Senior Vice President, Golf Operations
Ginn Resorts

Jerry G. Thompson is Vice President of Golf Operations for Ginn Resorts™, overseeing tournament operations for a portfolio of PGA TOUR, Champions TOUR and LPGA TOUR activities at all of the company’s developments.

After two years of pre-law at Texas Tech University, Thompson left college and joined the Texas and Pacific Railroad in Ft. Worth with the ambition of becoming a trainmaster.  As an apprentice trainmaster, Thompson found time to take up golf, discovered he had an affinity for the game and decided to change career paths.  He left the railroad in 1980 to take the Woodhaven job and learn the profession.  He then joined the Ft. Worth Parks and Recreation Department to manage two of the city’s five municipal golf courses.

From 1983-1995, he worked at the PGA National Golf Club, headquarters for the Professional Golfer’s Association of America in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.  There, as head Golf Professional, he was responsible for overseeing more than 100 employees and all programs enjoyed by the club’s 1,200 members.  On loan to the Ladies Professional Golf Association in 1994, he set up their golf operations at the LPGA International Golf Club headquarters in Daytona Beach, Florida.

From 1995 to 2000, Thompson was Director of Golf at the Palm Coast Resort, and joined Ginn Clubs & Resorts in 2000 as General Manager of the Rivertowne Country Club™ near Charleston, South Carolina.  Promoted to his current position in 2002, Thompson is a Master Professional of the PGA of America and served on the National Rules Committee for the past 10 years.