A big thank you from the organising committee and from me to all members who attended the conference in Wellington – your support was much appreciated. To achieve 91 attendees, a handful more than 2008, in these recessed economic conditions was testament to the programme, speakers and content which all scored highly in the ratings from feedback.
While the weather was somewhat disappointing, in particular for the golf event, the feedback overall has been extremely positive and confirmed that the Board’s objective to ‘lift the bar’ on the 2008 event was achieved. Your ratings from the questionnaire scored overall at 1.50 (1 being excellent, 5 being poor) which is significantly better than the 1.66 achieved for the previous conference. I do hope that we delivered on your expectations and you met my challenge to take back to your clubs at least a handful of ideas to consider or implement.
For those of you that were unable to attend the AGM at the conclusion of the conference, I can advise that the 2012 venue will be Christchurch with Rod Latham and his team in the South Island branch agreeing to take on the organisation. Most members felt that a change of city was due and that it would help to grow the membership in that region with the distance from Auckland not really being an issue with inexpensive airfares now being available between those two cities.
Steve Wallace
President
I just wanted to touch base to thank you and the National Executive for your hospitality at the conference, it was much appreciated.
I’m sure you will be pleased with how it all went, every manager I spoke to commented positively on the quality of the speakers and the overall content of the program.
We look forward to being involved for a long time to come.
Karl Margrain
Business Development Manager
Debitsuccess
Congratulations to you and your executive on a very well run and very informative conference which was for me my first. Great speakers, excellent discussions and great fellowship.
Well done.
Des Topp
General Manager
Pakuranga Country Club
Congratulations on a fine conference. There was not a bad word to be had from anyone that I spoke to over the two days. The quality of speakers was outstanding and I am sure that everyone was able to take away something from it. If they didn’t then they must know everything.
The choice of David Fordham as MC was a great one and the number of exhibitors reflected the importance that they place on the Golf Managers Association.
You and your Wellington team have created a hard act to follow but we will endeavour to make the next one as successful as this one was.
Have a great holiday and birthday
Rod Latham
General Manager
Harewood Golf Club
All the comments I received from people has been extremely positive and they are looking forward to Christchurch in 2012!
“Fordo” was an “O” for ORSUM MC. I hope he will be available for Christchurch (health permitting)
Tanya Dearns
General Manager
Napier Golf Club Inc.
Thank You to all the organisers for a very informative conference and look forward to attending the next.
Cheers
Paul Holmes
Golf Director
Lakes Golf Course
The 2010 GMANZ Conference has been a great success and we would welcome your feedback. Please feel free to click on the following link and email us with and feedback you would be happy to have posted on the web site.
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