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Optimize your operations and lead the industry.
Turn to Triumph Group for innovation, insight and intelligence to fill your membership roster, enhance the club experience for members and personnel, fulfill your staff’s potential and establish your club’s leadership in your market.
Meet your key partners.
Our leaders are all highly accomplished in their respective industries and specialists at turning around underperforming organizations. They have also effectively identified and developed up-and-coming talent as evidenced by the success of their former assistants.

Tom Vlach
CGCS, Founder
- BS, University of Wisconsin, Agriculture & Soil Science (Specialization in Turfgrass Management)
- Youngest ever to be certified by CGCS in the U.S. (1996)
- Director of Agronomical Efforts for the PGA TOUR and over 25 professional golf events including The Players Championship for eight years
- 16 former assistants currently head superintendents

Doug Wernecke
MScA
- BS, Towson University; MScA, Johns Hopkins
- Director of human resources for 22 years at a Fortune 500 corporation
- Director of human resources in the private club industry for ten years at two Platinum Clubs®
- Two former assistants now directors of human resources
What our clients say
Thorough vetting of excellent candidates resulted in two Executive Level placements.
Tom and Doug are consummate professionals who really care about their clients.
They produced a wonderful candidate who is already finding success. They asked thoughtful questions and throughout the process they kept us updated on the progress. I couldn’t be more pleased.
Thank you for your focus, diligence and constant communication.
For any club looking for their next phenomenal staff member to take their club to a new level, I would highly recommend Tom Vlach and Triumph Group. Tom is truly one of the finest men that I have been associated with and I hope that he would get the utmost consideration."
Tom and Doug were friendly, personable, and responsive which made them a pleasure to work with."
We will certainly use The Triumph Group for any future hiring needs. We appreciate your professionalism and dedication.
The Triumph Group team recruited, interviewed, vetted and presented extremely high-quality candidates within days compared to the weeks and months comparable hospitality/executive searches typically take. We know in this business that time is of the essence, and Doug and Tom clearly understand this."
All the best Gentlemen and I will be sharing your firm's good work with many of my fellow colleagues.
Leverage proven practices and top people.
Triumph Group aggregates premier talent and meaningful real-world experience in the disciplines most crucial in driving efficiency and adding value. We help clubs break the cycle of “doing things the way they’ve always been done” through innovation in operations and agronomy. By regarding employees as internal customers and involving them in the turnaround, we motivate them and optimize their performance. These fundamental factors filter up to the member experience across all areas, including:
Club operations
and governance
Turf and project management
Human resources and
talent placement
Food, beverage, and
club management
Be our partner.
As club industry performance leaders, what we deliver will make your club healthy. Let’s discuss where you are and where you want to be, then make a plan to get you there.
