Hews ASSOCIATIONS One organization needed to unite , says retiring NGF President MacDonald

NEWS, 11 In a farewell speech after serving as president of the National Golf PEOPLE, 16 Foundation for 3 years, Dunlop's COMING EVENTS, 38 Paul R. MacDonald called on the Foundation to invite representatives of the "major organizations in golf" to become honorary members of the NGF board of directors. He specifically named the United States Golf Association, Professional Golfers' Association, PGA Tour Division, Ladies Professional Golf Association, Golf New NGF President Cassell Ball manufacturers' Hansberger Course Superintendents Association of America, American Society of Golf Course Architects, and Club Managers Association of America. "While golf is the most organized of sports in one sense," MacDonald said, "it is the least organized in another, as there is no formalized meeting or communication among all of golf's major organizations to provide the overall leadership this industry needs." One reason the NGF is a likely candidate to be the leader among associations is that when its educational services division achieves exempt status, the Paul MacDonald: "In Foundation "will be in a position to Golf products' Tar low Club manufacturers' Phillips the fine tradition be considered for additional of foundation presidents . funding from many organizations retired upon leaving not related to golf," MacDonald office." said. "The Foundation should New NGF officers and their A.C.B. Wells, Dunlop endeavor to represent all aspects of corporate affiliations are: Henry Bowen, AMF the game in its articulation and President/L. Dean Cassell, John Curran, MacGregor versatility," he added. "We have no Acushnet Sales Co. Newly elected president of the axe to grind but the growth of golf." 1st Vice President/James T. Butz, Golf Ball Manufacturers Associa- MacDonald's speech was given Victor Golf tion is James R. Hansberger of at the annual membership meeting 2nd Vice President/P. Fred Kahn, Ram Golf Corp.; vice president is of the NGF, held in conjunction Wilson Sporting Goods Co. George Dickerman of Spalding; with the sporting goods industry Treasurer/James R. Hansberger, treasurer, William Neuguth of Uni- spring meetings in Port St. Lucie, Ram Golf Corp. Royal, Inc. Fla. The names of newly elected New NGF board members are: President of the officers and directors of the NGF James Wenzel, AMF Harley- Manufacturers Association is now and the manufacturers associations Davidson Joe Phillips, Wilson Sporting were also announced. Karsten Solheim, Karsten Mfg. Goods Co. His vice president will be Karsten Solheim, Karsten Mfg. he told the contractors, "and it has Corp.; treasurer, John Curran, separated the men from the boys. MacGregor. The men who have survived are Richard Tarlow, Foot-Joy, Inc., those who have written, read, and is the new president of the Golf followed contract specifications." Products Manufacturers Associa- The consistently biggest tion, aided by Vice President Don problem in golf course design and Van Pell, Sahara, and Treasurer construction, according to Seay, is Morris Walton, Burton Bag. irrigation — but not irrigation products. "The products today are super, as long as they are installed properly," he said. Radko, national director of the United States Golf Association Green Section, talked about soil ASSOCIATIONS continued modification for golf courses. In particular, he said, "Putting greens Brown new president and tees are the areas that most of course builders require soil modification on the golf course." He particularly advocated Eugene M. Brown has been elected mixing sand and organic matter the 1977 president of the Golf (well-rotted sawdust and Michigan Course Builders of America, peat are best) with the native soil — national association of golf course but not without first testing the soil contractors. Brown, 40, heads for bulk density and water Dr. Gene C. Nutter (right), president, and Lee Record, vice president, Hendrix and Dail, Inc., of infiltration rate. review plans for ChemLawn Corp.'s new Golf scape services division. Greenville, N.C., a soil fumigation Radko's most rousing remark, They each bring 25 years of turf experience to the business. firm which sterilizes greens, tees, however, came at the beginning of and fairways. his talk, when he said, "It is the duty The eighth president of the of everyone here to see that as any GCBA, Brown is the first golf course is swallowed up by the TURF MAINTENANCE a cluster concept with solid subcontractor to head the macadam and cement, another is research backup. organization. He was installed as built in its place." Amen. Lawn care company "This combination of services chief officer at the GCBA annual will result in a more economically meeting in Portland, Ore., earlier branches into golf operated and beautiful course, with