Episode 3: Danny Sink, Director, U.S. Open Championships, USGA

Front Office Exchange

Welcome to Episode 3 of the Front Office Exchange podcast featuring Danny Sink, Director of U.S. Open Championships for the U.S. Golf Association. Danny and I go all the way back to the summer of 2001 at Pine Needles Golf Club in my hometown of Southern Pines for the U.S. Women's Open. I was an operations intern for Danny and his team at PCM - Pinehurst Championship Management - where I painted fence posts and rope-and-staked the entire golf course. It was my first real job in sports. Later, I worked alongside him at Winged Foot Golf Club in 2006 for the U.S. Open, where I was in corporate merchandising and he managed the entire event. Running these events is not easy. It's often a thankless job, and the hours are impossibly long. You've got to be a special kind of leader to juggle vendors, volunteers and golf pros, and if you're able to do that while keeping a sense of humor - which Danny has - then you're in rare company. This episode is a must-listen for anyone looking to enter the sports industry, especially as it relates to events, and hearing Danny talk about how he - and others from the original PCM team have advanced their careers into upper management is a case study in how networking and "grinding," as he puts it, pays off. Big thanks both to Danny and to you for listening. For show notes, past episodes and more, please visit us at www.frontofficeexchange.com, on Facebook at Front Office Exchange and on Twitter at @frontofficeexch. Please also feel free to reach out to me directly at [e-mail] and on Twitter at @jakefehling. This and past episodes of Front Office Exchange are available on iTunes and SoundCloud, among other places, and I encourage you to subscribe, share episodes, rate them, add comments, and suggest ideas for future guests.