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Why ureaform is nitrogen at its very best!

T'S SIMPLY THIS: turf and orna- cause of the time and labor it saves! I mentals get a square meal of nitrogen Ureaform is nitrogen at its very best. every day. No feast or famine feeding No other form can match it. with Ureaform. Instead s-l-o-w, steady, Ask for "Borden's 38" by the bag for day-by-day "controlled release" of ni- direct application—or make sure Urea- trogen nourishment the entire growing form is the nitrogen source in any brand season. From just one application! mixed fertilizer you select. Either way, No wonder more and more nurseries, it's the most modern nitrogen you can parks and golf clubs prefer "Borden's use. It opens up a whole new and better 38" Ureaform nitrogen for straight ap- approach to the care and feeding of plication or in their mixed fertilizers. turf and ornamentals. Further informa- That's not all. "Borden's 38" is high tion on the proved analysis — a full 38% nitrogen. It's economy of Ureaform 100% safe, too — can be applied any is yours for the time of year, even in hottest weather, asking. Write The without burning. It needs no watering Borden Chemical in. It won't leach away. Or wash away. Company, 350 It's clean, pure-white—and odor/ess. Madison Ave., It encourages balanced plant growth. New York 17, Economical? It fits in any budget be- New York.

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The PGA Championship at for years and with his team- ^Minneapolis GC was the top mates, Supt. Herb Cohrs, Mgr. financial performance in the Stuart Johns and Caddie-Mas- 41 years of PGA title events ter Bob Henches worked out . . . The purse, $51,375, was a very expert operating pro- second only to the Masters gram . . . PGA from July 30 $76,100 . . . Bob Rosburg's through Aug. 2 is held at the $8,250 for the winning 277 worst time of the playing sea- (3 under par) was the biggest son for course condition and top money for a PGA cham- risk of turf troubles but Cohrs pionship . . . The crowd for had the layout almost at the the week (including practice pinnacle . . . Herb's team- rounds) 49,780, was a record mates in the Minnesota GCSA . . . About 4,000 more tharv HERB GRAFFIS contributed free and expert aid last year at Llanerch . . . Approximately in supervision and work at each green . . . $200,000 (gallery, program, TV, conces- They also deserve a glowing expression sions, clubhouse revenue) was gross in- of gratitude from the PGA . . . Tourna- come. ment program edited by Otis Dypwick Minneapolis GC officials and members and packed with advertising by Jon Hall, have due them the deep thanks of the Carroll App Associates, was a job that PGA and of clubs that will be host to really had something in it instead of be- future PGA national championships . . . ing a sandbagging racket. In revising the championship financial ar- The Pinkertons, who do so well at the rangement so club officials and members Masters, were embarrassingly inept at the have incentives to do the vast amount of PGA . . . One of their comical perform- work required for a championship, PGA ances was in giving maximum security to officials got realistic and put their tourna- free lunch turkey sandwiches in the press ment on a businesslike basis . . . Stewart tent to the extent that PGA working press J. Mcintosh, Minneapolis GC pres., Vern badges weren't good at the PGA's own Evans, tournament gen. chmn., and their championship . . . Another clownish job colleagues have the distinction of showing by the Pinkertons had as its victim a a tournament profit for their club that chmn. of the 1960 PGA championship possibly exceeds the net to clubs holding who was studying how a tournament the eight previous championships. should be conducted . . . The height of PGA championship was operated about silliness was attained by an armed Pinker- as nearly as possible to perfection . . . ton employee annoying guests in the club- Gunnar Johnson, the club's veteran pro, house in officious search of credentials. had been getting closeups at tournaments In Golfing's poll of golf writers, Walt

FRONT COVER — The Palm Springs area of California which boasts of more fairways, tees, greens per acre than any community in the country, becomes the golf capital of the world once the snow starts flying in other climes, according to the local chamber of commerce and GOLFDOM others devoted to beating the drums for fine desert liv- ing. You have your choice of swinging at such places as Thunderbird, the first fairway of which is seen on the 33rd Year cover, Bermuda Dunes, Eldorado CC, Indian Wells, Palm Springs GC, La Quinta, Cochran GC, Shadow Mountain September, 1959 and O'Donnell GC. Ryder Cup matches will be played at Eldorado, Nov. 2-8.

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