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    For his work in investigating weed control in managed turf, John Peppers, Ph.D., a post-doctoral researcher at Virginia Tech, has been named the recipient of the 2024 Musser International Turfgrass Foundation Award of Excellence recipient.
    The award is given to outstanding doctoral candidates who, in the final phase of their graduate studies, demonstrated overall excellence throughout their doctoral program in turfgrass research.
    Peppers (right), who earned bachelor's and master's degrees at Auburn University, completed his doctoral work in plant pathology, physiology and weed science at Virginia Tech. His doctoral research focused on programs to control annual bluegrass, crabgrass and goosegrass control on and near golf course putting greens.
    After being named the recipient of the award, he thanked his professors at Auburn and Virginia Tech, Scott McElroy, Ph.D., of Auburn, and Shawn Askew, Ph.D., respectively.
    "I am extremely honored to receive the Musser Award of Excellence," Peppers said. "I have long admired many of the previous winners as these are some of the biggest names in turfgrass research. I am humbled to be mentioned among such as prestigious group. This achievement would not have been possible without the constant support of my wife Cynthia, my family, my fellow graduate students, and Drs. Shawn Askew and Scott McElroy."
    Peppers has published 14 peer-reviewed research papers from his master's and doctoral projects and has five more in draft or under review on the topic of turfgrass weed science. He has authored more than 50 scientific abstracts and has given approximately 60 presentations on his work. He plans to focus his career on providing practical, research-based solutions for turfgrass managers.
    The foundation is named in honor of H. Burton Musser, who led the turfgrass management research and teaching program at Penn State University for three decades. It was founded by Joseph M. Duich, Ph.D., Warren A. Bidwell, Eberhard R. Steiniger, Albert W. Wilson II and Fred V. Grau, Ph.D., with the idea of supporting exceptional students destined to become the leaders of the turfgrass industry.
    The criteria for selecting award recipients include graduate work, academic record, dissertation, publications, leadership, and extracurricular activities. To date, awards have been granted to doctoral students from universities including Arizona, Auburn, Cornell, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Carolina State, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, Michigan State, Rutgers, Tennessee, Texas A&M and Virginia Tech.
    Previous recipients include 2023 - Wendell Hutchens, North Carolina State; 2022 - Devon Carroll, Tennessee; Travis Russell, Penn State; 2021 - Cameron Stephens, NCSU; 2020 - Garrett Heineck, Minnesota; 2019 - Phillip Vines, Rutgers; 2018 - Patrick Burgess, Rutgers; 2017 - Matthew Jeffries, NCSU; David Jespersen, Rutgers; 2016 - Lisa Beirn Rutgers; 2015 - Mattew Elmore, Texas A&M; Joseph Roberts, Maryland; 2014 - James McCurdy, Mississippi State; 2013 - Emily Merewitz, Rutgers; 2010 - James Rutledge, Purdue; 2009 - Jo Anne Crouch, Rutgers; 2008 - Adam Hixson, NCSU; 2007 - Aaron Patton, Purdue; 2006 - Kurt Steinke, Wisconsin; Sara Thompson, NCSU; 2005 - John Kaminski, Maryland; 2003 - Eric Watkins, Rutgers; 2002 - Lane Treadway, Georgia; 2001 - Stacy Bonos, Rutgers; 2000 - Matthew Fagerness, NCSU; 1999 - William Von Sigler, Purdue; 1998 - Andrew McNitt, Penn State; 1997 - Rob Golembiewski, Ohio State; 1996 - Daniel Dalthrop, Cornell; 1995 - Paul Johnson, Minnesota; 1994 - Jennifer Johnson-Cicalese, Nebraska; 1991 - Grady Miller, Auburn; Eric Miltner, Michigan State; Karen Plumely, Rutgers; 1992 - Richard Davis, Purdue; Jeff Klingenberg, Nebraska; Zach Reicher, Purdue; 1991 - James Bond, Tennessee; 1990 - Phil Allen, Minnesota; Meoldee Fraser, Rutgers; Virginia Lehman, Texas A&M; 1989 - Andrew Ralowicz, Arizona; Gwen Stahnke, Nebraska.
  • As golf course superintendents continue on the path toward sustainability, two practices that go hand-in-hand — beekeeping and converting out-of-play areas to naturalized plots — are becoming increasingly mainstream in the realm of golf course maintenance.
    Beekeeping helps protect an important, yet invasive, species, and creating naturalized areas provide them, as well as native pollinators, with a food source.
    There is much to learn before taking the plunge into beekeeping. Considerations include expense, time and educating golfers.
    "If someone is really interested in honey bees and wants to be a beekeeper, I encourage them to think about why they want to do that," said Elise Bernstein, outreach coordinator and researcher with the Spivak Bee Lab at the University of Minnesota. "One beekeeper is not going to save the honey bees. It's time-intensive and it's expensive, as well."
    There are 20,000 species of bees found worldwide, including 4,000 found in the U.S., most of which are prolific pollinators. Ironically, the honey bees that are common across the country actually are native to Europe, not North America. Populations of managed honeybee colonies, which can average 60,000 bees per colony during summer, decline by 30 percent to 50 percent each winter.
    There is not much known about wild bee colonies and how they fare over the winter.
    "Loss rates of managed colonies depend on the year and the weather," said Reed Johnson, Ph.D., associate professor of entomology at Ohio State University. There are more wild colonies than we know. We don't know much about them. It is hard to know what their status is."
    Golf courses make better habitat for bees than what most backyard hobbyists can offer, but they need more than just space, says Bernstein. 
    "Golf course superintendents have access to so much acreage. They can create awesome habitat for bees," she said. 
    "If honey bees don't have access to ample food supplies, they're not going to do well. We can support honey bees and native bees with lots of native plantings."
    In their search for food, bees have a foraging range of about 3 miles, so even with naturalized areas on the golf course, bees will spend much of their time off site. Conversely, the golf course likely becomes a forage site for bees from elsewhere, be it wild bees or someone else's managed colonies.
    Both populations need food supplies throughout the year, not just through the golf season.
    "Fall forage is a problem for bees. There just aren't a lot of fall-blooming plants," Johnson said. 
    "Bees are as lazy as anything else. If a food source is close, they'll take whatever is closest first."
    Some fall-blooming forage options that bees prefer include some of the asters that flower in autumn, goldenrod and the bees' favorite food source - white clover.
    Clover can be found among the plantings in naturalized areas on Highlands Falls Country Club in the mountains of North Carolina, where superintendent Josh Cantrell and his predecessor, general manager Fred Gehrisch, CGCS, have been managing bee colonies for about nine years. 
    Since then, the bees, which are kept near the 14th green have become a PR success story, the importance of which cannot be overstated given what some think about golf.

