Ted Bishop was recently elected as secretary of the Professional Golfers Association (PGA) of America at the 92nd PGA of America Annual Meeting in Scottsdale, Ariz.
A golf member and winter resident of St. Helena Island, S.C.’s Dataw Island Club since 1994, Bishop is also the director of golf at The Legends of Indiana Golf Course in Franklin, Ind. With his election to the position of secretary, Bishop will automatically become the 38th president of the PGA of America in four years.
Bishop, who has more than 35 years’ experience in the golf industry, is a past president of the Indiana Section of the PGA and was the 1998 Indiana PGA Professional of the Year. He has also served on the Indiana Golf Foundation and IGA-PGA board of directors. In addition to the Golf Professional of the Year award, he has also won the Indiana Section PGA Horton Smith Award and the Bill Strausbaugh Award.
Nationally, Bishop has served the last two years on the PGA of America’s board of directors representing District Six, which includes Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana. Bishop has also served on the National Membership Committee, on the PGA’s Code of Ethics Task Force and was one of only four people to serve on the PGA’s Budget Committee. In addition, he served four years on the PGA Board of Control.
Bishop’s campaign platform for secretary focused on membership and employment issues. In his role as secretary, Bishop will serve under newly elected PGA president Jim Remy and PGA vice president Alan Wronowski.
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