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Illinois PGA held its annual springmeeting at the Morrison hotel, April 16with Bill Kaiser of Hillerich and Bradsbyand Ernie Sabayrac of Golf, Inc., featuredamong the guest stars speaking at the busi-ness sessions ... Pres. Harry Pezzullo did hisusual unusual job as toastmaster of the bestattended dinner the section has held andmade the evening hilarious . . . TimO'Brien of Burke Golf and Bill Gordon,former president of the section, were pre-sented with plaques of appreciation, bythe section ... Herb Graffis, GOLFDOMeditor, was the grateful recipient of anhonorary membership in the section ...The Chicago District Club Managers'Assn. held its 28th annual stag April 16at the Sheraton hotel, Chicago ... A num-ber of club officials doubled in banquet-ing with the managers and the pros.

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~ THE BUSINESS JOURNAL OF GOLF

•

Alter Course "Too Tough"for Members and Hogan

By DAN JENKINSTHE proposal to re-define Colonial CC

:";- . in Fort Worth, Tex., at first might, have sounded absurd had it not been made

-'(by the club's founder, Marvin Leonard, andits most celebrated' member, Ben Hogan.

.( From any other source a similar sugges-_ tion would have been greeted by the en-

-.I tire golfing Southwest with a whimper oftotal surprise and utter disbelief - virtually

> the same reaction you would get from a.~make-up artist who had been told that

Grace Kelly needed plastic surgery.Leonard, a millionaire sportsman and

golf enthusiast, wove the long, wooded par70 layout around the Clear Fork of FortWorth's Trinity River in 1936. And ever

..:."'since, the fertile valley- of Bermuda andlive oak trees has been held in high re-gard by the game's foremost players andarchitects. Colonial was, in fact, the firstcourse in the Southwest to have bent

f greens.Only six years after it was built Leonard

brought the U. S. Open championship toA Colonial. Craig Wood's winning putt for

284 was still rattling in the cup in 1941•.. when Leonard gave birth to another brain-\, child, the now famous National Invita-

tion tournament, started. in 1946.Hogan, a long-time member, has added

- more pride to Colonial's premises throughthe years. He has frequently name~ it

->j among his "ten best" courses. And m anational magazine article in 1948 he chose

-'I two of its holes-the third and fifth-on his..,..,AllAmerican layout.

Byron Nelson, the Roanoke, Tex., ranch-_ er, has often placed Colonial among his top

five courses in the nation. But perhaps It•• was veteran Chandler Harper who paid the

club its richest compliment. After winningthe National Invitation last year, Harpersaid: "This is the finest, and toughest, par

r- 70 course in the world."

May, 1956

Thus, with Colonial's pride understand-ably swollen, it came as more than a mildsurprise last August when Leonard andHogan announced that Dick Wilson ofDelray Beach, Fla., was being called into amend and approve plans for a re-defin-ing program .

"To be truly great," Ben said at the time,"the course needs something. It needs re-locating."

After looking the job over, Wilson wasboth amazed and flattered that his ideascoincided perfectly with what Leonard andHogan had in mind.

Course Was "Too Tough""Colonial is too tough," Wilson said. "It's

unfair -in places, and a great course neednot be unfair."

The plan then was to make Colonial"fairer" for the scratch shooter, and, at thesame time, keep it tough, but, again at ~hesame time, make it easier for the highhandicap player who had always ~adtrouble with the "impossible" undulatmggreens. .'

Wilson's theory was this: Make It rug-ged to get to the green~, bu~ give the play-er a fair chance of makmg hIS putt once hegot on. .'

The changes which WIlson blueprmted,many of them first noted by Leonard andHogan, provided for eight completely newgreens, much larger, the re-locating ofmany traps, the addition of sever~l newbunkers, the twisting of some fairways,the clearing out of some trees.

Kept Cost LowWilson ordered the "natural look," drove

in the stakes, made frequent visits ~o thejob. For the most part, howeve.r, It wasturned over to Colonial Superm.tende~tJoe Cano, who completed the manicure m

. what may be a record six months for the:surprisingly low cost of $24,000.

Hence, Colonial has the new look. And

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Colonial CC Takes "Rough" Out of Greens

The 18th green, one of eight at Colonial CC, which had its rolling hills removed at instigation ofBen Hogan and other members. Old type undulating greens were considered "unfair" for just about'every kind of golfer, including the pro. That isn't the Sahara in the foreground, but there's

enough sand there to make approaches plenty tough.

the game's top performers will be in forquite a surprise when they gather for theeleventh annual National Invitation May2-6, and the fifth annual International PCATeam Matches for the John Jay HopkinsTrophy between U. S. and Canadian play-ers on May 7-8.

By taking all of the needed soil from the12th hole - one of the most radicallychanged of the lot-Cano estimates that heheld down the overall cost by $8,000.

The smallest of the eight new greens is5500 sq. ft., and the largest is 8000 sq. ft.

On top of the tile Wilson ordered 4 in.of pea gravel for water drainage. The seedbed-at the ratio of two shovels of sand,one-half shovel of peat, and one shovel oftop soil-went on top of the gravel. Sea-side bent was used for the enlarged, butflattened, new greens.

Employing no more than 19 men on thejob at one time, and using a TD-14 bull-dozer to re-shape the greens and bunkers,Cano complied with Wilson's plan andadded 12 new traps.

At first, the gleaming silica sand wasused in the bunkers, but members foundit too tough. Cano then mixed the sandwith plaster, turning it a beige color, andgot better results.

