US6A JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT CONTENDERS AND THE CUP With one thought in mind semi-finalists in the Women’s Amateur Cham­ pionship gaze longingly at the Championship trophy. Just after the happy picture was made JoAnne Gunderson, second from the left, de­ feated Judy Eller, on the left, and Jean Ashley, second from the right, defeated Mrs. Ann Casey Johnstone, on the right. Miss Gunderson, the 1957 Women’s Champion, won again this year at the Tulsa (Okla.) Coun­ try Club by 6 and 5 over Miss Ashley. SEPTEMBER, 1960 USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT Published by the United States Golf Association 1960 by United States Golf Association. Permission to reprint articles or material in the USGA © Journal and Turf Management is granted to publishers of newspapers, periodicals and books specifically noted otherwise), provided credit is given to the USGA and copyright protection Ts forded. Neither articles nor other material may be copied or used for any advertising, promotion commercial purpose. VOL. XIII, No. 5 SEPTEMBER, 1960 Through the Green ____________________________________________ 1 Golf the Mother Tongue for World Team Event_________ Joseph C. Dey, Jr. 5 Do You Know Your Golf? ______________________________________ 7 Carol Sorenson Wins Girl’s Junior Championship _____________________ 8 N. C. Morris, Elder Statesman of Golf ____________________ Ralph Moore 10 Northwest Produces Another Junior Champion _________ Robert C. Renner 12 Suspense, Fine Golf, Goodwill in Americas Cup _______________________ 15 Golf Ball Finding by Great Lady of the Game _______ Miss Margaret Curtis 17 The Use of Relaxation in Tournament Golf _____________ Bill Casper, Jr. 19 The Referee: Decisions Under the Rules of Golf______________________ 21 Turf Management: Specifications for a Method of Putting Green Construction ________ 24 Wound Dressing for Trees _______________ Prof. Donald S. Welch 29 Laboratory Methods for Evaluation of Putting Green Soil Mixtures Marvin H. Ferguson, Leon Howard, Morris E. Bloodworth 30 It’s Your Honor: Letters _______ __ ,____________________________ 33 Published seven times a year in February, April, June, July, August, September and November by the UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION 40 EAST 38th ST., NEW YORK 16, N. Y. Subscription: $2 a year. Single copies: 30c. Subscriptions, articles, photographs, and correspondence should be sent to the above address. Entered as Second-class Matter, March 3, 1950, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y„ under the Act of March 8, 1879. Additional entry at the Post Office in Pinehurst, N. C. Editor: Joseph C. Dey, Jr. Managing Editor: Sterling G. Slappey. All articles voluntarily contributed. USGA COMPETITIONS FOR 1961 Championship or Team Match Entries Close Qualifying Rounds Dates of Event Location Open May 3 Local: May 22 Sect’!.: June 6** June 15-16-17 Women’s Open June 14 None Amateur Public Links *June 1 tJune 18-25 June 29-30, July 1 July 10-15 Junior Amateur June 28 July 18 Aug. 2-5 Girls’ Junior July 28 None Women’s Amateur Aug. 2 None Walker Cup Match*** — — Aug. 14-18 Aug. 21-26 Sept. 1-2 Amateur Aug. 9 Aug. 29 Sept. 11-16 Senior Amateur Aug. 30 Sept. 19 Oct. 2-7 Oakland Hills C.C., Birmingham, Mich. Baltusrol Golf Club, Springfield, N.J. Rackham Golf Course, Detroit, Mich. Cornell University Golf Course, Ithaca, N.Y. Broadmoor Golf Club, Seattle, Wash. Tacoma Country & G.C., Tacoma, Wash, Seattle Golf Club, Seattle, Wash. Pebble Beach Course, Del Monte G. & C.C., Pebble Beach, Calif. Southern Hills C.C., Tulsa, Okla. “ Open Championship: Sectional June 5 if Qualifying Championships date local authority in charge deems may be changed to Monday, advisable. Amateur Public Links Championship: * Entries close with each Sectional Qualifying Chairman, t Exact date in each Section to be fixed by Sectional Chairman. ***Walker Cup Match: Men’s amateur teams—Great Britain vs. United States. __ Man-Eating Hazards A local rule at the Nyanza Club, Ken­ ya, British East Africa reads, “If a ball comes to rest in dangerous proximity to a hippopotamus or crocodile, another ball may be dropped at a safe distance, no nearer the hole, without penalty.” Amendment Many golf and country clubs through­ out the United States have recently en­ countered financial difficulties because of real estate tax problems. In California, for example, the problem is so acute that golf clubs and associations there have made it possible that a California