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GCSAA presents Ted Horton with 50 Year award

Canyon Lake resident Ted Horton received his 50- In 1971, Winged Foot “loaned” Ted to the King of Mo-
year pin from the Golf Course Superintendents Asso- rocco to help prepare Dar Es Salaam Golf Course, a
ciation of America on Feb. 8 in San Antonio, Texas. Robert Trent Jones design, for the first Grand Prix de
Since 1926, the Golf Course Superintendents Associa- Maroc. In six weeks, the course was ready and pro-
tion has been the professional organization for men and fessional and amateur golfers came from all over the
women who manage and maintain the game of golf’s world to play golf. The Grand Prix de Maroc is still
most valuable resource – the golf course. Headquar- played today in Rabat.
tered in Lawrence, Kansas, it provides educational, in- In 1995, Ted invited representatives from leading
formational, and representational support to more than environmental groups, the U.S.G.A, GCSAA, PGA
17,000 members in more than 72 countries. Its mission and CMA to Pebble Beach for the initial conference
is to serve its members, advance the profession and for Golf in the Environment. These groups, which have
promote the vitality of the game of golf. not always worked well together, spent several days
Ted received his degree from the Stockbridge School forging an agreement to work together to ensure that
of Agriculture in Turf Management at the University practices in their profession would be environmentally
of Massachusetts in 1967. He was an intern, assistant sound. The International Audubon Society showed golf
and superintendent at Winged Foot Golf Club, perenni- courses how to plant animal-friendly plants, use fewer
ally in the top twenty courses in the U.S. He hosted the pesticides and encourage bird, butterfly and animal co-
1972 U. S. Women’s Open, the 1974 U.S. Men’s Open habitation with golf on golf courses. This association
and countless amateur tournaments. In 1979, he moved PHOTO PROVIDED BY LEANN COOPER is now an important part of the GCSAA’s platform to
to Westchester County Club, where there was an annu- make golf courses safe for wildlife. Hundreds of golf
al PGA event, the Buick Classic, once the Thunderbird courses now proudly bear the designation, Interna-
Classic. He brought conditions at Westchester to such tional Audubon’s Signature Golf Course. Ted is now
high standards that the tournament was moved from a board member of the International Audubon Society,
August to the week before the U.S. Open. Ted Horton is presented with a 50 year pin from the Golf based in Troy, New York.
In 1993, Ted took the job of Vice President for Re- Course Superintendents Association of America. In December 2000, Ted moved to Canyon Lake
source Management at the Pebble Beach Company. He and became a consultant for Valley Crest Golf Course
supervised four top courses, hosted the annual AT&T was editor of the newsletter. He taught one-day semi- Management, as Senior Consulting Golf Course Super-
PGA tour event, the 1999 U.S. Amateur competition nars for superintendents around the U.S and Canada. intendent, as an expert witness in trials involving acci-
and the 2000 U.S. Open. The job included all outdoor The topics included Safety and Risk Management, dents on golf courses, and as a consultant to individual
amenities including the beach club, the equestrian cen- tournament preparation and turf maintenance. He gave courses all over the U.S. He lectures frequently to lo-
ter and reestablishing native plants in the dunes. Dur- a young researcher a desk in his office so she could cal superintendents’ associations and in San Antonio,
ing this time, the Monterey pines developed pitch can- work on Hyperodes, an insect that was damaging golf spoke to the Top Agronomic Officers of the National
ker, a disease that threatened to wipe out the forest. Ted courses in the tri-state area, and raised research funds. Golf Course Owners Association about “Return on
worked with UC Berkeley and UC Davis to find a cure, Pat Vittum went on to receive her PH.D. and retired Investment.” He founded the California Golf Course
but the best result came from finding resistant Mon- last year as a fully tenured professor at the University Owners Association and served as its Executive Direc-
terey Pines and growing them in a nursery to replace of Massachusetts. Ted hired female employees when tor for 10 years. He helped the NGCOA establish the
dying trees. This research led Ted to meet with geneti- no other superintendent would, and several went on Top Agronomic Officers group, which meets annually
cists from Australia, China, New Zealand and Chile, to become superintendents. Ted mentored hundreds of with the group in June. Ted helped found CAG, the
where the Monterey pine is grown as wood crop and young men who entered the profession as greenkeep- California Alliance for Golf, and was its president for
whose value was threatened by pitch canker. ers and went on to become superintendents all over the its initial six years. Ted still attends its meetings and
During these years, Ted contributed to his profession U.S. works to promote golf in California.
by accepting voluntary positions in the Met GCSAA, Ted also consulted on golf courses in Morocco, Ted has lived in Canyon Lake for 17 years with
in the tri-state New York area, including President. He Thailand, Ireland, Taiwan and the Republic of Palau. uuCONTINUED PAGE A13

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