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1928 January
Volume #2, No. 1                  
1928 February
Volume #2, No. 2
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7 A Manufacturer Looks at Golf
9 The Value of a Playground
9 Plan Your Year's Work Now
12 Kildeer's 17th Hole has Unusual Features
13 Foreign Grubs, a Menace of the Future [Part 5]  
15 Tell Us What You've Done with Bent Fairways
16 Talking It Over Between Ourselves
16 -Golf Shows Good Sign of Business in the Game
18 What's the Event for Next Week?
22 Better Teaching Through Movies
24 The Pro's Job is No Gold-Mine
28 Hints on Remodeling Greens
30 Manager's Program Promises Busy Meet
32 Good Machines Save Man-Power
34 The Anonymous Golf Ball
34 Play All Winter Without Green Injury
35 Valuable Papers Read at Green Section Meeting
40 Golfdom's 1928 Equipment Review: What the Makers Say of Their 1928 Features
50 "Sir Walter" to Star at Golf Show
51 Greenkeeper's Plan Busy Convention 
54 Why I get Along with the Boss and He gets Along with Me
56 Table of Contents
   
   
   
1928 March
Volume #2, No. 3
 1928 April
Volume #2, No. 4
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9 Do Your Draining Right at Start - It Saves
12 What a Soil-Tester Will Tell the Greenkeeper
13 Pros Who "Sell" Themselves - and Merchandise 
16 The Ten Laws of Correct Labor Management
19 How to Grub-Proof Established Greens
24 He Paid His Club by being Press Agent and Pro, too
26 Probing the Diseases of Turf Grasses
32 Getting an "Even Break" for Club and Its Manager: [Part 1]
36 Careful Selection of Site Vital to Course Progress
42 How I get Our Course in Good Condition Early
44 Watch Weather-Man in Spring Work 
45 His Eagle Eye Picks Spring Work 
45 Club Managers Line Up with Philadelphia Show
46 Golfdom's Equipment Review: What the Makers Say of Their 1928 Features
49 Preparing for the Season's Opening 
51 Chicago Planning Green Experimental Station
51 Jake Kohr is Strong for Rolling
52 Leach Debates Doubter of Arsenate of Lead
54 Worthington Mower in New Chicago Office
56 Greenkeepers Again Pick Morley at Big Meeting
58 Lively Party Opens New Ideal Office
60 "Stiffer Spines" is Slogan of Manager's Convention
62 Ten Commandments for Keeping the Pro Job
64 Chicago Golf Show to be Biggest Ever Held
64 Dress the Part of Prosperous Pro
66 "New Clubhouse is Great - But"
68 Remember Replacements in Buying Policy
70 Caddie-Master Key to Club's Kid Problem
72 A Pointer for the Shop Pro
73 Pittsburgh Field Showers Pleased with Soft Water
74 There are Profits in a Golf Class for Youngsters
75 Science and Merchandising Unite to Beat Brown Patch
78 Table of Contents
78 How Glenview Waters Fairways
80 Advertisers' Index
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11 Dress Up Shop, Opening Act of Pro's Season
13 Ward Wins Player Trade by Mail
13 Mailman Helps Virginia Pro get Jump on Trade
14 Weeding and Watering Open Spring Session in South
15 Here's an Easy System of Grounds Cost-Keeping 
18 Opening Up is Simple If You Plan Ahead
20 Knapp's Program for Spring
20 Fairway Watering
20 [Greenkeeper Plays with the Members]
22 How to Handle Fairways in Battle with Grubs
28 Consider Organic Matter in Soil for Healthy Turf 
32 Bent Fairway Planting in Michigan
32 Announce 1929 Chicago and New York Golf Shows
34 My Methods of Building a New Green 
38 Drainage Pointers that have Helped Me
38 Gas Ground Pests from Courses
42 Pro Pointers from Veteran Leader
44 Some Ideas for More Pro Sales
46 "Let 'em Know What You Do" - Remple's Plan
47 This Method Helps Pro Keep His Credit O.K. 
48 Print New Edition of Fine Caddie Book
49 Credit and Unfair Discounts Call for Attention
52 Mistake to Have Greenkeeper High-Pressure Salesman
54 What Must Manager Know to Deserve Free Reign?
57 Keep Records and Know Where Budget Stands
59 Taming the Dandelion After Long Battle
61 Good Fairways Need Correct Initial Construction
63 What Makes the Perfect Clubhouse? 
67 How Do You Buy? Two Good Buyers Tell Their Way 
69 Educate Members to Report Minor Course Defects 
70 Good Fellowship a Means to Club Success
72 Big Job Cut Out for General Manager 
74 Martin's Picture Book is Players' Aid
75 Increase Dining Room Trade with Children
76 Reddys Spans "Nut Notion" to Necessity in Few Years
78 Table of Contents
78 Labor Turn-Over a Cost to be Cut
80 Advertisers' Index
   
   
   
