A Life Well Golfed

Good Enough to Tee It Up on the Pga Tour, the Troon Executive Is Now a Major Player in the Business of Golf.

- Kent Gray

After a successful collegiate career that included earning All American honours in his junior year at Miami University, Mark Chapleski gave professional golf his best shot.

He bounced around the mini tours in the U.S. for a couple of years in the mid 1980s and very nearly got a foothold in the big time via several starts on the PGA Tour. But like so many talented youngsters, the penny dropped when the putts simply wouldn’t.

“I decided that playing golf for a living was not profitable when you can’t putt well,” Chapleski admits.

Fortunately a detour into the business of golf has paid off handsomely for the now 56-year old, Dubai-based Michigan native.