this year. Speakers at the a potentially increased volume of A new subsidiary offering contract play. Our cluster concept offers management and maintenance built-in efficiencies that simply Sod producers' ranks services for golf courses has been don't exist with a typical 18-hole reach all-time high established by ChemLawn Corp., a course." large national firm specializing in The parent ChemLawn Corp. contract care of residential and American Sod Producers had annual sales of more than $36 commercial lawns. Called Association (ASPA) President million last year, serving 400,000 Golfscape, the new service will be Norm LeFrande announced record customers from over 70 branch introduced in selected markets later membership of 324 in May. "We locations. Its other services include this year and will begin operations are extremely pleased with the ChemLawn lawn care service, next spring. Headquarters will be in growth our association is taking as ChemScape tree and shrub care Atlanta. we get more involved in matters service, Poseidon irrigation which affect sod production," he ChemLawn Chairman Richard systems, and ChemLawn Continuing a GCBA tradition, said. L. Duke stated that the division will commercial division. Otto Mercer (right) of Bowie be headed by Dr. Gene C. Nutter, The association's growth is Industries, Bowie, Tex., well-known turfgrass science and credited to development of new presented new President Gene golf course management authority promotional aids, such as a Brown with a mounted Bowie and former editor and publisher of customer brochure and a 5-minute knife. Turf-Grass Publications, Inc. Dr. slide-cassette presentation, as well MILESTONES Nutter will serve as president of as increased involvement in GolfScape; vice president will be government and regulatory matters Lee Record, former director of the Strausbaugh wins affecting sod growers. Mid-Continent region of the United president's dinner were golf course ASPA headquarters is located Joe Graffis award States Golf Association Green architect Ed Seay and agronomist at 9th & Minnesota, Hasting, NE Section. Alexander M. Radko. 68901. Bill Strausbaugh, Jr., has been Seay, now a member of the Dr. Nutter said, "GolfScape will named the 1977 winner of the Joe GOLF BUSINESS Advisory Board, provide management expertise, Graffis Award by the National Golf spoke on the subject of contract labor efficiencies, and Foundation. The Graffis award is specifications. "Our business has consolidation of services and made annually for outstanding been tough the last 3 to 4 years," equipment over several courses, in dedication to the educational on the TREATMENT and CONTROL of WATER WEEDS and ALGAE advancement of golf. NEW GOLF COURSES on LAKES and PONDS Strausbaugh is professional at Columbia Club in Chevy Chase, This full-color 64-page guide contains easy-to-read solu- Pinnacle Peak opens tions to waterweed and algae problems. Experts give in- Md. He has been actively involved valuable tips, recommended control methods, application in the Foundation's educational — 1,000 feet up rates for each individual weed and algae type. Written and produced by Applied Biochemists, Inc., program since its inception of pioneers in the field with over 50 years of research and 1966. That year Strausbaugh was Although located in the shadow of experience. It's a MUST for anyone who lives or works around lakes or ponds. honored as Professional of the the McDowell Mountains 15 miles north of midtown Scottsdale, Ariz., Year by the PGA. He is presently "TREAT" YOUR WATERS RIGHT national chairman of the PGA's Pinnacle Peak Country Club sits and BENEFIT IN RETURN Club and Professional Relations 1,000 feet above the valley. The with program. cities of Scottsdale, Tempe, Mesa, The Joe Graffis Award was and Phoenix spread out below golfers arriving to play this new 18- CUTRINE-PLUS conceived in 1975 to honor the Granular Foundation's first president. Joe hole championship course. Mike Pock, superintendent, cares CUTRINE-PLUS granular is the best solution for the and his brother Herb founded the treatment and control of Chara, Nitella and bottom grow- organization in 1936. They founded for the fairways planted in lush ing Filamentous Algae in your course's ponds or lakes. 