The Central Illinois Golf Course Superintendent’s Association’s
Board of Directors met January 21st, 2021 to carry on its mission to provide its members the opportunity to excel professionally
and enhance the art and science of turfgrass management.
The Boards
focus the first month of the year has been revamping the PRP (Partner Recognition
Program). The goal of the revitalized
program is to provide more value to our PRP sponsors, while providing new and
fresh ways for our members to receive information. It is the Boards goal to further
communications via Twitter and email, while providing more engaging content, such as video
links, bios, member profiles, and course highlights. Please follow CIGCSA on twitter @CIGCSA . The full PRP program will be released soon.
Check emails and website for more details.
The Golf Industry Show (virtual addition) is right around
the corner. Please take a look at GCSAA/GIS’s
latest updates for the “Show” here. I promise it is much more than a Zoom meeting! We will also participate in the Annual
Meeting (also virtual) that will elect our new national GCSAA Board of
Directors for 2021. The 2020 Board, GCSAA
Leadership, and staff did an outstanding job navigating our industry through an
unprecedented year. There is no “playbook”
to follow for a once in a century pandemic and GCSAA lead the way early using
all available resources and relationships to lead golf forward.
The events calendar is being finalized, with the March Shop Meeting taking shape for Mid-March. While many
of our experiences in 2020 will be duly forgotten, CIGCSA stumbled on a successful event nonetheless. Our first ever match play event took place
last summer out of necessity to keep groups and gatherings to a minimum. The match play format allowed members to gather,
compete, and stay safe in small socially distanced pairings. Feedback was positive and we will continue
the match paly format in 2021. This year’s
event will take place from April- September and will honor founding and
influential past members of CIGCSA.
We will be calling it the Memorial Match Play, to honor those in our past who made our association what it is today and have passed away over the years. It is a
great way to keep their memories alive and continue to tell our CIGCSA story to
our younger members. Keep
tabs on your emails and the website for dates and details of all our 2021 events.
Thanks for reading.
Travis Williams, CGCS
Immediate Past President, CIGCSA