OGA-OGCSA Superintendent Spotlight – January 2021

In this month’s Superintendent Spotlight we feature Eric Langford who is an assistant superintendent with Sheep Ranch at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort.  

Describe your facility in 10 words or less:
Golf as it was meant to be

What best describes your golf game?
Short Game Master

Have you had a hole-in-one? When and where?
Yes. On the 12th hole at the Bandon Preserve.

Who is your all-time favorite professional golfer?
Tiger Woods

Ducks, Beavers or Neither?
Iowa State Cyclones!

What’s your dream vacation?
Course hopping in Scotland
  
What’s your favorite hole at your facility?
The par-3 5th

What’s the most interesting thing you’ve witnessed or done as a golf industry professional?
Volunteered for the US Open at Pebble Beach

What led you down this career path?
A summer job while going to school

What’s the biggest change that has occurred while you’ve been in the industry?
COVID-19