Allegheny county (Pa.), where Laurel Valley CC, site of the 1965 PGA Cham- pionship, is located, has the second high- est number of country clubs of any county in the U. S. . . . Rod Newman, pro for the last 20 years at Homestead GC, Spring Lake Heights, N. J., will cruise the Carib- bean late this month, giving lessons to passengers on the Queen of Bermuda . . . The one-day Pro-Am, which has been played at Onwentsia Club, Lake Forest, 111., for the last four years, has produced $283,000 for 's Children's Me- morial Hospital ... It will be played this year on June 28, preceding the . Vacationland Open, to be played at Poland Spring (Me.) GC, Aug. 5-8, will be SWINGING the richest tourney ever staged in Maine ... A purse of $15,000 is guaranteed by AROUND the sponsoring Poland Spring Hotels and the Maine PGA . . . Turf News of Texas, GOLF published by Texas Turfgrass Association, suggests putting a little anti-freeze in ball washers to keep the mixture circulating News of the Golf . . Pepper Tree CC, Corona, Calif., de- signed by Larry Hughes, opened first nine World in Brief in December . . . Dave Feliz is supt. . . . J. D. Fitzpatrick returned from Hawaii to By HERB GRAFFIS be supt. at Ranco La Costa CC, Encinitas, Calif., which was opened in November . Eddie Susalla is pro at the new spot. Club Managers Association has moved its national headquarters to 1030 Fifteenth St., N.W., Washington, D.C. . . . Willard Front Cover Byrd is architect and Joseph F. Finger, Northern Ohio sopts. have been consulting architect, of Atlanta (Ga.) CC, busy men in the last two months preparing for the big GCSA show now being built . . . Finger is also design- in Cleveland in February. But they ing plush 27-hole Pleasant Valley CC that took a few minutes off a few weeks Winthrop Rockefeller is going to build ago to have this group shot taken at the Sheraton Hotel. Shown are near Little Rock, Ark. . . . Briarwood (111.) (I to r): William E. Ebel, William Recreation Club building 9-hole course to A. Northern, Carl S. Springer, Nel- plans of Homer Fieldhouse . . . He is also son Monical, Malcolm E. McLaren, the architect for 18-hole courses being Gene C. Nutter, who has resigned as the GCSA's national director, built in Warren, O., and Lomira, Wis. Don J. Figurella, Howard Fannin, Art Bell, for many years pro at Cali- John J. Spodnik, Larry J. Wolfe, fornia CC in , now at Car- Carl L. Schwartz and Earl F. Yes- berger. (See story on page 28.) mel (Calif.) Valley G & CC . . . John and Bud Lewis have purchased Skippack GC, Collegeville, Pa. . . . Bud will continue as

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PGA-sponsored tournament falls heir to $6,500 Par is 72 . . . Crystal trophy for win- which is held in trust in a San Antonio savings ning 1964 "Amateur of the Americas" bank. E. J. Burke (r), Pecan Valley owner, is shown championship at Dorado Beach, P.R., depositing the check with Maurice Smith (I), local banker. , who holds the record 65, went to Mike Elder of Jamaica . . . The set in the 44th Texas PGA Championship played women's division crown went to Mrs. last October at Pecan Valley, is also shown in the Harold Roettger of Puerto Rico . . . This photo. Barber, who plays the PGA circuit out of the fall's PGA tournament at the San Antonio club, will receive interest on the $6,500 Beach Club course, Naples, was won by deposit until someone comes along to claim it. Jack Issacs, Tequesta CC pro over Bill Girard of Sarasota . . . Proceeds of fifth annual $50,000 Lucky International Open resigned all club posts and turned pro- and $5,000 Pro-Am, slated for San Fran- fessional . . . GCSA sponsored an essay cisco's Harding Park (Jan. 25-31), will go contest for turfgrass management stu- to three area boys' clubs as they have dents in the winter course at Penn State in past years. U. . . . Winners were Robert Hummer of Most of the $25,000 profit from the Manheim, Penn., T. A. Kessler, Hanover, 1964 at Firestone Penn., G. A. J. Sweda of Lethridge, Al- CC in Akron, O. was turned over to the berta, and D. J. Maske of Lock- Jaycees, Junior League and Beacon Jour- port, 111. nal Charity Fund for local charities . . . , and Gary NBC has payed $100,000 for TV rights Player will meet in weekly matches on to the Bob Hope Desert Classic (Feb. eight consecutive Saturdays starting Jan. 3-7) at Indian Wells CC in Palm Desert, 30th and colorcast over NBC-TV Calif. Event was formerly called the Prizes will be $50,000, $25,000 and Palm Springs Golf Classic . . . Format of $10,000 ... A $3,500 research grant the Classic isn't being changed . . It has been given by the GCSA to Michigan will be played over 90 holes State U. for purchase of a growth cham- Japan has an estimated 3,500,000 ber to help Dr. James Beard resume stu- active golfers of whom 400-500,000 be- dies and experiments on winter kill of long to golf and country clubs . . . These turf grasses. golfers are 75 per cent men ... 