Super Shafts for SUPER WOODS from Toney Penna

Toney Penna adds the most exciting shaft development in golf to SUPER WOODS. The Toney Penna line of custom-built clubs is now available with Aldila graphite shafts. These new woods are made for the golfer who seeks added distance, improved accuracy, and superior club craftsmanship. Recent testing of Aldila graphite shafts by tour pros, engineers, and golf writers has displayed an average distance gain of more than 10 per cent. The graphite shaft is up to 60 per cent lighter than conventional steel shafts. This permits the use of more weight in the clubhead and still keeps overall weight under that of a steel-shafted club. Increased clubhead speed and greater kinetic energy at impact pay off in extra distance up to 30 yards.

Improved accuracy is an equally important result. Because of the unique characteristics of Aldila graphite, the club face at impact remains square to the intended flight path of the ball. This reduces lateral shot dispersion by as much as 40 per cent over steel-shafted clubs. Additional advantages of the Aldila graphite shaft include greater stiffness range, superior durability, higher absorption of im-pact shock, and fastest shaft recovery. Toney Penna has added the graphite shaft to SUPER WOODS and SUPER BLADE Irons to give every golfer these advantages.

The superior quality and performance of Toney Penna SUPER WOODS stem from ex-ceptional craftsmanship and solid, proven design. Each SUPER WOOD is literally hand-made, balanced, and finished to the highest quality standards. Every wood is individually made to the golfer's exact specifications.

Clubheads are created from the finest per-simmon or laminated woods. Inserts are of tough, lively Cycolac. All components are in-dividually fitted and epoxy-locked for maxi-mum durability and power. This virtually elim-inates loosening or breakage and improves weather resistance. The shaft penetrates through the clubhead to the sole plate and is also epoxied. The Master Screw Weight . . . a Penna-orig-inated feature . . . permits precise swing-weighting of each SUPER WOOD. Volumetric Facing minimizes spin that causes hooking or slicing and concentrates power in a focalized area for improved accuracy and more con-sistent distance.

Toney Penna SUPER WOODS and SUPER BLADE Irons are available in a wide selection of models, shaft flexes, and swing weights for men and women. Woods are beautifully ap-pointed in a variety of distinctive, durable finishes: Black, Mahogany Mist, Cloud, or Golden Mist. Each club is individually in-spected for compatibility of head and shaft to assure Total Playability. Toney Penna clubs and Aldila graphite shafts make a super combination. Add up the ad-vantages and order through your golf pro-fessional. Write or call the Toney Penna Com-pany for further information.

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ARTICLES H O W TO A T T A C K VANDALISM experts say that traditional methods—chain fences, burglar alarm systems, patrols and watchdogs—do not get at the core of the prob-lem/by douglas lutz 1 6 " W H A T ABOUT T H O S E GRAPHITE S H A F T S ? " this is the hottest topic of discussion in golf circles t o d a y / b y joe doan 20 SERVICE: T H E P O T E N T PROFIT T O O L service above a l l " is the motto at col umbine's pro shop, and sales volume proves the wisdom of these w o r d s / b y jerry claussen 2 8 PLANNED PROFIT AT FRIENDLY HILLS with his new pro shop, new design and dis-play techniques, pro bruce wyatt has increased his gross revenue by 39 per cent/by marion b o n d _ 3 4 T H E PROFITABLE T R I O the team approach, says the author, is the only way to oper-ate a golf course profitably and eff iciently/by paul voykin 37 T R A N S I T I O N T R A P superintendents who work in the "transition zone have an espe-cial ly difficult j o b — w h i c h is being made easier by turfgrass research, this work also benefits those in other z o n e s / b y thomas I. watschke 40 T U R F G R A S S RESEARCH IN JEOPARDY the proposed reduction in federal funds for agricultural research can have far reaching effects on the total turfgrass industry/by dr. james b. beard 45 H O W ARE CLUBS FARING IN T H E OSHA S T O R M ? osha now is trying to educate employers to help in creating safe working conditions, rather than simply penalizing noncompl iance/by ken emerson 46 NON-PROFIT S T A T U S : DOES IT M E A N MORE T H A N M O N E Y ? this month's article deals with how a change in status affects a club's liquor l icense as well as its status under state and local taxes/by jack janetatos 50

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7 7 i e course looks great this summer "