    Josh Cantrell is raising eight bee colonies at Highlands Falls Country Club in North Carolina top right and above. Photos courtesy of Josh Cantrell "They're thriving here on a golf course. We're not killing them," Cantrell said. 
    "The first year, we started with two hives just to see how it goes. We got enough honey to sell at the pro shop. Now, the members love it."
    That operation has grown to eight colonies, or upwards of a half-million bees through the middle of summer. The honey harvest now totals about 7 gallons annually. 
    "That's a lot of 8-ounce bottles," Cantrell said. "And it's all gone in about two days."
    Cantrell's job does not stop there. Keeping bees is a 12-month-a-year job to ensure they have enough food over winter and are managed to control the invasive varroa mite parasite that is among the threats to honey bee populations in North America.
    "We also have to feed them through the winter because they stay outside," he said. "We give them sugar water, clean the hives and treat the bees for mites."
    Cantrell admitted there was a brief period of bees and keepers getting acclimated to one another.
    "It's a ridiculous amount of bees," Cantrell said laughing. "It was kind of intimidating at first when we would check on the queen and pull the frames out. If it was early in the morning or on a calm day they are usually pretty relaxed. If it's windy, or there is a change in the barometric pressure, they can get pretty agitated."
    Bernstein reminds those interested in beekeeping that native bee species should warrant consideration when planting pollinator-friendly plants and flowers.
    Bumble bees can be important pollinators of tomatoes, and Bernstein points to two native species — the rusty patch and yellow banded bumble bee — that have experienced significant population decline about 25 years ago.
    "We don't know exactly what caused the decline," she said. "We suspect it was caused by a virus or disease."
    Disease also is a concern for managed honey bee colonies, as well, she said, and too many bees in one area can be a bad thing, says Bernstein.
    "Managed bees and native bees can compete for resources," she said. "And a lot of colonies in one area can cause the spread of disease.
    "Do things to support bees. Plant flowers to create habitat and food sources."

     
  • The Industry Pro line of heavy duty utility vehicles includes both gasoline- and battery-powered models. For more than 20 years, STEC Equipment has been synonymous with many of the types of equipment upon which turf managers rely on a daily basis. There is a new addition to that lineup that includes tractors and equipment for dethatching, fraise mowing, seeding, blowing, top dressing and more. 
    Thanks to an agreement with Landmaster, the STEC portfolio now includes that company's Industry Pro line of heavy duty gas-powered and electric utility vehicles built to tackle the toughest jobs.
    The Industry Pro line includes the Pro 5 and Pro 7 series that are powered by a 627cc, V-twin Vanguard engine with electronic fuel injection. The Pro E series is powered by a lithium battery that delivers up to 8 hours of run time on a single charge. Both the gas- and battery-powered versions have a maximum speed of up to 24 mph.
    Standard features on most models in all series are 4-wheel disc brakes; 3-point seatbelts; certified rollover protection system; back-up alarm; horn; roof-mounted strobe light; tail lights; electronic power steering; heavy duty tires, bumpers and shocks; can carry loads of up to 1,000 pounds and have a towing capability of 1,750 pounds.
    STEC is a South Carolina-based manufacturer of tillers, brushes, verticutters and more and a distributor of products for the turf, agriculture and construction industries, whose branded partners include Airter, Giant Loaders, GKB Machines, Landmaster, Kioti, Rotadairon, Seppi Machines, Sidekick USA, Trench It, Trilo and VGR Topchanger.
    The line of Industry Pro commercial utility vehicles are built and shipped from Landmaster's manufacturing facility in Columbia City, Indiana.
  • The Toro Dingo TX 1000 can handle a variety of tasks thanks to an array of varied attachments. For turf managers who need a compact utility loader that can perform a wide range of tasks, Toro recently introduced the Dingo TX 1000 Turbo.
    A refreshed version of the TX 1000, the new Dingo comes in both narrow-track (6 inches) and wide-track (9 inches) versions and is powered by a Tier 4-compliant Yanmar turbo diesel engine that churns out 24.7 horsepower and provides more torque than previous models while also reducing vibration.
    With attachments such as standard and high-volume buckets, adjustable forks, grapple bucket, grapple rake, high-torque auger and high-torque trencher, the Dingo is engineered for a variety of tasks.
    With an operating capacity of 1,000 pounds, the unit features a vertical lift arm that keeps the load closer to the machine to allow operators to lift more weight without compromising stability and increases the reach to 81 inches to make dumping more efficient.
    Toro's traction- control system includes a digital display for ease of operation by the user, and hydraulic flow is controlled through an auxiliary foot pedal, freeing the operator's hands to control speed and attachment usage.
    A larger hydraulic filter means longer maintenance intervals, saving both time and money.
  • Devon Carroll gains firsthand experience in the field while working toward her doctorate degree in 2020 at the University of Tennessee. Photo via Twitter It would have been understandable if Leah Brilman, Ph.D., felt like an outsider the first time she attended a meeting of the Crop Science Society of America more than 40 years ago.
    "I was dumb and stupid and decided I was going to do what I was passionate about doing," Brilman, director of product management and technical services at DLF-Pickseed, said of her career in turf. "When I attended the C5 meeting for the first time, I was the only woman in the room.
    "I will say, there were a few men who were inappropriate, but the vast majority were accepting and professional. At some point, I knew I had to work with people and accepted that I was in a male-dominated industry."
    The turf industry has become a much more inviting environment for women since that CSSA meeting in the early 1980s.
    Devon Carroll, Ph.D., chief of staff for Envu, has bachelor's and master's degrees from Penn State and a doctorate from Tennessee. Her introduction into the game came as a golfer in high school and part-time jobs in the clubhouse. She was inspired to pursue a career in turf by a cousin who was a superintendent.
    She was unaware there were so few women in turf when she enrolled at Penn State a decade ago.
    "When I made the decision to pursue a degree in turfgrass science I wasn't aware of the gender dominance in the industry," Carroll said. "It was mentioned on my undergraduate campus tour that there were few women, but I didn't appreciate what that meant until my first few weeks on campus as the only female in my program. It was certainly overwhelming to attend classes, turf club meetings and conferences as the lone woman in the room."
    In the back of her mind, Carroll knew she might one day change majors, but not because she was outnumbered in the classroom. She thought that never having worked on a golf course might set her back compared with her classmates.
    "When I chose turfgrass science as a major, I knew it might not stick since I didn't have prior experience working in golf course maintenance," she said. "Within my first few turf classes though, I was hooked and have never looked back. There have certainly been some challenges in my career related to my gender, but I have great mentors and tremendous support from the injury to keep on going."
    Those who have come before Carroll certainly have seen a lot.
    "There were times I couldn't go on certain golf courses because the club was male only," Brilman said. "Even as a woman working with the superintendent I couldn't go on the golf course on certain days."

