EARTH SHAPING NEWS Published Quarterly by the Golf Course Builders Association of America
SPRING EDITION
Orlando, Florida - GCBAA Celebrated a Busy Week as a new Show Partner | Photo credits of images on this page: GCSAA
Inside Issue the
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President’s Perspective
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Executive Director Notes
13 Human Resources 15 Allied Updates 19 Movers & Shapers 23 New Members 23 GCBAA Meetings Calendar
GCBAA Winter MEETING
The Golf Course Builders Association of America members had a busy week at the 2020 Golf Industry Show in Orlando, Florida. With over 12,000 Golf Course Builders, Superintendents, Owners, and Architects passing through 500 exhibitors spanning 450,000 gross square feet, learning about the latest and greatest products to support our game. Probably the most impressive number is 6,187 seminar seats were filled during a record-setting 37,000 hours of education. Back to back with the PGA Merchandise Show, GCBAA members converged into the Orange County Convention Center to set up for the week. One of the two entryways to the show floor was the popular "Inside the Shop" show floor feature. Inside the Shop is a replica maintenance shop designed to help superintendents make attainable improvements to their own shop, regardless of budgetary or space constraints. For 2020 the Shop featured educational opportunities, networking, contests, and handson demonstrations that equipped golf course maintenance teams with tips, tricks, and new ideas on how to enhance existing shop practices. This area was over 9,000 square feet and included the maintenance shop and storage yard showcasing creative, innovative, and affordable solutions for superintendents and their teams to apply to their everyday roles and responsibilities. The GCBAA Booth once again used our space continue on pg. 2