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experience by working for
investors who wanted
Carolinas.
Rico to do a sod
Kerfoot said. "I rebuilt
Whittier, N.C.,
County Club."
a sod farm in Fajardo,
entailed harvesting, packing,
and installing it.
the company in Florida
ship," Kerfoot said.
spoke about buying
a golf course in the Myrtle Beach area.
But his experience of finding and bringing
down new grasses to courses he previously
worked on got the better of him.
"What if we changed gears and found
some flat land in the Carolinas suitable for
sod farming with access to water and an
interstate?" they asked themselves.
They found 410 acres in Rembert.
"It made sense, and we did it," Kerfoot
said. Mary is owner of the farm.
Modern Turf is now a state-of-the-art turfgrass
production company specializing in growing
MODERN TURF INC.
The company was founded with the expertise of
several former golf course superintendents. The
original founder and president of Modern Turf is Hank
Kerfoot, a graduate of Lake City (Fla.) Community
College. The vice president is B.J. Haunert, a graduate
of Ohio State University. Buddy Smith covers the
Carolinas as sales manager and has a wealth of
information and experience in the golf and landscape
industries. Individually, they have been involved in
all phases of course management and construction
and boast more than 50 combined years of turfgrass
management experience in the U.S., Bermuda, Puerto
Rico and the Bahamas.
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