So, after 2 years of personal CMAE membership, 14 months of starting and building a new region and countless networking events, we finally have our first seminar. And what a first seminar it was!
Toro is celebrating a landmark 100 years’ anniversary in 2014. The first company to launch a motorised mower for use on the golf course – as well as a host of technologically-advanced groundscare mowing products for councils, contractors and landscapers – Toro says that its commitment to innovation has been at the heart of its success, and given it the market leadership it enjoys today.
The Club Managers Association of America is proud to announce today that it has named 100 new Certified Club Managers.
If you are a club manager at a golf club, answer the following three questions:
The number one reason most clubs fail is not poorly thought out strategy, the wrong location or lack of funds it’s EGO! Simple human ego destroys more clubs and destroys more relationships than any other factor.
TED is a nonprofit organisation devoted to ‘Ideas Worth Spreading’. It started out in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design and has a growing global following.
Following hosting Jim Singerling, CEO of the Club Managers Association of America in St Andrews in 2000 where he spoke to the Conference of Association of Golf Club Secretaries I was fortunate to be invited the following year to attend the World Conference in San Diego. Apart from 2 years when I could not fly for medical reasons I have attended every year since then at my own expense using holiday time.
The Club Managers Association of America is pleased to announce its 2014 Officers and Board of Directors.
Urban myths abound in the current era of instant ‘facts’ and it is often reported that we are only ever ten steps from a rat in an urban area, which is of course ridiculous.
The Club Managers Association of Europe (CMAE) has announced that Jerry Kilby CCM, Chief Executive Officer since 2007, is leaving his post at the end of January 2014 to pursue new opportunities in the golf and club management sector as full-time proprietor of Kanda Golf Marketing Services.
The first speaker of the recent MDP Golf was Peter Dawson, who spoke with great clarity and precision on the current growth of the game of golf worldwide. The intricate research of the R&A explained that the game is showing some signs of decline in the mature markets of the USA and the UK but is showing consistent growth almost everywhere else in the world.
The Greenkeepers Training Committee (GTC) and mylearnadfriend Ltd, a GTC Quality Assured Training Provider, has announced a revolutionary partnership to provide affordable on-line health and safety accredited training to a global Golfing industry.
