for booking tee-times, co-ordinating dates and travel details. Must, at no time, wear a skirt, or sit on the captain’s knee. Welcomes visitors, ensures rules are clear and has the final say on side-bets.

Handicapper: Ryan Harding – Responsible for collecting scorecards and entering the details into vukey.com. Maintenance of course ratings, and hence handicap indices, online and calculation of course handicaps for competition days.

Club Communications & Statistician: Simon Tragear – Manages the website and publishes all relevant data for yearly cumulative leader board, monthly mug results, fines levied, upcoming events and any other content seen fit by the officeholder.  Keeps records of the winners, losers and everything in between. Responsible for producing data upon request in numerical or graphical form.

Club Webmaster: Simon Tragear – Responsible for updating the club’s website with all relevant results and other statistics, as well as publishing important dates for future events, such as the end of year trip in early December each year.

Fines Master: Blake Sullivan – Responsible for ensuring beer-based fines are paid in a timely fashion and equitably. The administration of fines is by whatever means he deems fit.

Monthly competition days:

The date for each monthly completion will be published by the Secretary to the Missing Links Facebook group and will request members to accept or decline participation to assist with booking the right number of course tee times.  The official monthly competition shall be based on Stableford Points (regardless of side-bets which may take any form agreed by the playing group concerned).  The winner is responsible for engraving his own name on the trophy before the subsequent monthly competition and bringing said trophy the following month.  If not playing in the following month’s competition, it is the winner’s responsibility to find a way to get the trophy to the course for it to be awarded to the next winner. Fines will be issued for non-compliance.

Points shall be awarded to the top 6 placed golfers as follows:

1st place           – 10 points

2nd place         – 7 points

3rd place          – 5 points

4th place          – 3 points

5th place          – 2 points

6th place          – 1 point

If at the end of 18 holes, two or more players are tied for a placing, the scores on even or odd-numbered holes will be compared and the winner identified. Countback using odd or even holes will be determined by whether the date of that month’s mug is odd or even.  If at this point there is still a tie, specifically for first place, it will be decided by the score on the Strike holes. Next, it will be decided by the total score on the back 9 and ultimately by a putt-off. The Club Captain shall choose the starting point.

Visitors are welcome on the monthly days, but the member extending the invitation is ultimately responsible for fees and fines. If in a four-ball, the member shall always play in a two-man team with his guest.

The December competition shall be a weekend involving 2 rounds of 18 holes. The scores on day one will count towards the annual mug points totals. The winner across both days of the weekend will win the coveted Green Jacket, which is to be kept and embroidered in an appropriate style.

​The Leo rule:

If you decide to pick up your ball after two putts (if you are no longer putting for Stableford points), it will count as a three-putt as far as the Snake competition is concerned.

Membership fees: $30 per month, per member, payable to the treasury. Can be pre-paid. Should be paid via bank transfer, not cash (it’s a trust issue, not convenience at all!!).

Side bets:

• Four balls – four players will pair up in two-man teams. The winner of each hole will dictate which team tees off next and team members will tee off in the same order each time. The losing team will be responsible for refreshments in the clubhouse afterward.
• Strike holes – 6 holes chosen at random by the Club Captain. $2 from each player will go to the winner.
• Closest to the pin – $2 from each player who misses the green will be given to the player who lands his ball closest to the pin on a predetermined par3 hole.
• Longest drive – $2 from each player who misses the fairway will be given to the player with the longest drive on the fairway on a pre-determined par 5 hole. If no player hits the fairway with the drive the side-bet is cancelled.
• Snake – the first player to 3-putt will hold ‘the snake’, which will be handed on to the next player in the group to 3-putt. Whoever holds the snake in each playing group at the completion of the 18th hole is to pay a fine of $20. This is not to be in cash, but must be paid into the club treasury via bank transfer before the next mug. 4-putts will incur an instant fine of $10 each and every time. If 2 players simultaneously 3-putt, the group shall decide which was the ‘worst’ 3-putt and award the snake accordingly. All players must putt out on holes 16, 17 and 18 to ensure full inclusion in the snake competition.

Statistics to be collected:

• Air swings
• Non-essential mobile phone conversations on the course. Those with wives or children count double.
• Ladies’ tee not being reached (number of instances to be counted)
• Throwing a club
• 4-putts – $10 set fine
• Lie-ins – members are expected to arrive at the club no less than 30minutes prior to tee-off
• Lost wallets – visitor fees, fines or Snake tolls not paid from prior mug
• Attempted murder – with a golf ball
• Ball theft – playing another club member’s ball
• Mug-related – eg; forgot mug, not engraved, engraved incorrectly
• Anything else at all that the playing members on the day deem fit to report as a statistic for the purposes of being fined.

Fines Master shall deal with these figures as he sees fit.

Social events:

• Club QGM: To be held quarterly; not to be held at a golf course
• Formalities will include:
  • An amusing speech from the Captain summarising the year’s play so far
  • Congratulations/commiserations if appropriate, or even if not, who cares?!?!
  • Discussion of treasury matters/subscriptions
  • Application of fines based on the running tally published on the website
  • General disorder / respectable alcoholism and banter

• (Optional) Ladies’ night: a twice-yearly event, not to be held at a Golf Course, attended by members and (preferably, their own) wives. Children are strictly prohibited. The venue, dress code and activities are to be decided by the wives, in agreement with the Captain.