Bob Morey (right) was nominated and approved as the Association's new President. Prior, he was the Association's Vice-President and Championship Chairman.

Merion Golf Club's Morey elected President at Annual Meeting

  Morey, 67, has served for three years as Chairman of the Association’s Championship Committee. He also served from 2012 through 2014 as the organization’s Vice President. Morey has been a member at Merion since 1973. He was on the Board of Governors from 2006-12 and served as Golf Chairman during that same time. He is currently the Co-Green Chairman. He also was part of the club’s Executive Committee for the 2005 U.S. Amateur, 2009 Walker Cup and 2013 U.S. Open.

  The election of Officers and the 17-member Executive Committee occurred on Oct. 29 at the Association's Annual Meeting at Metedeconk National Golf Club in Jackson, N.J.

  Also elected to one-year terms as Officers are T. Quinn Spitzer, Huntingdon Valley Country Club, Vice President; Michael J. Higgins, Aronimink Golf Club, Treasurer, and Richard Ogorek, Fieldstone Golf Club, Secretary. Jeffrey S. Henderson of Gulph Mills Golf Club, is nominated for a one-year term in his current role as General Counsel. Spitzer, who served as Secretary of GAP in the just concluded fiscal year, assumes the role as Vice President as he enters his third year on the Executive Committee. The new Officer in the group is Ogorek, who in his first year on the Executive Committee in 2014 served as Chairman of the Junior Golf Committee.

  Others on the GAP Executive Committee who were elected to serve an additional one-year term each are John R. Choyka, Indian Valley Country Club; William Higgins, St. Davids Golf Club; Edward Hutchinson, Tavistock Golf Club; Michael B. McLelland, Chester Valley Golf Club; Oscar Mestre, Overbrook Golf Club; Glenn Meyer, Philmont Country Club; Noreen Mohler, Northampton Country Club; W. Garth Sprecher, Lancaster Country Club, and Jonathan P. Warner, Aronimink Golf Club. Warner is an ex-officio member of the Executive Committee as a result of his role as Chairman of the Platt Charitable Trust.

  Also, representatives of three GAP clubs were elected to their first one-year terms on the Executive Committee. They are:

• Edward R. Brzezowski of Concord Country Club. Brzezowski, 62, of Exton, PA, is President of Snyder Moore Insurance Agency. In 2012, Brzezowski was selected as the GAP Volunteer of the Year. Brzezowski is very active as a rules official in GAP events; he has attended three four-day Rules of Golf seminars conducted by the USGA and the PGA of America, five handicap seminars at USGA headquarters in Far Hills, N.J., and numerous other seminars on golf administration issues, including course-rating calibration seminars. In addition to his membership at Concord Country Club, Brzezowski is a member of the Crail Golfing Society of Fife, Scotland. At Concord, Brzezowski has chaired the membership, handicap and house committees and co-chaired the golf committee. Prior to getting involved in running an insurance agency in the Philadelphia market, Brzezowski spent eight years as an organized crime analyst for the FBI in the New York City area. Professionally, he has served on six boards of directors and was president of several insurance agency boards.
• C. Greg Guyer of Philadelphia Cricket Club. Guyer, 53, of Wyndmoor, Pa., is Senior Vice President of Merck & Co., Inc., where he is responsible for the quality of all products. Guyer has been playing golf since he was 5. He was active as a junior golfer, winning the Georgia State Insurance Youth Classic in 1975 at the age of 14; he also won a USGA Junior Championship Qualifier in 1977 and finished as the runner-up in 1977 in the AJGA Championship at Pinehurst. He played college golf for the University of Georgia from 1977 through 1981. From 2012-14, Guyer chaired the Philadelphia Cricket Club’s Restoration Committee, which recently completed work restoring the club’s Wissahickon course that was created by A.W. Tillinghast, one of golf’s great architects and one who was a member of the Cricket Club when he designed and built the course in the early 1920s. Guyer also served on the Cricket Club’s Board of Governors from 2006-14, on the Board’s Executive Committee from 2008-14 and on its Tournament Committee from 2012-14.
• Joseph F. Virdone of Philadelphia Country Club. Virdone, 70, of Villanova, Pa., is President and CEO of Pecora Corp., a U.S. manufacturer of adhesives and sealants. Previously he was Director of Sales for the $2 billion Chemical Group of FMC Corp. He also served as Vice President of Metalworking and Vice President of Commercial Operations for Quaker Chemical Corp. Virdone has been a member of Philadelphia Country Club since 1977 and spent 10 years as a member of its Golf Committee. He also served a decade on the board of the First Tee of Greater Philadelphia, and he was on the board of Calcutta House, an organization that serves persons living with AIDS in Philadelphia and across the Delaware Valley.

  On behalf of the Golf Association of Philadelphia and its 188 member clubs, the Executive Committee thanks these outgoing members for their dedicated service to the GAP and the game. Lucas is retiring after five years on the Executive Committee; Lutz after seven years, and Rutan after eight years.

  The 2014 Nominating Committee is chaired by Rich Meehan of Riverton Country Club. Its other members are Neil McDermott of Llanerch Country Club and Craig Ammerman of Golf Course at Glen Mills. All members of the Nominating Committee are past presidents of the Golf Association of Philadelphia.

Golf Association of Philadelphia
  Founded in 1897, the Golf Association of Philadelphia (GAP) is the oldest regional golf association in the United States and serves as the principal ruling body of amateur golf in its region. Its 150 Member Clubs and 57,000 individual members are spread across parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland. As Philadelphia’s Most Trusted Source of Golf Information, the Golf Association of Philadelphia’s mission is to promote, preserve and protect the game of golf.