San Clemente golf committee approves scorecard updates, limits outside tournaments and backs resident advance-booking policy

The San Clemente Golf Course Committee on Sept. 22, 2025 approved updates to the course scorecard, moved to limit outside tournaments to reduce scheduling conflicts for residents and endorsed a council-requested advance-booking policy for resident cardholders, committee staff said.

Committee members reviewed a mock-up scorecard (prepared by a committee member) and discussed clarifying out-of-bounds notation (notably that hole 15 is out of bounds on the right), removing a separate restaurant number in favor of the snack bar number, and adding map notations to the course layout so players do not have to read the back of the card. Staff (identified in the transcript as Speaker 3) said the committee will redesign the card, check inventory and order once the final layout is approved. The committee voted to move forward with the redesign and return a…