Third-generation CGCS Larry Snyder, golf course manager at Celebration Golf Club in Osceola County, Fla., has been a golf course superintendent for more than 30 years. He can’t help it, he says, it’s in his genes.
Snyder’s grandfather, Arthur A. the first golf course superintendent to be inducted into the Arizona Golf Hall of Fame, earned a Distinguished Service Award from the Golf Course Superintendent’s Association and a USGA Green Section Award during his career that started in 1907.
Snyder’s Uncle Arthur Jack, was golf course superintendent at Oakmont Country Club in Pennsylvania prior to his career in golf course design serving as president of ASGA. Another Uncle –– Jim Snyder CGCS –– was superintendent at Paradise Valley Country Club in Paradise Valley, AZ. His father Carl Snyder CGCS was superintendent at Boulders Golf Resort in Carefree AZ. And Snyder’s brother, David was superintendent at Scottsdale Country Club in Arizona.
Snyder began his career working for his father at Century C.C, then for his brother at Scottsdale, then his uncle at Paradise Valley before landing his first superintendent’s job at Coronado Golf Club in Scottsdale. That was December 1976. “It was the natural thing to do,” said Snyder.
