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City of Venice, Fla. consid- Florida courses got heavy ering deal with private inter- play in January and February ests for building and operat- , . , Fellows who might have ing course adjacent to local gone fishing if the weather airport . , , Nottingham Ct 1 to had been warm enough for build 18-hole course near fish, and fisherman, went to Bethel Park, Pa. . . Suburban the courses ... Joe Kirk wood, GC, Union, N. J., installing sr., starred with his trick shots complete course watering sys- at N. Y. Mirror's Outdoor Ex- tem , . . More varsity position . . . Jack Oliver, pro squads taking southern com- at Engineers' CC (N. Y. Met. petitive trips from mid-March Herb Graffis dist.) gave a golf clinic and on than have been playing advice at the net at the Mirror against southern schools in any previous show. year. The 160 new courses opened for play There's talk about starting an eastern last year was biggest increase of any college golf tournament for boys and girls year since the mid-20s . . . When the on pattern of Bill Tucker memorial tour- over 300 courses now being built are nament at University of New Mexico . . . opened for play the net gain (minus Tucker tournament is the brightest of all courses bought for real estate projects) golf competitions, some authorities main- will bring total of U. S. courses higher tain . . . Fine golf is played by the lads than previous record figure of 5800 in and the coeds . . . Planning 18-hole pub- 1930 ... By the end of this year there lic course for Cobb County (Marietta, probably will be about 5700 courses ac- county seat), Ga, tively in the U.S. Construction of Pine Valley CC IS hole North East, Pa., to have new course course near Aiken, S. C,, to begin soon , . . as part of Lakeview Developments resi- Course to be feature of big real estate dential and park project . . . Hidden project of Blanchard and Calhoun, Augus- Valley CC 18-hole, semi-private course ta, Ga. . . . Bud Geoghegan, Crestmont near Friedensburg, Pa„ owned by Wm. (N.J.) CC pro, again teaching spring eve- Jones, Pottsville, and designed by James ning classes at Clifton, N. J. high school Harrison, to open next month . , , Dick as part of Clifton Recreation dept. pro- Ilinkle will be pro , , . Expect to start gram . . . Vic Conte, new pro at the re- building Monroe G&CC, 9-hole course cently organized Chestnut Ridge CC, Bal- at Covington, Ga., soon. timore, Md., and his asst., Herb Thomas, During discussion of purchase of In- introduced to members at "Opening dian Hill CC by Newington, Conn., it Night" dinner. was brought out that if Indian Hill site Despite unusually chilly weather, some were sold for private development and

A surprise visitor ot the GCSA convention in Washington was Vice President Dick Nixon who dropped in ot the Shoreham Hotel to get acquainted with superintendents at the reception preceding the annual banquet. There to greet him was Bob Williams (left), the GCSA's Front new president, and L. R. Shields, head of the Mid-Atlantic arm of the superinfendenti' organization, which was host to the conventional. Although the vice president's stay was brief, he got acquainted with Cover quite a quorum of greenmasterj ond general opinion was (hot he is o pretty affable sort of a guy. Photo: Capitol Photo Scrvtce

Golfdom ll pubillhed monthly oicnet Nov, and Dtt. at Hochellt. 111. Aceoptaim under Sietlon 54.64, P.L.IK. Aethorlnd. Pltau odrfrost ill Idvortldnt k editorial torresitondertco to GOLFDOM, 407 S. Dearborn St. Chicago 3. used For home building, a new school building costing $1,000,000 would have to be built to service the area . . , Arthur ('. Brooks, co-operator of Pine Ridge CC, ENS is new pres., Cleveland District Golf Ass a. , . . The Cleveland association has WITH ARMOUR 27 member clubs . . . tt is sponsoring new junior tournaments for boys and girls this summer. Second 9 of Huntsville (Ala.) muny course expected to be in play in late sum- Vertagreen mer says Pro K. V, Estes . . . Glen Gib- bon buys Santa Rosa (Calif.) G&CC 9 hole course and will operate it as Fla- mingo G&CC (semi-private) . . . Gibbon will be pro . . . Santa Rosa G&CC is moving to its new 18-hole club five miles west of Santa Rosa. Lots of comment at superintendents' convention about the courses recently built or being built as features of real es- tate projects . . . Some of the courses show fine design and construction and Others are cheap jobs that will be difficult and expensive to maintain in playable con- Nertacyreew dition , . . Golf courses are proving to be powerful selling points in big, nigh i class residential deals and the course Cbmp&tfe maintenance experts think the home buy- tooA

