December 11, 2009 – Robert A. Dickison, the longtime superintendent at Upper Montclair Country Club in Clifton, N.J., was selected as one of three recipients of the 2010 GCSAA Col. John Morley Distinguished Service Awards. The recipients will be honored at the 2010 GCSAA Education Conference during Celebrate GCSAA!, presented in partnership with Syngenta, Feb. 9 in San Diego, Calif.

Dickison is in his 50th year at Upper Montclair CC. He began his career in 1960 and was promoted to head superintendent in 1971. He transitioned into a project manager role in 2009, overseeing irrigation, drainage and bunker-improvement programs. A 38-year GCSAA member, Dickison has been a GCSAA certified golf course superintendent since 1977 and is a past president of both the GCSA of New Jersey and the New Jersey Turfgrass Association.

As head superintendent, Dickison and his staff have hosted three Ike Championships and one Met Open. Upper Montclair has also hosted numerous      professional events during Dickinson’s tenure, including the PGA Tour's Thunderbird Classic in the 1960s, the LPGA's Coca-Cola Classic and Chrysler Plymouth Classic in the early 1980s, and the 2007, 2008 LPGA/Sybase Classic.

Dickison also won the 1988 GCSANJ Distinguished Service Award, the 1990 Rutgers Turfgrass Alumni Achievement Award, the 1993 New Jersey Turfgrass Hall of Fame Award and the 2003 Rutgers Professional Golf Turf Management Award for Professional Excellence.

For more information please contact Bob Nielsen (bnielsen@mgagolf.org) at 914-347-4653