The Hassayampa Club

Important Update from Arnold Palmer Golf Management

 

As you know, we are very excited to have Bob Sykora on board with APGM as the General Manager of the Hassayampa Club. What you may not be aware of is that Bob's wife, Joan, has been a part of APGM's plan from the very beginning of our discussions with the Sykoras. Original plans for Joan were to engage her in project work for APGM, to work with all of our new and developing clubs. However, as things have evolved here at Hassayampa, we now feel that it is in our best interests to devote 100% of Joan's time to the membership recruitment efforts here. Therefore APGM has agreed to retain Joan's services on a contract basis. Joan will spearhead the all-important ongoing membership effort and will be dedicated to the membership re-development here for the foreseeable future, until the club reaches its desired membership levels.

 

Therefore, please welcome Joan Sykora as the "New" Hassayampa Club's Membership Development Officer. Joan has established herself as a highly successful professional in membership enrollment and retention, as well as in the hiring and training of Membership Sales Professionals. Her background includes working with more than 130 private clubs throughout various markets in the US, including Florida, Georgia, East Coast, Texas and California, with financial responsibility for more than 55 million dollars in annual revenues as a Vice President of Membership Sales for ClubCorp. In addition, Joan has more than 10 years experience working with private club start-up developments, acquisitions and club re-developments, similar to the Hassayampa Club. Most recently, Joan served as the Membership Development Director at Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain Georgia. Joan developed the Private Club at Callaway Gardens from inception, and was personally responsible for the enrollment of 350+ members in a two year period of time.

 

Joan brings enormous expertise to the very important task at hand......the growth of our golf membership roster to a level that will provide the financial support necessary to allow the club to provide the very best in club maintenance, facility updates, programming, services and staffing. We are proud to have achieved our first and most critical goal, that is, the growth of the roster to the level that has triggered our partnership with Hassayampa, and assured the club's financial viability. But financial viability is not our ultimate goal.....our vision is the growth of our golf membership roster to Full With a Waitlist status, and therefore to a revenue level that will allow us to realize all of our mutual goals for the club.

 

We are delighted that Alyce has agreed to transition into the role of Member Relations Director here at the Club. She will continue to help facilitate the enrollment of new members as well as work to ensure that your experience here will exceed your expectations.

 

Joan will be reaching out to each of you very soon to ask for your valued assistance in our membership enrollment efforts, by introducing your friends to the club.

 

Please come and meet Joan this Monday, May 28th at the Memorial Day BBQ from 12 PM until 2 PM and every Thursday Night (Pasta Night) from 6PM to 7 PM in the month of June.