2021 Scholarship and Research Outing Results

First off, the biggest winners from our event are our students and research. We made $7,000 (just finishing up a little bookkeeping and we will have an exact figure soon). This will cover our $3,000 per student awards.

This amount raised would not have been possible without the support of our Partners and everyone at our host course, Silo Ridge Country Club and Golf Course Superintendent, Ronnie Harman.

We would first like to acknowledge Barry Siems and Precision Turf Products, Barry not only sponsored a team, but he also sponsored our lunch and the light hors d’oeuvres afterwards (the onion rings were my favorite). We would also like to acknowledge Wes Kleffer from Bayer, who donated the gift bags to the golf maintenance personnel playing. Also thanks goes to Mark Slaughter and Tyler Fishel, of GreensPro, who help get players for many of our Partner Teams.

Partners with Teams and Tee Signs were: Bayer, Precision Turf Products, VanWall Golf, Midwest Turf, Advanced Turf Solutions, PBI Gordon, Professional Turf Products, Corteva, Knox Fertilizer, Clear Creek Golf Cars and Utility Vehicles, GreensPro, Syngenta, Kansas Golf and Turf, and The Andersons,

Tee sign Partners were, BASF, Ermisch Golf Designs, Precision Labs, GCSAA, and BWI.

Now on to the results: We’ll start first with the Proximity winners. On hole # 2, the closest to the pin prize, sponsored by GreensPro, was won by Eugene Jesse, one of the Assistant Superintendents at Osage National Golf Resort. On hole # 5 closest to the pin prize, sponsored by Nufarm, was won by Silo Ridge C.C. staff member, Sean Hoffman. On # 11, the closest to the pin prize, sponsored by BASF, was won by Homespun, otherwise know as Jeff Sommerer, Golf Course Superintendent at Osage National Golf Resort, Jeff kind of threw us off a little by putting the initials PW next to Homespun, and I was trying to figure out how that was the same as JS, but he was just letting us know what club he used. And the closest to the pin on #17 sponsored by Midwest Turf, was won by Dr. Jared Hoyle, who is with Corteva. The Long Drive contest on # 7, sponsored by FMC, was won by Brent Butler of Silo Ridge C.C.

Our tournament featured a 4-person low gross scramble team, which we paid out 3 flights and 3 places, Results where the following: Championship flight, 1st place, Silo C.C Team one, consisting of Bryan Daniels, Austin Hensley, Shawn Hoffman, and Derral Clyod. 2nd place, Precision Turf Products, Barry Siems (owner), Mike Irvine, Golf Facilities Supervisor, City of Springfield-Greene County Parks, Scott Welsh, Superintendent, Bill and Payne Stewart Golf Course, and Josh Black, Superintendent/GM, Hail Ridge Golf Course. 3rd place, Silo Ridge C.C. Team two, Consisting of Jake Mann, Nathan Routh, Brent Butler, and Matt Keller.

First Flight winners were, 1st place, Team VanWall, with Andy Klein, VanWall, Jared Brewster, Superintendent, Highland Springs C.C., Caleb Sidel, Assistant Superintendent, Highland Springs C.C. and Justin Thomas, Superintendent at Top of the Rock. After avoiding a slow play penalty for being the last team to turn in a card, 2nd place, went to, Team Knox Fertilizer, with Bob Brinton, Knox, Sam Richart, Superintendent Fremont Hills C.C, Tom Russell, Superintendent at Triple Creek Golf, and Darren Mitchell, Superintendent at Lebanon, 3rd place was Team Syngenta with Chris Treadgill, Syngenta, Joe Manucci, Superintendent Piney Valley, Scott Crowell, Superintendent, City of Bolivar, and Darin Parker, Superintendent at Lockwood.

Second Flight winners and probably the smartest team with two Doctors, were, 1st Place, Team Corteva, With Dr. Jared Hoyle with Corteva, Austin Peters Assistant at Ozark National, Dr. Lee Miller, Turf Pathologist, University of Missouri and Chuck Ermisch, with Chuck Ermishch Golf Designs. 2nd Place was the Clear Creek Golf Car and Utilty Vehicle team led by Justin Fraker, and 3 anonymous ringers, and 3rd place was Team Osage National, led by Superintendent Jeff Sommerer, and his staff members, Eugene Jesse, Andrew Keeth, and Brett Randel. There was some issue with this team not reading their rules sheet and supposedly not using their 4 mulligans, but by not using them, they probably found their sweet spot for winning some money, as they in all likelihood, would have found themselves out of the money in 5th place in 2nd flight.

We would like to thank everyone who participated in our event in one form or another, that made this an outstanding and successful event. We look forward to seeing everyone next year for the 2022 edition.