    Superintendents Renee Geyer, left, and Carey Hofner are hard at work at The Sentry PGA Tour event in Hawaii. Photo from Kimberly Gard via Twitter Brilman says it is incumbent on people like herself, who are veterans in the business, to be a resource for the younger generation so they feel welcome and do not become disenfranchised. 
    "It is important for those of us to make sure those coming behind us have contacts and know people," she said. "And we will continue doing that to make sure things are OK and that they have someone they can talk to. It does make a difference."
    Indeed it does.
    Networking and educational events for women in turf have been more common since the 2015 GCSAA show in San Antonio. Syngenta's Ladies Leading Turf is undergoing a metamorphosis to make it more inclusive to people of all backgrounds for next year. 
    The event helped give rise to a grassroots movement to increase the visibility and profile of female agronomists on a worldwide scale beginning with the 2021 U.S. Women's Open at the Olympic Club in San Francisco when superintendent Troy Flanagan had a revelation to host several dozen female superintendents as part of his volunteer crew.
    Flanagan turned to longtime friend Kimberly Gard, territory manager for Syngenta, to help make it happen.
    "I immediately thought it was a brilliant idea," Gard said. "I wasn't aware that anyone had tried to do anything like that before. I thought it sounded amazing, and I wanted to be part of that."
    That event helped put the work of female superintendents on the forefront for the world to see, and has subsequently helped launch several similar opportunities, including similar tournament experiences and other events geared specifically for women, like the GCSAA's Women's Leadership Academy.
    "We asked ourselves, how do we expand this?" Gard said. "How do we make it bigger?"
    Carroll says there is a direct link between women working on a golf course and playing on them.
    "I believe the 'see it, be it' mentality is one of the strongest tools we can use to attract more women to the industry," she said. "I didn't meet another female in turfgrass management until I was a year into my studies. It was truly inspiring to see what she had accomplished and I envisioned myself with a similar career trajectory. It is unfortunate I had to have such a long gap before I could make this connection. I'm really pleased that seeing and meeting women is much more accessible today for those entering the turf industry."
  • Jim Nagle, here in a bunker at Philadelphia Country Club, has recently started his own golf course design firm known as Nagle Design Works. Below right, Nagle during the restoration of Lancaster Country Club. Photos courtesy of Nagle Design Works After a quarter-century working side by side with Ron Forse, golf course architect Jim Nagle has launched his own design firm, Nagle Design Works, fulfilling what he calls a lifelong goal.
    "I, like many designers, entered the field with hopes of running my own shop," Nagle said. "During my 25 years with Forse Design, Ron and I have completed numerous great projects for many wonderful clients, and I have learned a tremendous amount about the sort of courses I want to design and work on in the rest of my career. I want to build courses that are steeped in risk and reward, and heroic design, intrigue and joy. Forse Design enabled me to make a name as a restoration specialist, and the great designers of the past will always inform my work. I am excited to forge this opportunity to create new designs from scratch."
    Among Nagle's work is the recent restoration of Lancaster Country Club in Pennsylvania, site of this year's U.S. Women's Open.
    Nagle will hit the ground running with a handful of ongoing and upcoming projects on his schedule.
    He is currently finishing up rebuilding the back nine on Philadelphia Country Club's Spring Mill Course, and soon will begin work on a renovation of Westwood Country Club in the Cleveland area.
    Other upcoming projects include working on a master plan for Eagles Mere, a William Flynn design tucked into rural northeastern Pennsylvania.
    "Eagles Mere is a step back in time, the course is routed through a wooded landscape, with greens played as intended with tricky swells and knobs still being used for hole locations because of the slower speeds," Nagle said. "Rock debris piles from the original construction remain untouched sitting between holes. Fairways are pockmarked with small humps and kettles from the cuts and clearing of the forest to build the holes. A few holes provide mountain and peak vistas as far as the eye can see."
    He also will begin work next yeare on the restoration of the North Course at NCR Country Club. The course in Moraine, Ohio, was designed by Dick Wilson 70 years ago. 
    "The North has really not been touched very much since Wilson built it in 1954," Nagle said. "We will focus on peeling back seventy years of growth to revive the original shapes and strategies."
    Nagle is a graduate of West Virginia University, where he earned a degree in landscape architecture. He has been designing and restoring golf courses as an architect for more than 25 years. He will continue to work on projects with his mentor.
    "The next few years are going to be very exciting," Nagle said. "Ron Forse and I will continue to collaborate on projects. I am enthused and I look forward to taking on interesting new original design, renovation, and restoration projects. These are good times."
  • The Purdue University entomology department has an online resource that provides information on safe neonicotinoid use as well as alternative tools for insect pest control. Purdue University photo Few things in the turf management business have created as much controversy as the use of neonicotinoids to control insect pests. Critics say the insecticide class is too toxic to non-target species to warrant its use. Proponents claim it is safe if used correctly and too valuable of a tool to lose in the fight against insect pests.
    The concern over the effects of neonicotinoids on pollinators, birds and fish has led to partial or complete bans in several states, including Colorado, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Nevada, Rhode Island and Vermont.
    In response to the controversy swirling around neonicotinoid use the Purdue University entomology department has an online tool that addresses the concerns surrounding neonicotinoid use, tips for safe use and safer alternatives.
    The online tool includes information provided directly from the Purdue entomology department as well as material from outside resources.
    Information from Purdue addresses concerns about neonicotinoid use, including toxicity levels of several products on non-target species, including birds, fish, mammals and pollinating insects.
    Tips include:
    Where and when to apply product. Avoid using neonicotinoids in areas with flowering plants.  Remove weeds with an herbicide before using neonicotinoid insecticides in turfgrass. Mow the turf immediately before spraying any insecticide to remove any blooms and to reduce the chance of foraging by insects. If used to control insects in flowering trees wait until petals fall off to avoid contact with pollinators. The importance of maintaining buffer areas between treated and untreated areas. The active ingredient in neonicotinoids can possibly be taken up through the roots of non-target plants that attract pollinators. Research indicates a buffer of at least 2-3 feet between treated areas and areas where flowering plants might be growing. Seek alternatives. According to researchers, alternative resources for control of white grubs, billbugs, chinch bugs, caterpillars and crane flies include pyrethroids, carbamates, diamides and organophosphates. Other resources from outside Purdue but available through its entomology web site include:
    Protecting and enhancing pollinators in urban landscapes. Neonicotinoid Insecticides and Pollinators: What's all the Buzz About? The Impact of the Nation's Most Widely Used Insecticides on Birds. Bee Advisory Box - USEPA. Protecting Bees and Other Pollinators from Pesticides. FAQs.
  • A pioneer in battery-powered maintenance equipment for the turf industry, Jacobsen is expanding its electric portfolio this year with its ELiTE series of machines. The new additions to the Jacobsen lineup include the Eclipse 2 ELiTE walking greens mower, ELiTE lithium outfront and AR1 ELiTE articulated rotary mower to a line up that already includes the Eclipse 360 ELiTE and SLF1 ELiTE models.
    Powering the new Jacobsen additions is a Samsung Lithium SDI battery technology that the company says provides all-day power to mow greens, tees, fairways and roughs, while also helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
    The ELITE lineup includes Jacobsen's PACE Technology equipment management and geofencing system. The Web-based PACE system can be accessed from any enabled device and allows users to track and manage the power supply of each unit.
    Pre-release testing was conducted on 26 courses worldwide.
    The quality of cut has rarely been an issue for Jacobsen customers. Instead, challenges associated with parts and service have been widespread has the company moved locations, first from Racine, Wisconsin to Charlotte, North Carolina in 2001 and on to Augusta, Georgia in 2017 before moving across the Atlantic to Ipswich, England in 2020.
    Jacobsen's newest electronic offerings already have made an impact at Humboldt Golf and Country Club in Humboldt, Tennessee.
    "Fairways and tees have just taken the next step, I guess is the best way to put it," said Paul Webb, general manager and superintendent at Humboldt in a video released by Jacobsen.
    "Improvements in technology in the last 13 years have just continued to improve our turf quality. I would say the Eclipse has been the most impactful piece that we've had, just the frequency of clip, the electric motors, just the quality of cut that we can get at a higher height, we don't have to stress our turf out, and we still maintain the speed and just quality of cut that everybody's looking for."
    The hurdle for Jacobsen in recent years has not been quality of cut but access to parts and service. 