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It will challenge a golfer Circle 105 on free information card without making it impossible to Italian wines play. The length (just under 7,000 yards from the back tees) and to receive honors • hazards have been given careful consideration. The greens are not The Italian government is about to severely contoured, so that one will confer its supreme honor upon two always have control of the ball. It is wines. Effective with the 1978 a par 72 course with a rating of vintage, Barolo and Barbaresco will 72.8." become the first two wines to carry Cochran's wife Ann will help the DOCG (Denominazione di him run the pro shop at Pinnacle Origine Controllata e Garantita) Peak, which will be a private seal, the highest control country club eventually comprising designation which can be granted 400 equity memberships. Other for Italian wines. facilities include driving range, Dr. Renato Dettori, director of swimming pool, and Southwestern- the Italian National Association of design clubhouse. Wine Producers, who broke the news at a recent wine seminar in New York City, commented: "The Italian government takes great pride in bestowing the DOCG because it singles out, in a more visible way, the highest quality LABOR Italian wines for American consumers who look for and Large youth force appreciate the best." to work this summer The DOCG (controlled and guaranteed denomination of origin) The youth labor force (ages 16 to is the highest of three 24) is expected to be much larger AIDE classifications created by Italy's this summer than last, according to Wine Law of 1963. The others are the Labor Department's Bureau of DOC (controlled denomination) FOR COMPLETE LINE OF PAR AIDE GREENS Labor Statistics. Based on statistics AND TEES EQUIPMENT—WRITE FOR CATALOG and DOS (simple denomination). obtained by the Bureau of the Census in its current population PAR AIDE PRODUCTS COMPANY survey, the number may reach a 296 NORTH PASCAL STREET • ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA 55104 high of 26.6 million young workers. Department spokesmen have said this estimated increase reflects the MANUFACTURERS continuing expansion of the youth population, especially in the 20-to- 24-year age group, and assumes a Toro shows increase continuation of the upward trend in in first 9 months labor force participation rates for most groups. The Toro Co. has reported The department expected the increased sales and earnings for youth labor force to expand by 4.3 the first 9 months of its fiscal year million between April and this (through April 1977). month as students graduated from Sales jumped 11 percent over high school and college or looked fiscal 1976 and earnings gained by for summer jobs. 36 percent, despite a reported drop in third quarter earnings. Contributing to the improvement, Toro President David CONVENTIONS T. McLaughlin said, were sales of George Bayer, PGA professional at the Detroit Golf Club and a former lawn and turf irrigation systems and Second club expo star on the PGA Tour, helps John Schultz, 15, of Grosse Pointe Park, turf maintenance equipment—both is set for Capital Mich., sign up to participate in the 1977 PGA National Junior Golf up more than 30 percent from last Championship sponsored by Chevrolet. Other members of the family year. The National Club Association will also entering the second annual tournament include Joe, 12, and open its second exposition October Mary Ann, 13. Their mother, Mrs. Susan Schultz, a former USGA 6-7 at the Capital Hilton Hotel in national junior runner-up, proudly looks on. The national tournament, Washington, D.C., held in to be held in August at Walt Disney World in Florida, will have a field of CLUBS & COURSES conjunction with its 1977 annual 157, including boy and girl champions in two age groups, 12-14 and convention. 15-17, from each of the 39 PGA Sections, plus defending boys Inverness undergoes Top industry suppliers will champion Larry Field. display their latest products at the revision for '79 Open Expo. "Exposition Only" Four holes at Inverness Club in admittance will be available to club tournaments will again be held in JUNIOR GOLF Toledo, Ohio are being extensively industry personnel without charge. January, with the Match Play revised for the 1979 U.S. Open Sam M. Berry, member of Quail championship and the Seniors Boros, Kite to teach Championship. Hollow Country Club, Charlotte, conducted the same week as the Estimated to cost $100,000, the N.C., is exposition coordinator. show. at PGA golf academy revisions are being made by Former Professional Golfers' Asso- George and Tom Fazio of ciation champion and Tequesta, Fla., the same tour stars and Andy North architectural team that altered EQUIPMENT SALES will teach at this year's PGA Golf Atlanta Athletic Club's golf course Dates set for Acacemy for 12-17 year-olds, July for the 1976 Open. 1978 PGA show Sporting goods sales 10-23, in Boca Raton, Fla. The changes are being made More than 100 young golfers without interrupting play by up 10.6% in 1976 members. Sod will be moved after The 1978 PGA Merchandise Show from 20 states have registered for the two week-long sessions. In- Labor Day from the old to the new will be held at Walt Disney World, John Mattimore, market research struction includes rules, etiquette, greens to maintain the character of Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Saturday manager