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FAWICK FLEXI-GRIP CO. K. L. BURGETT CO., Peoria, III. Box 8072 Akron 20, Ohio Swinging Around Golf (Continued from page 34)'j opened in mid-January, is a Press Max- well architectural creation ... It is 7,000 yds. long, has complete watering system a and greens and tees are in Tifton 328 o f while fairways are in common Bermuda. = Critical Other Maxwell projects: At Pinecrest

n level CC in Longview, Tex., Maxwell is build- ing new 9 and rebuilding the old . . . Turf maintenance costs Construction expected to be completed in midsummer . . . Press also has been re- tained as architect for Hickory Hills CC, Dallas, but construction date hasn't been Poor Seedbed Soil set, Gilbert C. Foster, supt. at Keller GC, Properties Eat Up Turf St. Paul, supervising irrigation system in- stallation and green construction at Ram- sey GC, three miles away . , . It's an 18- Maintenance Budgets hole, 6400 yd. course ... He has helped convert sand to grass greens ill 15 Min- nesota locations in last two years , . . A major reason for poor tees, fairways Bernard (Pino) Politz married Feb. 8 and greens lies in the properties of the to Sarah Louise Fischer in Baltimore . . . seedbed soil. Proper attention to the Dino was in good hands since Andy Ber- seedbed in new construction will dras- toni, his former boss at Meadowbrook CC, tically reduce future turf maintenance NorthvSle, Mich., and Alan Arneehe, headaches. Rebuilding the seedbed in Baltimore Colt fullback, were ushers at renovation operations frequently goes the wedding , , . Politz is construction su- straight to the heart of the problem. pervisor for William Baldwin Construc- tion Co., Bloomfield, N. J., course build- Improving your seedbed soil won't ing firm. solve all your maintenance problems— but it does give you the best groundwork Here are some of the projects green expert, Alex McKay, has working in the on which to huild. mid-South ... St. Paul, Va. (9); Dante, Send today for our new Bulletin Va. (9); Norton, Va. (9) . . . Recently S-57. It pictures and describes the Royer completed by Alex were greens at Aving- line—the Shredders that have been don, Va., Marysville, Tenn. and Newport, proved the best for new construction, Tenn. , . , All were 9-hole jobs, renovation and maintenance. Miami Springs, Miami, Fla,, muny course getting additional 9, across road from existing 18 . . . Supt. George Smith overseeing construction . . . Mark Mahan- nah, course consultant and architect, do-

MODEL NCRP-EQ MODEL NCYP-EG For tractor-bucket feeding (Wln^ Golf Course Architect ROYER FOUNDRY 3S55 Walnut Hilt Lane & MACHINE CO. Dallas , Texas fleeluood 2"&869 ing some work at Boca Grande, Florida west coast resort where Joe Kirkwood is Plant Oregon grown located in winter . . . Internal Revenue Service rules that USGA Green Section Research and Education Fund is exempt FINE FESCUE from federal income tax . . . The Fund was allotted $7000 of 1957 Golf Day revenue, Iowa pros and others give high credit to Iowa Seniors Golf Assn. Sec, Ray T. Moore for the organization's rapid growth from its founding in 1954 with 22 mem- bers to its 1957 membership of 273 . . . The Hawkeye seniors have 5 events a vear: one each at G&CC, Des Moines; Elmcrest, Cedar Rapids; Ft. Dodge CC, Mason City CC and Ottumwa municipal course . . . Frank Bubany, Ottumwa muny pro, says his state's amateur vets are an eager and rugged corps, playing in snow, rain or sleet, like the traditional mailman making his rounds . . , The majority of youngsters are scared off the course by weather and in summer loll around club pools rather than take the heat of the course, Wm. C, Chapin, chmn., USGA green section, back at his business after surgery early in February . . . Bill is the resilient, durable type ... A fellow's got to be that to head the green section ... By the way, the green section service has been mentioned gratefully by supts. and chmn. in the past few years more than it's been thanked in previous years for its inval- uable service to golf and golf clubs , . , Club officials are waking up to what the green section is doing . . . Smart supts. Higher Qualify knew it right along. Fine Textured Some good laughs about Frankie Stran- ahan being No. 1 on a PGA list of tourna- Durable ment money winners and the expected cracks about Frankie needing $ like he Aggressive needs 15 clubs . . . Everybody's glad to Reasonably Priced see it happen to Stranahan for there hasn't Shade Tolerant Drought Resistant From Maine to Florida and From Widely Adapted Coast to Coast Economically Maintained MINIATURE GOLF COURSES WRITE FOR FREE TRIAt SAMPLE AND ATTRACTIVE BROCHURE Built by ARLAND are good money makers. ft n I * y n 444 Brooklyn Ave. H It L H 11 U New Hyde Park, N.Y.