    Jacobsen's ELiTE mower series is powered by a lithium battery power pack. Jacobsen photo Paul Carter has been using Jacobsen's electric mowing technology at the Bear Trace at Harrison Bay near Chattanooga since it launched a decade ago.
    "A lot of people had concerns when they shipped everything overseas," Carter said. "I can't say we've had any major issues that were more than what I've ever had with equipment of other colors.
    "We went with Jacobsen's electric technology in 2014 because it was the only (electric) game in town. I believe the Eclipse is the best cutting unit in the business."
    John Reilly, superintendent at Longboat Key Club in Southwest Florida, has been wed to other iron manufacturers throughout his career, but after testing some of Jacobsen's new equipment at the club near Sarasota, he has recently entered into a $5 million equipment package that will include about 45 walk mowers.
    Initially, Reilly too was concerned about some of the stories he has heard through the year.
    "We wanted to be all electric, so I put them through every pace imaginable," Reilly said. "When it comes to electric technology, they're ahead of the curve, and it's always been a great cutting unit. The reels have never been the issue."
    One of the selling points for Reilly was a heart-to-heart discussion with his sales rep. 
    "They listened more than they talked," he said.
    "They're committed to service and parts. That's not horse hockey, and that's what changed my mind. The technology is solid."
  • If nothing else, Ohio might be the most "average" place on the planet. After all, it is where many restaurants and snack makers often go to test their products and gauge acceptance on a wider scale.
    Several menu offerings from McDonald's, Taco Bell, Burger King and Wendy's often appear first in outlets around Columbus before they are available elsewhere, and when Lay's launched a barrage of new potato chip flavors a few years ago, they first were tested around Toledo.
    This winter, however, the weather in Ohio, and elsewhere, has been anything but average.
    With winter all but a rearview mirror memory, thoughts turn to the next challenge on the horizon for superintendents, including the upcoming grub season.
    Is the warmer-than-average winter, that has been defined not only by unseasonable temperatures but also a lack of precipitation, a hint of things to come courtesy of white grubs?
    According to research, warmer temperatures might bring grubs to the surface earlier in the year than usual, but conditions in spring, scientists say, are not related to enhanced grub populations and are not enough to promote a second generation in locations where one generation per year is the norm.

