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Banned Balls Now Conform change the playing characteristics of a club during a round." The USGA has made a new series of The USGA has ruled that if lead tape tests on ten brands of golf balls which is applied to a club in such a way as to earlier this year did not conform to Rule be virtually an integral part of the club, 2-3 of the Rules of Golf. there would be no violation. This can be The latest tests reveal that in every readily done by burnishing the edges of case the former deficiencies have been the tape into the club itself. corrected. The use of these balls, listed However, if the tape is readily remov- in the July issue of the JOURNAL,is now able the club does not conform with the acceptable under the Rules of Golf. Rule. In the earlier announcement, it was pointed out that the use of balls which do not conform to Rule 2-3 could, if un- checked, lead to a distortion of the play- Dawdling at St. Andrews ing values of American courses. Americans are not alone in lamenting The cooperation of the manufacturers the demise of the three-hour round of is appreciated in this matter, which is es- golf. A recent letter to THE CITIZENof sential to the best interests of golf. St. Andrews, Scotland, indicates that slow play has become a matter of concern even Lead Tape on Clubs at that citadel of the game. The letter, written by "Short Driver," Question periodically arises as to tells how 30 years ago it was common to whether a metallic adhesive commonly hear that "the course was slow today- known as "lead tape" may be applied to just over 2~ hours." golf clubs without infringement of Rule 2-2. The purpose of applying "lead tape" .'Many of my generation," the writer is to alter the swing weight of a club. continues, "must remember the four-ball Rule 2-2 provides in part as follows: match that was played once or twice a "a. The golf club shall be composed of week by four gentlemen all over 70 years a shaft and a head, and all of the various of age. Carrying thei.r own clubs they parts shall be fixed so that the club is went in 21.~ hours, never longer unless one unit. held up by ot~lers. "b. MOVABLEPARTSPROHIBITED "I would suggest we give all the sup- "No part of the club may be movable port we can to bringing back the 21h or separable or capable of adjustment hour round of golf and the greater en- during a round of play. joyment of playing at such a pace and "The player or other agency shall not not the present dawdle." USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: SEPTEMBER, 1961 Crabs, Crows and Kangeroos NElV l\IEl\IBERS OF THE USGA Now let's study the troubles of golfers ASSOCIATE elsewhere. Calif. Garden-Air Golf Association The city of Darwin perches on the Calif. Yucca Valley Country Club northern rim of the Australian Continent. Fla. Port St. Lucie Country Cub Mass. Indian Meadows Country Club In many ways it is a rugged land and Md. Belair Golf and Country Club still a wild land. Nev. Tropicana Country Club So, apparently, can be the golf around Ohio Pebblebrook Country Club Ohio Tanager Woods Golf Club Darwin. "Balls may be lifted and dropped," says REGULAR a. Local Rule for the Darwin Golf Club, Ala. Decatur Country Club Ark. Meadowbrook Country Club "without penalty from wallaby and bandi- Calif. Almaden Men's Golf Club coot scrapes, crab holes, stone outcrops, Calif. Belmont Country Club Calif. Bermuda Dunes Country Club tractor marks and genuine earth cracks." Calif. California Country Club Men's The- Club goes on to caution players Association Calif. Deauville Country Club Men's Club that they may frequently be joined by Calif. EI Rivino Golf Club wallabies and kangeroos as spectators, Calif. Green River Golf Association Calif. Kiote Hills Golf and Country Club huge mangrove crabs that invade from Calif. Mesa Verde Country Club Men's nearby tidal swamps and by hawks and Golf Club Calif. Mesa Verde Country Club Women's crows. The birds may make off with balls Golf Club and the crabs may burrow holes big Calif. Salinas Golf and Country Club Calif. Women's Auxiliary of the enough to swallow balls. California Country Club Members use the course six months Colo. Brush Golf Club each year but much of the remainder of Colo. Kissing Camels Golf Club Fla. East Bay Country Club the year must be spent repairing Fla. Lake Region Yacht and Country damages from monsoonal rains. Spear Club Fla. Martin County Golf and Country grass sometimes grows eight feet high. Club And, to the south at Alice Springs