1923

USGA® Green Section Record: Periodicals Since 1921

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January, 1923
Bulletin of the Green Section of the U. S. Golf Association

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February, 1923
Bulletin of the Green Section of the U. S. Golf Association

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Topics	Page
Table of Contents	1
The Greens Keeper	2
Annual Report of the Chairman for 1922	2
Second Annual Meeting of the Green Section	6
Winter Care of Motor Equipment	6
Construction Costs at Ashtabula Country Club	7
The Need of Criticism in Golf Architecture	9
Purchasing and Caring for Tools and Equipment	11
Sclaffed Tees	13
New Member Clubs of the Green Section	13
Canada Bluegrass (Poa compressa)	14
Low Fertilizing Value of Peat	16
A Few Kind Words: or What Keeps the Green Committee on the Job	16
Some US Golf Association Decisions on the Rules of Golf	17
On the Special Importance of Good Fairway Near the Greens	17
Cost of Course Maintenance	18
Tell Us What Interests You Most	18
A Force-Feed Shredder and Mixer	19
Turf Grasses for Pennsylvania	19
Training Greenkeepers	20
Questions and Answers	21
Meditations of a Peripatetic Golfer	24

Topics	Page
Table of Contents	25
Applying Corrosive Sublimate and Liquid Manure with Watering Cart	26
Furthering Public Golf	26
What Organization Can Accomplish for Public Golf	32
The Emphatic Need of Public Golf	34
Public Golf at the Capital of the Nation	37
Notes on Public Links Golf	39
Why Public Links Players Should Organize Clubs	40
How Deep Should the Cup be Placed Below the Surface of Green?	42
Golf Architecture on Public Links	43
New Member Clubs of the Green Section	43
Some US Golf Association Decisions on the Rules of Golf	44
Second Amateur Public Links Championships of the US Golf Association	44
Questions and Answers	45
Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the US Golf Association	48
Meditations of a Peripatetic Golfer	68

March, 1923
Bulletin of the Green Section of the U. S. Golf Association

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April, 1923
Bulletin of the Green Section of the U. S. Golf Association

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Topics	Page
Table of Contents	69
Standard Cost Analysis	70
Controlling the Japanese Beetle	71
Top-Dressing	73
Low-Priced Golf at Pittsfield, Massachusetts	77
"Rules of Golf" Booklet	78
Service and Winter Care of Motor Equipment	79
Simple Chemistry for the Golf Course	80
Supplies of Creeping Bent Stolons	82
Testing Seeds for Germination	83
Spraying to Kill Chickweed	83
Troubles of the Greenkeeper	84
Care of Golf Course Machinery	85
Some of the US Golf Association Decisions on the Rules of Golf	86
Tool for Changing Cup	87
Subcommittees of the US Golf Association	87
Crab Grass	89
New Member Clubs of the Green Section	91
Questions and Answers	91
Meditations of a Peripatetic Golfer	96

Topics	Page
Table of Contents	97
Turf Experiments at the Florida Experiment Station	98
Vegetative Planning	102
New Member Clubs of the Green Section	113
Vegetative Planting of Bent Grasses: an Historical Sketch	114
Vegetative Planting of Putting Greens	119
Some New Bulletins Valuable to the Greenkeeper	123
A Wonderful Turf Walk	124
Some US Golf Association Decisions on the Rules of Golf	124
Questions and Answers	125
Meditations of a Peripatetic Golfer	128

May, 1923
Bulletin of the Green Section of the U. S. Golf Association

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June, 1923
Bulletin of the Green Section of the U. S. Golf Association

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Topics	Page
Table of Contents	129
Paying Seed Bills	130
Ridding Putting Greens of Crab Grass	131
The Golf Architect and the Golf Club	133
Thin Turf and Luxuriant Turf, Their Treatments and Relations to Par	135
Golf Course Rain Shelter	136
Uses for Evergreens on Golf Courses	138
New Member Clubs of the Green Section	138
Advice to Players	139
Principles in Golf Architecture	139
Hole Cup with Flag Pin Guide and Ball Holder	144
Combined Pumping Outfit for Liquid Manure	144
Advantages of Top-Dressing Direct from the Dump Cart	145
The Greenkeeper's Pay	146
Tractor and Mower Combination at Shannopin Country Club	146
Concrete Tanks for Collecting Liquid Manure	147
Some Decisions on the Rules of Golf at the Royal and Ancient Golf Club	148
Let Us Repeat	149
Peat or Humus as a Water Holder	149
Power Motor with Three Cutting Units	150
Questions and Answers	150
Meditations of a Peripatetic Golfer	156

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Table of Contents	157
Quacks and Suckers	158
Seeds and Seeding for New Greens and New Fairways	159
New Member Clubs of the Green Section	162
Feed Cutter for Preparing Bent Stolons	162
The Bordeaux Treatment for Brown-Patch	163
Ants	164
The Architect's Responsibility and the Club's Responsibility	165
Sand Greens on a Sawdust Base	166
A New Fairway Mower Designed to Last	167
Some US Golf Association Decisions on the Rules of Golf	168
Grassy Hollows	168
Cost-Estimating in Green-Construction	169
A Control for Japanese Beetle Larvae in Golf Greens	173
Cotton Hulls as a Surfacing for Putting Greens	174
Putting Green Rake Devised by Mr Stewart Gardner	175
Questions and Answers	176
Meditations of a Peripatetic Golfer	180

