The Super-Scratch Foundation, capitalizing on its signature event – the Super-Scratch Invitational – is on a mission to erase the shortage in the population of employees for positions as golf course superintendents and assistants across the United States.
In 2020, a group of members from Huntingdon Valley Country Club in Pennsylvania's Montgomery County recognized the employment gap and proposed the idea as a way to bring quality players, superintendents and clubs together in an event to raise money for superintendents. Huntingdon Valley was the longtime host of the Lynnewood Hall Cup, a long-standing amateur competition won by the likes of Walter Travis and Jay Sigel, which ended its run in 2010.
Tim Zurybida, a longtime turfgrass professional who now supervises the East Potomac, Langston and Rock Creek Park courses for the National Links Trust in the Washington, D.C., area, cited a drastic drop in turfgrass enrollment and the bleak future for golf course maintenance if a labor shortage solution isn’t found.
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