Traditions Club, Home of Texas A&M Golf, Taps New Manager As $6 Million Clubhouse Nears Completion

HOUSTON, TX, September 08 2010 (Press-News.org) Traditions Club, a world-class golfing community unique among private clubs as the home of Texas A&M University golf teams, has hired a leader in his field just in time for the completion of the first of four buildings of its $6 million clubhouse.

William (Bill) F. Horton, with 22-years experience at private clubs, will be the new club manager. Horton, who has been general manager of Pine Forest Country Club in Houston since 2004, has managed private clubs with more than 1,200 members including various ClubCorp properties in the Dallas/Fort Worth and Bryan areas. He has a track record of exceeding performance objectives for income, total membership and member satisfaction at each club he has managed.

"With the opening of the clubhouse, Traditions will be the new social center for professionals in the Brazos Valley," said Spencer Clements, speaking for his partners including Peter H. Currie, Michael D. Rupe and David R. Segers, all Texas A&M graduates who assumed ownership and management of Traditions in 2009.

"Our goal is to be the premier social club for the region...that just happens to have a world-class golf course around it," said Clements. Traditions Club is a golf course community with a Jack Nicklaus-designed course at the center of more than 1,000 acres of rolling terrain in Bryan, TX. "It's one of the best courses in Texas and probably the best course in the Big 12," said Clements.

"We are limiting resident golf memberships to 250, which is far less than other clubs, and non-resident golf to 250. We want a very active social club and have been signing up almost one new social member a day for the past several months."

Traditions Club, with homes and lots plus Casitas and Cottages for overnight and weekend stays, is located in the heart of The Research Valley, next door to the new Texas A&M Health Science Center and near the popular George Bush Presidential Library.

Clements said you don't have to be an Aggie to join Traditions Club, but when you walk in the door, you will know you are in Aggieland. Honorary Founding members include President George H.W. Bush ("41"), Heisman Trophy winner John David Crow and Jack Nicklaus. Among other prominent members are former football coach R. C. Slocum, current A.D. Bill Byrne, Women's Basketball Coach Gary Blair, retired NFL Referee "Red" Cashion and Dr. Nancy Dickey, president of the TAMU Health Science Center. The new 200-acre Health Science Center will bring with it an estimated $1 billion economic impact to this area, Clements said.

"Our new 25,000-square-foot clubhouse complex will be the showpiece of the community and my vision is to focus the club on premium golfing, country club service with superb quality, and friendships," added Horton.

The first of the four-building complex, to open in time for Thanksgiving events, will feature two dining rooms, a banquet room and the wine room which guests will access by elevator to the foyer of the wine room. Private wine lockers will line the walls and will include a Chef's Table, a popular activity in many of the finer restaurants. The banquet room seats 160 and combined with the middle dining room can accommodate 200.

"We are creating a unique private club. No other alumni association can match the loyalty and power of the Former Students Association. And Traditions intends to be the new social center for Aggies when they return to visit and for those who live and work in the Bryan-College Station community and this region," he said.

Website: http://www.traditionsclub.com

For more information about Traditions, call Spencer Clements 979-821-2582 sclements@traditionsclub.com
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