After a virtual event in 2020 thanks to the pandemic, the Carolinas GCSA Conference and Trade Show will be an in-person event again this year.
Scheduled for Nov. 15-17, the event will take place at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center. Seminar and attendee registration will open after Labor Day.
"We are so glad to be back on track," said Carolinas GCSA president, Brian Stiehler, CGCS at Highlands Country Club in Highlands, North Carolina.
This year's conference will feature education seminars on the Monday morning. This gives attendees the chance to take as many as four seminars, with education also on Monday afternoon, as well as Tuesday morning and afternoon. General education sessions will take place on Wednesday with the trade show open on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Carolinas GCSA will continue to monitor the pandemic and be ready to adapt as necessary, Carolinas GCSA executive director, Tim Kreger said.
"But given the current trajectory, we expect to offer the kind of Conference and Show that has made this event the largest regional event of its kind for superintendents in the country," he said.
When the pandemic forced the cancellation of last year’s in-person event, the Carolinas GCSA answered with an event known as Conference Comes to You that included a month of online education for turf managers from 35 regional chapters.
"I wouldn’t be surprised," Kreger said, "if this show challenges attendance records."
