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USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: FEBRUARY, 1951 5 "Golf House" is Open By HARRY ROBERT USGA ASSISTANT EXECUTIVE SECRETARY "Golf House" opened officially at 1 "Dollar-A-Year Men" P.M. on January 27, and on the hour delegates began pouring in from the TO UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION: I have been following with great interest USGA annual meeting. your fund gathering to pay for the building As they started up to the second floor, and equipment acquired by the Association at a staff man and a girl charged down stairs 40 East 38th Street. I am at a loss to understand past them, headed for the only type­ why the fund was not fully oversubscribed by this time inasmuch as we have so many golfers writer still open for duty. He dictated in this country, and being a golfer actively en­ a brief story about an odd-looking golf gaged in the enjoyment of the game for some club, and she machine-gunned it on a 40 years I would like to lead a group of what could be called "Dollar-a-Year Men" by sub­ card. Then they ran back up the stairs, scribing $1 a year for the 40 years that I passing more guests; she hung the card have taken much enjoyment from the game. on the club and closed the show-case The USGA has done so much in the interest glass upon the display. It was the final of golf over the entire country that I am sure touch to "Golf House's" coming-out you will find a great many other golfers who would join this "Dollar-a-Year" group, which in party. a very short time should cover the cost of your Nearly 150 guests milled through the acquiring your headquarters. renovated residence at 40 E. 38th St. in Sincerely yours, in the interest of the game, New York and expressed gratification CHARLES G. KELLER Member—Montclair Golf Club that golf now has such a pleasant, useful Seaview Country Club USGA headquarters and home for the Skytop Club Golf Museum and Library. Ponte Vedra Club As you enter the front door, you find yourself in a spacious reception hall, with a rack of "Clubs of Champions" to the present. Many are queer speci­ and the stories of their significance on mens, but only a fraction of the fasci­ your right. On the wall at the left, over nating items eventually to be exhibited. the fireplace, is a colorful painting by Sepia pictures line the stairway to the Erwin Barrie of the first hole at the third floor, portraits of some of the great Apawamis Club, Rye, N. Y.; it is flanked professionals of whom American golfers by colored prints of scenes from St. are rightly proud: Walter Hagen, Gene Andrews and Sandwich. Sarazen, Tommy Armour, and the pre­ In a place of honor to the left stands sent Open Champion, Ben Hogan. There the Walker Cup, in a specially built dis­ also are scenes of Hogan's triumph at play case with a curved glass front. Merion last year. At the rear of the Staff offices at the rear complete the second floor are the executive offices. ground floor. If "Golf House" has a showplace, it is its neat little Library. Pickled oak book-. Glenna Collett's Portrait cases are built into the corners and along At the head of the stairway to the the wall opposite the front bay window; second floor hangs a pastel portrait of they hold one of the best collections of Glenna Collett (Mrs. Edwin H. Vare, golf literature in this country. The cases Jr.), six times Women's Champion. also contain some extremely interesting In the broad stair hall are showcases exhibits from the early days of the USGA. containing clubs which roughly outline Flowered draperies set off the big front the evolution of woods, irons and put­ window. In the center of the room is ters from the dim age of the feather ball the USGA Executive Committee's meeting 6 USGA JOUR~AL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: FEBRVARY, 1951 Strange Weapons among USGA Museum Exhibits These putters are a few of the odd items in the USGA Museum at "Golf House." Most of the unusual clubs are puiiers. as you might suspect table, surrounded by green leather electricians balanced above us hanging ~hairs. special lights, but the tattoo of type- From the walls above, sepia portraits writers and the drone of dictation went of every Amateur Champion in USGA on. Even on the last morning there were history gaze down. adjustments to be made, and hammers That was what the delegates saw at the swung past our ears as we placed exhibits. opening of "Golf House." It is not com- Through it all, we were guided by the plete, but