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m JOPLIN NEWS HERALD'.'Friday, August 22, 196tNew dirt for greens•Dirt piles can be seen at various locations on the Schifferdecker Municipal golf course as work crews prepare to construct seven new greens. The dirt shown above will be used for agreen directly behind the present No. 10 green. Work on construction of the greens is expected to start within a month. — (News Herald staff photograph)*ov CLAIRGOODWINCompeting for a major golf championship, especially one Which carries worldwide prestige and immense financial rewards, is at best psychologically and physically fatiguing.Tli| pressure is seemingly unbear {ibie as the importance of each* shot increases. Many have buckled under the strain.at the start of the day gradually erode away to only one. And that's the way it ended, with one stroke separating them as Player finished with a fourth round 70 to Floyd's 74. ‘Golf is a game of muscle coordination and mental alertness. It also is a war of nerves - * each man fighting himself. And GaryPlayer that day proved to all that he is his own master.Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Byron Nelson and Harold (Jug) McSpaden will appear at Dub's Dread golf course in Piper* Kan., next Monday for a benefit exhibition match.Ye| Gary Player didn't fold under what must be considered amoflg the most unpleasant of LGGfQU©teaiky ::L«V.v.y.p i \ tv ••::4X:r-y, •Is-15 . • « •« .■ *.*.* . .ViVconditions last weekend in thePGA Cham* pionshipat Dayton. Ohio. He didn't win*. uleadersBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESSAMERICAN LEAGUEBattim? (350 at hats)—CarewThe match pairs Palmer and Nicklaus, two modern day greats, against Nelson and McSpaden, famed “Gold Dust Twins” of the 1930s and 1940s. Palmer and Nicklaus defeated Nelson and McSpaden, 1-up, in a similar exhibition last year.frmttWorkat MunyslowsBy CLAIR GOODWIN News Herald Sports EditorMajor renovation work at Schifferdecker Municipal golf course has proceeded rather slowly this summer, but it is expected to pick up considerably once the “golf rush” subsides.The short range improvement project, which is being financed through surplus from the course, involves construction of sevennew greens, relocation of tee boxes and fairways, and installation of water lines.Don Dickson, course superintendent, said water lines to the proposed new greens have been completed and the next step will be construction of the greens.“It will go pretty fast after weg e t started,” Dickson commented. He indicated that actual construction might start within the next month if the golf traffic slows.“Don has fallen a little behind schedule,” Harold Kirk, professional at Schifferdecker. said,“because he had to work on the regular greens quite a bit this summer, taking him and his crew away from the new work.”Currently Dickson is having dirt transferred from the airport area to the course for the new greens. Other materials, such as sand, gravel and peat moss, have been ordered.He won’t attempt to estimate when the project will be completed, but city officials earlier had indicated the target date would probably be this fall.Once the new greens are finished, the layout of the course will be changed overnight to eliminate trouble areas. The changeover also will lengthen thecourse from 5,800 yards to about 6,400.Additional work on the greens is being considered for next year and several probably will be reconstructed.
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Joplin News Herald
Joplin, Missouri, US
Fri, Aug 22, 1969
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