A great year of events.

I have really enjoyed being a part of the MTGCSA Board over the last few years. I think we had a great year of events in 2018 and I think that there are more opportunities that we can take advantage of in the future. We had a bunch of events that stood out as I look back on them, but to me the biggest was the Equipment Technicians Seminar. It was so great to see the massive turnout that we got. To be honest, when I first spoke to the presenter and he said he was going to talk for 8 hours about reel grinding, I thought there was no way that he could fill an 8 hour window. Mr. Nedin had a wealth of information and could probably still be speaking about the subject now.

I did drop the ball this year in failing to thank our host superintendents properly at our events. That being said, Thank you so much for hosting the MTGCSA at your facilities this year:

Chris Markel

Alex Price

Tyler Ingram

Doug Ward

As you may already know, our own Paul Carter is running for a seat on the GCSAA Board. I have taken over for him as the Chapter Delegate for the TGCSA. In doing so, I got to attend the Chapter Delegates Meeting at Lawrence, KS recently. There was a wealth of information that we were hit with. I won’t go into all the details here, but the main reason that we were there was to meet the candidates for election Mark Jordan, Kevin Breen, Jeff White, TA Barker, Paul Carter and Doug Dykstra. Looking at it in its simplest form, there are six people running for five positions. Mark and Kevin are running for the Secretary/Treasurer position, and whichever one does not win can still be elected to the Director seat. There are 3 more director seats available with the candidates being Jeff, TA, Paul and Doug.

If anyone has any input on the vote that we should cast, please contact me and express your interests. This information will be gone over in greater depth at TTA Conference. Look forward to seeing everyone there.

Brad Marcy,

Indian Hills Golf Course

Brad Marcy, Indian Hills Golf Course