Sun City Texas Announces New
Directors of Golf & Agronomy
Since early October when the Director of Golf position became vacant, the CA has been busy working to fill this important staff director position. We started the process by establishing a Selection Committee comprised of a Board Member (Steve Ricks), a Golf Committee Member (Clay Stubbins) and a Golfer at Large (Roger Marlow, past Golf Committee Chairman). We posted the position on numerous job search engines and received interest from over 80 individuals from across the country.
As part of the search, we met with the Career Consultant of the PGA (Professional Golfers Association) and shared with them our process and needs. We learned from these meetings that the prevailing organizational structure in the industry is having a person over operations and another overseeing the maintenance side of things both reporting to a General Manager (or in our case the Executive Director). We also received advice from the PGA that promoting from within would be the best first step, provided that the candidates meet our selection criteria and needs.
With these thoughts in mind, we interviewed four existing staff members who had shown interest in these positions. We were very impressed with all of their awareness and positive responsiveness to our course and operational needs, their ideas on how to get us there, and their willingness to work as a team. With that as some background, we determined that the best organizational structure for our golf courses was to have a Director of Golf (operations) and Director of Agronomy (maintenance) reporting to the Executive Director. In filling these positions we are pleased to announce the following effective January 1, 2020.