    According to former University of Kentucky entomologist Dan Potter, Ph.D., there is no direct correlation between mild winters and increased grub populations.
    According to Potter, the 2010 USGA Green Section Award recipient, grubs already come equipped with an ability to survive harsh winters as they overwinter buried deep into the soil as larvae, as well as an internal clock that tells them when it is time to pupate and emerge in late spring or early summer as adults. They might emerge sooner than later in years like 2024, but nothing suggests there will be any more of them.
    "They are not going to freeze in cold weather either," Potter told TurfNet on the subject in the past. "They don't freeze at the same temperature as water. You can put them in the freezer and open it later and they will still be alive."
    Ninety miles north of Potter's location in Cincinnati, the average daily high temperature in January is about 39 degrees Fahrenheit. In February, those daily highs range from 40 degrees on Feb. 1 to 47 degrees by the end of the month. 
    That was not the case this year. January temperatures this year in Cincinnati climbed above average on 19 of 31 days and exceeded 50 degrees four times. Deviations from normal temperatures were even more dramatic in February, when temperatures in Ohio's Queen City exceeded 50 degrees on 20 of 29 days, eclipsed 60 six times and 70 once.
    What grubs do require to have a banner year is plenty of moisture in the soil. If conditions are too dry, the eggs laid last summer will not be viable.
    Soil moisture levels of at least 10 percent in summer when adult beetles lay their eggs will go much farther than unseasonably warm conditions at ensuring a successful hatch.
    Beetles also are adept at seeking out fertile territory for depositing their eggs. According to Potter, adult beetles seek out moist areas to lay their eggs and will mostly ignore those areas that are too dry. That is why they naturally seek out golf courses.
    When there is plenty of rain in July and August there is always good egg survival, according to Potter. When there's drought, there is not good survival except on places like irrigated fairways and roughs.
  • Velocity PM is labeled for use on tees and fairways in both cool- and warm-season grasses. Velocity herbicide for Poa control is back after a brief leave of absence.
    For more than a decade, Velocity herbicide from Nufarm was a standard bearer for control of Poa annua and Poa trivialis in cool- and warm-season turf on golf course tees and fairways. The next iteration, Velocity PM, will be available for use in March.
    With the active ingredient bispyribac sodium, Velocity almost worked too well and was, in some respects, a victim of its own success. To that end, Scott McElroy, Ph.D., of Auburn University, once warned attendees at a past Northern California GCSA Assistant Superintendent Bootcamp that you better know how much Poa you have, or you might be in for a surprise.
    With the same active ingredient as original Velocity SG, the new formulation, Velocity Poa Management, is a low-use-rate herbicide labeled for use on creeping bentgrass, perennial ryegrass, tall fescue and dormant Bermudagrass on golf course tees and fairways. It is a compatible tank mix partner with plant growth regulators, fertilizers and fungicides. 
    Keys to success when using Velocity PM, according to instructions, are to apply only to healthy turf when temperatures are between 60 and 90 degrees Fahrenheit in five applications of three-fourths ounce per acre every 14 days. It is best to avoid use within four hours of a predicted rain event.
    With the original formulation of Velocity many superintendents, as well as homeowners and landscape operators who had underestimated the amount of Poa intrusion were left with barren dirt after using the herbicide.
    Eventually, Velocity was taken out of production in 2018. Velocity's return was hinted at in a pre-GCSAA show news release, and more information about the comeback was available in Phoenix.
  • Mike O'Keeffe, far right, brought more than 40 Ohio Program interns to this year's GCSAA Conference and Show in Phoenix. Photo courtesy of Mike O'Keeffe An infamous video once indicated that the best job in the business was that of the golf course dog. If that's true, then Mike O'Keeffe at Ohio State University easily is the industry's runner-up.
    For more than 30 years, O'Keeffe has been director of the The Ohio Program, OSU's international exchange module that brings students from other countries to the United States and sends American students abroad for real-world internship opportunities in agriculture, horticulture and turf.
    O'Keeffe (fittingly pictured at right in front of a world map) is always smiling, and for good reason. To the casual observer, O'Keeffe's job includes jet-setting around the globe, selling the program to turf managers and wining-and-dining prospective trainees. 
    While his job does include much of the above, what is not always so obvious are the countless hours of work that go into running a program that matches hundreds of trainees each year with the right opportunities on the opposite side of the globe from their respective homes and the responsibility that comes with such tasks.
    "These opportunities don't just happen," O'Keeffe said. "They happen because we build relationships."
    A native of Ireland, O'Keeffe, 59, came to the United States in 1986 through the very program he now leads to grow tomatoes for a Heinz processing plant in Ohio. Since taking over the program 35 years ago from former director Mike Chrisman, O'Keeffe says he has helped put upwards of 10,000 students from the U.S. and abroad on their career paths in golf and sports turf and agriculture.
    Alan FitzGerald, CGCS, at Rehoboth Beach Country Club in Delaware, also is a native of Ireland. And like O'Keeffe, he also is a product of The Ohio Program.
    "The amount of people he has helped, they're dotted all over the world," said Alan FitzGerald, CGCS at Rehoboth Beach Country Club in Delaware. "It's amazing the number of people's lives he has touched."
    O'Keeffe was raised on a dairy farm in his native County Cork, and went on to study vegetable production at Warrenstown Agricultural College in County Meath.
    Through The Ohio Program he learned of an opportunity to grow tomatoes in Wilmington, Ohio, a rural area between Columbus and Cincinnati. The farm needed an experienced hand as the tomatoes grown there were to be shipped almost 200 miles north to Fremont for processing in a Heinz ketchup plant.
    O'Keeffe immediately displayed a knack for identifying qualified help and team building.
    "It was hard work," O'Keeffe said. "We worked 10-hour days. It was windy, really hot, or really cold. The locals they hired quit like crazy. They were dropping like flies."
    The best worker, he recalled, was a migrant worker from Latin America. He convinced farm management to hire more experienced and qualified help from south of the border, and just like that O'Keeffe's place in helping people find a path to employment was born.

    Flags on Mike O'Keeffe's office wall that have been signed by past Ohio Program interns remind him of how many people the program has helped. Photo courtesy of Mike O'Keeffe When O'Keeffe came to the U.S., The Ohio Program was strictly for agricultural internships. It was not until after he became involved in running it that the program created opportunities for aspiring turf managers, too.
    Today, Ohio Program trainees are working in jobs at all levels worldwide, including Lara Arias, superintendent at Marco Simone Golf and Country Club near Rome, site of last year's Ryder Cup Matches. 
    Arias spent a year-and-a-half in the states, interning at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Virginia, TPC Scottsdale and Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina for the 2017 PGA Championship.
    "Kids from other countries jump start their careers by coming here," he said. "Or kids from here going there."
    When he's not in his office in Columbus, O'Keeffe can be found at some of the world's best golf courses here in the U.S. and elsewhere looking for intern candidates, checking up on those already in the program or selling its benefits to students, assistants and superintendents alike.
    An upcoming trip to Australia and elsewhere will have him visiting 10 southern hemisphere cities in two weeks.
    "People know me, and they know about the program, but you can't ride a reputation forever," O'Keeffe said. "Eventually, you have to show up."
    O'Keeffe says his office walls, which are adorned with golf course flags signed by Ohio Program interns from around the world, speak louder than words to the success of the program.
    "Every name is a past trainee from somewhere around the world," O'Keeffe said. 
    "It's not an ego trip. It's a tool for recruitment. And it's humbling to look at that and see the difference you make in people's lives."
    When Covid all but shut down the program, including international travel, O'Keeffe spent his waking hours planning for when the pandemic was over.
    "We couldn't just sit on our hands. I was on more Zoom calls to colleges and speaking to classes in other countries than I can remember," he said. 