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II, running the club in addition to work- LIQUID-LUSTRE ing a shift in shipyards and providing GOLF BALL WASH facilities for an anti-aircraft unit stationed Com a* little at 2c per on the course . . . Joe has been with Pat washer per week! since 1948 . . . Pat's development of Rich • Keeps jolf ball* SPARKLING WHITEI mond into good solid private club status, • Perfectly safe for wash ere .. . either hard or toft water! his other golf business activities and his • Will Not causa RUSTING! service to brother pros have made him • No unpleasant odor—Ever 1 • Already enthusiastically accept- an asset to golf , . . Tom Craft now mgr., ed by satisfied golfers I ORDER YOUR SUPPLY TODAYl Minnehaha CC, Sioux Falls, S. D., suc- Per single gallon $4.75 ceeding Gerald S, H organ who went to 5 gallons, per each gal. can 4,50 Order from your dealer or direct Lafayette CC, Minneapolis. ffnm DR* «nd "Bine Michigan PGA reelects Warren Orlick for 3d term as pres. , , • Emit Beck is elected Michigan PGA's 1st vp, Alex Sin- Deerfield, Illinois clair its 2d vp; Lou Powers, sec.-treas, . . . Horton Smith and Al Watrous were elected directors and as vps-at-large Michigan voted in Ron LaParl, Don BENT GRASS Soper, Bill Fassezke. C-l C-l 9 C-7 Among new appointments in Michi- Bermuda U-3 Zoyiia (Meyer) gan; Steve Isakov as pro at Lakelands DONALD E . LIKES CC; Preston Mersel as pro at Farming ton 3659 Brolherton Rd„ Cincinnati 9, Ohio CC; and Jack Hoffman as Hillcrest CC Phone R Ed wood 1-2761 pro . . . John Devers is the new mgr. at the Tam o' Shanter CC (Detroit dist.) Phil Greenwald, pro at Hinsdale (111.) < lir' k Buyers' Service CC, back after flying trip to South Africa where lie played in several tournaments Page 133 . . , Among 200 books that American Booksellers Assn. presented Pres. Eisen- hower for White House library was 's "How to Play Your Best Golf All the Time." . . . The Armour book which set selling record for golf NOW books continues to be a big seller in its fifth year. at reasonable costl John Brennan, Long Island Star Jour- nal golf writer, says opening of Bethpage State Park 5th 18 on Decoration Day will bring total of courses on Long Island up Improve your to 71 with land valued at $141,000,000 , . . Westchester has 46 private clubs and 5 semi-private, with Winged Foot, GOLF COURSE Westchester CC and Sleepy Hollow pri- vate clubs each having 36 holes , , . with a There are 228 clubs, 165 of them private, within 100 miles of the Empire State building. COMPLETE Emory Stafford, formerly city editor of Cambridge (Md.) Daily Banner, now pro-mgr,, Winter Quarters CC, Pocomoke IRRIGATION City, Md. . . . Jack Crane, mgr. of Du- buque, la., Bunker Hill municipal course, SYSTEM resigns . , , First 9 of Rio Pinar CC, Orlando, Fla., opened . . . Course is feature of real estate development . . . Will have 18 and a 9-hole par 3, designed by Mark Mahannah . , , Hope to start work soon oil clubhouse remodelling and enlarging at PGA National GC, Dunedin, • The GREENWAY PLAN Fla. makes it easier for your Tam o* Shanter CC (Chicago district) golf club to have the finest bulletin to members reported that 3,030 of irrigation systems, golf balls, costing pro Lou Strong 22 cents each, disappeared from the club's • GREENWAY offers you practice range . . . All the balls were red- striped . . . Detroit's 6 municipal courses a complete and unique had 317,208 rounds in 1957, about 1,400 service with one responsi- fewer than the year before . . . Loss bility that includes the sys- caused by new road causing closing of tem design, finest compon- one 9 at Chandler Park on Labor Day. ents, necessary excavation Orville Clapper of the Clapper Co., and backfill, plus expert West Newton, Mass., course equipment supervision. dealer, wrote letters to the more than 200 friends who staged the surprise party that marked his 35 years in golf business . . . The letters were bright and heart- warming messages like you'd naturally expect from Orville, and they made those who got them feel like the merry party Write or Phone was being replayed. Among the guests were Clapper's first GREENWAY customer, Elmer Fuller, and his first em- ployee, Harold H, Brown, Mrs. Fuller IRRIGATION SYSTEMS and Mrs. Brown . , . There now are more than 1200 senior members of the PGA An Affiliate of New England Irrigation, Inc, with 46 new members becoming eligible WAREHOUSE POINT, CONN. in 1957 when they reached 50 . , . Prof. P. O. Bok 527 Tel. NA 3-1031 H. L. Lantz of Iowa State College who 1 originated and heads tbe Iowa turfgrass I conferences says that O, J. Noer hasn't missed one of them , . . The 24th Iowa The Very Best for New Seeding conference is on Mar. 10-12 at Ames. . . . and It Throws MORE Among those who put out the wel- Water, Fartherl come mat with entertainment at the GCSA convention were In tern at ion id Only Double Rotary has the single, ro- Harvester, Toro Manufacturing Corp., tating line of water. and Worthington Mower Co., each with Not acattering, it Fully reaches farther and elaborate cocktail parties . . . George A. Guaranlftd rotating, it allows ail Davis Co., which played host to about the water to soak in. No puddling, no run- 120 Chicago area supts. and their wives off. and kids at a dinner . . . GOLFDOM. which entertained about 50 supt. fathers and sons at a luncheon ... If there were any others we missed them, possibly be- cause we dallied too long at some of those cocktail parties , , . We apologize to these people, not only because we hate to miss DOUBLE kl ROTARY the fine foods and libatons that are to be Hia.u*'. mr. had at these gatherings, but because of iPRINKLEU the oversight. cNcxt Best to Rain s Iberia C & CC, New Iberia, La., building $90,000 clubhouse . . . Chicot GC, Ville Platte, Model H Double spout style (Illustrated) coven up to a 90-foot diameter; Im with a turn of th© La., has new nine in play . . . Cluh financed by faucet. Beit for greatest coverage with higher 100 persons who bought $7,500 in stock . . . pressures $19.50 Single aoout style (not illustrated) rovers up to Dues are only $60 a year . . . England AFB, 80-foot diameter, excellent with High, Medium or Alexandria, La., getting 9-hole course ready for low pressures ..,$18.75 PARTS AND SERVICE AVAILABLE play . . . La Salle GC, Jena, La., has its new 9 DOUBLE ROTARY SPRINKLER CO. in operation . . . Members were short on cash when it came time to build a clubhouse so they m ADMIRAL BLVD. KANSAS CITY 6. MO. talked the Kansas City Southern Rlt out of an

