Golf course superintendent biography

My first job out of college was as a Superintendent of a private 9 hole country club where I was the only person on the grounds staff.
Upon graduation from Texas A&M University with a BS degree in Turfgrass Science, I began my career by accepting the position of Golf Course Superintendent at.
Patrick was born and raised in Monroe, Michigan.

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Golf Course Superintendent

Jeff was born in North Carolina and grew up in Virginia. Jeff studied Business at Christopher Newport University while playing on their golf team. He then went to Rutgers University to study Turfgrass Management. Jeff started working at Williamsburg Golf Club in 1984 as a cart boy. He later was promoted to Superintendant in 1997. Jeff works meticulously everyday to ensure first class golf course conditions for the Club. Away from work Jeff is involved with various organizations. Over the years Jeff has played many roles in the Golf Course Superintendent’s Association of America, Virginia Golf Course Superintendent’s Association, Old Dominion Golf Course Superintendent’s Association, Tidewater Turfgrass Association, Virginia Turfgrass Council and Tidewater Community College. Jeff now lives in Yorktown with his wife and 4 children. Aside from golf, he loves to travel and study American history.

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Biography

In 2011, Eric landed the head position at Omaha Country Club, host of the 2013 U.S. Senior Open. Many projects were tackled in the short time period prior to the Championship. Eric recruited a tiered-level management team, raised daily maintenance practices on the course and at the maintenance facility, implemented an aggressive aeration program, undertook a property-wide rough renovation project, refurbished all 74 bunkers, oversaw a course-wide irrigation reparation project, and supervised the construction of a new pump station with tie-in to a new main line. Eric managed the preparation, maintenance and post-Championship course recovery of the very successful U.S. Senior Open in 2013.

In the fall of 2018, Eric oversaw a major course renovation to include the re-grassing of all greens to Pure Distinction, recontouring fairways, and the complete renovation of all bunkers using the Better Billy Bunker system. The golf course was poised to host another incredibly successful U.S. Senior Open Championship in 2021. Eric and his team received rave reviews on course co

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MAGCS History
The Midwest Association of Golf Course Superintendents, (MAGCS) founded in 1926 by a small group of Chicago area "Greenkeepers", has progressed over time to include a membership of eight hundred individuals, representing close to three hundred golf courses in the greater metropolitan area. 
When founded in 1926 the Purpose of the Association was:

"To Advance the rights and sciences attendant upon pertinent of related to the occupation of green keeping, to unite the green keepers and golf course superintendents of the Chicago Metropolitan area into a cooperative group for the collection, preservation and dissemination of scientific and practical knowledge and information, thus effecting more efficient and economical maintenance for golf courses and thereby improving and enhancing the individual and collective prestige and efficiency of the members; the creation of an instrumentality of entity of record capable and susceptible of procuring all benefits to the members both individually and collectively."

For the most part, this purpose still holds true t