    Mike O'Keeffe, upper right, and a recent group of interns at Ohio Stadium in Columbus. He would speak to classes on the other side of the world by Zoom that would be in the middle of the night in Ohio then go back to bed.
    "I was planting the seeds for when Covid was over," O'Keeffe said. "You didn't know when it would be over, but if I got one kid out of that by Zoom, then that was a success for me."
    FitzGerald is one of those success stories.
    A 1998 graduate of the Penn State turfgrass program, FitzGerald was an assistant at Pine Valley when his visa was set to expire. He was able to stay in the U.S. and at Pine Valley by securing a J-level visa as an Ohio Program intern. FitzGerald, who later spent 19 years as superintendent at LedgeRock Golf Club in Pennsylvania before moving on to Rehoboth Beach last July,  eventually became an American citizen in 2019. 
    "I had heard of The Ohio Program at Mount Juliet (where he was a greenkeeper in the early '90s). Everybody there knew about it," FitzGerald said. 
    "When I was at Pine Valley I called Mike to get help extending my visa. To this day, I joke with him that I got him into Pine Valley. He already had a great relationship there. What he's done for the industry over the years is amazing."
    Today, O'Keeffe remains driven by the impact the experiences The Ohio Program provides to people in countless countries worldwide.
    "The reason why I still do this is when you help someone and see the impact it has on their careers," he said. 
    "These kids jump start their careers by getting internships either by coming here or going over there. What other job can you have when you get to make a difference in so many people's lives?"
  • Scientists from more than a half-dozen universities and research organizations want to learn all they can about winter damage on golf courses. And they want your help.
    Described as a holistic approach to understanding the mechanisms and mitigating the effects of winter stress on turf grasses in northern climates.
    The WinterTurf Grant project is a joint initiative of the University of Minnesota, Michigan State, Wisconsin, Rutgers, Massachusetts, Iowa State, Oregon State, the USDA Ag Research Service and the Norway Institute of Bioeconomy Research. It is focused on collecting data next fall and winter from golf courses in multiple countries to help gain a better understanding of winter stresses of turfgrass leading to more effective solutions for superintendents in cold weather climates. To learn more about the program, scan the QR code at right.
    Michigan State professor Kevin Frank, Ph.D., one of the researchers participating in the WinterTurf initiative, addressed the study in a recent TurfNet webinar on winter damage.
    "One of the strategies I've been involved with," Frank said, "is developing the strategy, mitigation and recovery from winter damage in turfgrass."
    To achieve their goals, researchers will monitor:
    Remote sensing of golf course greens to improve knowledge and management of winter stresses in cold climates. Increase physiological understanding of factors associated with winterkill to inform turfgrass management and breeding approaches. Develop improved integrated snow mold management strategies. Improve creeping bentgrass and perennial ryegrass germplasm for traits associated with superior winter hardiness. Develop strategies for mitigation of and recovery from winter damage in turfgrass systems.  Educate stakeholders about winter stresses. To that end, researchers need cooperation from superintendents at golf courses located in cold climates throughout the world. The program's success relies on staff on the ground collecting data and submitting that along with information on things like agronomic practices, damage history that will be combined with other data (weather, satellite imagery, etc.) to detect patterns that inform us about winter stresses of turf.

    The WinterTurf Grant program is designed to study data from golf courses in northern climates to provide information on winter damage and how to recover from it. Photo from Kevin Frank, Ph.D. Researchers have developed an easy-to-use web application for data entry that works on both mobile devices and desktop computers. 
    Participants will be asked to:
    Take photos of the green before, during and after winter. Share management information. Provide any recent soil test results. Measure snow depth at 4 locations on the green each week and take other notes related to the presence of water and/or ice. "We're looking at a lot of different aspects," Frank said. 
    "And we're really relying a lot on kind of citizen-science projects associated with it, of having superintendents in northern climates help us with some of our data collection." 
    The program is in its second year, and those who participated in 2023-24 can do so again.
    A limited number of sensor nodes will be available for installation to monitor winter conditions such as temperature, light, moisture and oxygen levels in the soil and on the surface of the green.
    Data from these nodes will help researchers learn more about winter stresses of turfgrass so they can predict when it happens and find solutions to reduce risk for the turfgrass managers.
    Nodes are available for a "donation" of $3,000 and will ship in late October or early November.
    For more information, contact Eric Watkins, Ph.D., at the University of Minnesota.
  • Just how long had it been since the GCSAA Conference and Show had visited Phoenix?
    Before this year's show, the last time the event was held in the Valley of the Sun, Ronald Reagan was president, construction on Disneyland Paris was just getting under way and The Simpsons made its TV debut.
    After this year's show, held Jan. 29-Feb. 1 at the Phoenix Convention Center, it might not be such a long time between visits.
    The show attracted 11,000 attendees (about 1,000 fewer than last year's show in Orlando), and a sold out book of 6,600 education seminar spots was the most since the 2008 Orlando show. That schedule also included classes specifically tailored for assistant superintendents, equipment managers and university turf students in classroom and field settings at more than a half-dozen Phoenix-area golf courses.

