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Haig^Ultra golf ball .. .costs no more than the next best ball T h e Haig U l t r a ' g o l f b a l l Is p r o d u c e d u n d e r " T e m p e r a t u r e C o n t r o l l e d W i n d i n g and P r o c e s s i n g " that m a k e s It stay livelier l o n g e r . T h i s exclusive Haig U l t r a c o n s t r u c t i o n f e a t u r e h e l p s deliver m a x i m u m d i s t a n c e and t r u e , a c c u r a t e p e r f o r m a n c e . Each Haig U l t r a bait is i n d i v i d u a l l y t e s t e d to I n s u r e u n i f o r m p e r f o r m a n c e a n d " f e e l . " T h e true l i q u i d c e n t e r i n s t a n t l y t r a n s m i t s i m p a c t p o w e r to t h e r u b b e r w i n d i n g s . D i s t i n c t i v e " H a i g U l t r a " m a r k i n g s are b i g a n d b o l d f o r e a s y identification. Ultra-white polyurethane f i n i s h will not chip off, s t a y s g l e a m i n g w h i t e r o u n d after r o u n d . Like the great W a l t e r H a g e n , w h o w o n five P G A C h a m p i o n s h i p s a n d t w o U . S . O p e n s , the H a i g U l t r a b a l l is u n s u r p a s s e d in p e r f o r m a n c e a n d a p p e a r a n c e . V e t it c o s t s n o m o r e t h a n t h e next b e s t hall, A v a i l a b l e only through golf professional shops. Walter Hagen Golf • Grand Rapids. Michigan

Si* skylights help illuminate interior of car storage building at Mlddletown club. Building has a concrete floor and eight-foot wide overhead door.

Pre-engineered additions permit quick, inexpensive expansion in keeping with the building's original lines. Six reinforced plastic sky-lichts provide illumination in the storage buil" building. Supports are tioned in walls, rails, allowing complete reedom of movement on the asphalt floor, An 8-ft wide overhead door permits easy maneuvering of cars in and out of the building,

Date Conflicts Straightened Out; World Series to Go On The second World Series of Golf will be played at Firestone CC in Akron, O., Sept. 7-8. The winners of the U. S. and British Open and P G A Championship will compete against Jack Nicklaus, Masters winner, for the $50,000 first prize. The runnerup will receive $15,000 and the third and fourth place finishers, $5,00(1 each. An additional 320,000 will he contributed to the prize purse of the Utah Open, which will be completed the same weekend as the World Series is played. The dates of last year's World Series conflicted with ihose of the Denver Open and a great stir was created. So, the contribution to the Utah Open can be construed as something of a peace offering. The Series now has official PGA status. Ten per cent of the Akron prize will be paid to the professional association by sponsors of the World Series.

G a r a g e accommodates 36 cars and can be expanded, if necessary. It cost less than $5,000 to erect this structure.

More than 200 stations will carry 90minute colorcasts of the Series on both the 7th and 8th. To insure that four players will take part in the Series, the sponsors have set up a system whereby alternates will compete in case there is a multiple winner in the qualifying championships,

J a y c e e Golf Tourney to be Held in Texas The 18th Intcrnatiomal Jaycee junior golf tourney will be played Aug, 18-23 at Midland and Ranchland Hill CCs, Midland, Tex. For the first time there will be special qualifying events at the local, state and national levels for novice as well as championship flight players.

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" M o k e the finest, most effective g o l f instruction motion picture possible using the best professional golfers and the techniques of leading teachers familiar w i t h the g a m e . " In a few words, this was the objective laid down by the National Golf Foundation 16 months ago as it prepared to pick He ji: a team that could do the job - better than it had ever been done before. W h a t better place to look for top pros than in the P G A Educational Committee? Three were named: D o n Fischesser, chairman, and pro at the Evansville ( I n d . ) C C ; Johnny Vasco, pro at L e H i g h Valley C C , Allentown, Pa.; and Irv Scnloss of Dunedin Fla. To find the best teaching talent, the Foundation selected a leader in the field — Les Bolstad, P G A member and assistant professor and golf coach of the University of Minnesota. To make sure the woman's angle was properly presented, two L P G A members rounded out the staff. They were Ellen Griffin, associate professor, Woman's College of the University

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Teaching Aids Needed There was little question about the need for such a project. A million new golfers joined the ranks of players in the last two years. Another 750,009 are anticipated in 1963 which swells the total to over 6,000,000 players. Golfs popularity is increasing even faster than the population explosion. It is leaping along in an area where more instructors. more playing facilities and more visual aids are going to be sorely needed — among the 32 million youngsters between 10 and 19 years old. Experts, incidentally, predict 41 million in that bracket b y 1970. As long ago as 1958, the Foundation began studying the school golf market and spotted a startling demand for more golf instruction in the nation's colleges and high schools — even among Junior high and elementary schools! For example, one survey that year showed that only

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Is that time-honored institution, the Nineteenth Hole, a necessary adjunct of a golf or country club? The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania seems to think that it is. That court ruled recently that a catering club liquor license should be granted to the Willowbrook Country C l u b located in Allegheny t w p . , Westmoreland County, although the Pennsylvania liquor control board had turned d o w n the club's application for a license. Before the matter reached the supreme court, two lower courts had reversed the liquor board's ruling. The board appealed their decision to the Supreme Court, The Pennsylvania statutes governing the issuance of liquor licenses permit licenses, in addition to the regular town quota, to be issued in a resort area. Willowbrook contended that its property was in such an area. After a lengthy discussion of various definitions of resort areas, the supreme court affirmed the ruling of the

superior court that Willowbrook was in fact located in a resort area. In discussing the reasons for permitting additional licenses in such areas, the court said in part: "A study of the proceedings before the legislature when this enactment was adopted is evidence that it was intended thereby to render an equitable distribution of such licenses in areas, where during certain seasons, the population is increased to such an extent that the usual number of licenses is not adequate to serve the needs of the people, Not Enough Licenses "Under the undisputed facts, there is an unusual and great influx of people into this particular area during certain seasons of the year. It is quite obvious to us that the character and number of the usual licenses could not possibly meet the existing need. "In the instant case there are no licensed premises located within five miles of the Willowbrook C C . Additionally, all presently licensed premises are small taverns lacking adequate facilities to serve the large number of people Willowbrook caters to. The testimony clearly manifests a substantial need in relation to the pleasure, convenience and general welfare of

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of those injured were struck by clubs, and about the same number were the victims of heat prostration. Overexertion disabled seven per cent of the total. Players were injured in more than half the cases reported. Around 6,300 caddies and 900 course workmen also were victimized, according to the institute. An Institute spokesman pointed out that while golf ear accidents accounted for only about seven per cent of the casualty total, continued recklessness on the part of drivers may easily result in a sharp uptrend in course mishaps.

1962 Course Mishaps Up 20 Per Cent Over Previous Year A two-year survey of golf accidents throughout the country by the Institute for Safer Living of the American Mutual Liability Insurance Co., reveals that more than 1.300 disabling injuries resulted in 1962 from spills, collisions and other mishaps involving golf ears. This is said to be a sharp increase over the previous year. The Institute emphasizes that as in the majority of highway accidents, the cause is not the vehicle, but the driver. More than 18,000 disabling golf injuries of all types were recorded in 1962. This is an increase of about 3,000 over the previous year. 10,000 Hit by Golf Balls Approximately J. 0,000 persons were struck by golf balls. Nearly It) per cent

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