Liberty, S.C. – Golf course superintendents in the Carolinas think so highly of Bob Bell’s contribution from the commercial side of golf that they will honor him with their Distinguished Service Award in November. Bell is vice president and manager of the turf products group with Smith Turf and Irrigation, headquartered in Charlotte, N.C. He started with the company, then E. J. Smith and Sons, in 1973.
“Bob Bell personifies all that is good about this industry,” says Carolinas Golf Course Superintendents Association president, Mike Brown, CGCS. “He is known across Carolinas for his ethics, his integrity and his professionalism. I tell you, if companies ever get into cloning their executives, they should start with Bob Bell.”
Bell will receive the Distinguished Service Award at the Carolinas GCSA annual Conference and Trade Show in Myrtle Beach, S.C. that runs Nov. 14 to 17. The award includes honorary lifetime membership of the 1,800-member association and is not an annual award. Bell is only the fifth recipient in the past seven years. The other four were all career golf course superintendents.
Brown says Bell’s contribution extends far beyond his professionalism as a salesman and company representative.
“He is one of those rare individuals who create win-win situations with everything they do in golf,” Brown says. “He has improved the capacities of individual sales staff, of individual golf course superintendents, his company, and numerous organizations including our own. The golf industry in the Carolinas is a lot healthier because of the work of Bob Bell.”
Bell serves on the Carolinas GCSA vendors advisory committee, which has played a key role in the growth of the annual conference and trade show, now the largest regional superintendents event in the nation. He is a past-president of the Turfgrass Council of North Carolina and was honored with that organization’s Outstanding Service Award in 1994. The South Carolina Turfgrass Foundation made Bell a “member at large” and he is a sitting advisory board member for The Center for Turfgrass Environmental Research and Education at North Carolina State University.
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Bell will receive the Distinguished Service Award at the Carolinas GCSA annual Conference and Trade Show in Myrtle Beach, S.C. that runs Nov. 14 to 17. The award includes honorary lifetime membership of the 1,800-member association and is not an annual award. Bell is only the fifth recipient in the past seven years. The other four were all career golf course superintendents.
Brown says Bell’s contribution extends far beyond his professionalism as a salesman and company representative.
“He is one of those rare individuals who create win-win situations with everything they do in golf,” Brown says. “He has improved the capacities of individual sales staff, of individual golf course superintendents, his company, and numerous organizations including our own. The golf industry in the Carolinas is a lot healthier because of the work of Bob Bell.”
Bell serves on the Carolinas GCSA vendors advisory committee, which has played a key role in the growth of the annual conference and trade show, now the largest regional superintendents event in the nation. He is a past-president of the Turfgrass Council of North Carolina and was honored with that organization’s Outstanding Service Award in 1994. The South Carolina Turfgrass Foundation made Bell a “member at large” and he is a sitting advisory board member for The Center for Turfgrass Environmental Research and Education at North Carolina State University.