48 per Duke Matthews is now pro at Shadow cent of the men are aged 35 to 55 yrs. Hills CC, Eugene, Ore.,, replacing Alex Those under 35 account for 30 per cent Kinsfather who resigned . . . Jerry R. of men players and 21 per cent are from Truax is now general manager of Colo- 55 to 70 yrs. There are 403 courses in rado Springs (Colo.) CC . . . "Pro Appre- Japan. ciation Days" at Oak Orchard CC in Al- The 1964 club champion and tourney bion, N. Y. saw the members staging a chairman of Meadowlark CC in Hunting- weekend party hailing Frank (Babe) Ur- ton Beach, Calif., Claude Waymire, has zetta . . . Wm. S. Roach, president of Mill River CC, being built to design of Gerard C. Roby, Jr. at Upper Brookville, L.I., says: "25 years ago Long Island had 88 country clubs. Now with twice the popu- lation, it has only 85 clubs." Fred Larsen now pro at Colonial Acres CC, Montgomery, Ala. . . . Women mem- bers of Gardiner's Bay (N. Y.) CC gave Pro Bob DeStefano a thank-you party . . . Highland Park GC, Auburn, N. Y., mem- bers and guests put on a wingding with golf and dinner for their pro Phil Losito . . . Carl Cushin is now pro at Imperial GC, Mansfield, O. . . . A $600,000 club- house and course improvement program is underway at CC, Phoenix . . . John Budd at Pennhills Club, Bradford, Paul Hahn, the sleight-of-shaft entertainer who has Pa., has hired Mickey Ihlenfeld as his as- mesmerized millions of golf fans throughout the sistant . . . Mickey was with Paul Biggy world with his trick shot repertoire, will fly a new Twin-Commanche in keeping many of his 1965 for two summers at Butler (Pa.) CC. dates. At the moment Paul is re-polishing his act Russell C. Kirkpatrick is new manager at his Cape Coral, Fla. retreat, preparatory to making a February Caribbean junket. of Wykagyl CC, New Rochelle, N. Y. . . . Kirkpatrick previously managed Suburban CC, Baltimore . . . Eugene A. M. Vossen Wilson build 18 on Murray property near is manager at Albuquerque (N. M.) CC. Princeton, N. J. ... It will be a private He was at Beverly Hills (Calif.) CC . . . club. Golf writers are saying there is no need Ron Wirth, owner and pro of the Mt. of anyone suggesting a PGA minor league Horeb (Wis.) Golf Bowl,, is getting a good tournament circuit as that is what there deal of business in his new clubhouse and has been after August in recent years with bowling lanes . . . Carl Schaefer is build- the exception of a couple of headliners ing a second nine at his Pleasant View CC, at each tournament. Middletown, Wis. . . . Tom Funee, pro- Dick Harmon is putting back nine into supt. at Frederic (Wis.) GC is a high play at scenic Port Kent course at Pitts- school track and basketball coach . . . burgh, N. Y. . . . Course was built over Another Wisconsin high school coach and 50 years ago and closed in 1949 . . . Leon teacher is Merton Wulf who has been Fawcett and others are planning on re- pro-manager at Lancaster CC, but is habilitating course of defunct Buckingham leaving that job to have more time for his CC at Garland, Tex. They want to make family . . . Tom Puis, pro-supt., Barron it a "low budget" private club . . . Billy (Wis.) GC also is a high school teacher Delk is pro at Florence (S. C.) CC . . . and coach . . . Bob and Mable Saile, who James Carpenter is new pro at University have run Hi Dale GC, Rice Lake, Wis., of Southern Mississippi course at Hatties- for 15 years are retiring . . . River Falls burg. (Wis.) CC has a new clubhouse. A. W. Sali, is manager . . . Don Elkington, own- Golf program arranged by Basil Ban- er of Mondavia (Wis.) GC operates his chard at (Fla.) Lakes CC is getting new clubhouse with a supper club and big play from air line personnel . . . North bowling lanes . . . A1 Capps has a new Shore CC is moving to Mequon (suburban course at his Bruce, Wis. resort. , Wis.) and is building a club- house and 27 holes to be in play in the Eighth annual Eastern Amateur tourna- spring of 1966 . . . Club's present site ment will again be played at Elizabeth was sold for subdividing . . . Jack Mur- Manor G & CC, Portsmouth, Va., Aug ray, Atlantic Bag Co. vp, is having Dick 17-23 . . . , defending'cham-

Go If do m pion, also won this event in 1960 and 1961 . . . John Jones, River Forest GC, is the new president of the Greater Chi- cago CMAA . . . C. V. Crump, Butter- field CC is vp and Victor Chigas, North Shore CC, secretary-treasurer . . . Direc- tors are Frank Klein, Bernard Kostecki, A1 Lamonte, Clarence (Doc) Watson, Glenn Gunderson, Edward Kocur and Jack O'Neill . . . National Intercollegiate AA golf coaches have assured Wally Wallis, Officers of the Poland Spring (Me.) caddy camp Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman golf- alumni association, elected last fall, are from (I to r): writer, that the 1966 Intercollegiate tour- Henry G. Brown, vp; Clarence E. March, director; nament won't be played the same week of George R. O'Connel, treasurer; John E. Hurley, president; and Walter W. Parmalee, vp. The asso- the Open . . . There's nothing