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pro shops in the PGA tournament pro- gram. H those aren't enough problems to tax the. brains of experienced, highly paid businessmen working fulltime look what else is causing headaches fo; the PGA's high command: Making up a construc- tion and operating budget for the Palm Beach courses . . . Setting up a contract for the pro at the PGA courses that will be a model for pro-club deals . . . Any misplay on these could cost PGA mem- bers plenty of money. "Unforeseen technical difficulties" in building the Palm Beach courses are given as the excuse for the switch of the three regular winter tournaments . . . What "unforeseen technical difficulties?" ... PCA members know something about building golf courses . . . Why can't they be told about their own job . . . Failure of the PGA administration to tell members what the plans are in detail, and the condition of the courses and club- house plans and construction shows urgent need of the association's attending to some simple fundamentals of business. The tournament pro-club pro rela- tionship in the PGA, long confusing, has reached the point where one member wants the PGA to divorce itself from tournament troubles . . . Tournament players telling the USGA, Western CA, Masters, Colonial and other amateur ol- ficials what must be done with tournament sponsors' property and money, and the: I not showing much evidence of appreci- ation or responsibility, has put the PCA club pro members in a bad light . . . These pros say that too many fine clubs are getting fed up with tournaments, PCA and pros . . . Several bright tourney pros are thinking about protecting the club jobs which are the destination of most tournament players . . . These fore- sighted players have been talking about not placing tournaments at clubs that do not give shop and other "conce sions" to their professionals . . . Gives you an idea of what the PGA is up against in writing a pro contract at its own club. There are signs that a brawl is stir- ring up between the mouthpiece who are ag nts for two groups of tournament players . . . That will put the PCA in the middle . . . Blasting of the PGA by Sports Illustrated Red Smith's column THE IMPORTANT NAME TO LOOK FOR WH EN YOU BUY A GOLF BALL WORTHINGTON Self,confidence-confidence in the equiprnent=both vital to good golf! And you can point with confidence to the name "Worthington" on any golf ball you sell. Worthington knows golf balls- and how to make them from core to cover. We've specialized in golf balls since 1904-pioneered most of the major developments since that time. Golf balls aren't just another sideline with us. So whether the ball carries the famous E::::;I SUBSIDIARY OF VICTOR COMPTOMETER CORPORATION :;::::::::~. """::

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pro shops in the PGA tournament pro-gram.

H those aren't enough problems to taxthe. brains of experienced, highly paidbusinessmen working fulltime look whatelse is causing headaches fo; the PGA'shigh command: Making up a construc-tion and operating budget for the PalmBeach courses . . . Setting up a contractfor the pro at the PGA courses that willbe a model for pro-club deals . . . Anymisplay on these could cost PGA mem-bers plenty of money.

"Unforeseen technical difficulties" inbuilding the Palm Beach courses aregiven as the excuse for the switch ofthe three regular winter tournaments . . .What "unforeseen technical difficulties?"... PCA members know something aboutbuilding golf courses . . . Why can'tthey be told about their own job . . .Failure of the PGA administration totell members what the plans are in detail,and the condition of the courses and club-house plans and construction shows urgentneed of the association's attending to somesimple fundamentals of business.

The tournament pro-club pro rela-

tionship in the PGA, long confusing, hasreached the point where one memberwants the PGA to divorce itself fromtournament troubles . . . Tournamentplayers telling the USGA, Western CA,Masters, Colonial and other amateur ol-ficials what must be done with tournamentsponsors' property and money, and the: I

not showing much evidence of appreci-ation or responsibility, has put the PCAclub pro members in a bad light . . .These pros say that too many fine clubsare getting fed up with tournaments,PCA and pros . . . Several bright tourneypros are thinking about protecting theclub jobs which are the destination ofmost tournament players . . . These fore-sighted players have been talking aboutnot placing tournaments at clubs thatdo not give shop and other "conce sions"to their professionals . . . Gives you anidea of what the PGA is up against inwriting a pro contract at its own club.

