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Last Update :5/6/2010 Rounds4Reseach Nets Huge Amount for Turf Research in Five States
For immediate release April 28, 2010
Online Golf Auction Nets $100,000-Plus
Glen Allen, VA – Organizers have declared golf’s great online auction at Rounds4Research.com a “major success” after this year’s event raised $106,000 to benefit turfgrass research. The web-based auction across five states – GA, NC, SC, VA and TX - offered more than 1,100 lots or tee-times donated by clubs and courses. Successful bids ranged from more than $4,000 for play on a mystery course in the Southeast to $15 for a foursome at a par three course in NC.
This was Virginia’s first year in the program, netting the Virginia Golf Course Superintendents Association more than $8,000 to advance turfgrass research in the state. Texas ($8,000-plus) and Georgia (almost $15,000) also took part for the first time this year. The lion’s share, some $75,000, was raised on the sale of tee-times in North and South Carolina.
“This was our first year with the new states involved and together we made a great start,” said Rounds4Research.com chair, Paul Jett, certified golf course superintendent at Pinehurst No. 2 in Pinehurst, NC. “I have no doubt we will continue to build both the number of tee-times on offer and the amount of money we raise in each state.”
Jett said the money raised for golf turfgrass research was effectively an investment in the economies of the states involved. “Golf is an industry that creates jobs, generates tourism and provides all sorts of social benefits to a community,” he said. “Research at our universities helps ensure the health of the courses that provide the platform for all of that.”
“This project illustrates just how committed we are in golf to creating solutions, instead of complaining about problems,” said David Norman, executive director of the Virginia Golf Course Superintendents Association. “Our members and golf’s allied associations – professionals, owners and club managers – all collaborated to get this project off the ground in Virginia. We look forward growing our contribution to turfgrass research in the years to come.”
In Virginia, proceeds will support a comprehensive new "Best Management Practices" study for Virginia golf courses.
Next year’s Rounds4Research.com auction will also run in April and is expected to include even more states.
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Contact: Paul Jett, CGCS Chair, Rounds4Research.com (910) 235-8773
David Norman, Executive Director, Virginia GCSA (804) 747-4971
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