November 27, 2008

  • Azinger to keynote GCSAA Opening Session
  • Women’s Golf Month sets record for fourth consecutive year
  • NOAA’s U.S. winter outlook calls for variability
  • Nature Hills Nursery launches Green America Awards
  • The sky is the limit
  • Inside your game; Golf 20/20 goes grown-up
  • Cutting edge
  • Wild hogs attack turf in Texas
  • Azinger is coming to GIS!
  • National Alliance for Accessible Golf awards GAIN grants
  • IA Unveils New Brand Identity
  • Precise Path Robotics attains GCSAA Silver Partner status

  • Briggs & Stratton Commercial Power launches interactive Web site
  • Bobcat improves large-frame compact track loaders
  • Toro utility vehicles at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
  • Tanaka introduces two Inspire design chain saws
  • GCSAA Class A director of golf course maintenance Casey Conlin, CGCS, is hosting the LG Skins Game
  • GCSAA Assistant director of golf course maintenance Henry Ng is hosting the Omega Mission Hills World Cup
  • Anderson gets Carolinas Award
  • Superintendents in the news
  • Douglas appointed chairman of USGA Women’s Committee
  • Klopp hired at Lebanon Turf
  • Upcoming events in the world of golf course management

People News

Douglas appointed chairman of USGA Women’s Committee

Barbara Douglas of Scottsdale, Ariz., has been appointed to serve a one-year term in 2009 as chairman of the United States Golf Association’s Women’s Committee.

Douglas takes over as chairman after serving as vice-chairman of the committee for the past two years, succeeding Roberta Bolduc of Longmeadow, Mass. Martha Lang of Birmingham, Ala., has been appointed to a one-year term as vice-chairman. 

Nine other members were re-appointed to another one-year term on the Women’s Committee, including: Barbara Barrow of San Diego, Calif.; Stacey Collins of Cockeysville, Md.; Cece Durbin of Winnetka, Ill.; Martha Kirouac of Norcross, Ga.; Linda Lester of Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.; Dot Paluck of Bernardsville, N.J.; Ede Rice of Edina, Minn.; Gail Rogers of Santa Cruz, Calif.; and Laura Saf of Lincoln, Neb.

Three new members were also appointed to the Women’s Committee, including: Lew Ellen Erickson of Tulsa, Okla.; Sarah Haas of Carterville, Ill.; and Cindy Reimers of Missoula, Mont.

Four previous members of the Women’s Committee including Bolduc, Christi Dickinson of Paradise Valley, Ariz.; Carolyn Hooper of Hockessin, Del.; and Peggy Runnette of Pittsburgh, Pa., have retired from serving.

The Women’s Committee, which is appointed annually by the USGA Executive Committee, represents the Association in matters relating to women’s golf. Its principal responsibilities include overseeing the administration of the women’s championships conducted by the USGA, making recommendations to the Executive Committee regarding key policies and strategies to enhance the game, and supporting the development and promotion of women’s golf.

Douglas is active in several golf initiatives and served as president of the National Minority Golf Foundation (NMGF) from 1999 to 2005. She also served on the board of directors of the Executive Women’s Golf Association from 2005 to 2008. She is a board member of the Arizona Golf Foundation and president of the board of directors of the Junior Golf Association of Arizona.

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Klopp hired at Lebanon Turf

Ken Klopp has been hired for the newly created position of lawn care/landscape sales manager at Lebanon Turf. He will oversee the development of sales activities and business opportunities in the market segment.

Klopp is a turf management graduate from Ohio State University and Lebanon Valley College and has an extensive background in developing and implementing turf and ornamental selling strategies with several lawn care operators.

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