"And he seems to be spraying less often

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This summer, give your members two things they will really appreciate. A green, healthy playing surface and far less interference from spraying equipment. You can, if you take the second step in the Du Pont TERSAN® 1-2-3 Disease Control Program and start spraying TERSAN 1991 on your tees, fairways and greens now. It does an outstanding job of controlling Dollar Spot and Large Brown Patch. Used as directed, it can actually stop these summer turf diseases before they have a chance to damage your turf. On greens and tees you reduce spraying time sharply, because you apply TERSAN 1991 only every 10 to 14 days. This DuPont fungicide combines preventive and curative (eradicant) properties for better, longer-lasting disease control. With this second step in the TERSAN 1-2-3 Program, along with the first and third steps taken in the spring and fall, you control all major turf diseases on all turf grasses all season long. (Should conditions for Pythium occur, at any time, an application of TERSAN SP will prevent or eradicate it.) The TERSAN 1-2-3 Program is effective, economical and complete. For details and a supply of TERSAN turf fungicides, contact your golf course supplier today. With any chemical, follow labeling instructions and warnings carefully.

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Greensweep. The little greens sweeper that works as well on pavement as it does on turf.

Tow the Greensweep behind the Ryan Minute-Miser or your turf tractor. It's light. Handles easily. And you won't find it leaving tire tracks on your turf.

There's a strong 3Vz horse Tecumseh engine mounted on the Greensweep chassis. It powers an eight-sided fiber brush that

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MONTEX GOLF CAR

One of the best fleet golf cars on the market today is now available to golf car dealers and golf course owners throughout the country. Starting from zero in 1971, in Florida, we almost matched our competit ion the first year and out-sold all the golf car companies in our territory by better than 2 to 1 in 1972 (list of sales available by written request). Montex Golf Car production has increased enough so now you can have this golf car on your golf course. Join the winner. Call (305-395-4414) or write for further information.

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NATIONAL G O L F DAY DESERVES S U P P O R T

National Golf Day needs just one hell of a lot of revitalizing right now.

It is unique in profess iona l sport—it gives.

It has golf professionals work-ing for nothing with their amateur friends, who have the distinction of being cheerful givers.

National Golf Day is the largest source of funds for the Golf Course Superintendents Assn. of Ameri-ca turf scholarships, although Na-tional Golf Day is a Professional G o l f e r s ' Assn. o p e r a t i o n . It is that kind of an unselfish deal for the good of all in golf.

National Golf Day is the largest contr ibutor to the women's vol-unteer o rgan iza t ions providing golf the rapy in ve t e rans ' hospi-tals. You haven't any idea of the tre-mendous amount and value of that help now.

National Golf Day is the largest contr ibutor to the Nat ional Am-putee golf tournaments. This is an amazing program putt ing strong new hearts into men, women and youngsters.

National Golf Day is a substan-tial and crucial contributor to the na t ionwide coord ina ted turf re-search program, which distributes N a t i o n a l Golf Day revenue among 18 agr icu l tura l experi-ment stations all over the coun-try annually. Results of this re-search is worth millions to golf courses alone and is one of the im-portant factors in keeping Ameri-ca beautiful.

Nat ional Golf Day distributes about 20 per cent of its revenue to 26 sec t ional a m a t e u r golf orga-n iza t ion caddie scho la rsh ip funds. The National Golf Day al-lotment is a small percentage of

the money that this year is sending about 2,000 fine young men through college in the finest public service of profess ional and a m a t e u r sports.

The Tournament Players Divi-sion of the PGA is the lowest con-t r i b u t o r of any PGA section to National Golf Day. Yet most of the tournament purses come from tax exempt char i ty or welfare fund-raising events. At the small r a t e the caddie scholarsh ips get f r o m Nat iona l Golf Day, a $200,000 tournament would raise $ l million for the sponsor.

It isn't that the tournament play-ers are tight. They just haven't been told they should contribute to the unique and generous job the home profess iona l s do with Na t iona l Golf Day.

Since 1952, this event has raised more than SI.8 million. Too few home professionals and the play-ers at their pr ivate or pay-play courses participate in this unusu-al and generous pe r fo rmance in pro sport.

There is no National Baseball Day, no Na t iona l Footbal l Day and no National Tennis Day on which professionals, who are more concerned with their p layers ' games than their own, ask for a dol-lar as a public service contribu-tion and as a fee for competing on a handicap basis against Jack Nick-laus, Gary Player, Kathy Ahern and Suzie Maxwell Berning in the Round of Champions, played May 29, at Canterbury GC, Cleveland.