    A total of 470 vendors covered 352,000 square feet of exhibit hall space, a number that also includes all common areas, including networking areas, meeting and networking lounges, the GCSAA store as well as any demonstration space.
    While the numbers are positive for the GCSAA moving forward, there is little doubt trade shows have lost some of their steam since the pandemic era. Attendance in the 11,000-12,000 range has been the norm for several years, and down from an average of 13,000-14,000 a decade ago.
    The 2008 Orlando show set records with 25,737 attendees and nearly 1,000 vendors. That show was held with the Club Managers Association of American and the National Golf Course Owners Association. The following year's show in New Orleans, a GCSAA solo affair, still boasted 665 exhibitors.
    Some of that attrition can likely be attributed to metrics in the golf market. Since 2001, more than 3,000 golf courses have closed. When figuring new construction into the equation, there has been a net loss of 1,436 courses during that time.
    Next year's show is scheduled for Feb. 3-6 in San Diego.
  • Nos. 10 (left) and 18 at Booone's Trace National Golf Club. Photo courtesy of Chris Rutherford
    Some people upon retirement are content to kick back and wile away their golden years playing golf or fishing. Others are hard wired to do more; to take up a second profession or Plan B, or to undertake something they are passionate about as an occupational pursuit rather than a mere hobby.
    Before "retiring" a decade ago, Chris Rutherford and wife Kelly had been working for Tower Communications Group, the Lexington, Kentucky, technology company started by Chris's father, Lee. Tower Comm was known for, among other things, providing retail vendors with point-of-sale credit card processing systems.
    When the family cashed out of the business in 2014, Rutherford took a year off to play golf. Not content with just playing golf every day, Rutherford had another itch to scratch. 
    The Rutherford clan, to a man, or woman as it were, share a common passion — golf. Multiple generations of the family are lifelong players. Chris and Kelly's son, Cameron, was a four-year player at Lexington Christian Academy and a multiple high school state champion before playing collegiately at Indiana Wesleyan. 
    When the course now known as Boone's Trace National Golf Club near Lexington went up for sale in 2018, Chris and Kelly, with golf coursing through their veins, decided to buy it.
    "I was 47 and retired. I wasn't ready for doing nothing," Chris said. "I have to have a purpose, and I felt like I was just blowing in the wind. My wife and I thought this was a good opportunity."
    The operation truly is a family affair. Cameron, a graduate of the Golf Academy of America in Florida, serves as director of golf, and Kelly acts as general manager. As business owners, all do whatever needs to be done, from riding a mower for superintendent Vince Amonett, to helping in the restaurant and everything in between.
    Kelly said operating a business in something everyone in the family is passionate about felt like a higher calling.
    "We've just always been glass-half-full kind of people," Kelly said. "We're that way with everything.
    "I think if He brings you to it, He will bring you through it."
    Under the Rutherfords' leadership, Boone's Trace has made the transformation from a struggling and neglected daily fee to a vibrant and successful club.
    That has been no simple undertaking.

    No. 11 at Boone's Trace. Photo by Jeff Rogers Photography Kentucky is not the first place that comes to mind when someone mentions high level, private golf. In some ways, Boone's Trace defines life in Central Kentucky. 
    Located 20 miles south of downtown Lexington in the middle of Kentucky's horse and bourbon country, Boone's Trace is accessible from the north only by a one-lane bridge spanning the Kentucky River, and it is just a few miles downriver from the site of Fort Boonesborough, the settlement founded in 1775 by a 20-year-old frontiersman and pioneer named Daniel Boone.
    It does not get much more Kentucky than horses, bourbon, backroads and Boone (the man).
    But Boone's Trace the golf course is more than just 18 holes of golf tucked into an area that is not known much for golf.
    Boone's Trace sits high on a bluff above the river surrounded by a few hundred high-end homes and breathtaking views in all directions. 
    When the Rutherfords bought the course, it was a daily fee with only a handful of memberships. If the dog days of summer were especially hot and play was slow, it could be hard to make ends meet.
    The Rutherfords realized the facility's future was not in daily fee golf. Since going private in January 2023, Boone's Trace has grown from 67 memberships to more than 350 and counting.
    Going private and undergoing a successful membership drive alleviated the challenges associated with cash flow. 
    "If you have three months of drought in summer, the public is not here and there is no revenue," Chris said. "You don't have that problem when you are private."
    The transition has not been an easy one. 
    Covid struck shortly after they bought the facility, and restrictions in place throughout Kentucky forced the Rutherfords to innovate just to survive. Cameron took check-ins for the golf course through a half-open office window from golfers waiting outside to tee off.

    No. 12 at Boone's Trace. The food and beverage operation survived by offering meals for curbside pick-up and even home deliveries to members living in the community.
    "I can tell you, we've never worked harder," Chris said. 
    "We've put a lot of personal funds into this. When you take on something like this, you have to be vested in its success."
    The Rutherfords hardly are satisfied with the status quo, and are committed to making Boone's Trace even better.
    The club has outdoor event space, a renovated restaurant and lounge and future plans include a coffee bar adjacent to the golf shop.
    "What do we have to do to take it up a notch?" Kelly asked, referring to the club's future. 
    "You just do whatever it takes. We didn't have a whole lot handed to us. We've worked hard for everything we have."
     
  • Editor's note: I wanted to link to a video depicting the fan experience at Philadelphia Eagles games, but couldn't find anything that was free of inappropriate language.
    Apologies to Philadelphia Eagles fans. You once wore the title of worst fans in all of sports. And you wore it well.
    After all, pelting Santa Claus with snowballs, holding drunk court - and operating a jail - on Sundays in the bowels of old Veterans Stadium, firing a flare gun at fans of the opposing team and 9-year-old fans flipping the double-bird to former New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning (right)  is championship-level tomfoolery that goes unmatched outside of Philadelphia.
    Until now.
    It is time to move over, Eagles fans. When it comes to being the drunkest, most obnoxious and rudest sports fans on the planet, there is a new sheriff in town. That title of champion drunkard and poor sport now belongs to the gallery at the Wasted Management Phoenix Open, where the stadium seating on the infamous par-3 16th hole looks (and sounds) more like a scene out of "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome."
    I appreciate alcohol-induced fun (in moderation) as much as the next person, and goodness knows tour golf is in need of a little fun to broaden its appeal to new audiences, but there is such a thing as too much of a good thing.
    When fans threaten the safety of others by storming the turnstiles to get to No. 16 like it's the 1979 Who concert in Cincinnati (left), you've reached the point of diminishing returns. (Note: I was a high school junior and lived 5 miles from the arena in 1979, had friends at the concert and remember it vividly first hand, so don't @ me on this one.)
    When fans who have no business being partially clad in public start stripping off their clothes and sliding, belly first, downhill on the turf like sled riders on a golf course in January, you've reached the point of diminishing returns. 
    When golfers are jawing on camera with drunk patrons who talk through backswings or feel the need to heckle players over Ryder Cup roster selections, you've reached the point of diminishing returns.
    When the PGA Tour has to close the gates at TPC Scottsdale because the number of crazed drunks on the grounds has become too great, you've reached the point of diminishing returns.
    When the winner of the tournament takes a back seat to the sophomoric antics occurring outside the ropes, you've reached the point of diminishing returns.

