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Joe Dey Award, Green Section

Award and Herbert Warren Wind
Book Award honorees
to be recognized at 2022 U.S.

Open Championship in June

IBERTY CORNER, N.J. (Jan. 31, 2022) – Elevating
Loutstanding examples of those who unite, showcase,
govern and advance the game of golf, the United States
Golf Association announces the recipients of its 2022
Annual Awards.
USGA ANNUAL

This year’s honorees are Ede Rice, the recipient of the
AWARDS CELEBRATE Joe Dey Award, which recognizes meritorious service to
the game as a volunteer; David Franklin “Frank” Dobie,
VOLUNTEERISM, the Green Section Award recipient, for introducing

new technologies and processes that advance golf
INNOVATION AND GOLF course management; and “A Matter of Course: The
Life of William Herbert Fowler, 1856-1941, Golf Course
LITERATURE Architect,” by Derek Markham, the winner of the Herbert

Warren Wind Book Award, which recognizes and honors
outstanding contributions to golf literature.
USGA 연례 시상식에서 빛난 자원
“We need more people in golf like Ede, Frank and Derek,
봉사, 혁신 및 골프 문학 who are ensuring that the game of golf is better for all of

us 50 or 100 years from now,” said Mike Whan, CEO of
the USGA. “Just as Fowler did a century ago, we can be
inspired and learn from the past as we propel the game
forward, and these awards are a shining light for all of
us.”

The USGA recently announced that it would conduct its
Annual Meeting in a virtual setting for the second year
in a row, with the result that its in-person Annual Awards
Dinner will move from February to its biggest stage in
June during the week of the U.S. Open Championship,
which will be played at The Country Club in Brookline,
Mass.

Joe Dey Award - Ede Rice

Rice, of Edina, Minn., the first woman to serve on the
Western Golf Association’s Board of Governors, has
served as a leader, Rules official, mentor and active
supporter of the game for more than 35 years. She has

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