definite ciation was formed two years ago and held its yet on the 1965 dates . . . Conflict in first reunion last fall. More than 2,300 former cad- dates of the two tournaments has annoyed dies belong to the group. March, oldest caddie at writers for the last three years. the reunion, carried clubs at Poland Spring Hotels course from 1905 through 1907. , who flew all the way from Acapulco to be there, was the feature speaker at the Golden Tee dinner of the some kind of a citation from IBM Co. Chicago District GA, held early in Decem- Resort and 18-hole course at Mauna ber in the Conrad Hilton Hotel . . . The Beach in Hawaii is due to open this win- more than 1,200 persons who attended ter .. . St. Croix in the Virgin Islands is the dinner (a record crowd) were greatly site of new 6,860 yard 18-hole golf course impressed by the brief and sincere speech designed by Robert Trent Jones and own- given by Venturi . . . The 1964 Open win- ed by David and Lawrence Rockefeller ner, expressed his appreciation to a large . . . Richmond (Va.) CC was the site of and loyal Chicago following that never the December meeting of the Central turned its back on him while he was en- Virginia Turfgrass Assn. New president during lean years between 1961 and 1964. of CVT is Roy Watson; A1 Livingston is Others who spoke at the dinner in- vp; and secretary-treasurer is cluded , , ... The Virginia Turfgrass conference is , Bill Campbell, C. W. Bene- to be held at the John Marshall Hotel dict, Joe Dey, Tom King and Jim O'Keefe Richmond, Jan. 27th and 28th . . ] . . . Boh Hope couldn't make it, but he Southern Cal GCSA had its annual taped a speech for the edification of the Christmas dinner dance at Bel-Air CC Chicago gathering . . . Hope, Bing Cros- on Dec. 24 ... Joe Martinez was host. by and Tom McMahon were given special A 27-hole course near Selkirk, N.Y. is citations by CDGA . . . The Chicago or- being planned and will be called Deer- ganization did the dinner up gold . . . field GC . . . The new White Deer GC Program covers were embossed in gold regulation course, expected ready for play and golden tee paperweights were pre- this Spring, is under construction along sented to persons who attended the affair. with a Par 3 near Williamsport, Pa. Metropolitan Golf Writers' annual Eleven of 14 clubs in Berks County, Pa. awards dinner will be held Jan. 12 in the have had tax assessments raised, with in- Waldorf Hotel in New York ... The 12th creases averaging 25 to 50 per cent annual GWAA tournament will be played John Espey, Sr. is the new president of Apr. 5 at the Dunes Golf & Beach Club, the Northeastern GCSA . . . Johnny Mehi- Myrtle Beach, S. C. . . . That's the one gan is pro at Novato, Calif. Rohnert Park which is billed "golf at its worst" and in Public GC . . . Owner-architect is Bob which Charles Bartlett of the Chicago Baldock . . . Another Baldock course Tribune once took 22 strokes on a single Skywest Public GC in Hayward, Calif' hole ... He received two awards for that will be opened this month with Ted Tram- debacle: the "True to Myself" medal and mel as acting pro-manager. Walhalla CC, Rexford, N.Y., has let contracts for construction of a clubhouse and 18 due to open in 1965. William F. Mitchell is architect for 7,140-yard course . . . Eau Claire (Wis.) CC's 18-hole course is undergoing a major facelifting . . . Stan Wadsworth of The Wadsworth Co. is di- recting the project . . . Ray Cummings is converting his property adjoining Uwhar- rie National Forest in Randolph County, Va., into a recreational facility with a 6,200-yard 18-hole course . . . Jim Muse, pro at Oakland CC, Greensboro, N.C., has Many of the long established New clubs resigned. are engaged in course modernization programs. One of these, Webhannet GC, Kennebunk Beach, Skyline CC at Tucson, Ariz.—after the Me., has undertaken a greens renovation program resignation of A1 Starr—has appointed Jim supervised by Supt. Ernest Brown and Edward Silvey as pro . . . Pat Mclntyre is pro at Hodgkins, green chairman. The architect is Geof- New Tucson, Ariz. GC . . . McConnels- frey S. Cornish. Shown is the 160-yard 15th. ville (N.Y.) GC has employed James Dor- ety as pro . . . Jogg Hill, Inc. has pur- chased Hillandale CC (Bridgeport, Conn.) the 18-hole Monmouth (111.) public course . . . Price was reportedly $1,200,000 . . . • • . Project has been in the "dream stage" The City of Garden Grove, Calif, has for 40 years . . . Homer Fieldhouse and bought the 100 acre, 18-hole Willowick Associates are architects and Colonial GC for $2,900,000 from George K. Gardens, Inc. is the contractor . . . Coun- Thompson, who will remain as adviser to try View GC of Burrillville, R.I. has re- the operation . . . The Carroll County ceived a $100,000 loan from the Small (Ark.) Recreational Assn. has begun work Business Administration for development on a 9-hole course to be built with a of an 18-hole public links. $70,550 CHA loan . . . Memorial Day is Building of first nine