About our company
Our mission is to get you the products you need when you need them. We make periodic visits to your golf course with a cargo van stocked with commonly used products. Most of the time our customers find something they need in the van. We ship items you need not stocked on the van from our warehouse or have it sent to you directly from one of the many suppliers listed on this website.
Family Owned and Operated
Golf Course Maintenance Products Supplier
Mary Lipari
Co-Owner And CEO
Co-Owner And CEO
Mary grew up in southern California, the daughter of James “Speedy” Lipari. She started working on golf courses at 14 years old, picking up golf balls on the driving range. Thus, began her lifelong love of the game. After graduation from Westlake High School, she attended Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, where she earned a bachelor’s of science degree in environmental horticulture with a emphasis on turf grass science.
She first learned the basics of golf course maintenance at the Los Angeles country club. Her summers during college were spent working on the maintenance crews at Escondido Country Club and Saticoy Country Club. Upon graduation, she went to work for her father at Speedy Enterprises selling golf course accessories for Western Golf, chemicals for the W.A. Cleary Company and fertilizers for Plant Marvel.
In 2014, after 18 years of selling accessories she decided to branch out and change the Speedy business model to one of distribution. She currently runs the office at Speedy Enterprises. Mary is the mother of 3 boys and when not working she can be found with her kids, on the golf course or in the bowling alley. She enjoys spending her free time with friends and family.
Michael Harmon
Co-Owner And Sales Manager
Co-Owner And Sales Manager
Michael leads our team of top-level professionals. He joined the Speedy team in 2013 after 13 years of development and construction work at Toll Brothers Inc.
He has worked as an assistant Golf Course Superintendent, as a Golf Course Superintendent, and as a Construction Manager at numerous golf courses. Some of those include: Woodland Hills Country Club, Camarillo Springs Golf Course, Cascades Golf Club, Moorpark Country Club, Mizner Country Club, Belmont Country Club, Mountain View Country Club, and Arrow Wood Golf Club.
Michael is a graduate of Don Lugo High School in Chino, and a 1993 Graduate of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, with a B.S. in agronomy. He is fluent in Spanish, and credits his success on understanding what the customer wants in two languages.
Michael says farming has been his whole life, whether it was potatoes or Bent Grass.
Our Founder - Jim "Speedy" Lipari
Jim grew up in Easton, Pennsylvania, the son of Sicilian parents that arrived in America through Ellis Island. Jim started working on a golf course in 1941 at age 11, and a football and basketball scholarship enabled him to graduate with a degree in ornamental horticulture from the National Agricultural College (formerly the National Farmers School and now known as Delaware Valley University in Doylestown, Pennsylvania). In basketball, he was the first athlete at the school to score 1,000 points — playing just 12 games per season.
He was working toward a career as a golf course superintendent, but in 1956, he began a 30-year career with TUCO (The Up-John Company), which manufactured Acti-dione fungicide, whose active ingredient is cycloheximide. He worked throughout the country and soon became the West Coast sales manager, with a region from Chicago to the Pacific coastline. He established close friendships with turf industry pioneers Dr. H. Burton Musser of Penn State University, Dr. O.J. Noer of Milorganite, Joe Valentine of Merion Golf Club, Eb Steiniger of Pine Valley Golf Club, Tom Mascaro of West Point Products and many, many more.
In 1985, TUCO left the turf industry and Jim launched a second career from his Thousand Oaks, California, location by forming a company called Speedy Enterprises, which represents manufacturers of golf course maintenance accessories. Although his daughter and son-in-law operate the company today, Jim still drives an average of 1,200 to 1,500 miles per week visiting customers for Speedy Enterprises. He’s not slowing down at all.
And what about that card trick? It’s called Speedy and it originated in Louisiana. Jim first performed it during the GCSAA trade show in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1976, and he’s been performing it ever since. He’s even won amateur talent contests on cruise ships doing that trick! There isn’t anyone he doesn’t know, and once he meets you, he’ll never forget your name or where you work. An industry rep says, “one of my best days in this business was spent playing a round of golf at Torrey Pines with Speedy.”
Jim continues to work for Speedy Enterprises because he thoroughly enjoys it and he loves the people in this industry.
an interview with Jim Lipari