OCONEE COURSE - Key Golf Staff

Bob Mauragas, Vice President of Golf
Bob Mauragas joined the Reynolds Plantation staff in May of 2003, initially as the director of golf, where he focused on major tournaments and made-for-TV product in conjunction with the Dave Pelz Scoring Game School. In the spring of 2005, he was promoted to his current position of vice president of golf, where he was given the responsibility for all of the agronomics of the property.

Prior to joining Reynolds Plantation, Mauragas was the general manager at the private Four Streams Golf Club in Beallsville, Md. The club had been one of his key accounts when he was vice president of operations for Billy Casper Golf Management. Prior to that position, from 1983 to 1998 Mauragas worked at Fiddler's Elbow Country Club in Bedminster, N.J., where he started as assistant golf professional and ultimately became director of golf.

Mauragas was first introduced to the game in college at Seton Hall, where he played baseball and majored in business with a minor in German. After graduating in 1983, he immediately got into the golf business, “for a love of people and the service industry.”

In his career, he has received several accolades, including being named Merchandiser of the Year for private clubs in the New Jersey section in 1994. In 1997, he was given the section's Bill Strausbaugh Award for outstanding performance in club relations. In 2005, Mauragas was named Most Admired Golf Operator by Golf Inc. magazine.

During Mauragas' tenure at Reynolds Plantation, the Great Waters course was honored with recognition among the Top 100 Golf Shops in 2003 and 2004, while the Oconee Course was named a Top 100 Resort Golf Shop in 2004. Outside of the courses under the TPC umbrella, Reynolds Plantation was the only facility to have two golf shops recognized for that award in the same year.

Mauragas and his wife Becky have been married since 1985 and have three daughters, Caitlin, Sara and Emily. They live in the town of Bishop, Ga.

Mike Davenport, Head Golf Professional
Mike Davenport has been named the head professional at the Oconee Course. Mike has been with the company for 6 years and most recently the head professional at Reynolds Landing. Mike has also served as an assistant golf professional at Great Waters and the Tournament Director. Mike will be a great addition to the Oconee Course. Mike lives in Watkinsville with his wife, Elizabeth and son, John. Gary Goss, Directory of Agronomy

A highly regarded golf course superintendent, Gary Goss was named Director of Agronomy at Reynolds Plantation in the fall of 2006, overseeing golf course maintenance on the resort community's complete collection of five golf courses, as well as the sixth that is to open in 2007.

Goss was promoted from superintendent at the Oconee Course, where he worked form the time ground was broken in the spring of 1999. Prior to arriving at Reynolds Plantation, Goss worked at the acclaimed East Lake Country Club in Atlanta, where he served three years as a first assistant at the private club before overseeing the construction of the public Yates Course. After the opening of that course, Goss became head superintendent, remaining there for a year and a half before moving to Reynolds Plantation.

Goss' first job in golf was on the grounds crew at Musgrove Mill Golf Course in his hometown of Clinton, S.C. He started there at age 22 and remained for five years.

A member of the Georgia Golf Course Superintendents Association, Goss and his wife Lynn have a son and a daughter. They live in Athens.

Steve Brady, Golf Course Superintendent
Steve Brady moved over to the Oconee Course in the fall of 2006, after serving close to a decade at the Great Waters course. His tenure at Reynolds Plantation extends even further, having originally started at Port Armor Country Club (now a part of Reynolds Plantation) in 1989 as assistant superintendent. He was promoted to the head job in 1991 and served in that capacity until May of 1996, when he shifted to Great Waters.

Brady worked on the greens crew at several courses in his home state of South Carolina from 1980 to 1989. He got his start at the age of 15 at Pickens County Country Club, near his hometown of Easley, S.C., because his father served on the greens committee. He had risen to assistant superintendent by the time he left in 1986 for nearby Smithfield Country Club. He served a year there before moving on to Deer Track Golf & Country Club in Surfside Beach, where he stayed two years before coming to Reynolds Plantation.

During his time at Deer Track, Brady attended school at Horry Georgetown College in Conway, S.C., graduating in 1989. Certified by the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America since 1999, Brady and his wife Tami live in Port Armor with their daughter.