After nearly two decades managing the greens at Oakmont Country Club, John Zimmers was named superintendent at the Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio.
Zimmers, the 2007 TurfNet Superintendent of the Year award winner, takes over for his former protege Chad Mark, CGCS. Mark, who won the TurfNet award in 2013 while at The Kirtland Country Club near Cleveland. Mark took over at Inverness last year, and recently accepted the job at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio after Paul B. Latshaw, CGCS, moved on to Merion Golf Club near Philadelphia to fill the void left after Matt Shaffer's retirement.
Whew!
He will begin his new position June 3.
At Oakmont, Zimmers, 45, oversaw course conditioning for the U.S. Open in 2007 and 2016, the U.S. Women's Open in 2010 and the 2003 U.S. Amateur.
Inverness has been the site of four U.S. Open Championships (1920, '31, '57, '79), a pair of PGA Championships (1986, '93), two U.S. Senior Open Championships (2003, '11) and the 1973 U.S. Amateur.
Next up for Inverness and Zimmers will the be the 2019 U.S. Junior Amateur and the Solheim Cup in 2021.