consti­ tutional amendment will be voted upon in November. The amendment known as Proposition 6 on California’s November 8 ballot, would have the effect of taxing golf clubs on their value as recreational facilities instead of on some higher scale. The Executive Committee of the United States Golf Association has made the fol­ lowing statement: The United States Golf Association is cognizant of the difficulties created for many golf and country clubs by real estate assessments which are excessive for the true value of their courses as recreational facilities. The Association notes that some clubs have literally been taxed out of existence. The Association deplores tax policies which can produce such results. Such policies would seem to be short-sighted and ill-advised for they can lead to deny­ ing people the benefits of golf. Golf is a health-giving, character-build­ ing game with a high standard of sports­ manship. A golf club is an asset to a com­ munity as a social center, its green acres have unusual aesthetic values which bene­ fit the club’s neighborhood as well as its members. The mere presence of a golf course tends to enhance the value of adjacent property for residential pur­ poses. Although there is a record number of approximately 6,000 golf courses in the United States today, they are not ade­ quate to serve the interests of the golfing population. The USGA Executive Committee whole­ heartedly endorses the action of golf as­ sociations in California in seeking to have golf courses in their State assessed pro­ perly on their value as recreational facili­ ties. Grand Slam Anniversary It was 30 years ago on September 27, that Robert T. Jones, Jr., completed the “Grand Slam”—the unparalleled winning of the National Open and Amateur and the British Open and Amateur Champion­ ships in a single year. The feat stands as golf’s most remark­ able achievement. It also was the crown­ ing act at the end of an illustrious career in competitive golf; Jones retired in No­ vember, 1930, soon after completing his four-championship sweep. The third championship of this “Im­ pregnable Quadrilateral” came in the U. S. Open, July 10-12, 1930, at the Inter­ lachen Country Club, Minneapolis. Mac­ donald Smith was Jones’ biggest chal­ lenger in the final moments of the Cham­ USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: SEPTEMBER, 1960 1 pionship. Smith had almost overtaken the Atlanta amateur on the first 13 holes. The final two holes carried tremendous excitement. Jones, who had pulled into a five-stroke lead after his 68 in the third round, almost lost on the 17th hole. He sliced his drive into a water hazard and took his third five of the round on a par 3 hole. But, it was exactly the opposite on the 402-yard final hole. Jones reached the front edge in two and sank a 40-foot up­ hill putt for a birdie three that barred the door for Smith. This gave Jones a two-stroke victory margin. The final Championship of the “Grand Slam” came September 27, and it was fitting that the great amateur should com­ plete the last leg in the Amateur Cham­ pionship. Jones won at the same course— the Merion Cricket Club, Ardmore, Pa.— where he had played in his first Amateur in 1916 and also where he had won his first Amateur Championship in 1924. Gene Homans was his victim in the final round by a margin of 8 and 7. Earlier in 1930, Jones had won the Bri­ tish Amateur, defeating Roger Wethered in the final by 6 and 5, at St. Andrews, and the British Open at Hoylake, Eng­ land, with 70-72-74-75—291. To add further to his laurels that year, Jones was also Captain of the American Walker Cup team which won, 10-2, over Great Britain. Jones’ performances in National Cham­ pionships is unsurpassed. Between 1923 and 1930, Jones won 13 major champion­ ships—nine here and four in Great Bri­ tain A chart of his major tournament record in those eight years shows the measure of his dominance: 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 Lost 5th Rd. 1st 1st 1930 1st 1st 2 Lost, 2nd Rd. 1st 1st 2nd 1st 1st Lost, 1st Rd. 1st 1st, Play-off 2nd 2nd, Play-off 1st Tie, 11th 2nd, Play-off 1st, Play-off 1st Keeler Course A fine old golfing name—Oscar Bane Keeler—will soon appear once again in the world of golf. The “O. B. Keeler Golf Course” is due to open in Cobb County, Georgia, just north of Atlanta, in the autumn. The 18- hole, par 72 course, was named in honor of the late golf writer for the Atlanta Journal, who died in 1950. Mr. Keeler covered practically every golfing move made by Robert