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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Dear Members,
The start of a new year creates a sense of excitement
and expectation for what will come in 2017. I look forward to
spending many hours with each of you at the club.
Under the leadership of the Board and Mr. Porter with
our management team, 2016 was an exciting year of growth,
progress and learning for Greystone Golf & Country Club.
Efforts by numerous members and the hardworking staff
led us to 880 members, first class fitness programs, a
rejuvenated food and beverage program, a growing tennis
program, championship level golf courses and countless
tournaments and member events.
The Regions Traditions Champions Tour golf tournament
returns to Greystone Founders Course May 17-21, 2017. The
tournament is one of the Tour’s five majors and represents a
wonderful opportunity for our club. The Regions Tradition is
an irreplaceable opportunity that brings prestige and pro-
vides a financial impact to Greystone. Our continued member
support and participation is key to retaining the tournament and
contributions to Children’s of Alabama and various other
Alabama charities.
Our club leadership continues to strive for zero based bud-
geting, financial stability and to manage the club’s expenses
within our expected revenues. For instance, there was no dues
enhancement in 2017. However, there is still much work left to
increase our capital funds. We have many deferred mainte-
nance and improvement items that we must address.
Every month, each of us make a financial investment in our
club. I am now encouraging each of you to make a social invest-
ment by expanding your use of the club, meeting all the new
members and enjoying all the programs and events staged by
our management team. The best thing you can do as a member
to advance our club is to use the club often with your family,
your guests and with other members and their spouses.
We cannot improve without the efforts of our many volun-
teer committee members. We look forward to gaining input
from our five 2017 committees: Finance, Membership Market-
ing & Communications, Golf, Sports & Social and Membership
Engagement. Thank you to the thirty devoted members who
volunteered to serve on these important committees. Finally,
thank you to all 2016 committee members who helped shape
Greystone for the future.
In closing, I want to personally thank Terry Smith for his ex-
tensive time and effort behind the scenes in 2016. In addition to
leading us to arguably the best year ever at Greystone, he spent
much time making sure that I was informed and ready for the
challenges and opportunities we face in 2017. I encourage each
of you to attend the President Dinner on Saturday, January 21st
at 6:30pm, Founders Clubhouse to acknowledge his dedication.
I look forward to seeing you soon.
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