    Crews cleaning up so play can resume on No. 16 at TPC Scottsdale. Waste Management Phoenix Open photo When the venue has to suspend alcohol sales because of all of the above, you've reached the point of diminishing returns.
    The atmosphere on No. 16 at TPC Scottsdale is legendary and has become more relevant than the tournament itself for everyone except the players in the field. Drinking to excess is not only tolerated on 16, it is encouraged. Cheering or booing players depending on their score at 16 is good-natured fun that golf needs. It's just one hole, get over it and move on. The celebration that takes place there for the occasional hole-in-one that includes everyone in the 85255 zip code getting a beer shower is good for the game. 
    What is not acceptable is turning every hole on the course into an extension of the 16th hole where bad behavior is not only tolerated, but encouraged and celebrated. That's not good for golf, or any sport for that matter. 
    The future success of golf depends on facilities promoting and ensuring a fun, family friendly atmosphere. The Tour has an opportunity here to help promote this family atmosphere by by playing an active role in dialing back behavior at its tournaments that would likely result in people being charged with public drunkenness and/or disorderly conduct if they occurred outside the gates.
    Where do you think you are anyway, Philadelphia?
  • During the past generation, few names have been as synonymous with high-level championship golf as Bob Farren, CGCS.
    For his accomplishments and contributions to golf and the turfgrass maintenance industry, Farren has been named the recipient of the 2024 USGA Green Section Award.
    Farren's career in turf management has spanned 45 years, including the past 32 at Pinehurst Resort where he has been director of golf course management since 2001.
    At Pinehurst, Farren oversees agronomic conditions for all of the resort's nine golf courses, as well as a par 3 course and 43,000 square foot putting course.
    During his time in the North Carolina Sandhills, Pinehurst No. 2 has been the site of nearly a dozen USGA national championships, including the U.S. Open in 1999, 2005 and 2014; the 2008 and 2019 U.S. Amateur and the U.S. Women's Open in 2014.
    A native of Tornado, West Virginia, Farren grew up working on a golf course alongside his father, Bob Sr. in his hometown.

    Bob Farren, CGCS, has overseen unprecedented growth and multiple national championships at Pinehurst Resort for more than 30 years. Pinehurst Resort photo Since deciding to follow in his father's footsteps, Farren has been a regular speaker at regional and national events and has been on the ground floor of helping prepare assistants for jobs as head superintendents through professional-development events such as the Green Start Academy.
    Farren also has overseen tremendous growth at Pinehurst as well as a return to the facility's rustic golf roots that includes a restoration of the Donald Ross-designed No. 2 course in advance of the U.S. Open and Women's Open played in concurrent weeks in 2014. 
    That restoration, led by the design team of Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore, included converting more than 40 acres of irrigated turf to native grasses, regrassing greens with heat- and drought-tolerant Champion Bermudagrass, eliminating overseeding throughout the property and bringing back a vintage appearance that more resembles what No. 2 looked like when Ross built it in 1907.
    Farren learned much of what he knows about agronomy at his father's knee. He did not attend traditional turf school, and formally studied hospitality at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. Thus, much of his professional development advice to superintendents and assistants focuses on customer service as well as making yourself an indispensable asset for the property.
    He spoke extensively about his career and promoting the profession in a TurfNet podcast in 2017.
    He also credits his mother, a former school teacher, with helping instill in him a desire to educate and help others.
    The USGA Green Section Award is given annually to one who exhibits service to golf through an individual's work with turfgrass. Farren will receive the award during the USGA annual meeting, scheduled for March 2 in Nashville.
    USGA Green Section Award winners:
    • 1961 — John Monteith Jr.
    • 1962 — Lawrence S. Dickinson
    • 1963 — O.J. Noer
    • 1964 — Joseph Valentine
    • 1965 — Glenn W. Burton, Ph.D.
    • 1966 — H. Burton Musser
    • 1967 — Elmer J. Michael
    • 1968 — James L. Haines
    • 1969 — Fred V. Grau
    • 1970 — Eberhard R. Steiniger
    • 1971 — Tom Mascaro
    • 1972 — Herb and Joe Graffis
    • 1973 — Marvin H. Ferguson, Ph.D.
    • 1974 — Howard B. Sprague, Ph.D.
    • 1975 — Fanny-Fern Davis, Ph.D.
    • 1976 — James R. Watson, Ph.D.
    • 1977 — Edward J. Casey
    • 1978 — Jesse De France, Ph.D.
    • 1979 — Arthur A. Snyder
    • 1980 — C. Reed Funk, Ph.D.
    • 1981 — Joseph W. Duich, Ph.D.
    • 1982 — Charles G. Wilson
    • 1983 — Alexander M. Radko
    • 1984 — W.H. Daniel, Ph.D.
    • 1985 — Victor B. Youngner, Ph.D.
    • 1986 — James B. Moncrief
    • 1987 — Sherwood Moore
    • 1988 — Roy Goss
    • 1989 — James Beard
    • 1990 — Chester Mendenhall
    • 1991 — Joseph Troll, Ph.D.
    • 1992 — C. Richard Skogley, Ph.D.
    • 1993 — Ralph E. Engel, Ph.D.
    • 1994 — Kenyon T. Payne, Ph.D.
    • 1995 — David Stone
    • 1996 — Robert M. Williams
    • 1997 — Paul Rieke, Ph.D.
    • 1998 — B.J. Johnson
    • 1999 — Noel Jackson, Ph.D.
    • 2000 — L. Palmer Maples Jr.
    • 2001 — Patricia A. Cobb
    • 2002 — George B. Thompson
    • 2003 — Houston B. Couch, Ph.D.
    • 2004 — Monroe S. Miller
    • 2005 — Peter Cookingham
    • 2006 — Robert C. Shearman, Ph.D.
    • 2007 — Joe Vargas Jr., Ph.D.
    • 2008 — Ted Horton
    • 2009 — Terry Bonar
    • 2010 — Daniel A. Potter, Ph.D.
    • 2011 — Dennis Lyon
    • 2012 — Wayne Hanna, Ph.D.
    • 2013 — Victor Gibeault, Ph.D.
    • 2014 — Peter Dernoeden, Ph.D.
    • 2015 — Patricia J. Vittum, Ph.D.
    • 2016 — Bruce Clarke, Ph.D.
    • 2017 — Norman Hummel, Ph.D.
    • 2018 — Tim Hiers
    • 2019 — Michael T. Huck
    • 2020 — William Meyer, Ph.D.
    • 2021 — No Award Given (COVID-19 pandemic)
    • 2022 — Frank Dobie
    • 2023 — Roch Gaussoin, Ph.D.
    • 2024 — Bob Farren
     
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