The GCI TweetUp: our Favorites

The results are in! See who GCI deemed the top turfheads in social media this year!


Social-media-savvy golf industry pros gathered just outside the Las Vegas Convention Center at 5:31 p.m. for the first GCI TweetUp at GIS 2012.

The event, announced from the @gcimagazine feed earlier in the day, gave them the chance to meet face-to-face and talk social media and its uses within the industry, as well as catch the winners of the GCI 2012 Social Media Awards.

Armed with a megaphone, GCI Publisher Pat Jones recognized this year’s top feeds:

The Kaminski Award for Outstanding Social Media Leadership

Darren Davis
Olde Florida GC
Naples, Fla.

Best of the Blogs

Chris Tritabaugh
Northland CC
Duluth, Minn.

Steve Cook, CGCS, MG
Oakland Hills CC
Bloomfield Hills, Mich.

Bill Brown, CGCS
Hartefeld National GC
Avondale, Pa.

Innovative Use of Twitter

Greg Shaffer
Elcona CC
Briston, Ind.

David Phipps
Stone Creek GC
Oregon City, Ore.

Excellence in Video

Justin Ruiz, CGCS, MG
Indian Summer G&CC
Olympia, Wash.

“These pros have been using their blogs, Facebook and Twitter not only to reach their members and promote their courses, but to benefit other superintendents as well,” says Jones.

Check out all the action from the TweetUp at #gcitweetup2012!