PGA Secretary 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 of Indiana Golf Club in Franklin, Ind.

Bishop is well-versed in virtually every aspect of Association governance. He has served on the PGA Board of Directors since 2006 and from 2002 to 2005 on the PGA Board of Control. Bishop was a successful proponent for The PGA of America’s return to the committee system, which was restored in 1999.

Bishop chairs the PGA Membership Committee and is a past chair of the PGA Code of Ethics Task Force. In addition, he also is a member of both the PGA Budget and PGA Properties Committees. Previously, he evaluated hundreds of membership matters while sitting on the PGA Board of Control.

Bishop became part of a limited partnership in 1991 that has since owned and managed The Legends of Indiana Golf Club and oversaw its construction. The facility is a 45-hole complex that features a premier practice center and is the home of the Indiana PGA and Indiana Golf Association. Bishop serves as president of the Indiana Golf Foundation.

Bishop began his professional career as a PGA Professional and superintendent at the Phil Harris Golf Course in Linton, Ind., serving from 1976 to 1991. 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. He served as president of the Indiana PGA Section from 1997 to 1998.

He was named the 1998 Indiana PGA Golf Professional of the Year, and was 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 and extended his expertise to his community by serving since 2007 on the City of Franklin, Ind. Planning Commission.

Bishop was elected to national office as PGA Secretary on Nov. 8, 2008.

Bishop earned a 1976 bachelor’s degree in agronomy from Purdue University. He and his wife, Cindy, live in Franklin, Ind., and are the parents of daughters, Ashley, a membership director at The Legends of Indiana Golf Club; and Ambry LaRosa, 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.