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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.

Past Recipients of
USGA Bob Jones Award
Year Winner
1955 Francis Ouimet
1956 William C. Campbell
1957 Mildred D. Zaharias
1958 Margaret Curtis
1959 Findlay S. Douglas
1960 Charles Evans Jr.
1961 Joseph B. Carr
1962 Horton Smith
1963 Patty Berg
1964 Charles R. Coe
1965 Glenna Collett Vare
1966 Gary Player
1967 Richard S. Tufts
1968 Robert R. Dickson
1969 Gerald H. Micklem
1970 Roberto De Vicenzo
1971 Arnold Palmer
1972 Michael Bonallack
1973 Gene Littler
1974 Byron Nelson
1975 Jack Nicklaus
1976 Ben Hogan
1977 Joseph C. Dey Jr.
1978 Bing Crosby and
Bob Hope
1979 Tom Kite
1980 Charles R. Yates
1981 JoAnne Carner
1982 William J. Patton
1983 Maureen Ruttle Garrett
1984 Jay Sigel
1985 Fuzzy Zoeller
1986 Jess W. Sweetser
1987 Tom Watson
1988 Isaac B. Grainger
1989 Chi Chi Rodriguez
1990 Peggy Kirk Bell
1991 Ben Crenshaw
1992 Gene Sarazen
1993 P.J. Boatwright Jr.
1994 Lewis Oehming
1995 Herbert Warren Wind
1996 Betsy Rawls
1997 Fred Brand Jr.
1998 Nancy Lopez

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.

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