Patrick R. Finlen, CGCS

Director

Patrick R. Finlen, CGCS, serving the second of a two-year term as a GCSAA director. He was re-elected to the board of directors at the association’s 2008 annual meeting in Orlando.

Finlen has been director of golf course maintenance operations at The Olympic Club in San Francisco since 2002. Previously, he served as director of golf course maintenance at Bayonet & Black Horse Golf Course in Seaside , Calif., golf course and grounds manager at Quivira Lake & Country Club in Lake Quivira, Kan., and superintendent at Cypress Point Country Club in Virginia Beach, Va. He has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Rockhurst College in Kansas City, Mo.

A GCSAA member for 24 years, Finlen is a member and past president of both the California GCSA and the GCSA of Northern California. He is also a past president of the Heart of America GCSA. Finlen and The Olympic Club will host the 2012 U.S. Open.

A native of Washington, D.C., he and his wife, Denise, currently reside in Half Moon Bay, Calif., and have a daughter, Jennifer, and a son, Nick.

[CGCS designates Certified Golf Course Superintendent, which recognizes the achievement of high standards of professionalism through education and experience.]