T. Jones, Jr., from his very introduction to national golf to the Grand Slam of 30 years ago. "Golf-O-Rama" In modern life we have all sorts of “O-Ramas” — “Bowl-O-Ramas,” ‘Speed-O- Ramas,” “Skate-O-Ramas.” Now, it seems, there are “Golf-O-Ramas.” The most recent was the Berkshire Hills Golf-O-Rama at the Pittsfield, Mass., Boys Club. The program included shot­ making exhibitions; displays by equip­ ment manufacturers; a talk by William O. Blaney, former Chairman of the USGA’s Handicap Procedure Committee; talks on the Rules of Golf by John Haw­ kins, of the Massachusetts Golf Associa­ tion, and John English, former Assistant Executive Director of the USGA; a clinic on turf matters by Alexander Radko, Director of the Eastern Region of the USGA Green Section. Speeches, awards and movies rounded out the program which began at 1 P. M. and ended before midnight. All proceeds went to the Berkshire Junior Golf Foundation for a scholarship program of turf study at the University of Massachusetts. Two boys already are studying at the University. More than 400 persons attended the night session and the whole affair was considered a fine success. Course Rating Origins The origins of the USGA Course Rating System go far back. In a recent letter Raynor M. Gardiner, a Boston attorney, traced one of the roots: “Most people have long since forgotten, and I had almost forgotten myself, that in about 1926 when I was president of the Massachusetts Golf Association, one of our Executive Committee members, Horace Workman, and I invented what USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: SEPTEMBER, 1960 was then called the Massachusetts Golf Course Ratings.” Mr. Gardiner recalled that he and Mr. Workman decided that par was “a very poor” measuring stick so they originated the course rating idea. He added that he felt the only serious mistake made in the beginning was to assume that the scratch golfer invariably got a nice long drive down the middle. “However, since scratch golfers do not spray their tee shots very often the de­ fect in our original system was not too serious,” he said. For some time two schools of thought had existed. The Massachusetts Golf As­ sociation had sponsored the idea of the theoretical scratch golfer against whose performance all courses were to be rated. The Chicago District Golf Associa­ tion had developed the fractional par method of rating courses, based on actual performances recorded for individual holes. Both methods had certain merit, so now these two ideas have been blended together in the new USGA Course Rating System. Jail Birdie Three times Thomas Stovall, 81, has done time at the Federal Correction In­ stitution at Danbury, Conn. In a way each incarceration was a pleasure and the good game of golf was the reason. On the first of Mr. Stovall’s visits to the Institution, he says he sharpened up his game by playing often on a course at the Correction home. The second visit was equally pleasurable and for the same reason. By the finish of his third sentence, Mr. Stovall was playing really well. Now, he has waived a hearing in Chi­ cago on charges of cashing a rubbery $30 check and requested permission to do his time at Danbury. Little is known about his handicap but by the time he is a free man again, it should be quite low. Amateurs Amateur golfers on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean made outstanding bids in the two national open championships— the United States Open and the British Open. 1959 Amateur Champion Jack Nick- laus finished second with 282 in the U. S. Open, only two strokes behind Arnold Palmer. Amateur Don Cherry finished in a tie for 11th with 284. For company in the tie, Cherry had Ben Hogan and Jerry Barber. In the British Open there were three amateurs among the top 12. Guy Wolsten- holme was sixth with 283, Joe Carr was eighth with 285 and David Blair was 12th with 286. Kel Nagle, of Australia, won with 278. Nicklaus’ finish was the highest in the United States Open by an Amateur since 1933 when John Goodman, then an ama­ teur, won the Championship. Frank Stranahan, at the time an amateur, finished in a tie for second place in the British Open Championship of 1953—the year Ben Hogan won. Big Winners Speaking of domination? How are these examples? Miss Philomena Garvey, of County Louth, Ireland, has won the Irish Ladies’ Championship 12 times. Henri de Lamaze, of France, has won the French Amateur Championship 11 times. Necrology It is with deep regret that we record the deaths of: Mrs. Genevieve