February 2011

Golf Course Owners of Wisconsin Spring Meeting: March 2 at Hilly Haven Golf Course in De Pere, WI ⇒

Ohio Chapter Annual Meeting: March 7-8 in Wooster, OH ⇒

INGCOA welcomes the Disney Institute to the IUPUI Campus: March 15 in Indianapolis, IN ⇒




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Hidden Valley Named 2011 Course of the Year
Hidden Valley Golf Club in Norco, Calif., a facility that bills itself as “exclusively public” and requires employees to play golf on a regular basis, was named the 2011 NGCOA Course of the Year. The southern California course has added 9,000 rounds and increased special events business nearly 50 percent in the last three years...more

Owners Urged to Engage in Legislature
At this month's NGCOA Annual Conference,  Tim Skubick, a journalist and host of the Michigan public television show, Off the Record, discussed several approaches that golf course owners can take to influence the legislative process during educational session, Golf's Town Hall. The theme of his presentation was clear: Get involved. If you don’t engage, bad things will happen to you...more

Conference Education Headed to the Course
A full day of education took place at the Club Car NGCOA Golf Outing and On-Course Educational Activities - taking attendees out of the classroom and on to the golf course - during the 2011 NGCOA Annual Conference in Orlando, FL. “We thought that being able to see concepts and new ideas explained and demonstrated in the same environment where they are going to be implemented made a lot of sense,” said Joe Rice, the NGCOA’s director of membership...more

NGCOA Names Joe Rice Director of Membership
Joe Rice, who has been a key member of the NGCOA’s executive leadership team for the past 10 years, has been named director of membership. Rice, the association’s chief marketing officer since 2007, assumes the role held for the past four years by Leslie Remme...more

Club Car Operating Solution: Golf Car Doubles as Holiday Staple
The decision to transform a golf car into Santa’s sleigh helped make things a little merrier during the holidays at Summit Chase Country Club in Snellville, Georgia...more

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