Melrose Equipment Management Experience Fuels Professional Development

Applications open Aug. 1

The Melrose Equipment Management Experience supports the professional development of GCSAA equipment manager members with the opportunity to attend the GCSAA Conference and Trade Show. The selection criteria will consider qualifications, interest, financial need, and to the extent possible, less experienced equipment managers who will benefit most from the educational opportunity.

Participants will:

• Advance their career by participating in tailored educational sessions at the 2026 GCSAA Conference and Trade Show.
  • All Access Registration
  • Hotel accommodations
  • Networking with GCSAA and The Toro Co. leadership and education sessions in business, communication and advocacy
  • Round-trip airfare or mileage reimbursement
  • Engage with highly regarded industry experts.
  • $200 travel stipend
• Gain a broad understanding of issues facing the golf industry and learn to advocate for their profession.
• Earn education points.
• Provide enhanced value to their facility.
• Earn education points.
• Provide enhanced value to their facility.
• Financial support to complete the Equipment Management Certificate.
Program (EMCP) Level 1 and 2 exams.

Eligibility requirements:

• Must be a current Class EM member.
• Must not have attended the GCSAA Conference and Trade Show in the previous two years (2025 or 2024).
• Past recipients are not eligible.
  
• Active Equipment Manager Task Group volunteers are not eligible.
• EM members working for current members of the GCSAA Board of Directors or the GCSAA Foundation Board of Trustees and immediate family of GCSAA staff members are not eligible.

The history

The Melrose Equipment Management Experience was established in 2019 by the late Ken Melrose, retired CEO and chairman of the board of The Toro Co.

Questions? Contact Mischia Wright, GCSAA Foundation, director of development, at 800-472-7878, ext. 4445.