Swinging Around Golf by HERB GRAFFIS News of the Golf World in Brief

Swinging around golf By HERB GRAFFIS News of the Golf World in brief

^fational Club Association Newsletter trouble . . . Jim said last summer again commenting on population factor of demonstrated that you've got to pay the country clubs with Farmers Home Ad- price of eternal vigilance if you want to ministration financial backing being keep your course in A-l condition . . . raised from towns of less than 2,500 to Manka says the fellows who were begin- 5,000 population said: "Financed by ning to think they could relax on Satur- these low interest, long term FHA loans days and Sundays found they've had to these (club) facilities may be a boon to keep close guard all through the week- the small community, but they also could end heavy play. represent a very real danger to the ex- isting private clubs in some of our In Minnesota, Gil Foster, in charge larger rural areas. These clubs, privately of Keller muny courses said the sum- financed, may be hard put to compete mer has been harshest on grass he has with newer facilities funded by their own seen in 35 years . . . Poa annua control tax dollars." by methods recommended in Turf Man- Club Managers Association of America agement, the USGA book Burton Musser nine Workshops this year have more than prepared, still seems the only way, and 100 over last year's record 553 atten- that's not a one-year job . . . Golf Asso- dance ... A month before Southern ciation of Michigan issued to each mem- Senior's GA annual championship at ber club president, course superintendent Ponte Vedra Club, Ponta Vedra Beach, and chairman a report on "severe dam- Fla., field limit of 160 was entered. age to highly refined and delicately Miserable summer for turf in many maintained areas," noting that "con- areas . . . Shortage of water in central tinued heavy play and golf car traffic states and east was accented by many added to the turf woes." The bulletin, clubs needing rain for newly planted signed by Frederick Adams, chairman, trees . . . Scattered cloudbursts and heat Charles Chapman, William Holt and brought brownpatch and dollar spot to Andrew Bertoni, concluded "All mem- courses where preventative programs bers realize that everything will soon were believed to have these diseases be normal if patience, tolerance and cool practically eliminated . . . Poa annua de- weather prevail. No one feels worse about parture had many courses in Midwest it than the golf course superintendent." with worst fairways and greens collars . . . The August course picture was es- they've had in years . . . Daytime spray- pecially painful as courses generally never ing was done by some superintendents looked better than when June was and they quieted the complaints of in- "bustin' out all over" this year. convenience from members by telling Maureen Orcutt, Englewood, N. J., the reasons for the urgency of the opera- and the late Pamela Barton, London, tion . . . Jim Manka, superintendent, In- England, elected to Ladies PGA Hall of wood CC (NY Met district), brought Fame and will be inducted at Metro- Inwood through the misery period with politan New York Golf Writers dinner only a few small areas of temporary Feb. 21 at New York . . . Miss Orcutt, Continued on poge 124 GRAFFIS' SWING Before you buy any sprayer Continued from page 9 on the sports staff of the N. Y. Times SEE THE BIG PERFORMER since 1937, has won 64 women's championships, including the first USGA Senior Women's title in 1962 . . . She was USGA women's amateur runner-up in 1927 and 1936 and on four Curtis Cup teams ... In 1937 she lost to Pam Bar- ton, 4 and 3 . . . Miss Barton won the USGA Women's Amateur and the Brit- ish Ladies championships in 1936 . . . She was a flight officer in the WAAF during World War II and was killed in a plane crash in November, 1943. . . . The Ladies PGA Hall of Fame was founded in 1948 by Fred Corcoran . . . It has a room in the Augusta (Ga.) CC clubhouse. Billy Casper's acceptance of the Badix Trophy for lowest scoring in 1965, at a DURAPOWER* small luncheon at the Oak Park (111.) CC prior to the Western Open was the most You get better results from any sprayable graceful, soul-cheering talk heard from material with Durapower*. Tops for all a golf champion in years . . . Bill, since gun or boom applications. 14 wheel or skid his return from being with fighters in mounted models. Tank sizes 50 to 300 gal- Viet Nam and since his going for reli- lons. All have super smooth Duracyl* gion, is Exhibit A of inward peace and Pumps available in 5 or 10 GPM models outward technique . . . His belly diet with working pressure to 400 lbs. p.s.i. probably helped but so did the soul Write today for full specifications by re- diet . . . Casper was at lunch alongside turn airmail. „ , •Trademark Chick Evans who won the Open (and the Amateur) just 50 years ago . . . DURAPOWER Chick played the first two rounds in the ROOT-LOWELL CORPORATION Western Open . . . Over 90 both swel- Dir. of Root-Lowell Mfg. Co. Lowell. Michigan Dept. QD 616/TW 7-9212 tering clays but no bellyaching from our For more information circle number 200 on card Chick . . . This year's Western Open yield to the Evans Caddie Scholarship Fund set a new record . . . Tommy Mc-

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For more information circle number 149 on card 1966 Improved GRAFFIS' SWING Continued from preceding page CLUBSCRUB goosing him in an annoying way because The Safest and Fastest of slow play at Olympic's Lakeside course Way to Clean Clubs during this year's Open I recalled the Takes less than 2 minutes 1956 National Open at Oak Hill when Doc Middlecoff (with the possible ex- ClubScrub cleans faster, bet- ception of Bobby Locke) slowest of all ter .. . is rugged, easy to operate, trouble-free . . . Distributors, Manufac- golfers in the modern era was slipping turers Representatives until the USGA told him to speed it up, trade-in policy, replacement inquiries invited, ter- parts. Immediate delivery. ritones open. which he did and won . . . Hogan also was dragging along until officially ac- celerated after which he almost won, OAofcScW), I«/,. finishing in a tie with Julius Boros, the BOX 300, SCHENECTADY, N. Y. I2Î01 For more information circle number 102 on card fine player who wastes the least time . . . Boros and Hogan had 282 and Middle- coff, 281 . . . Some wise veterans have voiced the opinion that if Nicklaus gave himself less time to miss putts he would CAVANAUGH'S be indisputably the greatest of all today's male golfers . . . Almost as dominant among the gentlemen as Mickey Wright f o r among the girls . . . Nicklaus seemed to be putting a bit faster in winning the QUALITY GOLF COURSE British Open. Gabrial Mitterbach goes from Ken- wood Club, Cincinnati, to become man- CONSTRUCTION ager at Columbia Hills CC (Cleveland dist.) . . . Mai Johnson now at Shady 1658 Collier, Akron, Ohio Hollow CC, Massillon, O. . . . Seth For more information circle number I7I on card Eames now pro-manager, Chestnut Bidge GC, Blairsville, O. . . . Harold Firstman from Carlton Oaks CC, San Diego, CUSTOM MADE WOODS Calif, to pro-manager post at Alexandria #1 THRU #15 (Minn.) GC . . . Jack Shelton who went from pro job at Goose Creek CC, CUSTOM MADE PUTTERS Baytown, Tex., to become pro at Hous- Including Famous "WON-PUTT" & ton (Tex.) CC this spring did a face- "PRO'S OWN" lifting job on the shop. Repairs-Any Make Club Fast Service — Reasonable Prices Masters of Golf Course Write for Catalogue & Price List Design & Construction

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