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to the Locker Room Managers Association-LRMA-Home Page! The only web site on the Internet devoted exclusively to the issues, concerns and careers of Locker Room Managers in the United States and around the world.

The LRMA was the brainchild of Todd Dufek, Shoe and Locker Room Services Manager at The Country Club at DC Ranch in Scottsdale, Arizona. Todd founded the LRMA in the spring of 1999 and is President of the Association. Todd's extensive professional experience is documented below.

Todd Dufek was born in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin where his parents owned and operated a very successful shoe business (retail sales and repair) for 25 years.

In 1969 his family moved to Lake Havasu City, Arizona, and set up a shoe repair shop that did a bustling business until it was sold in 1983.

During high school and summers off from college and graduate school, Todd worked side by side with his father, accumulating over 10 years experience in all facets of shoe repair.

After spending four years in the field of Behavioral Sciences, Todd returned to the shoe business in 1986. It was in April of that same year that he accepted the position of Shoe Steward at the Arizona Biltmore Country Club in Phoenix, Arizona. During his stint at the Biltmore, he was hired as a paid consultant by Reebok International's Golf Shoe Division. During a span of 10 years he helped Reebok develop their shoe care accessory line. And as a scratch golfer, he provided valuable feedback on the styling and function of their golf shoes.

Articles on his rental golf shoe program and a review of THE GOOD STEWARD-How to Set Up and Operate a Shoe Room at a Country Club or Resort, have appeared in Golf Shop Operations Magazine and The Arizona Republic Newspaper respectively. He has authored articles that have been published in Golf Business Magazine, Golf Magazine and the Club Managers Association of America Premier Newsletter. He has also made appearances on KTAR radio's Tee Time Golf Show and on television's GOOD MORNING ARIZONA discussing various aspects of shoe care and golf shoe technology, including soft cleats.

Todd also does on site consulting/training at new and old courses alike, assisting with the design and set up of shoe and locker rooms as well as training shoe stewards in the fine art of locker room management and shoe care. Todd has also done consulting over the phone with clubs all over the country. He has done on site consulting at the Sedona Golf Resort, in Sedona, Arizona, and Anthem Country Club, in Anthem, Arizona.

During the off season and any other spare moment that he worked at the Arizona Biltmore Country Club he could be seen crouched over his laptop computer in his shop writing Christian literature or the latest edition of THE GOOD STEWARD.

However, as of November 30, 1998, Todd was hired by The Country Club at DC Ranch, an exclusively private and opulent club in northeast Scottsdale, Arizona, as Manager of Shoe and Locker Room Services. In the summer of 1999 he completed a companion book to his first GOOD STEWARD tome with the same title, but subtitled, How to Set Up and Manage the Locker Rooms at a Country Club or Resort. It too is available for sale in the Fore Supply Company catalogue and can be ordered by calling ´Fore´ at (800) 543-5430 or by clicking on their banner ad on this web site. Doing so will take you to ´Fore´s´ web site where you can order one or both books. If you place an order of $1,000+ you can purchase one or both books for $9.95 each.

Finally, as noted above, Todd founded the Locker Room Managers Association in the spring of 1999, and had a web site created with the Domain Name of "yourlrma.com". Click on the LRMA Membership link to join.