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Fairway Maintenance(Continued from page 40)

A few years back, while treating forcrabgrass with phenyl mercury, we notedthat turf was not seriously affected andpoa annua loss was not great wh n thischemical was applied. This was rallynothing new. But it forcibly show dhowimportant fairway disease control can be.We worked out a practical dosage foreconomy and effect. I have continu d thispractice for several years and my fairwayshave been much improved.

Last year we appli d phenyl mercurysix times, applying it upon the first in-dication of a disease attack in the lastweek of July, again in early August, andmaking four applications in the la t 10days of August when we encountered ourworst diseas weather. Dosage was at1 qt. per acre of 10 per cent material. Thisyields % ozs. of material per 1,000 sq. ft.,or less than the recommend d rate of 1to 13~ ozs. Water in conjunction av ragedabout 75 gals. per acre. We added 3 lbs.per acre of iron sulfphate to the abovemixture to give added color, plant strengthand to combat iron chlorosis, usually prev-alent in hot, wet weather.

Two spray rigs were used in the fungi-cide treatm nt and our 40 acres of fairwayswere hand1 d in about three hours. About10 gals, of chemicals were dilutcd in 3,-000 gals. of water. Material co twasaround $100, cheap in comparison with r -seeding costs when diseas damag d ar ashave to b r paired.

ertilization ProcedureWe go on the theory that fairway have

to be f d lightly and frequently. Thlightest overf eding yi ld exce clip-

pings that can't be practically r mov d.They remain to smother healthy turf.Then, too, overfeeding softens the grass

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\V treated i time in 1959 b tv enpril and ept. In pril we u ed 370 lbs.

p r acr of a 10-10-10. In July we applied225 lb . p r acre of Milorganite. In ug-ust and pt. two additional tr atm nt ofMiler anit w r applied at a 200 lb. rate.

loin pt. on tr atm nt of urea(45 pre nt . ) wa appli d at a 50-lb. rat alon \ ith a ingle treatm nt ofpota h at a 50 lb. rat Th p I tiz d orgranular mat rial w r laid on with abroadca t t P pr ader co ring 40 ft.to a v ath. It took four hour to co er our·to acres.

In ect ituationur program calls for an application of

lb . (actual toxicant) of Chlordan peracr to combat angl worm and grubworm.It i tim d to h ad off cutv orm infe ta-tion that com s in Jun or July. \Ve findthi treatm nt mor to our liking than thear enates which aren't n ded in our caseb cau e w don't hav much of a crabgra sprobl m.

Our total p nditure for materials forth 1959 fain ay program amounted to2,560, brok n down as shown:

Fertiliz r 36 p r acre- 1,4 0Jn cticid 10 400Fungicid 1 720

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Hard Selling Assistant(Continued from page 29)

Doylestown (Pa.) C, then s rved a proat Lehigh CC, All ntown, Pa., and a pro-mgr. at Mayfair CC, kron, O. beforcoming to Miami hor s. He conduct dthe first golf TV program in th south andhas been especially helpful to young proand amateurs' in the Miami area.

Business Management GradBenner went to the University of Iiami.

He graduated as a business manag m ntstudent. Then he went into the Army.Aft r that duty he was with DtrMont Tele-vision, selling in Florida, then became thccompany's district sales mgr. for a year.MacLaughlin proposed that B nner comeback to golf and take over the shop opera-tions so that MacLaughlin could cone n-trate on teaching, practic range op rationand his junior jJrogram, which with thhelp of his teaching assistant Bob Patrick,jr., has become one of the busiest in theSouth.

Jim likes the outside work. He njoysteaching and supervising the practice ofhis pupils.

The MacLaughlin hunch proved sound.Since he has b en able to specialize onthe instruction and practice phas s of thepro job his income is greater than it waswhen he was dividing his att ntion b -tween shop and practice tee .. Benner, inthe two shops, has built up probably thlargest pro sales volume in the Southeast.

Benner's used club sales alone, so golfsalesm n remark, are larger than the totalvolum of most pro shops in the outh-east.

ear round PlayMiami Shores C has 648 regular m m-

bel'S who are prop rty owners in the vil-lage of Iiami Shor sand 240 «pool" m m-bers, most of whom play golf occa ionally.Th club i active the year around al-though there's a bit of a lull in the sum-mer.

Benner's pro shop at Balmoral Hotelwas open d ov. 1st. Jim MacLaughlin'sbrother, Dave, has a teaching n t on thebeach above th hotel's cabanas. DorothyMacLaughlin, Dave's wif , runs th shop.

There ar no "pro only" lines old at theBalmoral shop. Benner thinks those lineshould be sold only through shops here

there is a pro who knows th buy r welland will continue to rv him. signin the Balmoral shop r commend thatthes clubs be bought from the buyer'sown professional.

t the Balmoral shop there are golf

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merchandise the purchaser invariabhbuys.

elf- erviceThe Iiami Shores shop is on the order

of a self- ervice golf department store. Itusually carries an inventory of about 23,-000. Joe is proud of the depth of his clubstock. He says he can provide any weight,swing weight, shaft length and fl . ibilityin men's or women's clubs. The Balmoralinventory runs approximately $11,000.

Joe works seven days and six nights aweek during the busier months. H ordersthoughtfully and turns over his inventoryfaster than most pro shops. He tudieshis customers' buying needs and keepsrecords that give him the score on hisbusiness at any hour. He buys from in-formation instead of by hunch and guess.

He and Jim and members of the staffoft n go into the office at the MiamiShores shop, talk over business problems,think and plan. Jo says the trouble withsome pros who ought to be doing betterat their business is that they are so busythey don't g t (or take) time to think andplan.

