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12/13/2009

MiGCSA Presidents Message

Hello and welcome to the Holiday Season! I hope you were able to spend some time away from your golf course over the Thanksgiving break relaxing at home with family and friends. With three young children in the Hammon house the entire holiday season from Thanksgiving through the New Year is a wonderful time of year for us.

As this is my last official MiGCSA president’s message I have a festival of thank you comments. To my wife Sue, for all of her support while I spent many days and nights away from home attending board meetings and traveling to numerous allied partner events representing the MiGCSA, thank you. Next on the thank you list would be my assistant Kevin Breuker, Dave Ertl my equipment technician and my entire staff for managing the operations at work while I was on the road so much the past few years. My involvement with the chapter would never have been possible without the support of my general manager Jeff Anderson CCM, my green committee and the board members at Traverse City Golf & Country Club.

The MiGCSA board of directors may have appointed me the president in 2009 but these guys are all presidents of their respective board positions and committees. What an amazing group of people, all with their own special talents, skills and desire to serve the membership. It’s been an honor getting to know all of you and to have worked with you. Thank you for all of your hard work and hours away from your own families and golf courses. Thank you to the MiGCSA membership and Industry Partners for their support over the past few years. It took an army of people to volunteer their time to serve and merge four separate chapters into one very successful and flourishing statewide association. You all have built one of the best superintendent chapters in the country, membership numbers continue to climb. Thank you to all of the staff at the main office in Lansing for your work managing the details of the association behind the scenes.
It’s been a great honor serving the membership of the MiGCSA as president this past year. Thank you for the opportunity.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year,

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Steve Hammon
MiGCSA President
Traverse City Golf & Country Club
231-947-0487
steveh@tcgcc.com



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