Club Makes Sure Golf Games Are For Patrons, Not Employees

Apr 1, 2004 12:00 PM

The Bay Colony Golf Club is located on approximately 300 acres bordering the Cocohatchee Strand Nature Preserve just within the gated entrance of the Pelican Marsh community in Naples, Fla.

With an 18-hole championship golf course and related facilities, the club needed a better way to manage its staff, so it turned to biometric HandPunch terminals from IR Recognition Systems, Campbell, Calif. — the biometric component of Ingersoll-Rand's (IR) Security & Safety Group's Electronic Access Control Division (EACD) — for its employees to clock in and out.

The HandPunch terminals eliminate expenses associated with employee badges and fraud caused by buddy punching. Instead of filling out or punching timecards, employees simply place their hands on the HandPunch, which automatically takes a three-dimensional reading of the size and shape of the employee's hand and verifies the user's identity.

“By employing hand geometry biometrics with our Gatekeeper software, we are using new technology to control our payroll costs, eliminating buddy punching and watching the clock for rounding punches,” says Martha Drescher, Bay Colony Golf Club controller.

Bay Colony employs 85 people during its season, which runs Nov. 1 through May 31. “Managers can better manage their departments because the software is connected to their desktops and they deal with it on a daily basis. The system makes department managers more accountable,” Drescher says.

Bay Colony's two HandPunch terminals are used daily at the golf course and in the clubhouse. They are connected to a Microsoft Exchange Network and interface with the club's Gatekeeper Business Solutions back-office software.

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