Golf Car Systems

With over 30 years and 350 million miles of golf car maintenance experience, Golf Car Systems is the most experienced service company in the Golf business. GCS has several thousand golf cars under its maintenance care in the United States and the Caribbean. The company, based in Clearwater, Florida, was founded in 1973. The company’s main product is its proprietary Fleet Service Program (see below) that includes a GCS service representative on-site at the golf course performing all golf car maintenance: preventative, warranty, repair, and cosmetic.

Home Office, Clearwater
Home Office & Plant, Clearwater, Florida

Golf Cars

Under this Program GCS schedules and controls, with its proprietary FleetHawk™ database system, all maintenance activities and provides a variety of valued-added benefits for its customers. The FleetHawk™ system receives periodic mileage data collected from a meter that is mounted on the left-rear wheel of every golf car under the company’s care. FleetHawk™ then generates monthly reports that enable GCS to precisely control balanced usage of the fleet, perform preventative maintenance based on mileage data, and even tell the club how many golf rounds were played on its fleet in the previous month.

GCS also handles purchasing of golf car parts and batteries and manages the golf car warranty program for the club. GCS consistently keeps over 99% of the golf cars operating and producing golf revenues for its customers. In addition, Golf Car Systems sells new, rebuilt, and used golf and utility cars in the Tampa Bay area as well as to international markets.

The company is run by Mike Souchak and Bill Dodd, two of its original founders. Mike played on the PGA Tour from 1955 to 1966. He held the record for the lowest score in a 72-hole tournament, a 257 in the 1955 Texas Open, for over 45 years (1955 - 2001). Mike’s record of 27 on the back nine at the 1955 Texas Open still stands. During his years on the Tour, Mike won 16 Tournaments including:

Texas Open 1955

Houston Open 1955
Azalea Open 1956
Colonial Invitation 1956
Tijuana Open 1958
St Paul Open 1958
Western Open 1959
Motor City Open 1959

Tournament of Champions 1959

Buick Open 1960
San Diego Open 1960
St Paul Open 1960
Greensboro Open 1960
Houston Open 1964
Memphis Open 1964

Mike

Mike Souchak

After leaving the Tour in 1966, Mike was the Director of Golf at Oakland Hills Country Club. In 1970, he was a founder of the Innisbrook Golf Resort in Tarpon Springs, Florida. Mike is a graduate of Duke University where he played varsity golf and football.

Bill

Bill, prior to founding Golf Car Systems with Mike, worked for GTE/Sylvania in New York. His experience includes marketing, operations, finance, and mergers and acquisitions. Bill has an MBA in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in physics from the University of Notre Dame.

Bill Dodd

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