of Ponderosa GC the anticipated opening . . . Nine holes near Schenectady, N. Y. has begun. Tom have been completed on the Liberal, Kans. Nicklaw will be manager . . . DeKalb municipal GC . . . Lawrenceburg, Ky. is County (Ga.) is to build 18, designed by the scene of a do-it-yourself 9-hole course Dick Wilson . . . Building 18 for Blueberry by farmer Bob Etherington who is using Hill Golf Development, Inc. at Warren, his own land, equipment and money . . . Pa. . . . Fred Garbin and James G. Harri- Harold England, pro with his own course son are architects . . . Duane Kemerer is at Wheatley, Ky., is assisting in the plan- building River Bend GC 18 near Saginaw ning. Mich. Jack Barrett will be pro-manager Air-minded golfers may fly onto the . . . Bedford Valley CC near Battle Creek Culbertson Hills CC course near Edin- Mich, is building 18 to plans of Wm. Mit- boro, Pa. after completion of new 2,800- chell . . . John D. Blood will be general foot-long and 100-foot-wide turf air strip manager . . . Blood was formerly pro at . . . Middlesex County (N.J.) Planning Riverside CC . . . Stamford Valley GC Board plans to spend more than $500,000 nine is under construction at Stamford overall on an 18-hole course ... An FHA Mass. LeRoy Lawrence is the owner of loan of $180,000 has been approved for the new layout. the Valley View Recreation Association to Piney Point GCs first nine opened at develop a 9-hole course three and one Badin, N. C. Gene Thompson is pro half miles south of Central City, Kansas Turnersville CC's 18 opens in Philadelphia . . . 18-hole public course will be built area. General manager is Albie Weiner south of Traverse City, Mich, on 155 . . . Pro is Horace W. Smith who designed acres . . . Opening is planned for earlv and built the course . . . Coon Valley CC July. is to be built at Scranton, la. with an FHA August 1965 is the planned opening for loan. Ohio University, located in Athens, will add a second nine . . . San Geronimo Valley CC is building 18 near San Rafael, Calif. Vernon Macan is architect and Ken Stohl construction superintendent . . . Building nine at Don Williams Recreation near Ogden, la. Hurley (Wis.) Area Golf Assn. plans to. build 18 starting in April . . . Golf Club Operations, Denver, is designing an 18 and nine for Denver's City Park . . . Carlson Farms CC near Greensboro, N. C. opened last October . . . Ellis Maples was architect . . . Hercules CC,. Wilmington, Del., will build an additional nine . . . A1 Tull is architect. Runcie Martin, who covered golf and other sports for the Duluth (Minn.) News Tribune for 20 years, retired last fall . . . He is 79 years old and took up sports writing after having retired from another job at the end of World War II . . . Martin is an expert amateur golfer who has a den full of trophies . . . Through 1960 he had annually played in at least one national tournament over a 55 year per- iod .. . In 1907, Runcie lost the Chicago city amateur title to Chick Evans and 40 Modem years later the pair re-enacted the earlier duel in an exhibition ... In his day, Martin also played against Walter Hagen,' Ilorton LawnMowerSharpener Smith and ... He still You can sharpen the bedknife and the reel occasionally shoots his age and over a in the mower with a MODERN lawn period of 50 years never had a score that mower sharpener or you can remove from dipped into the 90s. the mower for separate sharpenings. Construction of 27 additional holes has NO COMPLEX ADJUSTMENTS Just raise the entire mower to the proper been started at Callaway Gardens, Pine height. Bring the reel and bedknife into Mountain, Ga. . . . 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CC near Jonesboro, Ga. opened this fall. at The Valley CC in Scottsdale, Ariz. . . . is consulting pro . . . The 18- Next Aug. 8th the second Annual U. S. hole course will be ready by spring. Jaycee Sports Spectacular at Houston, Riverside (Macon, Ga.) G & CC wel- Tex. will have more than 900 pre-Olym- comed new pro Billy Smith last fall . . . pic age youngsters competing for national Hay de Park GC in Jacksonville, Fla., was honors in golf and other sports. sold recently by the owners to a local An 18-hole course will be part of a group . . . Lee Park GC is adding 9 holes Teal estate development, The Fairways, to make this Petersburg, Va. course a in Bucks County, Pa. with the first nine full 18 . . Dick Clark has taken the job holes open for play by the summer of as pro at Phillips CC, Borger, Tex. 1965 . . . Two County pub- Harold James Wells, Bermuda's famous lic courses were opened recently. The "Golf Doctor", died last fall ... A native courses, Los Verdes on the Palos Verdes of Canada,, Wells had been in Bermuda Peninsula and Diamond Barr course, were over 30 years and was pro at Castel Har- both designed by William F. Bell. Pro bour Hotel course at the time of his at Los Verdes is Lenn Kennett, formerly death ... An estimated $1,300,000 will at San Gabriel CC, and assistant pros are be