DeKALB — Jerry Rich, owner and founder of Rich Harvest Farms, was introduced at the April 27 media day by Brandt Packer, NCAA men’s and women’s golf championship producer, and did not receive the formal introduction one might expect.
“Do we even need [to say anything?]” Packer said. “If you don’t know who this man is, I would get up and just walk right out now.”
Rich, a 1961 NIU alumnus, purchased the 1,280-acre property now known as Rich Harvest Farms in 1985.
He kept in constant contact with the university, and Rich Harvest Farms eventually became the home golf course for the NIU men’s and women’s golf teams.