There are signs that a brawl is stir-ring up between the mouthpiece who areag nts for two groups of tournamentplayers . . . That will put the PCA inthe middle . . . Blasting of the PGA bySports Illustrated Red Smith's column

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You don't see enough of this kind of scenery inGolfdom, but it is only because photos of thistype usually are purloined before they reach theeditorial department. Anyway, these young ladiesare residents of Decatur, Ala., and they aretesting acrilian acrylic turf, Chemstrand's contri-bution to miniature golf. It is a man-made fiberthat is said to have quick drying properties andwon't rot, mold or mildew and when dyed gives

a "grass-green" effect.

on the "PCA brainbund," and Ron Smith'scolumn in the Clearwater Sun on the"PCA bundle of errors" show a deterior-ation in esteem too serious to be re-garded lightly by majority of PCA mem-bers who are primarily businessmenthough not politicians.

The PCA position in the conflict ofdates between the Denver Open, whichis PCA co-sponsored, and the TV "WorldSeries" really is pathetic . . . After thehandling of the date mes of the MemphisOpen and the International Colf Assn.last year and threat ning Palmer, Playerand Stan Leonard with su pen ion andfine, and fining Snead for not goingacross the country to play, the associa-tion virtually reversed its policy this yearand gave its bl ssing to its three topstars in staying out of the Denver Opento play in the TV how.

Red mith wrote: "Leader hip of thePCA has repudiated it own rule book,broken faith with the membership andsponsors, stultified and disqualified it-s If . . . Tying on to the 'World eries'

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the <exhibition' tag help spread the did have a "commi ioner." ... Hemor - hotly denied by the Albert ,V. Gate, a lawyer and former

.. that the thr e player, all under . of the \V tern GA . . . The ar-same management, will take a flat $25,0 rangernent didn't work out sati factorilyeach instead of competing for $50,000 Gates or the PGA ... E. periencedfirst money, $15,000 for second pro ay the commi ioner idea doe not$10,000 for third." fit the PGA need a member and club

That "World Series" deal has been would hav to come under aly handled and the PGA has been commissioner' jurisdiction. . . Club of-

~ as the gullible yokel in the how . cials and owner would not go forPGA really doesn't deserve the t.

...it has been getting for not being The U GA po ibly i the be t oper-to hit curve pitching . . . That i n't ted port governing organization in thePGA's game ... Palm 1', icklaus United States and it doe not n ed aPlayer were not present at a "\V ... Th U GA t 11 itSeries of Golf' party given by the er and all other golf r and theshow's promoter in Chicago and the what it is doing and hov it tand

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$75,000 for a couple afternoons for th PGA to Follov ... Any. . . But their manager aid th y never, for the PG financial r port tohad agreed to show, having been booked. re tricted information?I ewhere at exhibition rate. Iany per on think that the PG might

Ron Smith says the PGA need ve kept pace with th grov th of golf"commissioner." ... That sucvestion has 1.IDusmess if the organization' official hadb en advanced, con ider d and turned' d th am relation hip withdown several times b fore . . . The PGA GA ex cutive ecretar and coun el,

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Polly Riley (1), non-playing U. S. captain, re-ceives the Curtis Cup from Mrs. Henri Prunaret,chairman of the USGA's women's committee. Ameri-can women amateurs overwhelmed British teamin August at the Broadmoor Hotel course in Colo-

rado Springs.

Tom Crane, that the USGA executiveshave with Joe Dey . . . Dey functionsusually as eyes and ears of the USGAnot very often as its arms and mouth,and then very discreetly.

A PGA sectional official recentlysaid: "If we don't have a big change inthe way the PGA handles its business,the pro we need as president won't con-sider taking the job." ... Bringing PGAproblems out into the open is the firstmove in getting them solved . . . Gen-erally members are good businessmen... Outsiders may be surprised to learnthat tournament prize money is less than2 per cent of the annual revenue of pro-fessionals at clubs ... PGA membershipin all classes is about one-tenth of oneper cent of the U.S. golfing population.

