Sharon Golf Club’s Frank Dobie has been named as the USGA’s 2022 Green Section Award recipient for introducing new technologies and processes that advance golf course management.
The USGA Green Section Award honors distinguished service to golf through an individual’s work with turfgrass.
Dobie, of Sharon Center, Ohio, is the superintendent, senior agronomist and retired general manager of Sharon Golf Club. He has passionately promoted turfgrass research, education and innovative course maintenance practices through his 60 year career.
He started working on golf courses at age 15 and went on to graduate from Penn State’s prestigious turfgrass management program. He later dedicated himself to the stewardship of the Musser International Turfgrass Research Foundation, which honors top doctoral turfgrass students nationwide.
Through hands-on trial and error, he co-developed over a dozen golf course innovations, including bunker liners that improve drainage and quality, air pumps on greens and automated irrigation systems.
Frank will receive his award at the Annual Awards Dinner in June during the week of the U.S. Open Championship, which will be played at The Country Club in Brookline, MA.
— story by USGA; photo by Kyle Kresge, TRG Multimedia courtesy of GCSAA