Hecker Stout, of New York, winner of both the USGA Women’s Amateur and Metropolitan Women’s Amateur Championships in 1901 and 1902. She won the Metropolitan title again in 1905 and 1906. Keith Conway, of Atlanta, member of the USGA Sectional Affairs Committee since 1938. He was past president of the Atlanta Golf Association and vice presi­ dent and director of the Georgia Golf Association. Books Golf for Women by Louise Suggs as­ sisted by six other women professionals (Rutledge Books, $3.95). Each profes­ sional contributed at least one chapter on a phase of play. Much of the text is in the form of giving a lesson. There are several hundred pictures. Other contri­ butors: Marlene Bauer Hagge, Beverly Hanson, Jackie Pung, Barbara Romack, Joyce Ziske and Ruth Jessen. USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: SEPTEMBER, 1960 3 FIRST INTERCOLLEGIATE CHAMPIONS Solomon A. Smith, now a Chicago banker, visited “Golf House” and presented this picture of the Yale University Golf Team of 1897 which won the first intercollegiate golf championship. Teams from Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Columbia competed. The historic picture shows John Reid, Jr., son of the founder of St. Andrews Golf Club, Yonkers, N. Y., who was one of the very earliest figures in American golf. W. B. Smith, standing on the left, brother of the donor of the picture, was runner-up to the late Findlay S. Douglas in the Amateur Championship of 1898. Standing: W. B. Smith, Craig Colgate, Reid, Solomon Smith. Seated Roderick Terry, Jr., W. Rosseter Betts. 4 USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: SEPTEMBER, 1960 GOLF THE MOTHER TONGUE FOR WORLD TEAM EVENT By JOSEPH C. DEY, JR. USGA Executive Director If you were asked to serve as a rules official in the World Amateur Golf Team Championship, your first fearful impulse might be to rush for the aid of interpreters: there were to be teams of 33 countries in the Championship late this month at the Merion Golf Club, in the Philadelphia suburbs. Similar fears had arisen before the first World Championship at St. Andrews, Scotland, in October, 1958. Some officials, linguistically limited to English, visu­ alized being called out to a remote corner of The Loop on the Old Course, perhaps to answer a Far Eastern competitor’s questions about the technicalities of ob­ taining relief from an artificial obstruc­ tion. But all such fears were baseless. All the players spoke Golf, incidentally using English, and they all were animated by the spirit of Golf. A shank is a shank in Malaya as well as at Merion. To the surprise of no one, at St. An­ drews the players, many coming together for the first time, re-discovered the unity of golfers bound to common ideals. There­ in was seen a glimmering of the unity intended for mankind. This, then, is the real significance of the second World Amateur Team Cham­ pionship at Merion this month. It is as the inscription on the Eisenhower Tro­ phy hopefully proclaims: To Foster Friendship and Sportsmanship Among the Peoples of the World The Championship is for the Eisen­ hower Trophy, but there is a side event which is fully as expressive of the spirit of the occasion. The side event is for the Delegates and Duffers Cup, open to officials, non-playing captains and guests; it is being held at the Gulph Mills Golf Club before the Championship proper. A suggestion by President Eisenhower led to the Delegates and Duffers competi­ tion. When the Championship Planning Conference was held at Washington in The Eisenhower Trophy May, 1958, the President received the delegates at the White House and said in part: “I suggest, aside from the four hot-shot golfers you bring, that you take along some high-handicap fellows and let them play at their full handicap . . . This way golf doesn’t become so important. After a match the scratch fellow remembers one thing . . . and tells all his friends for the rest of his life that he could have won that international match if he hadn’t hit the ball into the water on the 16th. But the high handicappers know darn well there’s no use telling their families or their friends about their golf, so they will talk more about St. Andrews, and about the wonderful Scotch people, and everybody they met there.” This prompted Gabriel Tudela, Presi­ dent of the National Golf Commission of Peru, to propose a “Delegates and Duffers USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: SEPTEMBER, 1960 5 Cup” event for officials and non-playing captains. When Seymour Marvin, Brazil’s