spent on a recreational complex, in- Monty Blodgett and Norman Bernard cluding an 18-hole golf course, by the Four New Jersey pros have been selected city of Cocoa Beach, Fla. . . . John Di- by the owners of the Queen of Bermuda Santis, resident pro at Nippersink Manor (sailing from NYC) to give golf instruc- Resort (Genoa City, Wis.), has been nam- tion aboard Caribbean cruises this winter. ed tournament director of the Dorado Pros are Alan McClay, Spring Brook CC- Hilton Amateur Handicap at Dorado, Fred Baker, Maplewood CC; John Cafone, Puerto Rico . . . The Southwest Seniors Manasquam River GC; and Roddie New- Eighth Invitational will be held Jan. 18 man, Homestead GC . . . The recent Perry Como Amateur at the Port St. Lucie CC pionship trophy listing all winners of in Ft. Pierce, Fla., was won by Paul Des- WGA's three events,. Western Open, Jardins, 22-year-old Miamian, with A1 and Western Junior . . . Johns finishing as runnerup. Lookout Mountain GC near Chattanooga. Tenn. is losing pro Bill Vach to Golden Tentative dates of July 1-4 for the Gate CC at Golden Gate, Fla. . . . W. C. Western Open golf championship have Richey of Paducah, Ky. recently shot a been announced . . . The Tournament 70 at Sligo Park CC, Silver Springs, will again be played at Tam O'Shanter in Md. . . . Richey is 71 years old. Chicago . . . The Fred Hutchinson Memor- ial Trophy will be added to Miami's Na- Mike Wyman, caddymaster at Moun- tional Baseball Players' Golf Tournament tain Ridge CC in West Caldwell, N.J., . . . Trophy will be awarded to the major has been elected president of the recently league manager shooting the lowest score formed caddymasters organization of New in the 72-hole event scheduled for Feb. Jersey . . . The group hopes to sponsor 18-21. weekly and state tourneys ... At the annual election of officers of New Jersey Cliff Olinger is moving from Great section of PGA this Fall, Harry Dee was Oaks Lodge and Yacht Club, Chesterton, named president and Joe Dante, honorary Md. to Caroline CC, Denton, Md., where president . . . Ronnie Ward, associate pro he will be pro-supt. Olinger has complet- at Atlantic City CC in Northfield, N. J. ed 9-holes with fairway irrigation and au- has moved to Wildwood G & CC in Cape tomatic sprinklers . . . Edmund B. Ault May Court House, N. J. as pro. Assistant was the course architect. pro George (Skip) Juris, Jr. will accomp- A new trophy, standing 44 in. high, any him as associate pro. Ward replaces and named the George S. May Memorial Bill Moran who moves to Shackamaxon Trophy was recently presented to the GC in Scotch Plains, N. J. WGA ... It will become the WGA cham- (Continued on page 106)

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Swinging Around Golf and Johnny Dawson, selected what it con- (Continued from page 22) sidered to be the masters of the varies Chuck Curtis, sports writer for the Los stroke-making categories . . . Here are Angeles Times who wrote several articles the men the Golfing jury picked: Woods - for Golfdom and Golfing in recent years, ; Full irons - Henry Pic- died late in November as the result of a heart attack . . . One of the last columns Curtis wrote was about and the work he has done in behalf of the L.A. Open . . . Charles A. Boswell, the great blind golfer and World War II tank captain who lost his sight in the Battle of the Bulge, was named one of 's Silver Anniversary All-Americans for 1964 . . . Charlie has won Blind Golfers' Cham- pionship 15 times. Quite a fuss has been made about an All-America golf team, picked recently by a monthly golf publication . . . But the idea is old hat . . . Back in April of 1936 Golfing's player staff, composed of Paul Runyan, , , , Jug McSpaden, Sam Parks, Jr., , Harry Cooper, Walter Ilagen, Willie Hunter, Jimmy Thomson

Golfdom Diego . . . Fillmore Vaughn has resigned TV cameras to give audiences a different as pro at Dornick Hills CC in Ardmore, view of golf ... A U.K. scotch whiskey A Okla. . . . Dick Miller will be golf shop company is sponsoring 21-year-old Brit- aide and Dick Grout will be associate ish pro, Malcolm Gregson, and pro A. G. pro to Bud Geoghegan at DeSoto Lakes (Tony) Grubb on the U.S. winter tour C & CC in Bradenton, Fla. . . . San Clemente, California's Shorecliffs George Gnau is the new president of CC has Ray Catan as new pro . . . He the Northern Calif. GA . . . National succeeds Guy Paulsen . . . Gold Hill Golf Day target round, with Open and G & CC in northern Calif., and the PGA champtions Ken Venturi and Bobby City of Irwindale, also in Calif., will Nichols, posting the scores, will be on have 18-hole courses designed by Bob * ABC-TV on May 30. Baldock and Son. Canada Cup airplane traffic from Oahu Bob Baldock and Son have designed and other Hawaiian islands to Maui for Bethel Island GC near Antioch, Calif., Canada Cup tournament was by far which has 18 under construction . . . largest of any tournament . . . Top at- Deal (N.J.) CC's pro, Jimmy Martucci, is