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Thanks for that insight. Here are the Treasurer’s objections: #1 - not all members have or use P2P accounts #2 - If our bank has a service allowing direct payments into our bank account, there will likely be an administrative fee by Venmo and the bank which will add to account tracking by the Treasurer #3 - Using Venmo will increase the time and add additional steps to perform the Treasurer's collection of fees and related accounting #4 - one must use personal Venmo account for this multi-club/league transactions Would love more insight.

Hi! My current area league consist of 10 women’s clubs (15 to 150 members each club) who play one a month. The process to pay for tournaments is for each interested participant to give the fee to a club rep (there are 10 club reps) and the club rep mails a check into the Treasurer. The Treasurer then manually processes/tracks and pays the course. Several of us would like to revamp this process. Any thoughts on solutions that could work? The Treasurer is against P2P options which as Venmo and feels that any of those options would result in fees. We play 12 times a year with around 80 players and cost of about $80 a tournament. Cash prizes are paid at end of year for any tournament winnings. Would love to know what others are doing. We are incorporated but not a non profit. Been around since 1947.

We have tournament play every other Sunday and have had 5 - 6 hour rounds with 70 - 80 players. Unacceptable! We’ve started making note of the tee time, turn time and end time. We are now 1) using times per hole on the scorecard, speaking to each player at checkin on target times for the turn, 2) having the proshop call us for groups late making the turn, 3) speaking directly with the marshals and providing them expectations and “permission” to manage pace 4) monitoring gaps between end times. (8-10 minutes is 10). Longer times cause course backup. 5) looking at patterns with “requested groups” playing and limiting requests (too much socializing) 6) offered Rules clinics 7) ensure the group tees off on time Local rule for OB/lost ball 9) Play ready 10) Tee box forward based on age 11) Stroke limit we will now ask in our club survey for member ideas for penalties and will use some of the ideas from this forum to include. Our most recent round was around 4:35 for the groups, and 4 hours for the lead group. I’ll feel successful though once it’s consistent.