non-playing Captain, accepted the Dele­ gates and Duffers Cup as first winner at St. Andrews, he said: “We came not with the expectation of winning (the Cham­ pionship) but rather to contribute what we could to the occasion merely by be­ ing present.” How It All Came About The World Amateur Golf Council and its Championship are traceable to a sug­ gestion for a team match between high- handicap players of Japan and the United States; it flowered into something totally different. The chronology of unfoldment was remarkable. The three main stages occurred in Asia, North America and Europe. Reduced to six brief scenes, this is how it came about: Scene 1—Tokyo; October, 1957: Dur­ ing the Canada Cup international profes­ sional event, Japanese golf-lovers asked Juan T. Trippe, New York businessman and long-time golf devotee, to inquire whether the United States Golf Associa­ tion would be willing to sponsor a team of high-handicap amateurs for a match with Japan. Scene 2—New York; November, 1957: Mr. Trippe delivered the Japanese mes­ sage to a USGA official, who saw no prospect of USGA sponsorship of a team of high handicappers. However, the USGA official suggested a competition which could bring together the best players of all countries and accommodate all possible interests. (The USGA had been receiving invitations for matches periodically from other countries and could not accept them. Also, the USGA had been asked to try to have golf in­ cluded in the Olympics.) Scene 3—Chicago; January 23, 1958: The USGA Executive Committee ap­ proved in principle a plan for a World Amateur Team Championship, and de­ cided to seek the cooperation of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. An­ drews, Scotland. Scene 4—St. Andrews; March 6-8, 1958: USGA representatives John D. Ames, President, and Joseph C. Dey, Jr., Execu­ tive Director, made a confidential flying mission to St. Andrews, presented the plan to the R. and A.’s General Commit­ tee, and proposed St. Andrews as the scene of the first Championship later in Totton P. Heffelfinger of Minneapolis, Minn., will be the Non-Playing Captain of the United States Team. Mr. Heffelfinger was USGA President in 1952-53. the year. The R. and A. cooperated to the full, led by Henry H. Turcan, Chair­ man of the General Committee; N. C. Selway, Chairman of the Championship Committee, and Brig. Eric Brickman, Secretary. Scene 5—Washington; May 2-3, 1958: After invitations from the USGA-R. and A. Interim Committee had gone to every country in the world, 39 gentlemen rep­ resenting national amateur golf associa­ tions in 35 countries met in Washington; airplane transportation was provided by American friends of golf. They created the World Amateur Golf Council, with 32 original Member Organizations, and plan­ ned the first Championship. President Eisenhower received the delegates in the 6 USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: SEPTEMBER, 1960 Rose Garden of the White House on May 2, and consented to a request that the Championship prize be known as the Eisenhower Trophy; it was given anony­ mously by present and former USGA of­ ficials. Scene 6—St. Andrews; October 8-11 and 13, 1958: The first Championship was held, with teams from 29 countries. Australia was the Champion after an 18- hole play-off of a tie with the United States, 222 to 224, best three out of four scores. Birdie 3s on the home green by Captain Robert Stevens and Bruce Dev­ lin constituted Australia’s winning mar­ gin. The other members of the Australian team were Peter Toogood and Douglas Bachli. The American side comprised Charles R. Coe, William Hyndman, III, William J. Patton and Dr. Frank M. Tay­ lor, Jr., with Robert T. Jones, Jr., as Non-Playing Captain. In the 72-hole Championship proper Australia and the United States tied at 918, the best three out of four scores in each round count­ ing. Great Britain and Ireland was third with 919 and New Zealand fourth with 921. DO YOU KNOW YOUR GOLF? Here is a golf competition in which there’s no waiting on the first tee, you play as you sit, use a pencil instead of clubs, and a round can be played in­ doors at night. But you need to know something about the Rules of Golf, etiquette, definitions, history and records of the game. The answers for the questions are given on Page 20. 1. Who is the only male golfer to rep­ resent the United States in international team competition with Great Britain both as an amateur and as a professional? Can you also name the years he represented the United States. 