Michigan Golf Hall of Fame Inductees  

Ted Woehrle

Troy resident Ted Woehrle has seen the role of golf course superintendent go from turf farmer to the highly specialized field it is today. He began learning the craft in Illinois from his father, Herman, and graduated from Purdue University in 1954.

Woehrle was superintendent at Beverly Country Club, a Donald Ross-designed course on Chicago ’s South Side when the club hosted two Western Opens and two Women’s Westerns. He was hired during the construction phase of Point O’Woods Country Club in Benton Harbor and that began a long association with Robert Trent Jones who designed the course and did some tweaking of Oakland Hills during Woehrle’s 24 years at the club.

More than 50 of Woehrle’s former assistants have become head superintendents and he has been deeply involved in the growth of the profession. He served as president of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America in 1971.