Word came late yesterday that 2003 GCSAA President Jon D. Maddern, CGCS, will leave the City of San Diego and his job as deputy director/golf operations manager of the Balboa Park, Mission Bay and Torrey Pines golf complexes in mid March.
In a communication to friends and colleagues in the industry, Maddern (seen here on the far right with other former GCSAA Board of Directors members at this month's conference and show in San Diego), said, "After much consideration and thorough consideration of my family, personal and professional future" he will become the superintendent at The Cliffs at Keowee Falls in Salem, S.C. His last day at the San Diego job will be March 12.
Maddern said the move would allow him and his wife, Beverly, to be closer to family and offer him "the great opportunity to return to my passion, that of preparing a golf course for play."
Maddern came to San Diego in 2007 to assist then-San Diego's director of golf operations — and now GCSAA CEO — Mark Woodward, CGCS, in readying Torrey Pines for that year's U.S. Open (the pair is pictured here during that event). Maddern took on his new San Diego role after Woodward's departure for Lawrence, Kan.
Designed by Jack Nicklaus, the 18-hole Falls course at The Cliffs at Keowee Falls opened in 2007.
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