One of the key outcomes for the IGFR each year is to raise funds to support our John Hood Memorial Scholarship which aims to provide financial assistance to young people aged between 20 and 29 years who have completed an apprenticeship in “Greenkeeping”.
Each year, a student is selected from one of the States or Territories of Australia and with the assistance of the Ohio State University, the awardee is enrolled as an International Student in the Agricultural and the Horticultural Intern program at the University. This combines theoretical studies at the University with some nine months of paid practical work at some of America’s finest golf courses. The Ohio Program arranges the placement, visa, insurance, housing and working conditions.
Most of the golf courses where students are placed are in the top 100 in America. The program offers interns experience in PGA event course preparation, construction, irrigation, chemical spraying, overseeding and all maintenance practices performed at a golf course that has an annual budget in excess of one million dollars.
They then bring these skills back to Australia as an investment in our own country’s golf course management.
At the present time, the scholarship is worth $6,000 and goes towards paying the travel expenses of the awardee.
More information is available at: https://igfr-australia.org/scholarship/.
We are sorry, but DGR status is not currently available through this donation means.
