Evening star., 1932-12-15
YEAR-ROUND PLAY.
IS HARLOW'S PLAN
Promoter Is Hoping to Sell
Tournaments as Publicity
for Cities.


ization that is causing SO much
conversation among the profess
sionals, is laying a campaign to
carry on where the older Profess
sional Golfers Association leaves
off and is getting ready to promote
a flock of open tournaments in
towns where open tournaments
have never been thought of be-
fore.
From his Winter post in St. Peters
burg, Fla, Harlow is preparing to sally
forth to talk with the unsuspecting
burghers of hundred towns to try to
sell them the idea that an open golf
tournament will spread the name and
fame of their towns over thousands OF
newspapers throughout the United
States. With this publicity Harlow will
more of the leading golfers OF the land.
The Tournament Golfers Association
Is here to stay, Harlow says It was
formed during the playing Of the
Miami-Biltmore open few days ago,
and % of the leading pros of the United
States and Canada became charter
members. One Of the group is AL
Houghton, pro at the KenWoOd Golt
and Country Club.
s.THE new association" Harlow says,
i Twill be active during II months
of the year to create new open
golf tournaments and to aid the cities
which at present sponsor such events.
The playing professionals were not sat
tsfied with the effort the Professional
Golfers Association has made during
the last eight months to promote open
tournaments and decided to form their
own group for this purpose" Harlow
was manager of the P. G. A. tourna-
ment bureau until last May.
THE movement is not revolt from
the P. G. A., which has large mem
bership. the majority of whom are not
particularly interested in open golf
tournaments, but in the promotion Of
their routine work as club professionals.
For this reason the P. G. A. has main
tanned that it cannot from its budget
provide more than a limited sum TO
carry on the work OF the tournament
bureau of the association. The tourna-
ment players maintain that In order to
stimulate interest IN open tournaments
1t is necessary to wage an energetlc
campaign with a man who gives all MS
time to the work and who can travel
from one end of the country TO the
other making personal contacts in the
interest Of open tournaments. 50
roly-poly Bob who plays fair game
of golf himself is the fair haired boy
who is to promote these open tourna-
ments. Offhand we do not know
better man for the job. Bob Harlow
has been around long time. He knows
all the angles of the golf promotion
game and If there Is pro whom Har-
low doesn't have nodding acquaint-
ance with, that pro hasn't been around
much himself.
THE easy dough which in boom times
mounted to as much as $50 600 Tor
the Winter tournament season mas
dropped off to $4,000 this Winter. The
pickings are lean, indeed, and 1t Is Tor
the purpose Of fattening up these pick.
ings that Harlow is to go on the ROAD
in the interest Of bigger and better open
events. If any one can promote an
open event in these times Harlow can
do it. The young man has all the m
stincts and conversation OF snca
deliver the goods, for all the 23 pros
who signed up as the original nucleus
of the new association, Will appear IN
any uOuIUdultllJ I1diloW pioAiooSo. 0
starts out with a campaign fund OF
S1,15o to work with All the boys put
$50 each into a pot to give Harlow the
necessary SinewS of promotion the
new organization will devote most of its
activities for the present to the South,
but as soon as Spring opens up BOD
will be around throus the North look
ing for more tournaments. No nook
or corner of the United States and Can
ada will be overlooked by the irrepressi-
bic Harlow.
MEANWHILE the P. G. A. has an
1vl nounced three more tournaments
for Florida. including events at st.
Petersburg, Tampa and Lakeland. The
tourney at st Pete" was worth $4,000
last year. This year it is worth $1,000
plus the gate. The international four
ball at Miami in March will be played
next year, although for time there
was doubt about it. Houghton plans to
play with Henry Picard Of Charleston
as partner.
Here are the charter members of the
new association: Tommy Armour, Billy
Burke, Herman Barron. Witty Cox, Tom
Creavy, Ed Dudley, AL EspinoSa, Vim
cent Eldred. John Farrell, John Golden,
Lloyd Gullickson, Walter Hagen, AL
Houghton. Joe Kirkwood. Andy Kay.
Tony Manero, Henry Picard, Paul
Runyan, Densmore Shute, Gene Saza-
zen, Horton Smith, Joe Turnesa and
Craig Wood. There's enough talent In
that list to win any open golf tourna-
ment in any country under the sun.
DOB BARNETT, Chevy Chase pro-
- fessional has gone t. Florida
earlier than he expected to CO.
pp, from
the Indian Creek Club of Miami Beach,
asking him to come to the club week
earlier. Within a few hours Bob was
on his way accompanied by Mrs Bar
nett, the Barnett youngster and Elwood
Poore. a Washington boy who has gone
to Florida with Bob for the past two
years. Barnett will return to Wash
ington about April l. The Indian Greek
Club is one of the exclusive golf organ
izations of the East Coast and has
ranking golf course.
~. P. Fits and his green's force
~ have about completed the improve
ments around the sixth green at
Columbia, where too much slope from
back to front necessitated reduction OF
the angle. Despite the snow the work.
men went ahead with their Job OF
stripping the sod, and have now finished
the approach to the green making it a
gradual slope from 80 yards In front, to
the back Of the green itself, instead OF
an abrupt slope on the green. The SOD
will be replaced at once and the green
will be ready for use within a Few
weeks. This work is the last OF the
major construction Jobs at Columbia
this Winter. The new seventh and tnlr-
teenth greens have met with the ap-
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