News:

• The USGA Regional Conference & Golf Outing will be held at the Charlotte Marriott Executive Park and Golf Club at Ballantyne Resourt in Charlotte, NC on March 10th and 11th.
  To register click here.
  
  
• The CGCSA is now accepting applications for the Bennett-Maples Scholarships for 2008. For additional information go to www.cgcsa.org.
  
  

  We are in the process of implementing some website renovations including a more interactive home page with news, events, registration and some new pictures.
  
  If you have ideas or suggestions please contact me or any board member [see contacts page for links]. We expect another great year due to YOUR strong support.
  
  Let's keep a great thing going !

UPCOMING EVENTS . . .

March 18th
Superintendent Invitational at Grand Prix Raceway

Guest Speakers: Tom Brown of NCDOL and Bill Wallin
of Texas Refinery
Check in: 9:30 am
Meeting: 10:00 am
Cost: $40.00 per person

This "Superintendent Invitational" is an opportunity to invite a co-worker along to a non-golfing event. Ideally suited for bringing your mechanic, our speakers will be Tom Brown with the NCDOL discussing shop safety and Bill Wallin with Texas Refinery talking about fuel additives. After lunch it is off to the track to see who can put up the best times.

April 22nd
PGCSA Annual Golf Championship at Sedgefield Country Club

Host Superintendent: Keith Wood
Guest Speaker: TBD
Check in: 10:00 am
Lunch: 12:00 noon followed by shotgun start
Cost: $50.00 per person

To register for these events, contact Kim Clark at 800.476.4272 or email kclark@cgcsa.org

Piedmont Press

It is my pleasure to serve as local association president this year. Additional board members include:
Brooks Turner - Vice President
Luke Hollingsworth - Secretary
Bi Lambeth - Treasurer
Meeting & Tournament Advisor - Brent Gentel
Directors - Mark Shaw, Jeff Corn, Josh York and Paul Johnson

Being elected president this year came at a great time for the PGCSA and me. Last year the PGCSA joined the CGCSA local association admin support program. This program, which we are all becoming more familiar with, continues the growth of the PGCSA. Russell Hill and I worked on this program last year when it was started. This will be our first full year in the program and will require some adjustments on everybody's part so we can truly benefit from the program.

Some of these changes have already taken place. At our annual meeting this year we voted on a change in our bylaws. This change was to membership classification and allows the PGCSA and the Carolinas GCSA to mesh together. We did miss one change in regards to membership dues. For the last three years the Piedmont has offered an incentive allowing an assistant to join free with a superintendent member for the cost of $40 with additional assistants/spray techs at $15. The Carolinas GCSA need separate invoices from each member to keep records straight. Previous year's incentives did not allow for individual records, therefore at our first meeting of the year we will need to take a vote on the dues, removing the incentive and establishing the assistant dues at $15. This does come a little late since everybody already has their dues invoice but it is the right thing to do - our assistant members deserve their own individuality.

By Mike Duffy- Grandover Resort
Posted 02.01.08