PGA of America Names Kelly Gilley, PGA Northern / Southern Texas Sections Employment Consultant
PGA Employment Services is pleased to announce the addition of Kelly Gilley, PGA to the expanded team of 18 employment consultants now serving PGA Members and employers across the country. The addition of eight new field consultants will provide the team a unique opportunity to forge stronger relationships with both PGA Members and PGA employers through the overall smaller geographic territories each Consultant will manage. Gilley will serve both the Northern Texas and Southern Texas PGA Sections.
Gilley previously served a five-year stint with the Southern Texas Section, where she was responsible for overseeing Business and Foundation Development, as well as Section Communications. A PGA Member since 1998, Gilley spent the first 15 years of her career in golf in Georgia and was selected as the 1998 Assistant Golf Professional of the Year in the Georgia Section. Gilley is a former Board Member of the Georgia PGA Section.
Gilley holds both a Bachelors of Science in Public Relations and a Masters in Communication from Florida State University, where she competed for the Lady Seminole Golf Team and was a three-time Academic All-American.
After two seasons on the Futures Tour, Gilley accepted an assistant golf professional position at The Tradition Club in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. She worked for a year with the Sea Island Company, before spending 15 years with Canongate Golf Clubs, where she moved from Assistant Professional to Head Professional to Operations Manager. Gilley was one of two key team members who assisted with the sale of the portfolio of seven clubs to Sequoia Golf in 2003. Under Sequoia’s ownership, she became a Regional Manager, overseeing as many as 144 holes of golf, as well as the company’s player development program and staff. Additionally, she was lead for a number of acquisitions for Sequoia from 2003-2007.
In 2007, Gilley began to focus solely on marketing for Sequoia. With the continued growth of the organization into Texas, she moved her family to The Woodlands in 2010, in order to take the lead marketing role for Sequoia properties in Texas and Colorado. In 2011,her efforts earned Sequoia Golf the American Marketing Association’s Marketer of the Year Award for Houston.
Gilley joined the staff of the Southern Texas PGA initially as Director of Foundation Development in 2012. She was charged with building Foundation programs, as well as developing new websites and tools to better communicate with PGA Professionals. Since 2015, she has also overseen Section business development in her role as Director of Marketing & Membership.
Gilley lives in The Woodlands, with her husband, Steve, and two daughters.