it is well open for inspection architectural advice of Edward C. Em- and visitors drop in daily to see it. The bury, golfing member of the firm of USGA cordially invites all Founders of Embury and Lucas in New York, who "Golf House" and members of USGA have designed such attractive clubhouses clubs to visit. as those of the Mountain Brook Club, Birmingham, Ala., the Charlotte Country The Din of Preparation Club in North Carolina, and the du Pont Few of the guests suspected the tur- Country Club in Wilmington, Del. moil in which we worked getting ready "Golf House's" dedication was well 'for their visit. For months the USGA worth all the preparatory work, and staff worked to the accompaniment of more. We think you'll find it so when saws and hammers. you drop in. As Findlay S. Douglas, In the last few weeks the tempo 1898 Amateur Champion and former quickened. Decorators held conferences USGA President, said in dedicating over our desks while we struggled to "Golf House": carryon the routine of USGA adminis- "This is your clubhouse, and we invite tration. We threaded our way between you to come in and sit in our comfort- painters' scaffolds and drapery-hangers' able chairs and browse through our ladders. books and enjoy what we have. 'Golf Up on the third floor, even now far House' is dedicated to the Golfers of from straightened out, some of us dived America." into vast stacks of old magazines and Nothing of this would have been pos- hooks, and emerged streaked with. dust sible without the generous support of but triumphantly bearing sorted and the Founders. catalogued issues which were perma- There are now 3,818 Founders: indi- nently bound in colorful covers and in- viduals, clubs, associations. They have serted on the shelves. contributed $69,698 toward the total As we approached the opening date, goal of $100,000 estimated to be cabinet-makers wrestled cases into place, (Continued on Page 22) 22 USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: FERHLAKY, 1951 "Golf House" is Open L (Continued from Page 6) R. D. Lapham necessary to complete payment for and William K. laughlin equipping of "~ol£ House.'~ Co~tr~bu- Edward J. lee, Jr. tions of any SIze are cordIally InvIted Walter Leuthold from lovers of the game. John A. level Mrs. B. J. levy Following are Founders not recorded Miss Virginia Lindblad in previous issues of the USGA JOURNAL: J. K. Lochead A E M Mrs. Nat Abelson Lester Edge, Jr. Mrs. C. S. MacCain Mrs. Gus Adler Mr. ond Mrs. John A. Emich Charles M. Mackall Dr. John J. Albi Bill MacPherson Fred F. Allen F Richard A. Mahar E. P. Allis Marshall E. Farnham James S. Manion Russell W. Anderson Mrs. Sidney W. Fish Frank L. Markey Anonymous Miss Susan Jean Folks Mrs. N. Harold Marks Mrs. J. D. Askew John E. F. Foote A!ton K. Marsters Benjamin W. Ayres Jack Fox O. M. Masters Charles A. Fuller Mrs. Edgar Mayer B H. Harrison Fuller J. A. McCone Edwin G. Bagley W. L. McCulloch Franklin Baldwin G Jack Mclean Tom Gamble Mrs. Roland R. Ballenger E. L. McNaghten Harrison Godwin H. I. Bartholomew Mr. and Mrs. Harry McNaughton S. D. Bechtel John W. Goodrich Walter Merryweather Douglas Grant A. D. Bell, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William Millar Mrs. Sidney G. Bernard Allen Griffin Arthur W. Miller Ray Billows Mrs. Fred Miller t In memory of Thomas Joseph H Mrs. George A. Miller Birks by J. Frederic Byers, Jr. Stuart Haldorn Roy Moe Gerald E. Hall L90n Boyle Mrs. Jonathan Moore, Jr. Mrs. J. Mott Hallwell Joseph Bransten C. Christopher Morris Arthur Harms David Brown Earl Morrison Horton Herman Milton R. Brown F. S. Moulton Joseph F. Higgins William H. Burnham, Jr. Miss Bernardine Murphy Clifford P. Hoffman James Murray Edwin B. Hopkins, Jr. C Miss Mae Murray Mrs. Charles J. Carbone Fraser M. Horn John M. Carlisle Harry J. Hovey Bruce L. Howard N Oscar E. Carlson J. W. F. Neill Dr. James G. Howell Paul E. Carrick Arthur H. Nevius Mrs. Albert H. Hunker P. J. Carstens George W. Nickel Copt. T. J. Casey H. C. Hunt A. C. Castle Dr. Don K. Hutchens o E. H. Clark P. J. Oldershaw C. Bert Clausin J W. H. Orrick W. J. Clear M. C. Jenkins Richard Osborne H. C. Collier Charles S. Jones William J. Condon Carl A. Jonson p Mrs. D. Parker Cool Ernest A. Jonson Mrs. Catherine Fox Park Frank Couzens George A. Park Bing Crosby K William G. Park In memory of Karl F. Kellerman Fletcher Parks D by Karl F. Kellerman, Jr. A. G. Pattee G. A. Dailey Karl F. Kellerman, Jr. Hervey Bates Perrin Charles DeLimur Harold R.

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