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Founder and CEO

Holly "G"

For more than 20 years, Holly “G” has built a diverse client base and successful track record of launching start-ups and turning them into market leaders.

Recognized and respected as a game changer in the golf industry, Holly G and her team launched and developed iGOLF, the first comprehensive golf website in 1994 which was a joint venture between America Online, Interzine Productions and her company Golf Marketing Services.

Holly G is an author as well as the host and producer of an award-winning golf talk show on iHeart radio. Her energy, creativity and business savvy are contagious and the driving force behind her clients’ success.


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Digital Marketing

Kyle DePriest

Kyle is a Digital Marketing Specialist who enjoys the challenge of producing strategic and creative solutions. After graduating from Dartmouth College with a degree in Psychology, Kyle decided to apply his understanding of human behavior to the marketing world. For the past 6 years, he has been helping businesses establish their brand identity, grow their social media audiences, and effectively drive traffic through digital sales funnels. As a golf fan, he has had the luxury of representing some of the game's biggest brands including: Marriott Golf, Disney Golf, and Arnold Palmer Golf Management.


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Graphic Design and Branding

Carlton Vinson

A sports-oriented sales and marketing executive, Carlton Vinson is a multi-talented branding and media consultant. In addition to being an award-winning graphic designer and writer, Carlton served as executive editor and publisher for multiple regional magazines, a host of both radio and television programs across the south and is a popular event emcee. His specialty has been in the golf industry, where he has been as a publisher, editor and industry executive. He is a past-executive director of the Carolinas Golf Reporters Association and the North Carolina Golf Course Owners Association. He also served as a board member of the International Network of Golf. Incredibly civic-minded, Carlton spent eight years as councilman and Mayor pro tempore in his North Carolina hometown of Archer Lodge.


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Administrator/Specialist

HEATHER MCCOLLUM

As a University of Central Florida graduate and a native Floridian, Heather has over 15 years of administrative experience. She is a go-getter, a people person and enjoys celebrating the success of others.

Heather serves as Marketing and Project Coordinator at Golf Marketing Services and enjoys working side by side with Holly G. in getting new products and businesses off the ground and running.  


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Design

Ed Feldman

A graduate of the esteemed University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Ed has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design.  He is an accomplished fine artist and illustrator who has exhibited in several major art galleries. Having worked for one of the leading experiential branding companies, Ed has designed trade show and collateral materials for various companies in the hospitality, technology and golf industries. Ed specializes in a variety of digital marketing design platforms and is the Chapter Representative for the Central Florida Adobe User Group and a former sales specialist at Apple.  He was featured on “Growing Bolder: The Art of Happiness” a nationally syndicated television series. In his spare time, Ed is a movie buff who never turns down a large bucket of buttered popcorn!


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Photographer and Creative Services

Ginny dixon

Ginny Dixon spent most of the last 30 years shooting pictures for three major newspapers and numerous national and international magazines. Her accolades include being a member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning staffs at the Los Angeles Times in 1992 and 1994 and also at the Sun Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale. Assignments have taken her to many parts of the world chasing beautiful light and stealing moments from interesting people and places. Upon returning home to her native Florida in the 1990s, she added golf to her portfolio of award-winning photography. Her work has appeared in Golf Digest, Golf Magazine, Golf World, Golf and Fitness, and Golf Central Magazine among others. Ginny has been an instructor for 24 years at Miami Ad School and the Director of Photography for the last eight years. She enjoys forwarding the art of photography with some of the most creative geniuses on the planet. GMS has partnered and collaborated with Ginny on a variety of creative projects for our clients for 25 years. She makes start-ups look like world class brands.

 

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In 2016, Holly G! co-created and formed GolfUnited, a charitable organization committed to making a difference in the wake of the PULSE Shooting in Orlando.


The one day tournament and charity event raised more than $36,000 that directly benefited the 49 victims and their families. Golf Marketing Services supports a variety of charitable causes near and dear to our hearts.