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Ask your supply dealer for HYPER-HUMUS For complete information write: H S. New Vork Ave., HYPER-HUMUS COMPANY ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY Bon O Newton, New Jersey old Southern styln railroad coach. East Ridge CC, Shreveport, La., opened in June of '57 now has 720 mem hers . . . Press Mai well was the architect • . . Supt. C. D. Smith has done fine Job in bringing the 18-holes to championship shape , . . Ohio Public Links championship to be held in Springfield at Synder Park CC, Aug, 7-9 ,, , 36-holc Seniors event to be held in conjunction with the championship for the first time. Goes 3A hotel with Those hardy, golf playing souls at the Peter- ease . . . takes th borough (N. H.) GC managed to get in 10 steepeit hilll in • months of their favorite sport in 1957, according breeze! to Harry F, Muzzey, mgr. . . . Which is better than a lot of Florida mgrs. can claim . . . 18- linle Airport CC in Trenton, N. J., to be ready lor play on July 1 . . . Don M. Coffee, who will stay on ais supt., is supervising construction . . , Joe Ryan designed the green and tees wbile Russ Kerns is serving as a construction consult- ant. Elks club buys Kankakee (III.) Valley CC which means that Herman Woehrle, the supt. there, will be working for fourth group of own- ers in his IS years at the club ... At CCSA convention in Washington, one of the Southern This it the one cor supts. was complaining that about 25 per cent you don't Have to of his budget goes into replacing hose that is keep tinkering with stolen by moonshiners , . , Supt. Paul O'Leary . . . just get in It and has moved from Walworth (R, I,) CC to Ek- GO! wanok CC in Manchester, Vt. At their January meeting, Kansas Turfgrass Assn. members made plans for getting publicity for their organization ... In addition to setting up a publicity committee they appointed one of their members as the Assn's offical photographer . , . Members are urged to keep their local news- papers, radio and TV stations informed of all the association's activities . . . Supt's groups can use more of this. Water Cap CC, Delaware Water Gap, Pa., a The quality cor in the (continued on page 138) lowest price range The favorite with men who rent golf cars fo profit! 1958 ELECTRIC

