Dan Dinelli Earns National Environmental Award

by C&RB Staff (editor@clubandresortbusiness.com)
October 2008
 

The Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) board of directors has selected Dan Dinelli, GCSAA certified golf course superintendent at North Shore Country Club in Glenview, Ill., to receive its 2009 President’s Award for Environmental Stewardship.

Dinelli, a third-generation golf course superintendent and contributor to Club & Resort Business, has been at North Shore Country Club for 34 years. He is a staunch supporter of integrated pest management (IPM) and an advocate for new practices to reduce the inputs needed to provide competitive golf turf conditions. Dinelli is also involved with developing means of measuring the value of a golf facilities' ecological and economic value of carbon sequestration.

The award will be presented during the Opening Session at the 2009 GCSAA Education Conference, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009. The conference (Feb. 2-7) will be held in conjunction with the Golf Industry Show (Feb. 5-7) at the New Orleans Morial Convention Center.