PBCC Hosts Inaugural Garland Tynes Scholarship Tournament
A full field of 22 teams played Pine Bluff Country Club Friday, May 13 in the Inaugural Garland Tynes Memorial Scholarship Tournament. Tynes, who spent 45 years of his life as Superintendent at PBCC, died in a car accident in December 2021, along with John Simmons of Pine Bluff.
At the suggestion of Garland’s wife Kathy Tynes and their daughters Rachel Jett and Rebecca Ann East. The ASGA established the Garland Tynes Memorial Scholarship which would be awarded annually to a student wanting to study turf grass or turf grass management and possibly anting to be a golf course superintendent.