2. Who is the only Briton to play against the United States as an amateur and as a professional? Can you also name the years he represented Britain? 3. Which player participated in an ama­ teur international competition for Britain and a professional international competi­ tion for the United States? Can you also name the years? 4. During a round may a player carry­ ing fewer than 14 clubs add as many clubs as will bring his total to the legal limit of 14? 5. In what year and on what course was the United States’ only loss in Walker Cup matches? 6. What is the penalty if a player uses an artificial device for measuring or gauging distance or conditions which might affect his play? 7. Name six trophy competitions com­ peted for internationally by golfers. 8. What is meant by “Equipment” in the Rules of Golf? 9. Which victory in the National Open Championship has often been called “The Miracle Victory?” Why has it been so called? 10. In post World War II playings of the Open Championship what has been the best showing by an amateur? 11. What is the largest margin by which one player can defeat another in an 18- hole match play round? 12. What is the proper procedure for dropping and what is the penalty if the ball comes to rest against the player? 13. In four-ball match play if a player’s ball moves another’s ball, is there any penalty? 14. In four-ball match play if a player’s ball knocks another player’s ball into the hole, has the owner of the moved ball holed out? 15. In singles match play if a player’s ball moves his opponent’s ball, must the opponent replace his ball? 16. Approximately how many golf courses are there now in the United States? 17. What is the oldest national golf championship in the United States? In which year was it first held? 18. Can a player take a practice stroke (with a ball) during the play of a hole? USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: SEPTEMBER, 1960 7 CAROL SORENSON WINS GIRLS’ JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP Plays 109 Holes at Tulsa Destiny is defined in the dictionary as “the predetermined course of events often conceived as a resistless power or agency.” While Carol Sorenson’s bold, attacking style of golf truly earned victory in the 1960 USGA Girls’ Junior Championship, it seemed several times that destiny may have been at her side. The maximum number of holes, in­ cluding the qualifying round, expected in a Girls’ Junior Championship is 108. But, Miss Sorenson played 109 at The Oaks Country Club, Tulsa, Oklahoma, site of the 1960 playing. The route of the 17-year old thereby became the longest— and one of the toughest—for any cham­ pion in the 12-year history of the Girls’ Junior. Only once during the entire Champion­ ship did Miss Sorenson fail to play to the 18th green. This occasion came in the final round when she won her match with Miss Sharon Fladoos, 17, of Du­ buque, Iowa, by 2 and 1. The 109-hole total includes an 18-hole qualifying round, three matches which went the distance, a 20th hole victory in the third round over 13-year old Roberta Anne Albers, plus the final against Miss Fladoos. Defending Champion Judy Rand and Miss Sorenson were co-medalists, in the qualifying round, with one-under-par 76s. There were several times when it ap­ peared that Miss Sorenson’s opponents had the best of her, but each time she came back. The most notable example of this came in Miss Sorenson’s semi-final match with 15-year-old Judy Torluemke, of St. Louis, Mo., low amateur in the 1960 Women’s Open Championship. Miss Sorenson was one up after six holes but then three-putted two out of the next three to lose all three and find herself two down at the turn. Miss Torluemke looked unbeatable af­ ter winning the 148-yard 11th with a birdie two to assume a three up margin Carol Sorenson, 1960 Girls’ Junior Cham­ pion, accepts congratulations from Run­ ner-up Sharon Fladoos while John M. Winters, Jr., USGA Vice-President and Mrs. John Pennington, Chairman of the USGA Girls’ Junior Committee look on. and she carried it through the 13th hole. In retrospect, it appears that destiny stepped up to Miss Sorenson’s side on the 14th tee where it looked as if she was hopelessly beaten. Miss Sorenson pro­ ceeded to win the next four holes in a row to assume a one up lead on the 17th hole and halve the final hole to win one up. Over that four-hole route on which par is 3-4-5-5, Miss Sorenson went 3-4-4-4. Another example came in the final match against Miss Fladoos on the tough 454-yard 16th