George Roope, proprietor of the Fore Women golf store, gets the credit for this one. The names of golf clubs without real estate often reflect the occupations or interests of the members. Take, for example, the G-Man Golf Association. We have FBI agents, DEA agents, L.A. police, U.S. attorneys, you name it. No surprise there.
Every golf club can use a few friends in court.
The Sold Out Survivors in Bellflower, Calif., have a mysterious name. We voted on the name of the golf club, and everybody seemed to feel that we had survived. Ore. In the shadow of the Oakland A's baseball stadium, Rich Vargas is associated with Golden Gate Truck Center, which sells, leases and repairs Freightliner trucks. All that is during the day, of course. The pro started calling us the Dawn Ball Patrol, so officially we became the Dawn Ball Club.