(VIENNA, VA) – Billy Casper Golf (BCG) – owner and operator of more than 125 golf courses, country clubs and resorts – has partnered with TurfNet to further bolster the professional development of its golf-course agronomy teams.
BCG personnel will gain unlimited and full access to the entire array of educational and networking opportunities provided by TurfNet, the foremost online community for turf-management specialists. Benefits include online discussion forums to exchange and offer guidance with thousands of peers nationwide, employee recruitment and exposure to the pre-owned equipment marketplace.
Exclusive to BCG, TurfNet will establish a private discussion forum for internal use as well as TurfNet University curriculum for company training. Completion of Turfnet University webinars counts toward educational credits from the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America.
Lauded for its industry-leading regional agronomic support model, BCG’s decentralized coverage includes regional directors of agronomy overseeing agronomic transition specialists, golf-course superintendents, assistant superintendents, equipment managers and their maintenance teams.
“The partnership with TurfNet is an investment in the careers of our 300-plus agronomic management team members,” says Bryan Bielecki, Vice President of Agronomy for BCG. “They will be exposed to and contribute a considerable amount dialogue, best practices and tools of the trade.”
“We’re excited to welcome Billy Casper Golf into our professional community,” says Peter McCormick, Founder of TurfNet. “Partnering with an industry leader like Billy Casper Golf affirms the great value TurfNet offers under our mantra of ‘working smarter.'”
About TurfNet
TurfNet was founded in 1994 as a place for golf course superintendents to share experiences and opinions, avoid problems, save money, help others, get help when needed and have a little fun in the process. Now the second longest-tenured media entity in the turf industry, TurfNet benefits members and advertisers alike. TurfNet is a business unit of Turnstile Media Group with offices in Orlando, Atlanta and Vermont.
For more information: www.turfnet.com, 802.659.0120.
About Billy Casper Golf
Widely respected as a high-performance owner-operator of more than 125 golf courses, country clubs and resorts, Billy Casper Golf holds the second largest domestic portfolio. The company provides turnkey club management for public-agency and private owners, developers and investors. Founded more than 20 years ago in cooperation with golf legend Billy Casper, the firm is headquartered in Vienna, VA with regional offices strategically convenient to courses’ locales.
Industry leaders and media praise the company’s best-of-breed infrastructure that shows clients favorable returns on investments. Billy Casper Golf’s economies of scale make and save money for courses while delivering personal touches to golfers and club members.
Buffalo Communications – a division of Billy Casper Golf – is the global public relations, branding and marketing-communications firm. In addition to creating and implementing programs for Billy Casper Golf courses, Buffalo represents many of golf’s top brands (products, resorts, destinations and communities) worldwide.
For more information: www.billycaspergolf.com, www.buffalocommunications.com, 703.761.1444.
Contact:
Nick Lashinsky
Billy Casper Golf / Buffalo Communications
703.891.3324
nlashinsky@billycaspergolf.com
www.buffalocommunications.com
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