About Us
The PGMSA is a nonprofit student organization that consists of Professional Golf Management majors. Some of the objectives of the organization are to develop comradie among PGM students, to provide students with an organized, professional atmosphere, and to increase social and professional interaction. They also engage in activities that support the community of Big Rapids; for example, they may sponsor a canned food drive, rake leaves at a local shelter or help run a junior golf clinic for the Girl Scouts. The PGMSA meets once a week and is run by the Executive Board that consists of PGM students who have been selected by the student body.
The Executive Board is responsible for overseeing all of the activities of the Association and to act as a liaison between the PGMSA and the PGM Coordinator, Matt Pinter. The Executive Board consists of a president, vice president, secretary and treasurer, all of who serve for a term of one semester. The officers meet once a week to review the previous weeks events as well as the events to come.
The president is responsible for conducting all meetings, overseeing all operations, and maintaining positive relationships between the Association, the coordinator of the program, the University as a whole and other student organizations on campus; the vice president’s main responsibility is to oversee the various committees that are formed within the PGMSA; the treasurer is in charge of maintaining the Association’s bank account that consists of tournament monies, Association dues, fundraising monies, etc., and keeping the students abreast of the Association’s financial status. The treasurer is also responsible for taking notes at PGMSA meetings and reminding students of upcoming events.
Along with the Executive Board, there are several committees that work in correlation with the Board to ensure that the students in the PGMSA are actively involved in events that will help their future as golf professionals.