tendance of final day was about 6,000 retiring after 25 years . . . Mike Burke . . . Amazing how much newspaper space has left Florham Park CC in New Jer- Canada Cup event got in U.S. news- sey after three years . . . Candid Cam- papers considering football competition era TV show visited Broadacres CC in . . . Hosts get to select members of Bloomfield, N.J. and filmed a disap- U.S. team . . . Jack Nicklaus and Arnie pearing golf ball skit . . . Show was on Palmer as one and two in 1964 prize network TV on Dec. 27. winning were unanimous choices . . . A Goodyear blimp will be on hand at Venturi and Lema say they can whip 13 weekly PGA tour tournaments with Jack and Arnie and should have been mm^mmmmm^tmmm PROFESSIONAL GROUNDSKEEPERS haul all WITH CHAMPION doo-all 5,000 lbs. capacity. Pic- DOO-ALL can DO it ALL ... haul any load over turf or over 5,000 lbs. 1 cu. yd., or tured with side and end 3 the road. It's the professional's utility trailer... massively 4,000 lbs. /4 cu. yd. ca- boards...also available; built for hard usage, yet extremely mobile. 4.80 x 8 wide- pacities. Roll-dump hop- flat bed, or chassis only tread pneumatic tires ride gently over fine turf... and per locks in 5 positions. for your special body. D00-ALL can safely cruise, fully loaded, over the road. Proven in 16 years of use by professional grounds mainte- nance men. Send Now for complete specifications of all D00-ALL models. f Yes, please send me complete specifications for your DOO-ALL Trailers, all models. (Please print) I | THE CHAMPION COMPANY, Springfield. Ohio 45501 j I my name position | J organization I | street j j city state ZIP | established 1878 Jobber Inquiries InvitedI 1964 Leading Money Winners Men Professional (Official) Jack Nicklaus $113,284 Arnold Palmer 113,203 Bill Casper 90,653 74,130 Bob Nichols 74,012 Ken Venturi 62,465

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Canada Cup choices so CBS is putting up $25,000 for the match . . . Another indication of Canada Cup's prestige value. Six golf writers flew from Maui to see Mauna Kea Beach hotel course Rob- ert Trent Jones designed for Laurence Rockefeller on the Big Island, Hawaii ... It's one of the great courses ot the world . . . Marvelous job of con- struction and turfing on ground that looked ugly and dead . . . Palmer, Nick- laus and played a TV ex- GRIMCO GOLF SIGNS hibition there after Canada Cup. Identify Each Hole, speed play and cut maintenance costs with attractive new Bob Darden was Jones' construction GRIMCO golf signs. New rust resistant ena- engineer on the Mauna Kea course mel is baked on die-embossed, zinc coated, heavy gauge steel for years of service. Homer Flint and John Dellis were build- ® All-ln One Hole Markers — custom made for your course; including 26" stakes ers .. It has the biggest watering and hardware; 9 holes $44; 18 holes $88. system of any Jones job . . . 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Kilpatrick, builder and first supt. with this of Thunderbird at Palm Springs, came DIVOT FIXER to work with G. A. (Bud) Turner, Royal Let's see what punish- Kaanapali supt., in readying course for ment the greens must take. 20,000 rounds of golf Canada Cup . . . Bad water, worms, dis- means 20,000 shot to each green. ease — name a problem in getting a If 10% hit the greens new course ready for a tournament — it would mean 2,000 holes per green each year. Bud had to fight most of them. Repairing these holes an hour later or next day Bob Imoto is supt. at new Mauna Kea is useless. The damaged turf must be repaired at course . . . Joe Looney, pres., Golf Writ- once to avoid a hole and brown spot. ers Assn. of America, was honored at Make your own test. Just a banquet by fellow members of Wood- try to repair an old ball mark. Then a new one. land CC (Boston dist.) where he started Our little Divot-fixer tool to fame and fortune as a caddie . . . can help you solve this problem. Bob Smith, pres. of the PGA Golf Equip- Prices: for plain or imprinted as shown— ment Co., was given a birthday cake Dec. F.O.B. Des Moines, la.: 8 during the PGA's annual meeting . . . 1000—565 500—535 250—520 Marilynn O'Pace, exec. sec. of the South- Ten percent of order in small individual envelopes with print- em Calif. PGA would win a top prize in a ed directions. Extra envelopes business beauty contest . . . Brainy and one cent each. Ten dollars extra for imprint- gracious, too. ing name of firm or club. Limit of 26 letters and spaces for upper; 29 for lower line. Warm and deserved tributes to Tom WOODSIDE GOLF Crane at the PGA President's dinner & PARK SUPPLY CO. . . . Tom has been at 22 annual meet- ACTUAL SIZE Des Moines 13, Iowa ings and missed only one ... He worked with eight of the PGA's 14 presidents . . . He's going to be consultant now that he has retired . . . Tom's patience and attention to detail brought the PGA through perilous clays of growing pain ... No official word about Crane's retirement arrangement, but it should be