The fourth to be played Aug. 17-23 at Firestone CC in Akron, O., will carry a $50,000 purse with bonuses totaling $5000 . . . Members of the Southern California Junior GA will meet in the sixth Lee Hammil Memorial tournament at Los Coyotes CC in Buena Park, Calif., Aug. 10-12 . . . Last year, the Lee Hammil tourney attracted 260 juniors and ranks as one of the largest events of its kind on the West Coast . . . Held in memory of a youngster who died of leukemia, the tournament has raised over $5,000 for the Leukemia Research SWINGING Foundation of the University of Southern Calif. AROUND An 18-hole course is listed as one of many recreation facilities available to guests of the new $5-million Holiday Inn at Freeport, Grand Bahama Island, sched- uled to open next year . . . Willowick GC in Santa Ana, Calif., reports that News of the Golf after a brief lull, the hole-in-one parade World In Brief on the course's 150-yd. No. 2 hole re- sumed with four aces in two days . . . Vine Cliff GC in Rayland, O., almost By HERB GRAFF/5 matched Willowick with a report of five aces between May 22 and June 18, three of which occurred on three consecutive days. Anthony Marenghi, a writer for the FRONT COVER Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J., reports that Colonial CC, tynnfield, Mas*., foil into crowded conditions on Essex County step with several other Northeastern courses have produced a new golf widow courses when it lighted its front nine tale . . . Seems a wife who had viewed several weeks ago. Colonial is a regula- hour-long matches via TV questioned her tion layout. The lights on the front side husband's five and six hour absences for are said to be more powerful than all the lighthouses in New England com- golf . . . Then the husband took his bined. Seen on the tee of the 165-yard doubting spouse out for a round, tied up sixth are Pete Zitso, Roseanna DiVac- the course longer than usual and heard caris, Inez Connors and Connie Del some nasty comments when he got back Ninno. Golfers at Colonial stort their to the clubhouse. rounds as late as 10:30, according to Sam Videtta, pro. Middlesex County, N.J., has opened a 9-hole course that it acquired from the AO INDEX Page 97 federal government when Raritan Arsenal EDITORIAL INDEX Page 98 in New Brunswick was dismantled . . . Golfmore GC in Atlanta, Ga., owned by Jack Hall, has opened with a lighted Par-3 . . . R. Albert Anderson, course

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