David Stone received the highest award accorded a golf course superintendent in 1995 when awarded the USGA Greens Section Award. He is a graduate of the University of Tennessee and has been the only superintendent at The Honors since it opened in 1983. He served at Crockett Springs National (now Nashville Golf and AC) and Knoxville's Holston Hills prior to The Honors. He joins Honors Chairman Jack Lupton in the Hall. He has mentored numerous other head superintendents at some of the top clubs in Tennessee and across the country. He has received every top award given by the Tennessee Turfgrass Association and Tennessee Superintendents Association. He has prepared The Honors for the highest levels of amateur competition, including the US Amateur (1991), USGA Mid Amateur (2005), the Curtis Cup (1994), the NCAA Championship (1996), two Southern Amateurs, two TGA State Amateurs, the WTGA State Amateur, the AJGA Canon Cup, and the 1999 Palmer Cup.
