TTA Award W inners
Paul Webb, Humboldt Golf & Country Club’s general manager/ golf course superintendent, with his wife Jenny and sons Eli and Hall.
Congratulations to TTA’s 2013 Private Golf Course of the Year…
Humboldt Golf and Country Club By Liz Nutter, Managing Editor, Leading Edge Communications (publisher of Tennessee Turfgrass)
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traddling Madison and Gibson Counties in west Tennessee, Humboldt is a lovely small town that’s home to just over 8,000 residents and the West Tennessee Strawberry Festival, a 75-year-old tradition held each year the first full week of May. Even more solidly rooted in Humboldt’s history, though, is the recipient of TTA’s 2013 Private Golf Course of the Year — Humboldt Golf and Country Club. Established in 1926, the 18-hole, par71 course lies on gently rolling terrain, with the front nine holes crowning a hill and the lower nine holes dipping into fertile bottomland. The greens are grassed with Champion ultradwarf bermudagrass,
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while the fairways, roughs and tees are a blend of Tifway 419 and common bermudagrass. The non-equity member club has about 375 members from the communities of Gibson County (where Humboldt is located) and Madison County, including the city of Jackson, which is only about 10 minutes south. Club members enjoy a wide range of activities, from swimming lessons to cookouts with live entertainment to various golf tournaments. Overseeing the entire facility and all of its goings-on is Paul Webb, who quickly earned the respect and support of club members after signing on as golf course superintendent in early
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2010. A 2005 graduate of The University of Tennessee-Knoxville and a 2007 graduate of The University of TennesseeMartin, Webb was promoted to general manager/golf course superintendent only 18 months after he arrived. Today, in addition to maintaining the golf course and organizing its tournaments, he also oversees the clubhouse, pro shop and bar and grill. The club membership recently approved an almost $800,000 renovation that will begin next year. The project will include expanding the course onto an adjacent 55-acre property owned by the club, as well as adding a driving range/ practice facility. T