a very good one in view of the need of the PGA setting a good example to golf clubs, many of which haven't dis- tinguished themselves as organizations of gentlemen sportsmen by the retirement provisions made for professionals who have served them well and faithfully for many years. Bill Wotherspoon performed gracefully as m.c. in completing the long program of the PGA President's dinner before the diners got bunions on their fannies Pres. Warren Cantrell's remarks, as usual were brief and pertinent . . . PGA has been lucky to have him ... He has saved pros millions in settling the PGA National course deal and now, with that 202 N. MAHAFFIE job out of the way, can get his admin- Rogers Mfg. Co., Inc. OLATHE, KANSAS istration to work on complex problems ot club pro business. 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Earl Dean, general manager of Boh TREE TOOLS O'Link CC, Highland Park, 111., retired Jan. 1st after 42 years and will take an * Every tool you need for the extended vacation ... J. David Anderson core ond main- general manager at Tamarisk CC, Palm tenance of trees Springs, Calif, replaces him . . . Green and shrubs. Valley G & CC, near Fayetteville, N. C., Pruning saws, opened its new $150,000 clubhouse this power saws, pole fall . . . Concord CC (Delaware area) pruners, pruning shears, etc. expects that its new clubhouse will open about March 1 . . . May 19, 65 is the target date for opening of Great South- west Carp's 18-hole course near Dallas, Tex.

The Elks Country Club (near Colum- bus, Neb.) has opened a new lodge-club- house and golf course . . . Work is under- way on the new $1.5 million La Quinta CC clubhouse at Palm Springs, Calif. Bloomfield, Conn, is the site of the new Tumble Brook CC. University of California Agricultural extension service has scheduled a nursery, landscape tree and turf conference for Riverside, Feb. 3-5 . . . Wayne C. Mor- gan, turf advisor with the U of C, has taken a year's leave and is studying for "BAK-9" an advanced degree . . . George S. May Memorial Trophy, which stands 44 inches Ball Washer high and weighs 130 pounds, has been CDC brings back, by donated to the Western Golf Assn. by popular demand, the old, the family of the late World Champion- familiar paddle washer... ship tournament sponsor . . . The names • Same quick cleaning action • Same economical, trouble- of 61 Western Open winners, 62 Ama- free, long-lasting service teur and 47 Junior champions are en- • Same Nylon or Bristle Brushes graved on three large silver plates af- • Painted White with Red fixed to the base of the trophy. Paddle • New Tee Data Plate mounts Mike Bliss, president of the Mid-At- to pole below washer lantic Blind GA, 6135 Wayne ave., Phila- • Complete stock of parts for older models too! delphia 44, persuaded several clubs in the Philly area last year to set out car- *With Bristle Brushes — Nylon slightly higher tons for donations of golf balls to blind ORDER DIRECT or from your dealer players, and raised about 600 . . . He SAVE MONEY — on flagpoles and plans to do the same thing this year other washers. Send for catalog. . . . His group has a membership of about 25 . . . When a new member joins he CONTAINER DEVELOPMENT CORP. is given equipment and arrangements are MONROE STREET • WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN made with an area pro for lessons . . . Playing in the Northeastern GCSA tourna- ment last fall, Dewey Brown of Indian Lake, N.Y. scored a 160-yard ace . . . The ball didn't bounce but made direct contact with the cup . . . His foursome, including Fred LaBrake, Tom MacKenzie and Ed Toole, would have scored 1-2-3-4 on the hole if MacKenzie hadn't missed an easy birdie putt. Ninety per cent of all CMAA chapters contributed to the organization's 1964 scholarship fund . . , The goal of $5,000 was exceeded by more than $500 . . . Th" 25th National Baseball tournament has been moved back from Feb. 18-21 to Feb. 25-28 ... It will be played at the Miami Springs CC in Miami . . . Jay J. Burry has been named head pro at Cold Spring (N.Y.) CC . . . He was an assistant to Bob Watson at Wykagyl CC, New Rochelle, N.Y. in 1963' and 1964 and broke into golf under Claude Harmon at Winged Foot. Lakewood GC will hold its 11th an- nual Senior Invitational tournament at Grand Hotel, Point Clear, Ala. on Jan. 21 through 23 . . . Lew Myers, pro at HIGH QUALITY FLAGS