and Fla. North Dade Men's Golf Association Fla. Tamarac Golf and COlJntry Club Tennant Creek, there is still another Fla. Temple Terrace Golf and bother-dust storms. Country Club Fla. Winter Park COl.lntry Club III. Shady Oaks Country Club Ind. Indian Lake Country Club Books Reviewed Ind. New Albany Country Club Iowa Ames Golf and COIJntry Club Chipping and Putting, Golf Around the Ky. Iroquois Golf Club La. Houma Golf Club Green, by Bill Casper, Jr. with Don Col- Mass. South Shore Country Club lett (The Ronald Press Co., $5.00). A 114- Mich. Atlas Valley Country CllJb MiCh. Manistee Golf and Country Club page illustrated instructional book by the Mich. Spring Lake Country Club 1959 Open Champion. Minn. Hastings Country Club Minn. Marshall Golf Club The Peripatetic Golfer, Volume 1.5, a Minn. Ortonville Men's Golf Club series of scrapbooks compiled by the la.te Mont. Cut Bank Golf and Country Club Nev. Paradise Valley COlmtry Club Ralph A. Kennedy. Clippings, photo- N. J. Scotch Plains COI.Jntry Club graphs, letters, etc., detail his record of N. M. Paradise Hills Golf and Country Club having played more than 3,000 golf N. Y. Windsor Golf Club courses. Presented to the USGA for the Ohio Rosemont Country Club Museum and Library at "Golf House" by Ore. La Grande COIJntry Club Pa. Frosty Valley COlJntry Club Dr. Robert H. Kennedy. Pa. Indian Valley Country Club Pa. Sewickley Heights Golf Club Tenn. Sparta Golf and Country Club Tenn. Tullahoma Golf and Country Club Great Scots Tenn. Woodmont Country Club Texas Coronado Country Club William Coyle walked off the 5th green Texas Oak Ridge Golf Club of the Lenzie Golf Course in Scotland in Texas Riverlake Country Club Wash. Port Gard.,er Golf Club April, cut across two fairways, and clap- UI Va. Riviera Country Club ped his brother-in-law, Sam Laurie, on Wyo. Goshen County Country Club the back. V. I. St. Crois Golf Association "Congratulate me, Sam, I just had a hole-in-one," said Coyle. "So did I," said Sam, "at the 11th." 2 USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: SEPTEMBER, 1961 SPORTSMAN'S CORNER did on the seventh hole of the last round, the matter might never have come to light. If it did after the tournament, I would have returned the money." PGA officials estimated that Venturi, had he not notified the Committee of the incident, would have won at least $600 and perhaps as much as $1,000 in the tournament. 1962 Women's Open Site The 1962 Women's Open Championship will be held at the Dunes Golf and Beach Club, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The dates for the Championship will be June 28-30. The Championship will be the first USGA event ever held at the Dunes Golf and Beach Club and the second in South Carolina. The 1955 Girls' Junior Cham- Ken Venturi pionship was played at the Florence Country Club. Ken Venturi's tee shot nestled in an Miss Mickey Wright won the 1961 earth crack on the fifth hole in the Women's Open with a 72-hole score of second round of the 1961 Texas Open 293 at the Baltusrol Golf Club, Spring- Championship. field, N. J. Venturi consulted fellow-competitors A complete list of 1961 USGA Compe- Jimmy Demaret and Tommy Bolt who titions, the dates, and the sites is printed confirmed Ken's belief that he was en- on the Index Page of this issue. titled to relief without penalty. "The ball was below ground level," Venturi said. "There was no way I could Necrology play it. In previous tournaments I had played in, relief was always given for It is with deep regret that we record earth cracks. So I dropped out and shot the death of: 69." Paul A. Dunkel, of Hackensack, N. J., In the final round, Ken hit a drive to a member of the USGA Senior Champion- the edge of another earth crack-on the ship Committee. seventh hole this time. Charles lV. Littlefield, of Montclair, Turning to Don Fairfield, Ken said: N. J., who was President of the USGA "Well, Don, I don't think this would be during 1946 and 1947. He became a mem- considered an earth crack, would it?" ber of the Executive Committee in 1938 Fairfield answered, "No, but it would and was Vice President from 1942 until make no difference anyway. In this event, 1945. they are not giving relief for earth Willie Macfarlane, of Miami Beach, cracks." Venturi hit the ball onto the Fla., USGA Open Champion in 1925. Tied green but missed a two-foot putt for a at the end of 72 holes with Bobby Jones par. at 291, he won the Championship after "I missed the putt by a foot," Venturi again tying Jones at 75 in an 18-hole play- said.