for the Sporting Goods theory, and mechanics. Team the course. The course will be 150 through Tuesday, January 28-31. Manufacturers Association, competition and contests round out yards longer following the revision. The Professional Golfers' reported recently that factory sales the Academy's curriculum. Association of America has signed figures from over 100 sporting Boca West golf complex is the a new contract with Disney World, goods equipment manufacturers site for the school. Students attend but at a cost increase of 8 percent. showed total sales in 1976 of classes and stay at nearby St. An- FREE INFORMATION Exhibitors, therefore, will have to $816.7 million, up 10.6 percent drews School. pay somewhat more than last year over 1975 sales for the same Brochure discusses for booth space. Any profits companies. There had been no generated by the show will be used change from 1974 to 1975. selecting architect to underwrite PGA activities such Sales of golf equipment and as the business schools and the golf products lines showed an 8.5 Pocket-size brochure summarizes new club and professional percent increase from 1975 to areas of expertise that should be employment program. 1976. The largest gain posted (19.7 coordinated by the golf course Format of the show will be percent) was in baseball and architect, and key steps to be exactly the same in 1978 as in softball equipment. followed in planning and 1977, with three special events construction. Write to American scheduled each afternoon in the Society of Golf Course Architects, Contemporary North Oasis area. 221 N. LaSalle St., Chicago, IL The PGA winter program of 60601. Long-range planning prepared Southern Hills for the Open

Before Southern Hills Country Club drainage work, followed in 1975 in Tulsa played host to the U.S. with the installation of a Toro Open last month, course automatic underground irrigation preparation plans dating back 5 system. According to the gospel of years or more had to be effected. Lucius, "Water management is the "It may seem strange that a most important aspect of golf course widely recognized as one of course maintenance." Director of Golf Jim Lucius and Superintendent Sonny Faust check the most beautiful in the world With the automatic system, the one of the satellite controllers of the Southern Hills irrigation system. would need so much work," said entire course — greens, tees, Jim Lucius, executive vice fairways, and rough — can be seeding work," Lucius reported. tubing. A new fully automatic president, chief operating officer, watered in about 13 hours. With the Equipment for the irrigation pumping system also was installed. and director of golf at Southern old manual system, it took more system was supplied by Wait Sales Water for the Southern Hills Hills. "But Superintendent Sonny than 3 days. Also, much more of Co. of Tulsa. It included a Vari- course is drawn from wells into Faust and his staff of 25 have been the grounds is being watered than Time 4000 programmer, 70 field holding ponds and supplemented working from dawn to dark to get was possible with the old system: satellites, 1,036 sprinkler heads, with municipal service. "The water ready." deep into the rough, the driving 105,000 feet of pipe, 208,000 feet we buy from the city is very Preparations for the Open, the range, and along the long entrance of wire, and 70,000 feet of control expensive," Lucius noted. seventh national championship road to the club. tournament played on the course, "We were looking at some naturally centered around aerial photos of the club taken combating the heat of Oklahoma when the PGA was held here in summers, which can readily 1970," Lucius recalled shortly destroy a golf course. (The before last month's tournament. temperature in Tulsa was in the "There were circles of green 90's the week before the Open, with around the sprinklers, but more of the same expected for the everywhere else was brown. This week of play.) year, everything in and around all The preparations actually the fairways, the roughs, and even began in 1972 with extensive the non-golf areas will be green." Other Open preparation work included rebuilding 13 of the tees. This spring the course maintenance crew concentrated on vegetation. "We gave more attention to post-emergence and pre-emergence weed treatment and greatly expanded and accelerated our feeding and 18'hole golfer towels. LEFT: Lucius and Faust examine the Vari-Time 4000 central • Name: Chicopee MASSLINN* Sports controller. BELOW: Faust in the new pump house. Towels. • Inexpensive, cost less than linen towels. • Eliminate "loss" charges. They're disposable. • Soft, absorbent, fast-drying. • Convenient dispenser, lightweight. Chicopee For FREE SAMPLES call 800-631-5268. (In N.J. call collect: 201-524-7292.) "Trademark ® Chicopee Mfg Co PO Box 68. Milltown, N J 08850 R27