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In many instances the new bunkers bite :'1into Wilson's "flower" shaped greens, and <~

they indeed present a sterner, more chal- ~lenging approach shot.

Some 50 yards was added to the overall r

length, and Colonial now measures 7085yards from the championship markers. .••.•

Six holes now feature sharper doglegs,the result of Wilson's added mounds andfairway bunkers, And the 18th green per-haps underwent the most drastic change. iJ..

The 447-yard par four finishing hole isa hilly narrow test which calls for an ex-pertly placed tee shot. The old green, how- j.

ever, was sunken and boarded on one sideby a fiendish pond, and on the other bya boundary. The pin was always hidden.

Wilson raised the green 15 ft., enlargedit twice the size, and guarded it on both ;..sides with huge bunkers which stretch al-most 30 yards and cut into the putting sur-fure. ~

Needed Construction ChangesThere was, of course, another important

reason why Colonial needed the improve-ments. It was simply a matter of good •.health. The old greens were too small, andhad no drainage. They needed air. Andthe siol was too compact. On several holes '

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They Gel TogelherTo Make More Money For You

Here are two members of the DunlopGolf Advisory Board, 1955 u. s. OpenChampion Jack Fleck and 1954 U. s.Open Champion Ed Furgol flankingVinnie Richards, Vice-President of theDunlop Tire and Rubber Corporation.Other members of this Advisory Boardinclude Paul Hahn, outstanding trickshot artist, Peter Thomson, 1955-56British Open Champion, Mike Krak,one of America's young and upcomingtournament pros and Stan Leonard,1954 Canadian Open Champion.

Like the Dunlop organization itself,the Dunlop Advisory Board is world-wide in scope, and constantly studiesways and means of improving the game

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Two Years' Tests Reported on ••.

SnowmoldControl

. By J. R. WATSON, JR.Chief Agronomist, Toro Mfg. Corp.

SNOWMOLD is' one of the most seriousdiseases of golf greens in the snow belt

(Northern United States and Canada).Fairways and tees may be attacked, butdamage is seldom as serious as on greens.

Damage to greens may range from com-plete kill to just superficial infestation.Complete kill often is associated with ex-treme environmental conditions such asa .li~gering ice pack produced by heavydrifting of snow and, low spots which arequite wet and soggy for extended periodsduring thaws. Superficial infestations re-sult from more or less mild attacks by thesnowmold organism. Generally the growthof the organism is arrested before it in-vades the crown area and, as a result,there may be a heavy cob-webby growth(mycelium) covering the surface of thegrass. When this dries, it becomes sootyblack in appearance. .

Another type of superficial infestationmay be observed when the green is mowedfor the first time. The circular spots whichmake their appearance at this time prob-ably result from infestations which havebeen arrested before complete kill hastaken place. Leaf growth has partially ob-scured the scar and when the green is cutsufficient leaf surface is removed to exposethe scarred area.

Damaged areas should be checked close-ly and periodically as soon as unaffectedgrass begins to green up. If after 7 to II!days there is no evidence of regrowth onthe damaged spots, it can generally be as-sumed that complete kill has occurred. J£this is the case, these spots should be re-moved and seeded, spot-sodded or plugged.Fortunately, complete kill is not as com-mon as the superficial types of infestation.

As a general rule, most of the snowmolddamage. can be repaired and partially ob-scured by early raking, topdressing and fer-tilization.

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. The unsightliness and delayed greeningfrom snowmold infestation, although it maybe only of a superficial nature, is morethan enough to justify treatment to controlthe disease. ,

Two organisms - Typhula itoana, the"gray snowmold," and Fusarium niuale, the"pink snowmold," are responsible for this "disease. These organisms are active between28 degrees and 42 degrees Fahrenheit:when adequate moisture is present. This en-vironment exists as the snow pack melts in _\late winter and early spring. The commonname, "Snowmold," has developed becauseof this association with melting snow. Itshould be pojnted out, however, that the rdisease will develop whenever temperatureand moisture are favorable, irrespective ofsnow coverage.

Several fungicides have been reported rand are known to be effective against thesnowmold organism. The list includes Calo-Clor-', Phenyl Mercury (PMAS, Liqua-phene, etc.), Teresan, Special Semesan and I

Cadminate.(2Trade names of chemicals and carriers in-cluded in the study are used for purposes ofclarity and convenience.)

Retaining Control Chemical

The major problem associated with con-trol of the disease is one of longevity andpersistence of the applied chemical. Thisdevelops from the necessity of applying thefungicide in late fall or early winter, afterthe soil is frozen and prior to the first snow-fall which will remain. Another problem ~is that of holding the fungicide in placewhen thaws occur in late winter - earlyspring. Often snow may melt - partiallyor completely - thus washing out or dis-sipating the. material. Subsequent springsnows may find the turf unprotected andsnowmold infestation results.

In an effort to find a material which r

would prolong the effectiveness and per-sistence of the fungicide, a snowmold testwas located on an experimental green atthe Toro Research and Development Cen-ter in 1953. This study was continued in1954 and 1955. The results reported here-in are based on the 1953-1954 tests (read-ings made in spring 1954 and 1955). The /'carriers included in the study were chosenbecause of their general use by golf coursesupts. in Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

The test involved two rates of two chem-icals (P,¥AS at 1Y2 and 3 oz.; Calo-Clor at2 and 4 oz.) and four carriers (water-spray-'sand, topdressing and processed sewagesludge-Milorganite) in all possible comb in-

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