PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Four new members of The PGA of America’s Board of Directors were sworn in Saturday, Nov. 8, at the Association’s 92nd Annual Meeting at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa in Phoenix, Ariz.
Michael Doctor of Camillus, N.Y., Ron Dunham of Jackson, Wyo., Bruce Patterson of Clarendon Hills, Ill., and Jeff Smith of Oskaloosa, will each serve three-year terms.
The PGA Board of Directors is composed of the Association’s President, Vice President, Secretary, Honorary President and 17 directors. The directors include representatives from each of The PGA’s 14 Districts, two Independent Directors and a member of the PGA Tour. New District Directors are elected by their local PGA Sections.
Smith, the golf pro at Harvest Point Golf Course, is a fourth generation member of his family to serve in the golf industry, Smith is the first in his family to attain PGA of America membership. Smith’s family managed the city-owned golf facility in Oskaloosa — Edmundson Golf Course. As District 8 director, he will represent the Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska PGA Sections.
Smith enjoyed a productive junior golf career, winning the 1976 and 1977 Iowa state high school championship, and reached the 1976 quarterfinals of the U.S. Junior Championship. He competed on a golf scholarship at Memphis State University, before graduating in 1981. After an unsuccessful bid for a Tour career in 1981, Smith became an apprentice professional at Hillwood Country Club in Nashville, Tenn. He returned to Edmundson Golf Course in 1985 and earned PGA of America membership in 1987.
In May 2000, Smith and his wife, Lori, opened the nine-hole Harvest Point Golf Course and practice range in Oskaloosa, which they continue to own and manage today.
Smith, 49, is a three-time Iowa PGA Merchandiser of the Year award winner (public facilities); a three-time Section Horton Smith Award recipient; the 2006 Section Golf Professional of the Year, and is in his third year as co-chair of Play Golf Iowa. Last year, Smith concluded 12 years of service on the Board of Directors of the Iowa PGA Section, where he chaired all positions during 10 years on the Section’s executive board. He has been an active member of the Iowa PGA-sanctioned GIVE (Golf For Injured Veterans Everywhere) program and is a past chair of the Iowa PGA Junior Golf program.
Smith and his wife Lori, live in Oskaloosa, and are the parents of a son, Tyler.
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