The Canadian Golf Superintendents Association has announced the 2007 winners in its Superintendent of the Year, Future Superintendent of the Year and John B Steel Award categories as well as the new President’s Scholarship Award.

The Superintendent of the Year is J. Blake McMaster, course and property manager at The Royal Montreal Golf Club. He has been a CGSA member since 1972 and holds the Accredited Golf Superintendent (AGS) designation from the association. He hosted the 2007 Presidents’ Cup and has previously hosted the 1997 and the 2001 Canadian Opens.

He has served as a director of both the Ontario Golf Superintendents’ Association and the CGSA and, in 1987 he was elected president of the CGSA. In 2005 he was named the Quebec Golf Superintendents Association Superintendent of the Year. He has also served on the board of directors of the Ontario Turf Research Foundation and has been instrumental throughout his career in supporting and encouraging turf research in Canada.

The Future Superintendent of the Year Award is Trevor Anderson, lead hand of the Surrey Golf Club, in Surrey, British Columbia.

The John B Steel Award, presented annually to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of the profession of golf course superintendent, went to Paul Dermott. He is a 40 year CGSA member and former superintendent at Oakdale Golf and Country Club in Toronto and the York Downs Golf Club in Markham, Ontario.

Dermott was instrumental in the creation of the Ontario Turf Research Foundation and in the initiation and development of the Ontario Turfgrass Symposium. He was president of the Ontario Golf Superintendents’ Association in 1975 and 1976, received the CGSA Superintendent of the Year Award in 1991 and is a founding member of the Stanley Thompson Society.

The Presidents Scholarship, which goes to students who are the children or grandchildren of CGSA a member enrolled in any full time post secondary education program was presented to Katelyn Bowen, daughter of Ian Bowen, and Lucas Andrews, son of Steven Andrews.