President

Tom Isaak was first exposed to the golf business as general manager of the Bodega Harbour Homeowners' Association in its formative years, 1977-1980, where he completed grow-in and opened the Robert Trent Jones II golf course. He had overall operating responsibility for all Association functions including golf operations and maintenance, food services, strategic planning, architectural design review and governmental relations.

He formed CourseCo, Inc in 1989 and commenced the master-planned renovation of Riverside Golf Course for the City of Fresno. CourseCo's Riverside operation is one of only 50 public courses in the nation (seven in California) to receive the National Golf Foundation's inaugural Public Golf Achievement Award with recognition in two categories, Golf Course Maintenance and Promotion of Public Golf.

As president of CourseCo, Mr. Isaak is in charge of an organization with approximately 600 employees at 13 golf facilities generating some $22 million in gross revenues.

A graduate of Petaluma High School and Stanford University, he has done graduate study in both environmental planning and finance at Sonoma State University where he was also assistant to the president. Mr. Isaak has an extensive background in public service. He was formerly director of research for the Operating Engineers Local #3, director of the Assembly Office of Majority Services, and chief administrative officer of the Assembly for the state of California. He served as finance chairman for the San Francisco mayoralty campaigns of Art Agnos.

Read "A Stroke of Genius" from the March 2003 issue of NorthBay biz magazine.