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A good equipment technician is the backbone to any successful golf course maintenance operation. A great tech is something your operation should cherish and do everything humanly possible to hang onto. Think about it: Not much gets accomplished if machinery does not work when you need it to, or parts are scattered about in a fashion that makes it difficult if not impossible to find them.

If your equipment tech is great or just plain good, nominate him (or her) for TurfNet’s 2009 Technician of the Year.
The winner will receive the Golden Wrench Award (a real gold-plated wrench) from TurfNet and a week of product training in the Service Training Center at The Toro Company headquarters in Bloomington, Minnesota, compliments of Toro.
Criteria on which nominees are judged include:
  • crisis management
  • effective budgeting
  • environmental awareness
  • helping to further and promote the careers of colleagues and employees
  • interpersonal communications
  • inventory management and cost control
  • overall condition and dependability of rolling stock
  • shop safety, and
  • work ethic.
In other words, tell us (in a few paragraphs) what makes your technician worthy, with specific examples of what he or she has accomplished. Remember, the more you can tell us about your tech’s accomplishments the better his or her chances of winning. Simply telling us that he's a great guy just won't do it!

Finalists and the winner will be profiled on TurfNet.com.

E-mail your nomination to jreitman@turfnet.com, mail it to 1500 Park Center Drive, Orlando, FL 32835, or fax it to 407-563-7077. Be sure to include the name and phone number of the tech; golf course at which he or she works; why they deserve to be considered; and your name, phone number and e-mail address.



2008 Technician of the Year winner Doug Johnson of the Four Seasons Resort and Club in Irving, Texas (above) and 2007 Technician of the Year winner Jim Stuart of Stone Mountain (GA) Golf Club (below) with their Golden Wrench Awards


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