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TITLEIST WAS USED MORE PLAYERS* in these Major Tournaments of 1956 Los Angeles Open Invitational THAN ANY OTHER BALL Bing Crosby Open Invitational Caliente Open Palm Springs Invitational Imperial Valley Open Invitational Phoenix Open Invitational Invitational Texas Open Invitational Houston Open Invitational Baton Rouge Open Invitational Invitational St. Petersburg Open Invitational Invitational Azalea Open Invitational Greensboro Open Invitational The Masters Kansas City Open Invitational Arlington Hotel Open Invitational Carlings Open Invitational Dallas Centennial Open Invitational Texas International Open Invitational National Open Phil. Daily News Open Invitational ACUSHNET Insurance City Open Invitational tJlJf;- gAffS) P.G.A. Championship Eastern Open Invitational SOLD THE WORLD OVER THROUGH Invitational COURSE PRO SHOPS ONLY Miller's High Life Open Invitational National Jr. Amateurs Championship Women's National Open ACUSHNET PROCESS SALES CO. Nat. Amateur Public Links Championship NEW BEDFORD. MASSACHUSETTS Western Amateur

*Pros and Amateurs Edward P. Brady, New Washington, D. C., dist .... York City Department of Second IS and new clubhouse Parks golf director, says land- to be open in April, 1957 ... fill operations at site where Oklahoma State Park board Marine Park course is to be asked to install golf course at built are nearly completed ... Roman Nose State Park . . . I t will be 1959 or 1960 before Hillcrest CC begins building course can be constructed and course at Pulaski, Tenn .... put into play .. '.' Army Navy Lions Club sponsoring forma- CC considering several sites tion of Dayton (Tenn.) in Washington area suitable G&CC. for another IS holes ... Pres- HERB GRAFFIS Eddie Serrano, second base- ent club at Arlington will be man of Reno (Nev.) Silver kept in operation ... Club has about I,S50 Sox is in golf course management work at resident members. Presido Hills CC, San Diego, Calif., when Venerable Freddie McLeod, Columbia he's not playing" ball . . . Ben Cooper of CC (Washington, DC dist.), pro recently Kings Bay subdivision near Homestead, shot a 73, one stroke less than his age ... Fla., got tentative OK from County com- Yuma (Ariz.) Sun noting opening of first mission for building I8-hole course near 9 of Prescott, Ariz., muny course, com- old Cutler plant of Florida Power & Light ments editorially on how much Yuma Co. needs a public course. Capital City CC takes over IS-hole Talla- Wm. Winders is pres. of group planning hassee,Fla., muny course ... Chuck Rea, to build IS-hole Willow haven CC course formerly assistant at Lakeland, now is Tal- and residential development at Durham, lahassee pro ... Tequesta, Inc., buys 350 N. C.... Houston (Miss.) Exchange Club acres at Jupiter, Palm Beach County, Fla., consider-ing building 9-hole course . ; . and will build IS-hole course and homes Open first 9 of new muny course at Ala- bordering course and natural waterways ... meda, Calif. . . . Second 9 being built and Wm. H. Cook is sec., Jupiter Inlet Beach will be opened in early summer, 1957. Colony, Inc., which will direct the program. Ralph Lomeli is pro at new Tulare Open Belmont CC, 12 miles east of (Calif.) CC which opened its 9-hole course downtown Fresno, Calif. ... First private in August ... John Peters, Jr., building club built in Fresno area since Ft. Wash- and will operate 9-hole course for Winn- ington club opened in 1923 ... Frank J. field (La.) Golf Assn.... Fred Davis sign- Sanders is Belmon t CC pres. . . . Bert ed as pro at James Baird State Park, Stamps is pro ... Golf architect Bob Bal- Poughkeepsie, N. Y. dock is directing maintenance with May- Open first IS of Indian Spring CC in nard Steinmetz, the supt.

One of the 155 new courses built in the United States during 1956 Front was the 18-hole layout constructed at Ft. Meade, Md. under the watchful eye of Lt. General Floyd Parks, sometimes described as lithe most enthusiastic golfer in the Army./I With him is George Cobb, architect. Of the $10,000,000 this year that has gone into • new construction and additions to courses already in existence, a Cover large part of it has been spent by the armed services in providing golfing, facilities for men and women in uniform.

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October, 1956 Hal Buroker named pres. of group to establish golf club at Murfreesboro, Tenn . . . . Plan to rehabilitate golf course and swimming pool which have been out of operation for some years ... Jack Bell, formerly asst. to Bill Ogden at North Shore CC (Chicago dist.) signed as pro by River Forest (Ill.) CC. Myrl G. Hanmore, 50, died from an acci- dent at Riviera ee (LA dist.) apparently caused when he lost control of a golf car on a steep incline and was crushed between the vehicle he was driving and one he was towing from the first tee to a storage barn. --- ••..••~FLAGS Bill McKenney pro at Natchez, Miss., ---+FLAG POLES Duncan-Park course gets fine picture story --+BALL WASHER in Natchez Democrat on his job of cutting down donated golf clubs for use by kids ... --+HOLE CUTTERS Bill's junior promotion with these clubs is --+ PUTTING CUPS bringing some highly promising and very

---+RULE SIGNS active kid talent into play . . . A high If you don't hat'e a school lad won Natchez city championship copy of our com- ----t BAG RACKS recently. plete UCatalog 56" --.-.~ MARKERS One of the many curious customs of in your files- ----.~ETC. golfers is that observed at the 12th hole write for it today] at Wannamoisett ee, Providence, R. I. ... There a certain foursome has the last one STANDARD MANUFACTURING CO. to hole out obligated to buy a round of BOX G, CEDAR FALLS, IOWA drinks ... The foursome: Walter e. Me-

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October, 1956 5 Beth, Wm. Schoenhardt, Linden Warren and .John Sproul, U. S. Rubber golf ball sales mgr. . . . John says he has been try- ing to figure out how come so .many ?f these trick bets of golfers are paid off in drinks instead of golf balls ... His com- panions have suggested the U. S. Royal research dept. devise a golf ball a golfer can drink after batting it around for 18 p holes. Open new clubhouse at Wyckoff Park G&CC, Holyoke, Mass. . . . Women and children get free rounds on Mondays and Tuesdays at Shamrock Park course, Burl- ington, N. C., as part of pro Calvin Walk- er's plan to increase women's and kids' play ... Swell illustrated piece on George Jacobus in Hillsdale (N. J.) Herald ... Easily set to Jacobus, in 40th year as pro at Ridgewood water any area, CC, was born in a farmhouse located on regardless of shape. what now is first tee of the Upper Mont- Serves as' a full circle, part-circle, and fixed clair course. position sprinkler. Can be used with Coup- Armand C. Chapeau, gen. mgr., Druid lerandBUCKNER Quick-Coupling Valves, Hills GC, Atlanta, Ga., elected director of installed on permanent risers, or mounted International Stewards' and Caterers' Assn. on roller or sled stands for use with hose. . .. Joe Williams' column on Bobb~ Jones Consult your authorized in NY World-Telegram & Sun reminds us BUCKNERdistributor. that Bob played in 12 National Opens in' U. S. and Britain from 1922 to 1930 and was first or second in II of the 12 ... .Joe wrote of Bob "I continue to believe the

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