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CCR Management Team
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Kevin L. Smith, CCM - General Manager
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Kevin is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He began his golf industry career at Maple Bluff Country Club and Cherokee Golf and Tennis Club both in Madison before taking a management position with Bethlehem Steel Corporation’s Sand Creek Club in northwest Indiana. After 16 years with Sand Creek, Kevin joined Servicscape, a golf course management and development company before joining Country Club of Roswell as General Manager in 1993. Kevin is a Certified Club Manager (CCM) and a member of the Club Manager's Association of America, a past Board member of the Georgia Club Manager's Association and a lifetime member of the Golf Course Supertintendent's Association of America.
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Kathy Irwin - Membership & Marketing Director
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Kathy Irwin joined the CCR team in August of 1998. After studying communiations and journalism at the University of Alabama, Kathy moved back to her hometown of Coral Springs, Florida. Kathy acquired a sales position with Delta Business, a credit company eventually bought by Equifax. Eventually migrating to Atlanta, Kathy worked in print sales for a magazine company for several years. Upon moving from Dunwoody to Cumming, GA, she worked at Polo Golf and Country Club for 4 years before accepting the position as Membership Director at Country Club of Roswell.
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Jayne Hagan - Controller
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After graduating from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale with a BS in Accounting degree, Jayne moved to Atlanta to pursue her career. She landed her first job working for Futren Corporation, which manages several clubs in the Atlanta area and that started her career in the club business. Jayne has worked at all facets of clubs (corporate owned (Futren), individual owned (Rivermont Country Club), public (White Columns Golf Club), and member owned (Country Club of Roswell)). Jayne started at Country Club of Roswell in 1996.
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Michael Zimmerman, Clubhouse Manager
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Mike began in the restaurant business at the age of twelve in Myrtle Beach, SC. After graduating from the University of Tennessee in the Hospitality program, he entered the Ruby Tuesday management group. Seven years later after opening many units and becoming General Manager of the only free standing Silver Spoon concept, he became the manager of Indigo Coastal Grill. Located in Virginia Highlands, during the Olympics. Mike gained his knowledge of wine and fine food at Indigo before entering the Club Business. He was Club House Manager for 3 years at Pinetree Country Club before coming to the Country Club of Roswell in 1999.
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Tim Farrell , Head Golf Professional
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The Country Club of Roswell’s Golf Professional team is lead by Tim M. Farrell, originally from Rochester N.Y. and a graduate of the Professional Golf Management Program at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan. He has administered our golf program since 1989. He also served as President of the Georgia Professional Golfers Association in 2000 and 2001 and in 2001 received the Association’s highest honor when he was named Golf Professional of the Year. Tim currently serves as a trustee on the Georgia State Golf Foundation and the Georgia Golf Environmental Foundation. He has also been a member of the Allied Golf Association Board of Directors since its inception in 2001.
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Cory Hopke, Golf Course Superintendent
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| Cory began working on a golf course in Kentucky at the age of 16. After graduating from high school, he entered one of the best turf management schools in the state, Eastern Kentucky University. Between his Jr. & Sr. year he completed an internship at Medinah Country Club of Chicago and went on to graduate from KU with a Bachelor of Science degree in Technical Horticulture. Cory became the Assistant Superintendent at Berry Hills Country Club of Charleston West Virginia, where he had the opportunity to act as interim superintendent on two separate occasions. He then joined Atlanta Country Club as the Asst. Golf Course Superintendent where he oversaw five Atlanta Classics before becoming the Golf Course Superintendent at Bookstone Golf and Country Club. While at Brookstone, Cory oversaw the development, construction and grow-in of the golf course. In 1994 Cory accepted the Golf Course Superintendent's position with Country Club of Roswell. During his tenure, Cory has directed numerous golf course improvement projects including a complete renovation of the golf course in 1995 and 1996, continuous hole by hole improvements, conversion to concrete cart paths and reconstruction of the maintenance building to name a few. |
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Matt Grayson, Director of Tennis
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Country Club of Roswell’s Director of Tennis, Matt Grayson, played most of his tennis career in Texas, but his family members are native Georgians. He is a graduate of Baylor University with degrees in Business Broadcasting and marketing. While attending school, he played tennis and volleyball for the university. As a summer job, he played on the Jose Cuervo Beach Volleyball Tour. This was a two-on-two professional sand volleyball tour in Florida.
Matt has spent his entire teaching career in the Atlanta area. He began as an assistant tennis professional at Atlanta Country Club and Atlanta Athletic Club and then moved to Laurel Springs as the head tennis professional. In 2003, Matt joined the Country Club of Roswell staff as the head tennis professional and moved into the director role in 2004.
Matt is certified with the United States Professional Tennis Association with a Professional-1 rating and has served on many boards and committees on the local and southern levels. Matt was honored as the Head Professional of the Year 1999-2002 by the Georgia Professional Tennis Association and as the Southern Professional of the Year by the USPTA in 2002 and 2003. Matt also enjoys spending time with his wife, Tiffany, and daughter, Sophia.
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Jeff Martinez, Food and Beverage Director
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Jeff began his career in Bowling Green Ohio where he went to work at a family restaurant by the name of Kauffman’s. Kauffman's sent Jeff to the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park New York. After A Few more years at the restaurant he moved to Findlay, Ohio and became the Assistant Chef of the Findlay Country Club. After 4 years he moved on to Kokomo Country Club where he spent the next 20 years. Jeff held a variety of positions at Kokomo Country Club from cooking, bartending, dining room manager, assistant manager and finally Club Manager. Jeff left Kokomo to take the General Manager's position at Lexington Golf & Country Club in Lexington Virginia. With a desire to own his own business, he later joined with his brothers to create and build a small town family restaurant. The WEST-INN Diner in Weston, Ohio. In 2008, Jeff joined the Country Club of Roswell as Food & Beverage Director.
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