Robt. F. Floyd and others talking aboutbuilding 9-hole course in Fairmont, N. C.. . . Pine Lake CC 18 at Broadway Lake,Anderson, S. C., to open this month ...Jim Shirley designed and built the courseand will be the club's pro-rngr.Cooper City community with golf course,residential sites, etc., between Ft. Lauder-dale and Hollywood, Fla., got startedwith a big ballyhoo about three yearsago but went nowhere . ., ow ewJersey interests have taken over the prop- _erty and reorganized the venture as Coop-er Colony Golf Course, Inc. . . . Pres.

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Schedule GCSA Conventionfor February 6-15

The 34th international turf conferenceand show of the GCSA will be held inthe El Cortez Hotel, San Diego, Calif.,Feb. 6-15, 1963.

The educational sessions, which willrun for four days, are scheduled to starton the 11th. They will be preceded bythe annual golf tournament, which willbe held in Palm Springs on the 7th and8th, and meetings of the executive com-mittee. The opening of the exhibits isscheduled for Feb. 11. The GCSA's an-nual banquet is to be held on the 14th.

Three post-convention tow'S are beingplanned. Supts. who take advantage ofanyone of them will get a chance to visitHawaii, travel north through Californiaor visit Las Vegas.

is Benjamin Esposito .. S c.-treas. isPhilip Tantillo.

Building second nine at Locust ValleyCC, Coopersburg, Pa., to plans of Billand Dave Gordon . . . Rocky Ridge GC,Inc., near Burlington, Vt., owned byErnest E. Farrington of Burlington andAlfred W. Doenges of Shelburne is get-ting first nine completed ahead of sche-dule . . . JeITY Sandal, former mgr.,Mountain View nine at Olympia, Wash.,is one of a group building I8-hole Capi-tal City course near Lacey, in Olympiaarea ... Norman Wood is the architect. . . Mountain View site is to be used asretirement community . . . Ockie Elia-son named pro-rngr. at the new CapitalCity ... Al Feldman will go from MeadowPark to Capital City as teaching pro.

Jackie Gleason, one of the three fun-niest guys in show business, heads asyndicate planning to build and operateseveral courses ... Tierra Verde Corp.,Wm. T. Roberts, pres., St. P tersburg,Fla., planning to build 18 on Pine Key. . . Hawthorne CC, La Plata, Mo., De-Sales Mudd, pres., building 9 holes ...Al Cap of Cap's Amacoy Lake resort,south of Bruce, Wis., building 9-holelayout.

Marion T. Brant, Cincinnati, building9-hole course in center of subdivision atWaynesville, O.... Taylor Boyd, Cin-cinnati, handling the job for Brant . . .Mason City, Ia., to add 9 to its High-

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land Park public course ... Open Me-Chord Air Force Base course near Ta-coma, Wash .... Capt. Willis P. Lylein charge of course work ... Cedar City,Utah, building Painted Hills course.

Williamsport (Pa.) Recreation Commis-sion building 18 at former SusquehannaOrdnance Depot. . Apen Tunxis Plan-tation 18 in Farmington, Conn. . . .Vic Svenberg is pro ... Associates Enter-prises, Wilmore Bremmer, pres., build-ing 18 at Moody Farm near Wayn sville,N. C.... E. J. Bowe considering build-ing 18 and residential development inEau Gallie, Fla.

Roseville City, Calif., building munici-pal 18 . . . Open Green Hills CC first9 at Fairmont, \V. Va.... Eddie Aultwas the architeot ... Green Hills' pres.is Anthony Dattilo . . . George Velosinis pro . . . Building Sun 'n Sky Club]8 at Barstow Investment Corp. develop-ment in Lenwood, Calif. . . . Th odoreG. Robinson, Palos Verde, Calif., is archi-tect . . . Frank R. Hunt is Barstow pres.

Willie Barber has Signed as clubpro.

At a recent meeting of Iowa GCSA atTwin Pines Muny course in Cedar Rapids,

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Ia., Jim Holmes, Midwest agronomist forthe USCA, explained how one of thegreens at the new course was being builtexactly to USCA specifications . . . BalaCC in Philadelphia, which has resistedthe city's offer to buy its property in thelast year or two, has a program of im-provements underway ... That indicatesthe club will stav where it is . . . HenrvMcQuiston, the pro, has a nev shop andthe clubhouse entrance has been reno-vated ... Fairways are being fully con-verted to U-3 Bermuda and plans call forredecorating the clubhouse interior and in-stalling air conditioning . . . Bala' 325playing members turn in 30,000 rounds ayear.

