THE
PGA
OF
AMERICA
OFFICERS
PGA SECRETARY TED BISHOP SERVED AS DISTRICT
6 DIRECTOR ON THE PGA BOARD of Directors and since 1991 has worked as general manager and PGA director of golf at The Legends of Indiana Golf Club in Franklin, Ind. He was elected PGA
Secretary in November 2008.
Bishop is well-versed in virtually every aspect of Association governance. He has
served on the PGA Board of Directors since 2006 and served on the PGA Board of
Control from 2002–05. Bishop was a successful proponent for The PGA of America’s
return to the committee system, which was restored in 1999.
Bishop chairs the PGA Membership Committee and is a past chair of the PGA Code
of Ethics Task Force. In addition, he is a member of both the PGA Budget and PGA
Properties Committees. Previously, he evaluated hundreds of membership matters
while sitting on the PGA Board of Control.
Bishop became part of a limited partnership in 1991 that has since owned and managed
The Legends of Indiana Golf Club and oversaw its construction of a 45-hole complex that is
the home of the Indiana PGA Section and Indiana Golf Association. Bishop serves as
president of the Indiana Golf Foundation.
Bishop began his professional career as a PGA Professional and superintendent at the Phil
Harris Golf Course in Linton, Ind., serving from 1976–1991. He was elected to PGA
membership in September 1985 and has served in a leadership capacity at either the Section
or National levels since 1989. From 1997–98, Bishop served as president of the Indiana PGA
Section.
He was named the 1998 Indiana PGA Golf Professional of the Year. He is also a two-time
(1996–97) Section Bill Strausbaugh Award recipient and the Section 1991 Horton Smith
Award winner. On the course, Bishop was a four-time Indiana Open qualifier. Since 2007, he
has served on the City of Franklin, Ind., Planning Commission.
Bishop earned a bachelor’s degree in agronomy from Purdue University in 1976. He and
his wife, Cindy, live in Franklin, Ind., and are the parents of daughters Ashely, a
membership director at The Legends of Indiana Golf Club, and Ambry LaRosa, a PGA
assistant professional at St. Andrews Golf Club in Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y., and the
head women’s golf coach at St. John’s University.
Ted Bishop,
PGA
Secretary,
The PGA of America
The Legends of
Indiana Golf Club,
Franklin, Ind.
Brian
Whitcomb,
PGA
Honorary President,
The PGA of America
Lost Tracks Golf Club,
Bend, Ore.
AFTER TWO REMARKABLE YEARS AS PRESIDENT OF THE PGA OF AMERICA, BRIAN Whitcomb has brought his keen insight, skills and business knowledge from the perspective of a successful golf course business owner into his role as PGA
Honorary President.
Elected in 2006, as the 35th PGA President, Whitcomb championed the growth of
the PGA Professional through innovative means of communication that utilized the
best of new and old media alike. He instigated popular face-to-face Town Hall
Meetings with PGA members to bring the importance of one-on-one communication
to the forefront. All the while, he elevated the PGA member by ensuring they were
positioned as the recognized experts in the game and business of golf during a historic
rebranding of The PGA. Whitcomb steered the capital improvement program for
A PGA member since 1984, Whitcomb began his career in 1978, at the Arizona Biltmore
Country Club in Phoenix. In 1981, he leased Paradise Valley Park Golf Course, also in
Phoenix, and built an additional nine holes of golf. In 1989, he designed and built The 500
Club in Phoenix, which he operates with Tom Sneva, the winner of the 1983 Indianapolis
500. In 1992, he designed and built Club West in Phoenix, which he sold in 1998.
Whitcomb attended Arizona State University from 1975–78, earning a bachelor’s degree in
physical education and competing as a member of the university golf team. He was a finalist
in the National Long Drive competition in 1985 and ’
86.
Whitcomb serves on the Folds of Honor Board of Directors, a foundation created by PGA
Professional Dan Rooney. The foundation provides post-secondary educational scholarships
for children and spouses of military service men and women killed or disabled while serving
our great nation.
Whitcomb and his wife, Stefanie, have two children, Ryan and Megan.
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