(POUND RIDGE, N.Y.) – Pound Ridge Golf Club – the public Pete Dye-design in Westchester County -has named Kevin Nalepka director of sales.
Nalepka, a marketing and event expert with 20-plus years’ experience, will oversee outing offerings, including corporate, charity and leisure tournaments. One of Northeast’s most highly-acclaimed courses, Pound Ridge offers event planners a total turn-key experience in a tranquil, relaxed setting away from the stress points of the city.
“Businesses and organizations have the opportunity to experience the genius of Pete Dye without leaving the Tri-State-area,” says Ken Wang, owner of Pound Ridge. “By adding Kevin to the team, we are making our events platform commensurate with the country’s best private clubs.”
Prior to Pound Ridge, Nalepka spent more than a decade working for Global Experience Specialists and The Freeman Companies, both leaders in event planning. During his tenure, he planned, produced and executed hundreds of events for some of the world’s largest companies.
Nalepka holds a bachelor of arts in accounting from The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC where he played varsity baseball. He has finished the New York City marathon 11 times, and is an accomplished golfer.
“The combination of convenience and one of the game’s most revered designers means golfers can play a world-class course and still make it home for dinner, whether they’re in Manhattan, Connecticut, or New Jersey,” says Nalepka.
Located under an hour from New York City and minutes from White Plains, Stamford and Greenwich, Pound Ridge Golf Club is a quintessential Dye course, exhibiting all the qualities for which he’s so renowned: drama, beauty, rhythm, challenge, deception and subtlety.
A variety of best-in-class food, beverage and catering options are available for groups of all sizes. The 1,500-square-foot outdoor patio overlooking the golf course provides the perfect setting for après-golf camaraderie and refreshments.
Since opening in 2008, Pound Ridge has earned world-class accolades from Golf Digest, GOLF Magazine, Golfweek, AskMen.com, Rolex and LINKS Magazine. It quickly emerged as a “destination golf course,” sought out by serious golfers collecting the world’s best golf experiences.
More information: www.PoundRidgeGolf.com, 914.764.5771.
About Pound Ridge Golf Club
Opened in 2008, Pound Ridge Golf Club is the only course in New York designed by the legendary Pete Dye. Located in Westchester County, it is less than an hour north of New York City and less than 15 minutes from Stamford and Greenwich, Connecticut. Pound Ridge Golf Club is the premier high-end, public course in the metropolitan New York area.
Crafted by Dye, his son Perry and long-time Dye construction manager/lead shaper Michael Langkau, Pound Ridge Golf Club is a full bentgrass facility, hewn from 172 acres of magnificent cliffs, streams and wooded hills. Dramatic rock formations and boulders were left on-site, creating one of the most visually stunning settings for golf in the U.S. More than 14,000-linear-feet of rock wall surrounds trees, wetlands and water hazards. These frame contoured fairways which wind through hardwood forests and fescue mounds leading to open meadows with picturesque green complexes.
Pound Ridge Golf Club plays to a par-72 and houses five sets of tees and measures 7,165 yards. It boasts a practice range, short game area and putting green. The property features some of the highest points in Westchester County, with a number of tee boxes offering expansive vistas of the surrounding countryside. Notable holes include the par-5, 13th – home to “Pete’s Rock,” a giant boulder that rests in the middle of the fairway – and the par-3 15th – dubbed “Headstone” – which is flanked on the right by a large rock outcropping that protrudes into the elongated, 9,000-square-foot green.
Recent accolades for Pound Ridge Golf Club Include:
• “No. 1 New York City Area Golf Course, 2010” – AskMen.com
• “America’s Best New Courses, 2009” – Golf Digest
• “New Golf Development of the Year, 2009” – ABTA Golf
• “Top Ten You Can Play, No. 2, 2008” – GOLF Magazine
• “Best New Courses, 2008” – LINKS Magazine
• “America’s Best New Courses, 2008” – Golfweek
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