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CONTENTS The Business Journal of Golf

Stringing Around Golf Herb Graffis 3

GCSA Convention Attendance Record Joe E. Doan 37 Ursetta Makes Merchandising Shots Count 48 Pro Hank Credit W. V. Register 50 Ht/tv About Golf Cars George \evil 51 Golf C.ar Survey Charts 52-53 Grants Answers Fr«l V, Grau 54 More Lessons from Long Reach 60 Golf Is Hig Business in L. At ; Verne W ickliam 66 fro Revenue Returns Herb Graffis 72

Five Impressions That Bring Fro Sales .George Aulbach 107 Chaney Heads CMAA 110 Manufacturing Meus 121

lished a course record for the new Diplomat CC, Swinging Around Golf Hollywood, Fla., by shooting a 65 . . . The only (Continued from )Hlge 120) trouble is that Cary might lower this one before completely rebuilt 18-hole course to be re- GOLFDOM gets off the press. opened Apr. 1 . . . Originally built in 1923, and known as Wolf llollow, it was abandoned early W. C, (Dub I Bowie, formerly pro at Beau re-' in World War II . , , The clubhouse, with hotel gard CC, De Bidder, La., moves over to Franklin facilities, bas been remodeled . . . Walt Tbiel, (La.) CC . , . New Oakbourne CC, Lafayette, formerly at Glen Brook CC, Stroudshurg, Pa., La,, has 1,000 members ... It was built largely is pro, and Floyd Starner, supt. due to the efforts of Bill Bass, Lafayette busi- nessman . . . Cene Williams is pro . . , South- Northwest GCSA pamphlet, just off the press, western Louisiana Institute preparing to launch includes membership roster and by-laws . . . gotf instruction program for students this spring Henry Land, Jr., is pres. of the organization; , . . Williams and Lee Como," pro at Lafayette Ken Putnam is vp ;uk1 Milton Bauman, secy, Muny, helping Margaret McMillan of the school's treas, , . . Women's Western Golf Assn. Junior physical ed dept. to get the project on its feet, Open will be played at Inverness GC, Palatine, 111., Aug. 4-8 ., , This is the 32nd year for the Aug Boi/.uto, asst. to Al Renzetti in the ex- event. tensive and successful instruction program that AI conducts for Westchester County (N.V.) New Orleans CC to hold its 21st annual In- Recreation Committee, has been signed as pro vitation tournament, Mar. 26-30 , . , Champion- by the Blauvelt (N.Y.) CC . . . This Renzetti ship flight to be medal play and all others, is a busy guy ... In addition to running the , . . Dale Morcy has won the tourna- Westchester County winter program, he is pro at ment for the last three years . . . Bob Nodus, a Empire State CC, chmn,, Junior Golf committee member of the Michigan State College gotf team of Metropolitan PGA and sec.-treas. of West- in 1957, becomes asst. to Ed Gauntt, Jr., pro at chester PGA. CC of Lansing . . . Corky Gaunt to take over as pro at new Michigan State 18-hole course on Watlis Champion is manager of Goldthwaite's Apr. 1. Texas Toro Co, new branch opened March 1 at 1623 Broadway, San Antonio, Tex. . . . Nice A onetime waitress who absconded with 27 thing for Otto Grieshaber, supt. El Rio picccs of silverware from Tam 0 Shanter CC, CC, Tuscon, Ariz., w-hen Associated Press Niles, 111,, more than 25 years ago, recently re- story widely carried John Bamum's remark from turned it . . . The reason: She recently joined Tuscon Open: "El Rio's greens are the best a church and wanted to get the theft off her conscience . . . recently estab- we've played on all winter."