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Melody K. BorchersMelody K.
Borchers is the owner of My Turf, a golf training and promotional company. My
Turf offers a speaker's bureau of golf professionals; develops golf curricula
for corporations and nonprofit organizations; conducts educational golf
seminars; coordinates golf outings and golf special events; and provides skill
development for golf enthusiasts. Melody has played recreational and amateur
tournament golf for over 20 years. She comes from a golfing family, including
her husband and daughter, who are turf management experts and golf course
superintendents.
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Understanding the importance of golf in
business, Melody has organized several leagues, including the Columbus Business
Women's Golf League, to encourage women to participate in golf. Melody's advice
to new golfers: "Understanding golf means realizing it is a game that requires
15% skill and 85% the right mental attitude." Melody created and founded
CHOICES Women's Golf Tournament, which raises over $50,000 annually for
programs and services for victims of domestic violence. While training and
supporting women golfers, Melody also has conducted several youth golf camps,
"Bring Out the Tiger in You."
In addition to her golf business, Melody
also works with community-based service providers, schools and chambers of
commerce to develop small business and economic development projects. She is a
graduate of Bowling Green State University and a former program director in the
Ohio Department of Development.
Melody and husband, Bill, reside in
Hide-A-Way Hills in picturesque southeastern Ohio. The community includes, of
course, a golf course. She organizes annually the Columbus Chapter of NAWBO Golf Outing raising funds for Central Ohio women's charities. Melody has been a golf mentor for Women in New Growth Stages,
conducting clinics and her prototype "Nongolfers Golf Scramble."
Presentation Topics (click here)
Awards, Training and Memberships
- Columbus Chapter of National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), Member of the Year 2002
- Executive Women's Golf Association (EWGA) Board Member and
Leadership Chair
- National Association of Women Business Owners
(NAWBO)
- 1996 United States Golf Academy, Plymouth,
Indiana
- 1994 Delaware County Ohio Women's Amateur
- United States Golf Association
- Lancaster Chapter of Toastmasters
- Logan/Hocking Chamber of Commerce
- 1994 State of Ohio Employee of the Year
- Woman Advocate in International Trade of the
Year, 1994
- U.S. Small Business Administration's Ohio Women
in Business Advocate Award, 1986
- Co-founder and 1992 - 1994 President of the
National Association of Women's Business Advocates
- Advisory Board for the
Southeast Ohio Women in
Networking
Clients Include
- Kirtland Country Club
- McDonald Hopkins Co. LPA
- Corporate One Federal Credit Union
- LPGA
- City of Dublin, Ohio - Ladies Golf Day
- Golf Club of Dublin
- P.A.R.K Grove City, Ohio
- SE Ohio Women in Networking (SEOWIN)
- Bank One
- Ohio University
- Nationwide Insurance
- EnterpriseWorks
- Tri-County Joint Vocational School
- Tee'd Up Indoor Golf
- Minerva Lake Golf Club
- Arrowhead Lakes Golf Course
- Ohio Chamber of Commerce Executives
- National Association of Women Business
Owners
- Women in Technology International
- Pal Joey
- Women in New Growth Stages
- WEBS
- Executive Women International
- Executive Women's Golf Associaton (EWGA)
- Women President's Organization
- Columbus YWCA
- Ohio Small Business Development Center
- City of Columbus, EBOCO
- Business and Professional Women
- Southern Perry Incubation Center for
Entreprenerurs (SPICE)
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