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RCGA Reports SteadyIncrease in Member Clubs

The Royal Canadian GA realized anexcess of revenue over expenses of $1,027in 1961. Total revenue amounted tomore than $51,000, about $3,500 lessthan it had been the previous year, andnet revenue was approximately $7,000lower than it had been in 1960. Surplusat the end of the year amounted to about$39,000.

A report of the member hip and pub-lic relations committee of the RCGA showsthat membership fees paid to the Associ-ation have increased by about 50 percent in the last four years. There were512 clubs in the Association in 1961 ascompared to 470 in 1960. Clubs now

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in the RCGA have total membership ofabout 77,000.

Retained as DirectorC. E. Robinson, who resigned about a

year ago as secretary-manager of theRCGA was retained as director of thegreen section. The Association playeda part in the conducting of three turf-grass conferences in 1961. In its re-port, the section cited the work of CyCreed, supt. at Niakawa CC, Winnipeg,for bringing his course into such sterlingcondition for the Canadian Open de-spite extremely adverse conditions.

Canada's National Golf Week in 1961was conducted by Provincial Golf As-sociations. The Quebec GA had grossrevenue of $5,605 and the Ontario GA,$3,133, to lead the provincial organi-zations in raising money for variousCanadian golf projects.

Other developments that were citedin the RCGA report include: Enlarge-ment of the handicap system to cover9-hole play on 9-hole courses; Coopera-tion by the Association in translating theRules of Golf into French; and retentionof consulting engineers by the rules com-mittee for te ting golf balls for minimumsize and maximum weight.

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Toughest Part of the Job

Pity the Poor MenWho Put FinishingTouch on the Course

By ROBERT A. SIMMONSGolf Course Architect

Kokomo, Indiana

After many years of building and de-signing golf courses, I have come

to the conclusion that the unsung heroesof golf are the men or committees who ac-cept the responsibility of finishing acourse after the construction people havedeparted.

I've seen nature throw every trickin her black book at these people andwatched them work from daylight tilldark overcoming the troubles they fallheir to.

I have seen droughts that have lastedfor months and rains that continued untilmany fairways were flooded. I've seencloudbursts wash out greens and hurri-canes blow down hundreds of trees.Too often, unseasonal cold spells havefrozen out newly germinated grass.

There are other handicaps for whichyou can't blame nature. For example, in-stalling a water system in the desert inthe summer months or through solid rock,or trying to grow grass on fairwavs wherethere is four inches of topsoil over saltysand pumped out of the ocean. I've evenseen people insist that a supt. try togrow grass in the dormant season.

Complication In WateringAt Moon Valley in the desert n ar

Phoenix, Ariz., I saw Jim Snyder, thsupt., work in June, July, and Augustinstalling the most complicated, and theb st, sprinkling system I hav ever seenon a course. The way his course is laidout ther are to b homes along eachfairway. The course is watered from oneprop rty line across the rough, fairway,and opposite rough to the other propertyline. Every quare foot of the course iswatered. Three separate water lines runthrough each fairway. Eight and six-

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inch lines are installed down the centerof the fairway, and four-inch lines alongeach side.

Snyder's job was further complicatedby the kind of pipe that was used. Itwas a concrete pipe with a steel jacketaround it. It is an excellent pipe butcaused fitting problems. Whenever a cuthad to be made, the steel jack t had tobe cut so the pipe would be th corr ctlength. Then it had to be welded to-gether again before bing dropped intoplace.

I completed construction of CypressLake C cours in Fort Mey rs, Fla., thelast week in April and a committ e tookover the r sponsibility of in taIling thewater system and seeding and putting the

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finishing touches on the course.Trenches Had to be Blasted

Installing this system was complicatedby outcroppings of rock and made neces-sary the use of dynamite in digging everyfoot of the fairway trenches. This, ofcourse took much time. Rock was blownall over the course and had to be clean dup. This being the growing season inFlorida, we ds took over before the watercould be turned on. Ormand Bermudawas planted on the fairways, and Tifton328 on the greens, but b fore plantingcould be started, the weeds had to becut and cleaned out. This did much dam-age to contours that had to be r pairedand delayed further the finishing of the

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the Cypress Lake course.That wasn't the end of the trouble.

As the work was completed, hurricaneDonna came blowing around the southerntip of Florida and turned north up thewest coast. The core of the hurricaneblew directly over the course. Hundredsof trees were blown down and severalfairways were flooded. After the waterreceded and the debris cleaned up thedormant season was coming on. Butafter much hard work and perserverancethe job was completed, grass was grownand th course was ready for play forthe winter season.

At the Royal Montreal GC we hadonly one problem but a erious one. \Vewere building a 45 hole golf course andhad promised to get it built and seeded

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in one short Canadian summer. We hadevery piece of equipment that we couldpossibly use, all of the manpower wecould keep busy and all the material wecould get. I was in charge of all earth-moving and shaping of greens, tees, bunk-ers and contouring. The water systemwas being installed by the Atlas Co. ofMontreal. Harry Owens, the course supt.who has been at Royal Montreal for 38years, was in charge of all topsoiling,preparation of fairways, fertilizing andseeding.

At one time during construction wehad 34 pieces of bulldozer type equipmentworking, and counting trucks, pumps, trac-tors, stone pickers, we had a total of 150pieces of motorized equipment in action.

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ing of a hole, Atlas would come alongwith the water and Harry would followwith the topsoil. As quickly as the watercould be turned on, he would do theseeding. All topsoil for the greens wasprepared and stored in a central pile.When it was hauled to the green site,Harry had it dumped off to the side andhauled on with wheelbarrows when neces-sary. Grading was by hand.

The fairways there were so full ofstones it was nearly impossible to takea step without stepping on one and theonly way to get them clean was to pickthe stones by hand. More than 100 menhandpicked them from a single fairwayat a time, and then went over it asmany as five times picking up everystone down to the size of a marble.

Topsoil Four Miles AwayWe built the Lyford Cay course at

Nassau in the Bahamas on solid rock.All greens, bunkers, contours, etc., werebuilt out of the rock. The only topsoilon the island had to be hauled four milesto cover the entire course. I did all thefinishing of this course and actually didmost of it three times. Just as I finishedseeding in January, 1958, we had anunseasonal hurricane and got four inchesof rain in two hours. We had anticipatedheavy rainfall and had dug four-feet-deepconversion ditches at the bottom of thehill to catch the water coming downand take it around the golf course andout to sea. But there was too much rainin such a short time and it ran over theditches and flooded the golf course andwashed most of the soil and seed out tosea. We had just completed the workagain and on March 10 we had a three-inch rain in 25 minutes. Soil and seedwere gone again.

When I was halfway finished with theseeding the next time, Jim Yancey cameover as supt. and I turned the job overto him and caught the next plane toFlorida. Water at Lyford Cay i furnishedby windmills pumping into a reservoir andfrom there it is pumped to the course.It always is in short supply. Yancy per-sonally supervised the sprinkling 24 hoursa day, directing the moving of the sprink-lers and the length of time that they werekept at ea h location. In just a fewshort months the course was bing r cog-nized as the finest in that part of theworld, thanks to Jim's car in the postbuilding p riod.

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