Fred 'Derf' Soller Agronomist Northwest Region

Soller joined the Green Section staff as an agronomist in the Northwest Region in 2008, and is making Turf Advisory Service visits in Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, and Utah.

Between 1998 and 2006, Soller served as the grow-in superintendent and later the golf course superintendent at the Jack Nicklaus Signature 27-hole Breckenridge Golf Club in Breckenridge, Colorado. Prior to that, he was involved for three years with the design, construction, grow-in, and establishment of the Old Works Golf Course, a Nicklaus Signature golf course and the first course to be built on an EPA Superfund site. He also was the assistant golf course superintendent at the Breckenridge Golf Club.

Soller is a graduate of Miami University (Ohio) and the University of Massachusetts turfgrass program. His family includes wife Terri and sons Danny and Kevin. Derf is based in Grand Junction, Colorado,