Chris Cupit Re-Elected President at Georgia State Golf Association Annual Meeting
New Members of Executive Committee, Board of Directors Also Announced
2010 GSGA Board of Directors Listing
MARIETTA, Ga. – Chris Cupit of Alpharetta was elected president of the Georgia State Golf Association for a second one-year term, highlighting the Association’s 2010 Annual Meeting held at Cherokee Town Club, January 23.
Cupit is the owner and general manager of Rivermont Golf and Country Club in Johns Creek. A native Atlantan and graduate of the University of Virginia, Cupit grew up playing in GSGA competitions, representing the state in the Georgia-South Carolina Junior Challenge Matches in 1985 and ’86. He also competed for GSGA in the 2003 Billy Peters Cup versus the Georgia PGA. He has made several appearances in both the U.S. Amateur and Mid-Amateur Championships as well as the British Amateur and Mid-Amateur.
Cupit has been a member of the GSGA Executive Committee since 2004 and is currently serving as a member of the USGA Mid-Amateur Committee.
In 2006, Cupit was appointed by Governor Sonny Perdue to serve on the Johns Creek interim city commission while the new city went through the incorporation process.
Greg Butterfield of Smyrna was elected for a second one-year term as president-elect. He will serve in this capacity and then become president upon the conclusion of Cupit’s service. Butterfield, who is a member of the The Frog Golf Club at the Georgian in Villa Rica, has been a GSGA volunteer since 1998, was elected to the Board of Directors in 2005 and named to the Executive Committee in 2006. Early on, Butterfield worked primarily in the area of rules and competitions, but now splits his time between tournament and membership committees. He is also a member of the USGA Public Links Committee.
Butterfield has lived in Georgia since 1981, and is a partner in the Terryberry Company, which specializes in employee recognition. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of New Hampshire. He and his wife, Kathy, have a son, Devon and daughter, Morgan.
John Glenn of Glen Arven Country Club in Thomasville was elected to serve a fifth one-year term as secretary-treasurer.
William Blalock of Atlanta (Capital City Club) was elected to a second three-year term on the Executive Committee. New members elected to the Executive Committee were Savannah’s Lee Cassady (The Landings Club) and Albany’s Olivia Flanagan (Doublegate Country Club). Other Executive Committee members who will continue in their current terms during 2010 are Dave Ballard of Roswell (Indian Hills Country Club), Robert F. Fowler of Sandy Springs (Capital City Club), Gene B. McClure of Atlanta (Ansley Golf Club) and Becky Royer of Canton (BridgeMill Athletic Club).
Seth L. Knight III of Columbus (Green Island Country Club), whose term as president concluded at the 2009 Annual Meeting, becomes an ex-officio member of the Executive Committee as immediate past president while Cupit serves as president.
Also continuing as ex-officio members of the Executive Committee are Georgia State Golf Foundation president Neill Hatcher of Columbus (Country Club of Columbus) and general counsel Chuck Palmer of Atlanta (East Lake Golf Club).
GSGA welcomed four new members to the Board of Directors: Jim Blose of Bogart, David Burke of Canton, Wayne Thomas of Warner Robins and Dave Turner of Canton.
Carey Brown of Atlanta becomes a Senior Director after serving ten years on the board. Senior Directors Chris Borders of Woodstock and Pentti Savola of Tucker and Director Pat Clarke of Sea Island retired from the Board and become Directors Emeritus in 2010.
The management of the Georgia State Golf Association is vested in its Board of Directors. The Board meets annually to review the activity of the Association, transact any business and elect a new slate of officers and directors. The GSGA Executive Committee, which includes the Officers, meets quarterly to manage the business affairs of the Association between annual meetings.
Founded in 1916, the Georgia State Golf Association (GSGA) received its official charter on June 24, 1924. Since that date, the GSGA has grown to one of the largest state amateur golf associations in the country, with over 350 member clubs and 85,000 individual members. With a mission to promote and preserve amateur golf in the state of Georgia, GSGA offers a computerized handicapping service, course rating and measuring, and annually conducts a full schedule of statewide competitions for men and women of all age groups. Other services include a summer-long junior sectional program, award-winning Golf Georgia magazine, membership recognition and rewards programs and a charitable foundation administering two college scholarship programs.
