For 30 years, the PGA Utah Section has been recognizing the work of golf course superintendents with its annual superintendent of the year award.
This year's winners are Eric Gifford (private club category) and Jason Moon (public course category).
Gifford (right) is superintendent at The Country Club in Salt Lake City. Moon is superintendent at Hubbard Golf Course at Hill Air Force Base located between Salt Lake City and Ogden.
Gifford is an Oklahoma State University graduate. He was the recipient of the Utah GCSA Superintendent of the Year Award in 2018 when he was at Riverside Country Club.
A product of the horticulture science department at Utah State University, Moon (left) has been the superintendent at Hubbard since 2018.
He has 39 years of experience in the golf industry, including greenkeeping, irrigation sales and course construction.
He was the assistant superintendent at Oakridge Country Club in Farmington, Utah, from 1993 to 2007 before being promoted to superintendent in 2003. In total, he spent 17 years at Hubbard before moving on to Turf Equipment and Irrigation Inc., where he spent six years in irrigation equipment sales.
The PGA's Utah chapter has been presenting the superintendent of the year awards annually since 1993.