Somersett Golf and Country Club-Staff

		Richard Oster, General Manager roster@somersett.com   Rich Oster holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina (proud to be a Tar Heel!) and a Masters in Business Administration from the Rutgers University Graduate School of Business. He earned his CPA with PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York City early in his career.  Rich has over 30 years of management experience in both the private and public sectors. Most recently he served as CFO, Senior Vice President Administration and Board Advisor of Pegasus Aviation, where he was a member of a 5 person executive committee responsible for the business and strategic policy administration of this commercial jet aircraft leasing company with a worldwide customer base. While at Pegasus, Rich served as Chairman of the Board of Transmeridian Airlines, a charter and scheduled services airline headquartered in Atlanta, Ga. Prior to joining Pegasus, Rich served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Crowley Maritime Corporation, a large privately-held marine transportation company. Rich’s past Club experiences include Hidden Hills Country Club, Jacksonville, FL, Jacksonville Golf and Country Club, Jacksonville, FL and Beinville Club, Club Corp, Mobile, AL Among the first members of Somersett Country Club, Rich and his wife Connie joined in 2003. They have two grown children.
		Anna Durst, CPA, Controller adurst@somersett.com Anna joined the Somersett Golf & Country Club team in February, 2008. Anna has been an accountant since 1992 and also has an extensive human resource background. She has worked in many industries including plastics manufacturing, custom home building, property management, hotels and commercial and resort development. Anna spent eight years at a CPA firm in Fresno, CA providing tax, financial statements, consulting and human resources services for over 100 clients in a wide variety of businesses from physicians to oil distributors. She prides herself on being able to blend the financial and operating aspects of business in order to achieve the best results for stakeholders.
		Tammy Carvajal- Van Lydegraf, Member Relations Director, Membership Director tcarvajal@somersett.com Tammy began her career in the golf business working as an intern for the PGA, LPGA, and Senior Tours in Las Vegas, NV while she attended UNLV. After graduation from UNLV as a Communications Major she took the experience she gained and went to work for a company that planned and coordinated major pro/celebrity charity tournaments across the country. Most notably was the Vinny, Vince Gills Celebrity Golf Tournament that set a precedent amongst celebrity charity tournaments. Tammy worked as Tournament Director and Tournament Operations Director where she planned and coordinated major golf tournaments, concerts, and receptions for those events. Tammy went on to become the Membership Director at Steele Canyon Golf Club in San Diego, CA. She left Steele Canyon to become the Event Manager at Riverwalk Golf Club in San Diego, where close to 100,000 rounds of golf are played annually. Tammy came to Somersett Golf & Country Club in 2004 where she opened the course as Assistant Membership Director and has worked her way from Membership Director to Member Relations Director and Food and Beverage Manager.. Tammy is happily married and enjoys playing golf whenever she can with her husband Lance VanLydegraf
		Greg Raleigh, Membership Director graleigh@somersett.com Greg Raleigh joined Somersett Golf & Country Club as the Membership Director in 2007. Mr. Raleigh grew up in Seattle, Washington and played Junior Golf at the highest level both on the state and national ranks. In 1989, Greg entered Stanford University where he graduated with a Bachelors degree in Quantitative Economics. Following college, Mr. Raleigh went to work in Manhattan as an Investment Banker within Citicorp Securities’ High Yield Bond underwriting division. Following his stint in New York, Greg played professional golf for five years following golf tours such as the Nike, Canadian and Hooters tours across North America. In 2000, Mr. Raleigh joined the team at the PGA WEST Resort where he gained his PGA Class A status and rose to the level of General Manager/Head Golf Professional. While running the PGA WEST Resort, Greg was also involved in the acquisition of the La Costa Resort & Spa, running the PGA Tours Q-School and was part of the PGA Tour’s Bob Hope Chrysler Classic operations team. In 2003, Greg moved his family to Northern Nevada to take the Director of Golf position at Thunder Canyon country club in the Washoe Valley.
		Robert DiPietro, Superintendent Rdipietro@somersett.com Robert has been a Class A Golf Course Superintendent for 20 years. He has been the Superintendent at Somersett Golf & Country Club since it’s inception where he worked directly with the golf course designers at KBR Design overseeing construction and the responsiblity for grow-in and opening of all 27 holes. Robert also performed the grow-in of Arrowcreek Golf Course where he opened that course and was course superintendent of ArrowCreek’s 36 holes. Robert also was the Regional Superintendent for a major golf management company in Northern Nevada and Northern California. Other previous positions include Spyglass Hill, Newport Beach CC, and Palm Valley CC.
		Stuart Smith, Director of Golf ssmith@somersett.com At the age of 3 Stuart began hitting balls in the backyard of his Los Angeles home. His family moved to Rocklin, California in 1966 into a house located on the 6th hole of Whitney Ranch Golf Club which was undoubtedly the driving force of Stuart’s love for the game. As an only child, he spent endless hours on the golf course and even laid out his own golf course in the backyard. Stuart was active in junior golf. He qualified for two US Junior Amateur Championships (1978, 79) and was the youngest winner of the Roseville City Amateur Championship (1978). Stuart played college golf at UCLA alongside teammates Corey Pavin, Steve Pate, Tom Pernice Jr., Duffy Waldorf, and Jay Delsing where he recorded the lowest round shot by a Bruin at Bel Air Country Club – 64. He went to the Round of 16 in both the Trans-Mississippi Amateur (1980) and the US Amateur (1980). Stuart graduated with a BA in Sociology and turned professional in 1984. His pursuit of the PGA Tour lasted 9 years where he went to the final qualifying stage for the PGA Tour four times (1986, 88, 89, 90) thus earning his playing privileges on the Ben Hogan Tour and Nike Tour – now known as the Nationwide Tour. Stuart played the South African Tour (1985-92) enjoying his best year in 1989 with a win in the Palabora Classic and two third place finishes ending 6th on their money list for the year. Stuart switched gears and became an assistant golf professional at Sierra View Country Club in Roseville, California in 1992. If he wasn’t going to play for a living, he was certainly going to follow his passion for golf. In 1993, he left Sierra View and went across town to a new facility, Granite Bay Golf Club. Stuart spent 13 years at Granite Bay working his way up through the ranks to Director of Golf. In 2007, he moved to Reno taking on the role of Head Golf Professional at Somersett Golf & Country Club. Stuart still enjoys being competitive and was Northern California PGA Player of the Year in 2004 earning him a spot in the 2005 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Recently, Stuart was named Sierra Nevada Junior Golf Leader (2007) and Sierra Nevada Chapter Player of the Year (2009).
		Rick Christensen, Head Golf Professional rchristensen@somersett.com Rick's dream of becoming a Golf Professional started at Genoa Lakes Golf Resort in 1992. After spending time at Carson Valley Golf Course, he moved to Phoenix Arizona where he worked at The Arizona Biltmore as an Assistant Golf Professional for just under three years. The Biltmore afforded him the opportunity to improve his skills as a professional from both the business standpoint as well as in the teaching arena. After deciding that he wanted to be a part of a private facility, he accepted a job at Eugene Country Club where he spent three years working on his customer service skills along with beginning the PGA education process. He has been employed at Somersett Golf & Country Club since 2005. In 2007, he was elected to PGA membership, and he looks forward to using all his past experiences to make Somersett Golf & Country Club an enjoyable experience for all.
		Tyler Ramsey, Front of the House Manager