Okemo Pro-Am
May 27, 2008

As General Manager/Director of Golf, Jim Remy oversees all operations of the golf course, golf training facility and clubhouse operations as well as the Okemo Valley Golf Academy. Jim is a former Okemo Mountain employee. He began working at Okemo in 1972 as a professional ski instructor and later served as Director of Racing until 1984. Jim left Okemo in 1985 to pursue a career in golf.  Prior to returning to Okemo in 1998, Jim served as the Director of Golf & Summer Sports at Killington Resort for thirteen years. Jim is a course record holder at Killington Golf Course with an unprecedented round of 36-30-66. His golf background includes positions held at Worcester Country Club in Worcester, MA and at Mount Pleasant Country Club in Boylston, MA as an Assistant Golf Professional.

Among the many accolades Jim has received over the course of his golf career, he was honored as the 1997 New England PGA Golf Professional of the Year and is a three-time winner of the Vermont PGA Golf Professional of the Year award.  He has served on the National PGA Board of Control and is an active participant in NEPGA and VPGA tournament programs.

Jim was elected to the position of Secretary of the PGA of America in November of 2004 in his first attempt at running for this office.  In 2006 he assumed the position of Vice-President of the PGA of America.  He has appointed Mike Santamaria to the position of Head Professional at Okemo Valley. 

Featuring bent grass greens, tees and fairways, this par 70, 18-hole championship course is Vermont's first heathland-style course and is unlike any other course in New England.

The fairways are wide and filled with dips, ripples, rolls and hollows, conditions that characterize many Scottish links courses. The Okemo Valley landscape is open and receptive to ever-present mountain breezes.

Each hole offers wonderful views of Vermont's Green Mountains without the blind shots and exhausting terrain often found on a typical mountain course. And Okemo Valley's greens are sweeping and fairly-sculpted to reward short-game specialists.

The architects of the Okemo Valley Golf Club have made certain that the course is in top playing condition, regardless of what Mother Nature may provide. A fully computerized irrigation system throughout all 18 holes keeps the turf lush and green. Proper drainage ensures early season play and rapid drying after the occasional thunderstorm rumbles through the Ludlow region.