July, 1923
Bulletin of the Green Section of the U. S. Golf Association

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August, 1923
Bulletin of the Green Section of the U. S. Golf Association

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Topics	Page
Table of Contents	181
Instructive Golf Holes	182
Jobs for Retired Business Men	182
Handling of Labor	182
The Green Section and the Golf Architect	183
The Most Important Summer Work on the Golf Course	184
A New Putting Green Rake	186
Experience with Quack Grass on the Fairways	187
Automotive Sprinkler	187
Instructive Golf Holes I No 16, Columbia Country Club	188
Proper Equipment for an 18-Hole Golf Course	191
Measurement of Golf Holes and Placing of Tees	193
"Bent"	195
Tennis Courts at Country Clubs	197
Keep Your Eye on the Bookkeeper	198
Questions and Answers	199
Meditations of a Peripatetic Golfer	204

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Table of Contents	205
The Green Section Meeting at Inwood	206
New Member Clubs of the Green Section	208
US Golf Association Decision on the Rules of Golf	209
Spreading Top-Dressing	209
The Behavior of Rhode Island Bent Redtop Mixtures	213
Seeding Fairways and Rough	215
A Rapid Renovation of Putting Greens	217
Construction of Tees	218
Instructive Golf Holes II No 10, Pine Valley Golf Club	218
Twenty-Seventh Amateur Golf Championship Announcement	221
Questions and Answers	223
Meditations of a Peripatetic Golfer	228

September, 1923
Bulletin of the Green Section of the U. S. Golf Association

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October, 1923
Bulletin of the Green Section of the U. S. Golf Association

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Topics	Page
Table of Contents	229
Greencommitteemen	230
"Creeping Bent Seed" - A Misnomer	231
The Vicissitudes of the Grass Tee	232
Secrets of Success in Green Keeping	233
"Turfing Fescue"	234
The Maximum Golf-Playing Membership that a Club Should Have	235
Dominion Reports Golf More Popular	238
Tiger-Beetle Harmless to Turf	238
Women's Amateur Golf Championship	239
Control of Crawfish	241
Applying Ammonium Sulfate	241
Injecting Carbon Disulfid into Ant Hills	242
Peat in California	243
An Appreciation from Abroad	243
New Member Clubs of the Green Section	244
New Member Clubs of the United States Golf Association	244
Instructive Golf Holes III No 6, Brae-Burn Country Club	244
United States Golf Association Decisions on the Rules of Golf	247
Questions and Answers	247
Meditations of a Peripatetic Golfer	252

Topics	Page
Table of Contents	253
Standards in Course Architecture	254
Winterkilling of Turf	254
How We Tile-Drained at the Columbus Country Club	255
How I Build a Golf Course; with Some Remarks on Golf Architecture	258
Fertilizing Value of Waste Product from Cotton Mills	260
Inexpensive Tee Boxes	261
Rate of Seeding	261
Vegetative Propagation in Ontario	261
The Japanese Beetle; Its Life History and Control in Golf Greens	262
Some United States Golf Association Decisions on the Rules of Golf	269
Ruling on Corrugated, Grooved, Slotted, or Punched Clubs	269
New Member Clubs of the Green Section	270
New Member Clubs of the United States Golf Association	270
Instructive Golf Holes IV No 4, Hollywood Golf Club	270
Questions and Answers	273
Meditations of a Peripatetic Golfer	276

November, 1923
Bulletin of the Green Section of the U. S. Golf Association

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December, 1923
Bulletin of the Green Section of the U. S. Golf Association

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Topics	Page
Table of Contents	277
Inexpensive Manure Pits	278
Tractor with Self-Supported Mower Hitch	279
New Member Clubs of the Green Section	279
New Member Clubs of the United States Golf Association	279
Mixing and Screening Soil with an Old Threshing Machine	280
Some United States Golf Association Decisions on the Rules of Golf	281
Instructive Golf Holes V No 17, Rhode Island Country Club	282
Make Your Own Revolving Screen	285
Airplane Views of Pine Valley Golf Course	286
Sprinkling the Fairway	288
Should Putting Greens Be Kept Closely Cut at All Times?	291
Tip Cuttings for Vegetative Plantings	293
Moles	295
Questions and Answers	296
Meditations of a Peripatetic Golfer	300

Topics	Page
Table of Contents	301
Merry Christmas	302
Annual Meeting of the Green Section	302
Report of the Nominating Committee for 1924, US Golf Association	303
Instructive Golf Holes VI No 6, National Golf Links of America	304
Power Transmission Direct from Automobile Wheel	307
Transplanting Trees	307
Nursery Rows of Creeping Bent	311
Three Years' Work of the Green Section	311
The Size of the Putting Sward	314
Golf Clubs in Canada	317
Blue Lyme Grass	318
Should Putting Greens be Kept Closely Cut at All Times?	319
Earthworms Learning by Experience	319
New Member Clubs of the Green Section	320
Some US Golf Association Decisions on the Rules of Golf	320
Questions and Answers	321
Meditations of a Peripatetic Golfer	324

Supplement, 1923
Bulletin of the Green Section of the U. S. Golf Association

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