Known to his friends as “Rain Man” because of his amazing recall of any course he has played, any person he has met, or any place he has traveled, James J. Keegan has a zest for golf and for life.
With a great heart and a quick mind, he has established a wide-ranging network within the golf industry, an industry in which there may be only one degree of separation from the management leaders who make a positive difference and those who don’t. He leverages his educational background with his extensive experience in the golf industry to frame a vision that can be understood by all. He quickly “cuts to the chase.”
With nine principals averaging 20 years of experience in the golf business, Golf Convergence provides common sense solutions founded on sound principals. With clients from Europe, to Asia, and across America, Golf Convergence has developed a unique process that is enhancing the profitability, the value and the investment return of today’s golf courses. By judiciously balancing the doctrines of strategic vision, tactical planning and operational accomplishment into an eight-step executable formula, fiscal prosperity is being rekindled.
As Managing Principal, Keegan has traveled in excess of 2,000,000 miles visiting over 250 courses annually and meeting with owners and key management personnel at more than 3,000 courses. Having successfully combined his passion for golf with his business acumen, his experience makes him uniquely qualified to offer expert opinions on trends and issues facing golf courses today because of his direct knowledge and interaction with the golfing community.
An accomplished writer, Keegan current endeavor is the soon-to-be-published, “Business of Golf - What Are You Thinking?”
Currently, he serves as a panelist for Golf Magazine’s Top 100 Golf Courses. He is a member of the Club Manager’s Association of America, the National Golf Foundation, and the International Network of Golf. Keegan is a former volunteer of the Colorado Golf Association and the USGA Sectional Affairs Committee. Jim has served as a course rater and rules official for numerous tournaments including the local and sectional qualifying for the U.S. Open and the World Club Championship.
A certified public accountant with a B.B.A. degree from Texas Christian University, Keegan earned an M.B.A. in corporate finance from the University of Michigan. He has also served as a captain in the United States Air Force and worked at KPMG as a computer audit specialist.
