@mngolfassn Names Jon Mays as New Executive Director/COO The announcement of the hiring was made late last month that Mays would succeed Tom Ryan, who announced his retirement earlier this year. Mays will lead the MGA staff in serving the association’s 93,000 associate members and more than 400 member golf clubs and 14 allied golf industry associations. He returns to Minnesota after a five-year stint with the University of New Haven, first as an associate director of athletics before he was promoted to overseeing the department of athletics as its director. Mays is an accomplished scholar having earned his Ph.D in sport management from the University of Kansas. He is a graduate of Lawrence University where he excelled as a student-athlete and served as captain for both the basketball and golf teams. Mays has assumed his new duties with the MGA full-time as of Nov. 1. Congratulations to both parties on this addition to the leadership at the MGA.