Help from enior ChampionThe new shop at Iiami hor shows

what the community thinks of Jim andJoe. Joe got th help of Jim Me Iartin,a retired contractor and the club's niorchampion, in planning a new air-condi-tioned building that i a decided improve-ment in facilities for serving the commun-ity's golf r. McMartin also collaborat dwith Joe in d igning a number of di -play count rs and fixtures.

The n w shop building r quir dar -arrangement of th first and tenth teesand ninth and] 8th gr ens. The plan weretaken to th Miami hor villag man-ager, . Lawton Ic all and h and thevillage council approved the changes.

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di ing y t m al 0 work d out di playf atur s in the new shop. The clubs aredisplay d on fixtur s made lik some Joedevi din 1950. He w nt ahead and builtth m but didn't g t them patent d. owth yare us d ext nsively.

In a back room of th Iiami hor sbuilding merchandi is stor d to be plac don display when rep lac m nt i ne d d,Us d club sales rack and the r ntal talso are kept her . The r ntal sets arein attractive bag . Th ts ar of niniron, four woods and a putt r. Th lubar not more than two y ars old.

B nn r is a con tant adv rti r. Hk p writing and informing hi m mbersof what's n w. H mak ff ctive use ofa f w, n at and informative hop signs.

Big hri tma DrivHi bigg st al driv i for hri tmas

golf gift bu inc . H us Golfdom's« hri tmas hopping t Your Pro hop"book as the h avy gun of thi campaignand suppl m nts it with a ale letter.D c mb r was th bigg st month of hisal y ar in 1959.

Joe start d v ith small capital. He toldsal sm n and manufacturer' cr dit menhow h intend d to op rat . They took achane with him. H wrot th cr dit

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"Teke Chargell Guy(Continued from page 36)

Pelcher feels that th most glaring faultsof golfers, both men and wom n, r volvearound the pivot. In most cases, the playerdoesn't swing away from the ball correctlyand, as a consequence, his follow throughis poor. If there is a panacea for this, hethinks it is good footwork. At any rate,he strongly recommends practicing to im-prove footwork to about 70 or 75 per centof his players. Along with this, Pelcherpreaches, 'Think more of the swing thanthe hit.' But he doubts if more than oneout of maybe eight persons ever graspsthis cone pt to the e tent that he rallydoes just this. If this were to happen on alarge scale, the Davenport pro maintains,the numb r of good golf rs in this countrywould be gr atly increas d.

If Pelcher has a teaching preference, itis instructing Junior golfers. Like mostadults, he stands amazed at how rapidlykids learn to do something when theyapply thems lves to it. Th rno t am nableage group, in his stimation, embrac s the12 and 13-y ar olds. "Kids of this age,"h points out, "are almost as capable ofimitation and of ab orbing teaching asyounger children. But what makes themreally interesting is that th yare ju t b -ginning to flex muscles that give th m thepower to give th ball a good ride."

managers often, giving them progress re-ports and paying on hi notes. He alwayspaid something on each note befor pay-ment was due.

Sales and cr dit manager of golf com-panies were kept informed of th condi-tion of Benner's busin s. They coop r-ated with him. H ah ays had stockenough to keep selling at high spe d.

In 10 months of pro shop op rations,Benner put his busines on a di countbasis, worked up an impre si e olumof sales for pro shops noted for big stock.of attractive golf merchandi e. He amedan enviable rating on th Dun & Brad-street and Sporting Goods Clearing Hou eCredit records.

Jim MacLaughlin is proud of ]o B n-ner and so are the Miami hores C mem-bers and the community's officials. Thyoung man does them high credit with abusiness performance that indicate thegrowth there will be in pro shop businesswhen business management schooling isapplied by college graduat s who g t intogolf.

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has many boosters in our part of thecountry. Most supts. have had good re-sults with it and only a handful, one sales-man tells me, have been hurt by it. I'mone of th handful. I did a great deal ofchecking before I put th blame on thisparticular fungicide for damage done tosome of my greens. I finally came to theconclusion that, due to some kind of chem-ical reaction, the product liberated storednitrogen that caused a lush, tender growththat wilted almost as fast as it gr w. Itwasn't possible to convince the salesmanor his company of this. They maintainedthat it had to be something else, and letit go at that. Sine there was a shadow ofdoubt, I think they should have inv tigat-ed. There can be preventive as well asproductive research.

• From what I hav said thus far, itaf>p ars that I am the "All-American Out"so far a new products and their applica-tions are concerned. I don't want to leavewith that impression. In the past fewyears I have tri d a new type fertilizerwith excel1 nt results; I have combinedtwo kind of fungicides, at the suggestionof a turf specialist, and found that thecombination worked out perfectly. Iwas one of the first to use wetting agents

Members Won't Pay(Continued from page 62)

But how is anyone going to know thingsare going to work out as they should oradversely? The supt. certainly isn't inposition to take chances, to experiment, ifthere is a possibility that the variablesexist.

Use mall Plot• \Vhat exyerimenting I do is carried

out on a smal plot. It really catches hell.I just about finished it one year with acrabgrass killer which was first appliedat half the recommended dosage and, ona graduated scale, finally at three timesthe recommended dosage. The last shottook an the crab, weeds and turf. It wasa month before the bent started comingback.

• Researchers and turf exp rts, to thecontrary, it is wise to go easy on anyproduct or method with which you arenot familiar. Either may work well forth fellow across town, but it won't alwayswork for you. Why? [obody, and that in-cludes some alesmen and turf sp cialistsfor whom I have the greatest respect, cantell me.

There is a well known fungicide that

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