Tom Dawson, Jr., recently of RehobethBeach in Dela. is the new upt, of the CCof Birmingham, Ala., succeeding Joe Wil-der ... Big Tom, who weighs 290 pounds,has been a supt. for about 12 year ...His father is the grcenmaster at PalmBeach (Fla.) ec ... Pearl Malone, whohelps Clarence Doser run the Washington-ian CC pro shop in Washington, D. C.,owns and operat s a driving range duringthe winter in Sebring, Flu .... Bob Wyatt,sunt. at International Town & ee, Chan-tilly, Va., recently suffered a heart attackand his members staged a benefit forhim while he was recovering in an Arling-ton hospital.

The sponsors of the American GolfClassic, played in Akron, 0., in August,paid substantial prizes for the last roundsand to the leaders of each of the first threerounds to give the pros extra incentives ...Arnold Palmer, playing one of hi mostconsistently good tournaments, ran away\\ ith most of the bonus offerings in ad-dition to winning the big prize ... Akronidea is a good on , but it cost the sponsors$5,000 to put up th extra divid nd prizes.

Completion of newest cour e in aples,Fla., the Big Cypress G & ce, set for mid-December . . . William Diddel, nov a

aplcs resident, designed it ... Phil Dar-byshire is to he pro-manager and Paul1 . rvers, w ho super iscd the building ofthe course, \\ i1l stay on as supt. ... Tom\Valsh, [r., SOl1 of the owner of \Vestgatce in the Chicago dist., will serve as anassistant professor of Chemistry at the U.of Georgia this fall . . . He ha beenspending the summer helping his father,a former PCA prcs., run the \ estgatcoperation . . . Young Tom is a graduateof iotre Dame, got his Ph. D. at the U.of California and has done r earch work

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Pros Can Use Dunlop TeeDispenser for Promotion

Dunlop Tire and Rubber Corp., 500 5th Ave.,New York, markets a dispenser for tees that

~- not only returns a sub-Q stantial profit but enables

the pro to get in a per-sonal plug for himself.The T-Paks used in thedispenser (demonstratedhere by Bruce Crampton)come in 10- and 25-centsizes and each can be im-printed on one side witha message from the pro.The dispenser carries thename of the pro and theclub on the front paneldecal. It takes a mini-

I mum initial order for25,000 tees to get prepackaging of the tees plusthe coin operated T-Pak dispenser. If desired, the

coin plungers can be adjusted to operate with-out coins for no-charge dispensing. Completeinformation can be obtained from Dunlop's

Aleo Acquires New SubsidiaryAlco Chemical Corp., Philadelphia, has acquiredthe common stock of Goulard and Olena, Inc.,Skillman, N. J., oldest manufacturer of lawnand garden products in the New York area.The marketing of G & 0 products will be han-dled by Miller Chemical and Fertilizer Corp.,Baltimore, another recent acquisition of Aleo.

International Harvester CatalogInternational Harvester Co. has released a

new 20-page catalog on its complete line of in-dustrial tractors together with mowers, loaders,blades and scrapers, backhoes, etc. Copies ofthe catalog, CR-1001-M1, are available at lo-cal offices of IHC equipment dealers. Thetractors described range from 7 to 95 maximumengine hp and for the 13.4 to 66 hp units thereare matching loaders.

Demaret with Ball-O-maticJimmy Demaret, former golfing great and

known to TV fans as the voice of the All-Stargolf show, has become a director and stockhold-er of Ball-O-Matic, Denver, Colo., accordingto G. W. Jensen, pres. of the ball dispensingmachine firm. He also serves as chairman of thecompany's advisory staff.

