Integrity Golf promotes Larry Snyder to executive VP of maintenance

Longtime Celebration Golf Club superintendent Larry Snyder, CGCS, has been named Integrity Golf Company’s executive vice president of golf course maintenance. The new position is effective immediately.

“Larry has been one of our most valued partners since the inception of the company at Celebration Golf Club,” says Gene Garrote, Integrity Golf Company’s chief executive officer. “With so much growth in the past couple of years at Integrity Golf, we’re thrilled to have one of the industry’s consummate golf course superintendents help lead the future maintenance needs of our company and our many golf course partners.”

Snyder, who started his superintendent career in 1976, is a third-generation CGCS and comes from an illustrious family of superintendents and golf architects.

Snyder’s grandfather, Arthur A. Snyder, CGCS, began caddying at Oakmont Country Club near Pittsburgh in 1907. Arthur later became the superintendent at two Pittsburgh-area courses for 26 years and the exclusive Paradise Valley Country Club in Paradise Valley, Ariz., for 20 years.

In February 1978 Arthur A. Snyder was honored by the GCSAA with the Distinguished Service Award, and a year later he received the USGA Green Section Award. Prior to his retirement, Snyder became the first superintendent to be inducted into the Arizona Golf Hall of Fame.

Larry Snyder began working on golf courses at age 12 and learned the business under the tutelage of his grandfather and well-known father, Carl Snyder, CGCS, superintendent emeritus at Boulders Resort and Club in Carefree, Ariz. Snyder also gained significant experience in golf course design and construction under the guidance of his uncle, Arthur Jack Snyder, past president of the American Society of Golf Course Architects.

In his nearly 40-year career, Larry Snyder has overseen golf course maintenance operations at numerous courses in Arizona, California and Florida. He has worked at the following courses: Orange Tree Golf Club; Paradise Valley Country Club; The Boulders; Arizona Golf Resort; 36-hole Arrowhead Country Club, The Legend at Arrowhead, and Ancala Country Club in Arizona; Yorba Linda Country Club in California and Celebration Golf Club in Florida.

Snyder achieved GCSAA’s CGCS status in 1985 and is certified through February 2020. He is the past president of the Cactus and Pine GCSA.

“Larry is the epitome of a true professional,” says Garrote. “Nobody works harder and probably dedicates more to providing maintenance and turfgrass solutions than Larry.”