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grass Ledgemont CC in Seekonk, Mass., re- tired last fall ... He was given a testi- monial dinner for himself and his wife, Muriel . . . They were at Ledgemont nearly 30 years . . . Ron Ollis, Spring- STOLONS field, Mo.; Fretl Currie, Dallas, Tex.; Ron Fife, Boise, Idaho; and Bob Cobb, Fresno, Cohansey C-7 Calif, will be guests of the 3M Company Toronto C-l 5 at the Bing Crosby Pro-Am this Jan. 21-24 . . . The four amateurs qualified Arlington C-l in a contest last fall . . . Warren Bidwell Evansville has resigned as supt. of Olympia Fields Washington C-50 (111.) CC and as president of the Mid- Congressional C-l9 west GCSA to become supt. at Phila- delphia (Pa.) CC. (New Strains Available for Trial) John Revolta has completed 30 years A Reliable Source of Supply Since 1920 as Evanston GC's pro . . . Bill Erfurth HIRAM F. GODWIN & SON is new head pro at Skokie (111.) CC 22366 Grand River - Detroit, Mich. 48219 Gene Lesch formerly assistant pro at Twin Phone: Area 313 - 531-0361 Orchard (Chicago area) is now head pro. Tal Smith, Claremont (Calif.) CC's pro, came in first and , El Dorado Royal CC, Cameron Park, second, at the Northern Calif. PGA Match Champion- ship at Pebble Beach . . . Brookside Park, Pasadena, was the scene recently of the fourth annual show of the Southern Calif, 1 THE turfgrass council co-operating with the U. of Calif. Agricultural Extension Service Foresom of L. A. . . . Over 100 exhibitors displayed Multiple turfgrass maintenance equipment, material BALL WASHER and supplies ... La Fortune Park in . . . has improved oil- less bearings. Fea- Tulsa, with an 18-hole course and driv- tures a swift, thor- ing range, has added a lighted Par 3 ough cleaning action for up to 8 balls at a course,, first in the area. time. Balls rotate while traveling a Spyglass Hill GC is the name chosen clover-shaped path for the new course being built between for complete clean- ing. Weather resist- Cypress Point and the Monterey Peninsula ant case mounts on any 1 dia. pipe. CC in the Del Monte Forest at Pebble ALUMINUM Beach, Calif. ... A Florida West Coast DATA PLATES Consult with your GCSA scholarship was awarded this fall Legible chrome local dealer or at the turf conference in Gainesville . . . numerals fasten send for complete to an aluminum Carey Clark was first recipient of the alloy data plate. catalog today. award . . . Reactivation of the Central New York GCSA has been made . . . An- CONTAINER DEVELOPMENT CORP. nual fall meeting and dinner of Illinois MONROE STREET • WATERTOWN. WISCONSIN PGA featured a special showing of 1965 professional equipment, with all leading manufacturers represented. Mrs. Emma Pierce has been named NEW - LABOR-SAVING tournament chairman in the New Jersey Women's Senior Golf Association . . . Bermuda Golf Association has released its tournament schedule for 1965 . . . Among the attractions are the Mixed Foursome (Feb. 20-21), Bermuda Amateur (Mar 16- 20) and Bermuda Ladies' Amateur (April 20-24) . . . New assistant pro at Toma- •k Eliminates "clean up" with greensmower hawk Hill CC, Mission, Kansas, is Fred or sweeper alter topdressing. •k Leaves completely smooth putting surface. Stevenson ... A Danny William's "Day" if Accomplishes floating out topdressing was held recently at The Knoll in Boon- and does better job ot working in ma- terial. ton, N. J. ... A prize of $1000 for a pro •k Big labor savings in topdressing opera- tion. and a color TV set for an amateur awaits if Allows use of coarse material alleviating the players who break par on the new compaction. Sunny Jim GC course near Medford, N. J. Attach "Pebble Catcher" to the end of the drag mat to catch all particles which bounce through the mat. . . . Course was designed by Bill Gordon. All particles too large to be worked In bounce over the sections of the drag mat. By using the "Pebble Catcher" you either drag them off the green or eatch Fiddler's Elbow CC's new 27-hole them. In many eases.if proper shredding equipment is used, screening of top dressing can be virtually course is scheduled for completion this eliminated. Immediately after dragging with the "Pebble Catcher," greens can be mowed without coming May . . . The course spans Lam- fear of damage to greensmowers. ington River and two N. J. townships in For more information see your turf supplier, two separate counties. Hal Purdy is the or write: course architect. Jim Murray has resigned as pro at the Amsterdam (N.Y.) Municipal Golf Course Trailer Co. GC to become pro at Pine Brook CC, P. O. 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Randall Oaks GC is near completion at Dundee, 111., with work on the club house having been begun recently . . . Freeport, Grand Bahama Island, will see the opening in May of an 18-hole PMAS • CADDY championship golf course to adjoin the new Kings Inn . . . This spring will see •THIMER• the opening of the Arrowbrook CC near Bordentown, N. J. ... A new golf course • SPOTRETE • near East Moriches, N. Y. is being built with 9 holes ready for play this spring . . . $360,000 addition is planned to club- house of Tripoli CC, Milwaukee, Wis. Medinah (111.) CC's members have voted to appropriate three-quarters of a million dollars for club improvements, in- cluding a golf service center that will house a pro shop, 100 electric golf cars, caddie facilities, members' club storage and practice nets. This structure will be New Brunswick, New Jersey built in the Moorish style of architecture Skokie, III. Belleville, Ont„ Canada of the main club house.