Met Golf Writers Welcome New President

Ralph Wimbish, Late Night Sports Editor of the New York Post and my partner in many golf adventures, has been elected president of the Metropolitan Golf Writers Association. He succeeds Ron Sirak of Golf World, who served for the past three years.

Bruce Beck of WNBC TV-4 and Peter Morrice of Golf Digest were re-elected vice presidents.

Wimbish, who has worked for The Post since 1988, previously worked at newspapers in St. Petersburg, Fla., Westchester Rockland, N.Y., Pontiac, Mich., Pittsburgh, Rome (Italy) and Middletown, N.Y.

He joined the MGWA Board of Directors in 2006 and became a vice president in 2008. A native of St. Petersburg, FL, and a graduate of the University of South Florida, he lives with his wife, Grace, in Mount Vernon, NY.

Re-elected to the MGWA Board: Sirak; Dave Anderson, New York Times; Daniel Berger, DMB Media Network; Martin Davis, The American Golfer; Damon Hack, Sports Illustrated; Ed Ingles, WRHU-FM; Pete Kowalski, U.S. Golf Assn.; Andy Lavine, Trump National Hudson Valley; Ann Liguori, Ann Liguori Productions; Jay Mottola, Met Golf Assn.; Howard Munck, freelance; Pat Norton, On Course Strategies; Bill Pennington, New York Times; Bruce J. Smith, Sporty Bear Productions; Chuck Stogel, freelance; Tony Wimpfheimer, The Met Golfer.

In addition to writing about golf, Dave Donelson distills the experiences of hundreds of entrepreneurs into practical advice for small business owners and managers in the Dynamic Manager's Guides, a series of how-to books about marketing and advertising, sales techniques, motivating personnel, financial management, and business strategy.