Simão da Cunha

Management
Portuguese Greenkeepers Association

http://www.apgreenkeepers.pt/




Biographical Note

Simão da Cunha is an Agronomical Engineer with specific postgraduate training in Companies’ Management and Golf Course architecture.

He is one of the founding members of APG and has served on the Management Board of APG since its foundation (2002). He was a greenkeeper at Lisbon Sports Club and the golf courses in Vilamoura. He is involved in the construction of golf courses. He currently works in a company dedicated to golf projects.



Key themes of Speech

• The Portuguese Greenkeepers Association (APG) is a non-profit association. It began its activities in 2002.
• APG’s main objective is to foster professional promotion of its members, supplying them with resources in order to improve their professional performance and progress in their careers.
• APG’s main activities are: training; organisation of an annual trip to a golf destination abroad; technical visits to sites of educational interest in Portugal; golf circuit constituted by three competitions distributed across Portugal (in the North, Centre and South); Annual Conference; Golf Fair.
• The APG currently has around 200 members and represents almost all Portuguese golf courses.
• The site, http://www.apgreenkeepers.pt/ is the APG’s platform and its preferred means of communication with members or anyone interested in the world of golf course maintenance in Portugal.