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GCSAA Honors Superintendents12-23-08 | News

GCSAA Honors Superintendents

The Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) has announced the recipients of the 2009 Colonel John Morley Distinguished Service Awards. Three superintendents were named as recipients.

Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) members Mark Esoda, CGCS, the late George Hamilton, Ph.D., and Monroe Miller have been selected as recipients of the 2009 Colonel John Morley Distinguished Service Awards.

They will be acknowledged at the Opening Session of the 2009 GCSAA Education Conference in New Orleans, Feb. 5.

Esoda, a certified golf course superintendent, has been at Atlanta Country Club for the past 20 years. In 2000, Esoda formulated a best management practices template for superintendents in Georgia that was endorsed by the state?EUR??,,????'?????<

The 22-year GCSAA member has been highly involved with GCSAA?EUR??,,????'?????<

Hamilton, who died in 2004 at 43 after a yearlong battle with pancreatic cancer, was a turfgrass professor at Penn State. After completing his bachelor?EUR??,,????'?????<

He was named Innovator of the Year by the Northeast Weed Science Society in 1994 and 1997. He helped maintain athletic fields for local schools, participated in Coaches vs. Cancer, and gave speeches on living with cancer.

Miller, a GCSAA Class A superintendent at Blackhawk Country Club in Madison, Wis., for the last 36 years, is retiring in December. More than 100 of his former employees and interns are still involved in the turf industry. A 36-year GCSAA member, Miller is a co-founder and board member of the Wisconsin Turfgrass Association.

Miller received the 1989 University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Honorary Recognition Award, the USGA Green Section Award in 2004, and he became the first golf course superintendent to be inducted into the Wisconsin State Golf Association Hall of Fame in 2005.

Source: WorldGolf.com