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November 20th 2006 - Six new members of The PGA of America’s Board of Directors were sworn in Saturday, Nov. 18, at The Association’s 90th Annual Meeting at The Sanctuary in Kiawah Island, S.C.
Ted Bishop of Franklin, Ind., Frank Gumpert of Baton Rouge, La., Randy Hunt of Lenexa, Kan., Mary Bea Porter-King of Lihue, Hawaii; Dennis Rose of Kamuela, Hawaii, and Alan Wooley of Kyle, Texas, will each serve three-year terms.
Ted Bishop
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.
Association delegates elected Brian Whitcomb of Bend, Ore., as the 35th president of The PGA of America. Whitcomb previously served as Secretary of the Association from 2002-2004 and Vice President from 2004-2006
Whitcomb, 51, succeeds Roger Warren of Kiawah Island, S.C., who will serve on The PGA Board of Directors as Honorary President.
Succeeding Whitcomb as Vice President is Jim Remy of Ludlow, Vt., who served the past two years as Secretary.
Allen Wronowski of Bel Air, Md., was elected Secretary.
New member of The PGA Board of Directors, Ted Bishop, is a general manager and PGA director of golf at The Legends of Indiana Golf Club in Franklin, Ind., is a 1976 graduate of Purdue University, and was elected to PGA membership in 1985. He has served on the PGA Board of Control from 2002 to 2005, and will succeed Tim Marks of Lenox, Ill., as District 6 Director for the Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin Sections.
Since 1989, Bishop has served as either a Board member or Officer in the Indiana PGA Section, and was Section President from 1997-98. During that time, he guided several initiatives and programs that included serving as chair of Operation Sand Save, which raised $40,000 in care packages for Indiana Reserves and National Guard troops deployed in the Middle East; co-founding the Indiana Chapter of the Executive Women’s Golf Association and serving as co-host of The Indiana Golf Show on ESPN Radio in Indianapolis. He is a two-time recipient of the Sagamore of the Wabash, which was presented by the governor of Indiana and is the state’s highest honor bestowed on a private citizen.
Bishop began his professional golf career as PGA Professional and superintendent at Phil Harris Golf Course in Linton, Ind. In 1998, he won the Indiana PGA Golf Professional of the Year Award, and was the recipient of the 1992 Section Horton Smith Award, and the Section 1996-97 Indiana PGA Bill Strausbaugh Award.
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