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The Toro Company, Nicklaus Marketing and Communications Award Turfgrass Science Scholarship to Ohio State University Freshman
Daniel Davis
The Toro Company, in honor of Jack Nicklaus, has begun a $100,000 scholarship endowment at The Ohio State University. The scholarship is to benefit an undergraduate student in Turfgrass Science.
Daniel Davis, a freshman turfgrass science student, has been selected to receive the first-ever award of this scholarship. Dan is from Liberty Center, Ohio and is a first generation four-year college student. He got interested in golf as a high school sophomore and joined the golf team. Dan has worked for three years at a golf course near his home. He decided to major in turfgrass science because of his love for golf and for being one a golf course. His career aspiration is to become a golf course superintendent and he is a member of the University Turf Club.
On campus to congratulate Dan were John Lawrence, director of the Toro Company; Paul Latshaw, superintendent at Muirfield Golf Course; Toro representative Joe Encisco; Dr. Karl Danneberger of the turfgrass science faculty; and Dr. Bobby Moser, dean of the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and vice president for Agricultural Administration and University Outreach and Engagement.
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