This year the 4th Annual Pink Lady Golf Tournament was held at the Ohio Turfgrass Foundation Research and Educational Facility, Columbus, Ohio.  The tournament is held for students in HCS 2270 in October around the middle of the semester and in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month.  The course is a difficult 6 hole layout played in an alternate shot format.  Each player is allowed two clubs.  This year’s winner was the team of Nate Smith and John Schroeder who have their names added to the Pink Lady Trophy the most coveted trophy in the program. Congratulations!

Past winners include:

2014 – Greg Manuel and Matt Roesch

2013 – Co-winners: Michael Sanders and Aaron Dumke; and Garrett Lebo and Brian March

2012 – Lance Gorby and Kyle Danneberger

The photographs are from this year’s tournament.

Today’s class was conducted at the OTF Research and Educational Center and the theme was to become more familiar with the types of mowers used for maintaining putting greens and mowers that are used for higher cuts of turf including primarily golf course roughs but also for athletic fields and landscapes.  We concluded class with the “Grand Prix of Turf” where students went “off road” to identify turf equipment objects or properly set up tee-markers using an alignment tool they build during class.  The results are listed below along with a select few videos.  As a note John Averman and Adam Sharp were rewarded with the best “tee-marker” setup by the judges.