Brian Jones

General Manager at Blue Ridge Shadows Golf Club

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

About

• Operations leader with over 20 years experience driving significant revenue growth in golf and banquet sales for both corporate and private golf course ownership groups. • Having worked the corporate structure, and having been a business owner, understands the intricacies of how each and every decision can have a great effect on the overall profitability of an operation. • Highly organized, known for possessing the ability to manage multiple job tasks and event functions at multiple locations and for different types of groups. • Regarded as being a motivational leader that promotes a true team atmosphere, and believes in leading by example, holding staff accountable for their actions, all while trying to promote an open and enjoyable work environment. • Motivated with an unparalleled desire to serve the public, knowing how a great experience can leave a lasting memory, and create an opportunity for future business. • Entrepreneur with over 8 years experience owning/operating a 36-hole golf course and banquet facility in a highly competitive major metropolitan market.

Experience

  • General Manager at Blue Ridge Shadows Golf Club
    May 2016 - Present · 10 yrs 3 mos

    Blue Ridge Shadows Golf Club is an award winning 18-hole resort/public golf club located in the heart of the historic Shenandoah Valley, in Front Royal, Virginia. The championship Tom Clark design boasts five (5) sets of tee boxes that can be stretched to over 7,300 yards from the back tees. Blue Ridge Shadows hosts both corporate and charity golf outings, as well as many golf groups with a variety of Play & Stay Packages that are booked in conjunction with the award winning Blue Ridge Shadows Holiday Inn & Suites that is located on property. Blue Ridge Shadows offers a full service food & beverage operation, that includes daily a la carte dining as well as full service catering for private parties such as weddings, showers, and corporate meetings. Responsibilities associated with this position include, but are not limited to: managing day-to-day operations of a club that hosts 25,000 rounds annually, daily financial management and reporting, annual budgeting, marketing, payroll, inventory management, and human resources.

  • General Manager at Copper Mill Golf Club
    Mar 2014 - Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    Manage the day-to-day at Copper Mill Golf Club, an 18-hole golf operation located just North of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Copper Mill Golf Club is managed by Billy Casper Golf. Responsibilities associated with this position include, but are not limited to: managing day-to-day operations of a club that hosts 27,000 rounds annually, daily financial management and reporting, annual budgeting, client relations, implenting and training of ACE customer service standards, sales & marketing, and golf shop merchandising.

  • General Manager/Operating Partner at Bowling Green Country Club
    Jan 2004 - Mar 2014 · 10 yrs 3 mos

    Managed the day-to-day operations at Bowling Green Country Club, a 36-hole golf and banquet facility located in Front Royal, Virginia. Responsibilites associated with this position included event sales and coordination for a club that handles over 100+ golf/banquet events annually, scheduling and human resource management for a staff of 60 employees, as well as budgeting and financial management of all club assets.

  • General Manager at Mountain Laurel Golf Club
    Mar 2000 - Dec 2003 · 3 yrs 10 mos

    Managed the day-to-day operations at Mountain Laurel Golf Club, an 18-hole golf operation on the western end of the Poconos, in White Haven, Pennsylvania. Responsibilities associated with this position included scheduling and human resource management for a staff of about 35 employees, ordering of all food & beverage items, golf shop merchandising, sales & marketing (including all event coordination of all golf outings), as well as daily financial management of the clubs assets.