
PGA Secretary Allen Wronowski served as District 10 Director on the PGA Board of Directors and has worked as PGA head professional at Hillendale Country Club in Phoenix, Md., since 1990. He has a distinguished record of service to The PGA of America and the Middle Atlantic PGA Section (MAPGA), beginning with active involvement in Section governance soon after being elected to membership in 1981.
From 1983-1988, Wronowski served on the Assistant's Committee as treasurer, vice president, president and tournament chair.
In 1984, Wronowski was named MAPGA's Assistant Golf Professional of the Year. He has served on the MAPGA Board of Directors since 1996, holding all of the offices of secretary, vice president, president, and currently Board of Control representative. Over the past 21 years, Wronowski has been an active member or chair of numerous Section committees. At the national level, he represented the MAPGA as a delegate to the PGA Annual Meeting from 1995-2000, in addition to his role as PGA District 10 Director.
As Middle Atlantic PGA president, Wronowski created a five-year working business plan for the Board and committees to use toward being more effective and efficient, with measurable and trackable results. The plan is still used today, after being updated each year. In addition, Wronowski created a mentoring program in one chapter while Section president, and this program is now utilized by all chapters.
As a Section officer, he was also instrumental in the creation of an MAPGA investment fund and strategy that has grown MAPGA reserves from $200,000 to $1.9 million, which was used to build a MAPGA permanent office.
Wronowski has earned numerous awards for his merchandising skills. In 1997, he was named Marketing Professional of the Year by the Mid-Atlantic Salesman's Association, and was selected as the MAPGA Merchandiser of the Year in the private facility category in 1998. Wronowski was also named 1999 Section PGA Golf Professional of the Year.
In 2002, Wronowski earned the MAPGA Bill Strausbaugh Award for his behind-the-scenes work on employment efforts for the members of the Middle Atlantic PGA Section.
Wronowski and his wife, Gail, live in Bel Air, Md.
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