hole where there is a green with a sharp downhill slope. Holding only a slim, one up lead at this point, Miss Sorenson found herself about 20 feet short of the green on her third shot while Miss Fladoos had dropped her third shot on the green 16 feet from the pin. Miss Sorenson’s wedge shot stopped 11 feet short and it seemed at this point that the match would be all even going to the 17th tee. 8 USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: SEPTEMBER, 1960 Miss Fladoos’ first putt was short by two feet. Here is where destiny may have appeared again. Miss Sorenson step­ ped up and dropped her 11-footer. Then Miss Fladoos who had been putting magnificently all week, sadly saw her two- footer lip the cup. She three-putted for a six and was two down. This was the all-important hole in the final match. Miss Sorenson appeared surely to be losing the hole and would have been all even; but instead she won and was two up. In her opening round match with Nancy Jean Way, of Grand Rapids, Mich., Miss Sorenson saw her four-hole lead, after 13 holes, melt after losing holes No. 14-15-16. But, Miss Sorenson didn’t buckle; instead she birdied the 18th hole for her two up margin. Against Jeannie Thompson, of Tulsa, Okla., in the second round, Miss Soren­ son lost the last three holes of the front side and was one down. Miss Thompson went two up on No. 10 before Miss Soren­ son won three of the next five holes for a one up victory. Was destiny with Miss Sorenson? Miss Sorenson was playing in only her second USGA Girls’ Junior Champion­ ship. She was a semi-finalist in 1959 at the Manor Country Club, Norbeck, Md., before bowing to Miss Marcia G. Hamil­ ton, of Evansville, Ind., one up. First starting golf at the age of six, the refreshing, mild-mannered daughter of a Janesville, Wis., school teacher has come a long way. She is the Wisconsin Women’s Amateur Champion, for the second year in a row. She was medalist and won the Women’s Western Junior Championship in 1959, plus the Wiscon­ sin Junior Championship in 1956 and 1958. The other finalist, Miss Fladoos, similarly played outstanding golf through­ out the Championship. Her path to the finals was easier. She defeated Miss Margaret Jones, of Fort Mitchell, Ky., 7 and 6 in the first round; Miss Sue Jen- nett, 4 and 3, in the second round; Miss Sandra Haynie, of Austin, Texas, two up in the third round; and Miss Ann Baker, of Maryville, Tenn., 3 and 2, in the semi­ finals, before bowing to Miss Sorenson in the finals. One of the feature matches of the tour­ nament was the Fladoos-Haynie battle. SUBSCRIBERS TO U.S.G.A. GREEN SECTION RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FUND, INC. Augusta National Golf Augusta, Ga. San Antonio, Tex. West Newton 65, Mass. Tulsa, Okla. Oklahoma City, Okla. Magliaso Tessin, Switzerland Lynn, Mass. Club, Catto & Putty, Clapper Co., Bob Dunning, Floyd Farley, Donald Harradine, Lionel MacDuff, Metropolitan Golf National Golf Fund, Inc., New England Golf Writers' Association, Manhasset, N. Y. Dunedin, Fla. Association, Boston, Mass. Connecticut State Golf Association Maine State Golf Association Massachusetts State Golf Association New England Golf Association New Hampshire State Golf Association Rhode Island State Golf Association Vermont State Golf Association Bernard H. Ridder, Jr., St. Paul, Minn. Marietta, Ohio J. H. Watson, Miss Haynie had thwarted Miss Rand’s hopes of becoming a repeat winner of the Girls’ Junior in the second round by a two up margin. Misses Fladoos and Hay­ nie were all even after 15 holes before Miss Fladoos birdied Nos. 16 and 18 for a two up margin. Miss Fladoos’ game was marked by accuracy off the tee and fine putting. An incident came in the third round involving Miss Torluemke. She was in a small bunker behind the 13th green and was seen to be apparently sweeping sand out of the front edge. When Mrs. John Pennington, Chairman of the USGA Girls’ Junior Committee went over, she saw that Miss Torluemke was simply trying to lift out a live snake. When she finally suc­ ceeded in getting it out, Mrs. Pennington proceeded to step on and kill the snake. In spite of this fright, Miss Torluemke calmly blasted her ball out and it landed right next to the pin. An 18-hole stroke play consolation event was held at the Southern Hills Country Club, in Tulsa for first round losers. The winner was Jane Bostrom with a score of 79. The tournament was a grand success and The Oaks Country Club, especially General Chairman Marian Askew and Mrs. Carl Hotz, were gracious hoc