USGA Announces Award Winners

Dr. Edgar Updegraff of Tucson, Ariz. has been chosen by the U. S. Golf Association to receive the Bob Jones Award. Frank Aglim of Dallas, Texas will receive the Joseph C. Dey Award and Dr. Noel Jackson of Kingston, R.I. the Green Section Award. The awards will be presented on Feb. 6, at the Association's annual meeting in Clearwater, Fla.

Presented annually since 1955, the Bob Jones Award is the USGA's top award and is given in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in the game. The award seeks to recognize a person who emulates Jones' spirit, his personal qualities, and his attitude toward the game and its players.

Updegraff was the 1981 USGA Senior amateur champion, and also competed in 17 U.S. Amateurs, six Masters tournaments and three Walker Cup matches during his long amateur career.

"This was entirely unexpected and a little wondrous," said the 76-year-old Updegraff, a retired urologist. "I've had many highlights and golf has been very important to me, but I didn't think I did all that much."

Among his golf highlights, Updegraff lists being named to his first U.S. Walker Cup team in 1963 and a long chat he had with Bobby Jones in Augusta, Ga., while playing the Masters Tournament in 1962.

Anglim has served as a long-time Rules official and been involved in golf administration for nearly 50 years, receives the Joseph C. Dey Award in recognition of meritorious service to the game as a volunteer.

On behalf of the USGA, Anglim has served on various committees for the past 28 years, beginning with his appointment to the Sectional Affairs Committee in 1970. That same year, he began a long tenure as a Rules official. He officiated at 22 consecutive U.S. Opens, 21 consecutive U.S. Amateurs, and three NCAA Championships. He received the Isaac B. Grainger Award for 25 years of volunteer service to the USGA in 1995.

Jackson, a respected teacher, researcher, and extension specialist from the University of Rhode Islnd, receives the Green Section Award for distinguished contributions to the game of golf through work with turfgrass.

Jackson is the first Green Section Award recipient to be born, raised, and educated outside the United States. A native of Yorkshire, England, Jackson's academic record includes B.S. and M.S. degrees in Agricultural Botany from King's College, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, U.K., and a Ph.D. degree in agronomy from the University of Durham, U.K. He moved to the United States in 1965 to join the faculty of the University of Rhode Island, where he rose to the rank of Professor.

Dr. Jackson is renowned for his knowledge of cool-season turfgrass diseases and for his expertise as a turf disease diagnostician. He is highly respected for his ability to provide effective and practical disease control recommendations.