Social Change

On Wednesday, this past week, the Eastern PA Turf Conference hosted the first Turf Industry Social ,instead of the traditional trade show. Concluding a year long look for change, and many meetings and conversations, the vendors were able to eliminate the table top trade show that had run its course.

From rough estimates, the Turf Industry Social was a success. Will there be changes? Absolutely.
It was well received, and with anything that is new, there were lots of questions on wrist bands and how it all works. In the end, with some tweaks, it hopefully will grow.

Now comes the second half of the equation, the auction of donated golf at the Philadelphia Golf Expo. The thought that auctioning off golf to people in the golf business, never made much sense to me. We have over 30 clubs, and hopefully, some more that are pending, that have agreed to donate foursomes, including some of the big name clubs. Hopefully, with a great response at the golf expo, we will be able to justify the format change and bring more funding to the PTC.

From the Vendor side, I know that all of us involved appreciate PTC working with us to try and improve the event.

WJC