Toro Provides Turf Professionals the Unique Opportunity to Volunteer at the Farmers Insurance Open

It’s not every day you get to visit Torrey Pines, let alone prepare the grounds for a PGA TOUR event. The world-renowned course is located in La Jolla, California, and is home to the Farmers Insurance Open, attracting professional golfers and avid fans to its grounds each year.

Multiple turf professionals, nominated by their local Toro distributor, were invited to volunteer at the 2025 event, held January 22 – 25. These individuals assisted the Torrey Pines grounds crew with the influx of work involved with such a large event. Volunteers arrived a week early and began doing data collection, bunker maintenance, divot repair and several other tasks, allowing them to play a key role in event preparation, as well as maintenance during the event.

Nils Larsson, a volunteer and assistant head greenkeeper for Stockholms Golfklubb in Danderyd, Sweden, says, “It was so much fun to meet all the other guys and get to learn. I was working with guys from Canada and the US, so we had plenty to talk about and compare. We have a new Toro Lynx irrigation system at our course in Sweden and I took back some great tips and tricks on using that.”

Larsson enjoyed seeing the preparation and work involved in hosting an event as large as the Farmers Insurance Open. “It’s quite different from Sweden,” he says. “The crew was bigger and the course had a lot more resources.” Giving professionals like Larsson a chance to learn and grow in a hands-on environment allows them to improve operations on their own course. The impact extends long after they return home.

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