At any golf course where Nation-al Golf Day isn't a well-advertised event, players are missing some of the fun and glory of golf.

Election of Ellis Maples to the presidency of the American So-ciety of Golf Architects again hon-ored a family who long has had a

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Choosing an automatic controlled system should be like going to a good smorgasborg: the more you have to choosc from, the greater your satisfaction will be.

That's why it's important to get together with Buckner during your initial planning stage. Because Buckner makes seven different types of controllers —more than anybody else.

And that means that Buckner can work with these sever systems to deliver exactly the control system your course should have. These systems range from sophisti-cated two-wire, solid-state set-ups to basic units where cost is the prime requisite:

Binar" offers the ultimate in two-wire central control. Eliminates field controllers and miles of costly wire. Solid state circuitry provides trouble-free performance. You can scramble individual control valves for maximum program flexibility.

CP-2 provides advanced central programming where field controllers are needed for on-course inspection and maintenance. Syringe and omit cycles. Watering of fairways, tees and greens can be completed in less than nine hours.

711 is the perfect automatic in-field controller for large turf areas. This 11-station system features 0-60 minute control. Waters fairways, greens and tees in less than nine hours.

The ICM series offers three systems: The 12E has 12 control stations, the Dual 12E has two 12E units with two clocks, and the 24E has 24 control stations and one clock, where longer watering times are permissible.

The BR-10 delivers dependable performance at a rock bottom price for a dual program with ten stations.

If you're planning new watering systems, now's the time to get together with the Buckner Agri-turf Division of Johns-Manville. We'll take the time to figure out exactly what you should have. Then we'll supply it. Because we have more kinds of controllers, heads, valves and pipe than anybody in the business.

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controllers t h a n a n y b o d y else. Buckner Agri-turf Division, Johns-Manville can do more for you. Because we have more to work with. • I'd like information on Buckner automatic control systems. • I'd like to talk to a Buckner expert about a Buckner system.

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Preferred stock. Last year, more new E-Z-Go fleets were put on more courses than ever before*

Surprising? Not when you consider the reputation of excellence they've earned in ride, performance and profits.

For example: our four wheel model X-444 has a lower center of gravity, higher ground clearance and shorter turning radius than any other golf car. Resale value? Traditionally the highest in the industry.

But no matter what your requirements call for—three wheel, four wheel, gas or electric powered—you're assured of the highest return on investment that you can make in a fleet of golf cars.

In short, preferred stock. For further information write:

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THE INNOVATORS FROM TORO PRESENT A NEW CENTRAL PROG THE YEARS AHEAD VARI-TIME 40

Automatic irrigation of golf courses is not a new idea. But automatic control with almost unlimited flexibility located in one central place, plus on the spot field control, is only a recent idea which revolutionized golf course superintendent operations. TORO has been innovating such ideas in turf care for over 50 years. And now it introduces the latest and newest concept in central controllers: the super Vari-Time 4000 Programmer.

Up to six Vari-Time Central controls, each commanding up to 40 field Satellite controllers, can be housed in the master cabinet. Or, any possible combination of up to six Central and Syringe controls is available to satisfy any watering requirement.

No other master programmer offers the flexibility, versatility and efficiency afforded by the Vari-Time 4000. Watering of an entire golf course —all the tees, greens, fa i rways-can be done automatically from one single source.

The system is flexible to allow for in-the-field hot weather syringe of one or more greens when other areas may not need a syringe, or when player traffic is heavy, curtailing central syringe control. The TORO Vari-Time 4000 is designed to function automatically; however, all Centrals have Manual Start, Cancel, and On-Off switches for instant manual control in any emergency. The 14-day, 24-hour watering cycle can be set to operate in 15 minute increments and the Syringe cycle can be timed infinitely from 0 to 5 minutes. And whatever the weather or usage conditions on the course, immediate action can be taken to start or stop a cycle just by working the right controls on the Vari-Time 4000. Or the system can whir along automatically without any attention, operating either electric or hydraulic Valve-ln-Head sprinklers. Maximum flexibility in automatic watering, with minimum attention. That's the light-years ahead TORO Vari-Time 4000 super programmer. The ultimate in innovative technology from the company that is consistently the leader in the golf course turf irrigation market: TORO . . . The Innovators. Phone John Skidgel at (714) 688-9221 for more details.

T h e T o r o C o m p a n y Irrigation Division P.O. Box 489 Riverside, Ca. 92502

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