Ted Bishop

PGA Vice President Ted Bishop served as District 6 Director on the PGA Board of Directors and since 1991 has worked as general manager and PGA director of golf at The Legends Golf Club in Franklin, Ind. He was elected PGA Secretary in 2008 and PGA Vice President on Nov. 6, 2010.

Bishop is well-versed in virtually every aspect of Association governance. He has served on the PGA Board of Directors since 2006, and served on the PGA Board of Control from 2002-05 where he evaluated hundreds of membership cases. He later served as Chairman of the BOC while Secretary of the PGA.

As PGA Vice President, he oversees the finances of The PGA of America. He also was chairman of the PGA Membership Committee and served on the PGA Budget and PGA Properties Committees. He is a past chair of the PGA Code of Ethics Task Force.
Bishop served as Chairman of the PGA Professional National Championship in 2009-10 and will repeat the task in 2011-12.

In 1991, Bishop oversaw the construction and development of The Legends of Indiana GC, a 45-hole complex that is the home of the Indiana PGA Section and Indiana Golf Association. Bishop played a key role in the organization of the Indiana Golf Foundation. His efforts in the early 1990’s helped establish the Indiana Golf Academy and the expansion of the Indiana Golf Hall of Fame.

After graduating from Purdue University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Agronomy in 1976, Bishop began his professional career as a PGA Professional and superintendent at the Phil Harris Golf Course in Linton, Ind. He was elected to PGA membership in September 1985, and has served in a leadership capacity at either the Section or National levels since 1989. From 1997-98, Bishop served as president of the Indiana PGA Section.

He was named the 1998 Indiana PGA Golf Professional of the Year. He is also a two-time (1996-97) Section Bill Strausbaugh Award recipient and the Section 1991 Horton Smith Award winner. On the course, Bishop was a four-time Indiana Open qualifier with three holes in ones to his credit.

He has twice been awarded the prestigious Sagamore of the Wabash by the Governor of Indiana for service to the communities that he has resided in.

He and his wife, Cindy, live in Franklin, Ind., and are the parents of daughters, Ashely Davidson, a membership director at The Legends of Indiana Golf Club; and Ambry Bishop, a PGA assistant professional at St. Andrews Golf Club in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., and the head women’s golf coach at St. John’s University.

Cindy was a successful girls’ high school golf coach leading four teams to a top three finish in the IHSAA State Finals. Ashely played golf at the University of Kansas, where she earned All-Big 12 Academic honors for eight semesters. Ambry played at Indiana University and helped her team finish as Big Ten Runner-up twice. She was a multi-year All-Big 10 Academic selection.

Ted and Cindy are proud grandparents to Reid and Remy Davidson.