The Pennsylvania Turfgrass Council is pleased to announce Douglas Apple and Samuel Lobaugh as the spring 2019 recipients of the PTC scholarships.

Douglas Apple is a native of Hatfield, PA.  He has interned at Indian Valley Country Club in Telford, PA and at Saucon Valley Country Club in Bethlehem, PA.  He also worked for the State College Spikes minor league baseball team during his time as a Penn State student.  Following graduation, he will return to Indian Valley Country Club as an Assistant in Training.

Samuel Lobaugh is from Pittsburgh, PA, where he has managed the landscape aspect of his father’s business, Lobaugh Maintenance, Inc.  He completed an internship last summer at Oakmont Country Club and also worked at the Joseph Valentine Turfgrass Research Center while he was a University Park student.  He has accepted a position as an agronomist at Oakmont Country Club.