Since I picked up my first golf club at age nine, I’ve been a golf fanatic, and have been in and around the golf business for more than 25 years. Currently, I’m the executive director of the Lowcountry Golf Course Owners’ Association, a consortium of public access golf courses in the Hilton Head, S.C., area.

A Hilton Head Island resident for the last 26 years, I’ve chaired the golf steering committee for the Hilton Head Island Convention & Visitors Bureau and worked for The Sea Pines Resort and Greenwood Development Corporation, the owner/operator of Palmetto Dunes.

I own GMS, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in integrated marketing communications for the golf industry. As a freelance writer and editor, I’ve written three books on golf travel, including the”Endless Fairway” series published by Simon and Schuster in the early 1990s, as well as features on golf destinations, resort travel and real estate communities for publications such as LINKS – The Best of Golf, Golf Magazine, Golf Digest and Delta Sky.