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MacGregor Balloons DX Tourneyat Western Open Event

To promote the 1acGregor DX Tourney ballat the Western Open this summer, 53 men

tied 10,000 balloons,representing souvenirreplicas of the ball, toas many automobiles.The balloons were filledwith helium. The 53men who worked on theproject had to be up-

< plied with lunches and•• -~ drinking water while

working the parking lotsand the operation turn-ed out to be an exercisein logistics, similar to

those staged by the Army, according to BillFord, MacGregor ad manager. The promo-tion was so uccessful that MacGregor is plan-ning to use it at other big future tournaments.

Sachs with PedersenPedersen Sales Co., Wilton, Conn., ha ap-

pointed Dick Sachs to represent the companyin N.J. and eastern Pa. Pedersen's 1963 woodshave face inserts of wood and are constructedwithout the use of screws. Iron head aremade of mild carbon steel with revolutionaryalchronizing chrome ca e hardening. The com-pany will continue to feature stainless steel

of improved de ign in it custom quality ironsand redesigned persimmon and laminated woodsin its 1963 models.

New Protective PackageWhat is said to be a major improvement in

club packaging has been developed by theNational PGA Distributor for hipping and dis-

play of it wood and irons. Molded styrene in-erts are used to form a nest for the club . The

styrene is molded to fit heads and grip and iin erted in a rugged corrugated box. Clubs canbe easily removed from or replaced in the box,and when shipment are received di plays ofthe PG woods and iron can be quickly set up.

Penn-Chern in MergerPenn-Chern Products, Box 575, Lan dale, Pa.,

ha merged with Doggett Pfeil Co., Springfield,N. J. The latter firm manufacture an exten iveline of in ecticides, fungicides herbicide andwater oluble fertilizer and is well known inthe N. Y. - N. J. area. fain office of the mergedfirms will be in Springfield, although Penn-Chem will retain its present office in Lansdale.

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Toro to Introduce 25-lnchSnowhound This Fall

A 25-inch snow thrower, the Power Snow-hound, which will move more than a ton ofsnow 20 feet in a minute, will make its market

debut this faU. It is manufactured by ToroManufacturing Corp., Minneapolis. The Snow-hound has finger-tip, 270 degree directionalchute control and exclusive 2-in. wide F'lexi-Scraper which scrapes cle-an chives and walkscontinuously during operation, }<'l rick-s easilyover rough surfaces and gravel. TIl<' unit is asingle stage feeder throwe-r and has a 4 lipengine, specially designed for winter starting and

STOLONSCongressional C-19, Arlington C-1Stolons available for Fall deliveryWe have had many years experience inproduction of fine stolons as contractgrower for Old Orchard Turf ursery,Madi on, Wis. We are Licensed grow-ers of <O{b<Drdlur~ ®

Address: Turf Dept.Rider's Nurseries and Floral Co.

Farmington, Iowa

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MAGIC FLUFFFloor CoveringSpike Resistant

NEWMAGIC FLUFF

Tee MatsKeeps clubs from marring.

H. M. WISE212 Helen Ave., Mansfield, Ohio

winter operation. There is optional equipment,a set of tire chains, for locations where steepterrain or frequent ice conditions pose specialproblems

Ardco Baro-SpreaderHas Numerous Uses

Ardco Roto-Wed Spreaders, Box 113, vVestPoint, Pa., points out that its Bare-Spreader canbe used to distribute fer-tilizer, seed and salt inaddition to serving as awheelbarrow. It has astainless steel flow gate,corrosion resistant castaluminum rotor and ad-justment setting attach-ment. A handy golf courseutility unit, the Baro-Spreader spreads in a five-foot swath. The rotor ismounted against the wheelas in Arden's larger turfand farm Ir-rtilizc-r spread-ers.

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HERE'S YOUR BeST BUY INCARS FOR RENTAL USE

250 Re-manufactured Cushman 36 Voltelectric golf cars. ABSOLUTElY LIKENEW. New batteries, cables, seats, bod-ies, mats, etc. Mechanically perfect. Re-finished original 2-tone DULUX enamel.NEW CAR WARRANTY ... $450.00. Price in-cludes reconditioned charger. Free C:-elivery with-in 1500 miles on our transports. Write or callcollect.

H. Coster Electric Car Sales, Indianapolis, Ind.P.O. Box 40083. Phone: FL 6-6388

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