The Covid-19 pandemic has caused all sorts of disruptions and delays and I'm blaming it for not getting this out sooner.
I will be posting a link to the application very soon and I ask you all spread the word to any college student pursuing a career in golf to apply.
This year we will be awarding three $4,000 gifts to deserving students attempting to build a career in golf.
The scholarship is funded by the Greenscape Methods Foundation and named after the man who pushed me to create a golf company we named Greenscape Methods. We did it together in 2010 and oh how I wish he was still here to see how the company has grown and prospered. Al died in 2016, but before he did he played the golf course Mike Nuzzo and I created for him almost every day.
He pushed Mike and I to make it "outrageous" and said he didn't care who liked it as long as he did, and he loved it.
Hardly a day goes by when I don't say out loud, "today I get to build a golf course" and I credit Al for encouraging me to develop an entrepreneurial spirit like he had. He believed we could do anything and he loved the underdog, especially if they had an anti status quo attitude.
Every year at the end of this announcement I say the same thing and it rings louder now than ever. I love being able to do this, but most of all I love it because I get to talk about my friend again. Please pass the word and help me honor Al with a strong group of applicants.
I'm going to simplify the app process a bit this year as it's late and getting docs can't be all that easy now. I have confidence our judges will sort things out well and choose deserving award winners. Again, watch here for the link to the app, coming very soon.
Our Judges:
Mike Nuzzo designed Wolf Point and was on the receiving end of Al's barbs on many occasions. And that's because Al liked him and especially his commitment and talent. Mike is well knows here on GCA, and his unique work at Wolf Point is a study in taking a nothing site and creating a masterpiece.
Judy Rankin - Its nice to have a world Golf Hall of Fame member (2000) on our judging panel. Judy is well know to golf fans worldwide. She won 26 LPGA events, was a two-time LPGA Player of the Year, captained two victorious Solheim Cup teams (1996 & 1998) and in 2002 was voted the Bob Jones Award winner by the USGA in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf. We've all heard Judy on golf telecasts as she was a golf commentator for ESPN and ABC starting in 1984, and in 2010 became the lead LPGA analyst for the Golf Channel[size=78%].[/size]
Thomas Dunne has been writing about Golf Architecture and travel since 2003. His current role is Architecture Panelist at Golfweek, where he helps to manage the national course rating program and contributes editorial to the magazine in a variety of forms, from print features to podcasts. He is also the co-founding editor of McKellar, an occasionally published golf journal that explores the game from a literary and artistic perspective. He is the former Senior Editor of Travel + Leisure Golf and spent nearly a decade as the golf columnist for Departures, the American Express Platinum Card magazine. In 2018, his first club history book, The Deepdale Golf Club, was published by Edgeworth Editions. Thomas lives with his family in Westchester County, NY and is a longtime member of the Yale Golf Club, about an hour up the road in New Haven, Conn.
Vaughn Halyard leads StoryLounge, a media production and consulting boutique. Vaughn's golf architecture interest was ignited during a posting as the Golf & Greens chair of the Cedar Rapids Country Club in Iowa. He is producing documentaries on Sand Valley and the Landmand project led by Rob Collins and Tad King of King-Collins in partnership with The Firedegg. The Lounge crew are active content contributors to Golf Club Atlas, and Golf Course Architecture. Our main business is feature and documentary film production, and media technology. Vaughn has directed and produced for Discovery, ESPN, PBS, Disney, Fox, Golf, Ferrari Club of America, the US Ski Team, and the US Navy Blue Angels. A former Disney Studio Executive, he also has two Grammy Awards and an Oscar nomination for producing with Stevie Wonder, spent time at Columbia Records, cut his teeth as a producer for Jimmy "Jam" and Terry Lewis' FlyteTyme, worked with janet jackson, Prince, Ramsey Lewis, New England Digital Corp and IBM after graduating Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. None of those compares to his ace at the Musselburgh Old Course in East Lothian Scotland.
The golf world always comes thru for me and I can't thank Mike, Judy, Thomas, and Vaughn enough for helping with the 2020 awarding of the Alfred T Stanger scholarships.