Category: Rye Golf Club

Rye Golf Club, the subject of all sorts of scandal and lousy management, is looking for an Assistant Golf Course Superintendent. The job isting reports the facility "has over 700 golfing members and hosts between 25,000 and 30,000 rounds of golf". It looks to be a demanding position in exchange for $50K in comp: "Qualified candidates […]

About 25 past Rye Golf workers protested at Rye City hall Wednesday night to raise awareness on an in-process class action suit against the City to recover lost gratuities (and interest, etc.) totaling $4 million. We heard from Brent Pelton of Pelton Graham, the firm pressing the lawsuit for the workers. He told MyRye.com "We had […]

Usually Rye City Council meetings get interesting inside the building during "open mic" — the item on the agenda each meeting called "Residents may be heard on matters for Council consideration that do not appear on the agenda". But this Wednesday the action will be outside Rye City Hall as former Rye Golf Club (RGC) Workers that […]

Investigative journalists at LoHud.com have been hard at work, and last year's pesticide debacle at Rye Golf Club is the centerpiece of their investgation concerning statewide misuse of toxic chemicals. (PHOTO: Rye Golf Club, as it appears in a LoHud video.) The story begins: "A mysterious green residue started coating golfers’ shoes last spring at […]

Rye City (that's all of us), after being ripped off by former Rye Golf Club General Manager Scott Yandrasevich (who was indicted and them sent off to the slammer), has received a $1.55M settlement from Traveler's Insurance. The city had sued, saying the insurance company needed to pay for the losses: "The City of Rye will receive […]

The Rye Golf Club (RGC) has to be the Charlie Brown of golf courses. It simply cannot get a break. Its former manager is headed to the slammer after ripping off membership in an elaborate scam. Now golf members are looking for refunds as the RGC looks at options for recourse after using a fungicide, […]

From the (Whitby) Castle to the slammer. Not a road you want to take. Scott Yandrasevich, the former GM of Rye Golf Club, is headed do some hard time after his financial shenanigans: "The former employee used a shell company, fake employees and false invoices to make off with more than $250,000 over a five year […]

(PHOTO: No mulligan for Yandrasevich.)  Former Rye Golf Club Manager Yandrasevich pleased guilty and is headed to the slammer. It looks like Rye City will be paid some restitution but will also need to pursue an insurance claim to regain both all losses and legal expenses associated with the Rye Golf Club debacle. Rye Mayor Joe Sack told […]

The following is a letter to the editor from Rye resident Mitch Pineault: Dear Editor, Attached is a proposal for a Rye Golf Club Youth Caddie Program. Tonight [Wednesday, May 28, 2014] at the RGC Commission meeting, there will be a discussion regarding the legal issues surrounding this proposal. This program has the potential to […]