1928 May
Volume #2, No. 5
1928 June
Volume #2, No. 6
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9 Business Tourist Probes into Golf Business
11 "Permanent Improvement Committee" Idea Grows
11 Chicago District Probing Course Costs
12 "Help Yourself" is Successful Pro's Tip to the Climbers
13 Pay-Play Course Pushed by Good Advertising
14 "Keeping at It" Gives School Thrifty Golf 
16 Beach Grove Builds for Twelve Month Use
19 Keeping Check on Course Costs by Proved System
23 [Divot Display Board]
23 [Safety of Arsenate of Lead]
24 Manager's Idea on "One Boss" 
28 Talking It Over
28 -Pro Picked by Price Alone is No Bargain
28 -Set Your Sights for Successful Season with Greens
30 Anaconda's Method Masters Sand Green Problem
32 Pro's Selling Problem Monopoly
32 "We are Lucky" - Same Pro for 20 Years
33 Nifty and Neat - but not Gaudy
34 Movies Big New Aid in Golf Instruction
42 Buffalo Grass Fairways Look Promising, Says Major
44 Simple Time Card Keeps Check on Budget
45 Save Prize Trees from Pine Beetles 
47 Fertilizer Mixer is Applied to Sprinklers
48 Yellow and Orange Balls Now in Wilson Line
48 Berloy has New Sectional Golf Bag and Club Rack
49 Pro Makes Club Pride and Publicity
51 "If I Were a Pro" 
53 How Soil Conditions and Worms Affect Greens
57 Eagles Mere has Policies that Work Right
58 How Olympia Fields Handles Its Caddies 
60 Proper Nitrate of Soda Use in Greenkeeping 
62 Examine Low Bids for New Course Carefully
62 How and Why Right Ball Marking Pays
65 Turf Nursery Operating Methods that Pay
68 Nitrogen in the Compost Pile
70 Table of Contents
70 Westbury Gives Its Pro Business Boost
72 Advertisers' Index
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9 Away with Worms: Control Measures to Keep Greens Right for Putting
12 Ralph Hoagland Represents Buchart-Nicholls
12 Thanks for Help Like This - It's Valuable
13 Woes of the Pros - but Some of These Troubles are Being Eliminated by Workers and Thinkers of P. G. A.
16 Some Cost Cutting Ideas Ideas that Work for Us
17 Put "Snap" into Meadowbrook: A New Club that Got Going Quickly
20 Fairway Turf Nursery Important Item
21 Fairway Watering: Features of Typical Hose and Hoseless Systems Given
26 Fertilizers: Something About Their Character and Use
30 Making Cotton Seed Hull Greens at Parris Island
32 See How It Works: Spring Demonstrations and Exhibits Interest Crowds at Boston, New York, Cleveland and Detroit
37 Sorry; James A. Smith wasn't Mentioned
37 We Worked Out a Caddie Plan that Works
41 Tackle "Favorite Brand" Problem with Letter
42 Ball Maker Asks Pro Help to Thwart Price Cutter
44 Rising Standards Mean Rising Costs
47 Methods that Work O.K. on My Course
52 Charlotte's Policies get Right Results
55 Specialties and Pies Good Menu Features
57 California gets Park Golf on a High Plane
59 Old Layout Fairer to Women Golfers
62 Table of Contents
64 Advertisers' Index
   
   
   
1928 July
Volume #2, No. 7
1928 August
Volume #2, No. 8
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9 Who Pays?: One Club Studied Members' Accounts and Then Weeded Out All but the Live Ones
12 Architect Important in Club Meal Business
13 Mid-Summer Maintenance: Some Methods of Fighting Plagues of the Bustling July-September Period
16 Northeastern N. Y. Pros in Membership Drive
17 How George Goes After "Jack"
18 Club Manufacturers Start National Association
20 Battle with June Beetle - Foe of Fine Turf
25 A Correction
25 Some Tips from MacKenzie
26 How We Control Brown-Patch at Glen Oaks
28 Green Section Summer Meet Sees New Garden
31 Mid-West Holds First Demonstration
34 This Team "Made" Us - Right Methods and Mother Nature
36 Pittsburgh has New Golf Equipment Dealer
37 You, the Pro, Must Know "What's What" in Steel Shafts
38 New Los Angeles Course is Thomas Triumph
43 How My Job Looks - To Me
44 "Get into the Groove"
45 Wolley's "Tee Topics" Fine Pro Business getter
46 Winn Brings "Wheel-Less" Wheelbarrow to U. S.
47 Evanston's Fairway Water System Described
50 Systematize Expense and Show a Profit
51 Pay-Play Members Take Over St. Louis Course
52 Auto Men Put Up 7 Cars as Club Prizes
54 Plan Ahead Now - Vital to Pro Profit
54 Roseman New York Offices Move
54 [Wanted]
55 Uses of Compost
58 Keeps Daily Watch on Feeding Finances
59 Coupon Score Card Helps Handicappers
61 Think Money
62 Table of Contents
64 Advertisers' Index
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7 Straight Thinking in Club Finance 
8 Officials Probe for Answer to "Who Pays?"
8 -[Member Knowledge Not So Common]
10 -Sock the Slacker
11 -Business Must Warrant Operation
11 -"Finest and Most Complete"
11 -Too Cold-Blooded
11 -Thinking Backward
12 Doing Away with Weeds
15 Cedarbrook's Fertilizing is Successful, Thrifty
15 [Heavy Greens and Brown Patch]
16 Watch Construction Pitfalls
20 "Meet the Wife": How "Silent Partners" are Helping Their Pro Husbands
24 A Club House With "It" 
28 This Idea Worked Club Out of Tight Place
29 "Zero Hour" for New Turf 
32 1929 Greenkeepers Show at Buffalo
34 "Question Night" Goes Big
39 "The Makers Say": Lecco Tells Experience of Users
44 We Slipped on Cover Credit Line
46 Table of Contents
48 Advertisers Index
   
   
   
1928 September
Volume #2, No. 9
 1928 October
Volume #2, No. 10
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7 We Got Away from Our Mistakes Early 
9 "Games Wanted" Bulletin is Locker-Room Feature
10 Why We Have Weeds; How We Prevent 'Em
11 [A. S. Dahl with Mechanical Putter at Arlington]
13 Greenkeeping - Questions and Answers
13 -[Weeds on Fairways]
13 -Treatment of Bermuda
14 -A Poa annua Problem
15 Know Cost Per Member: It Answers "Who Pays"
18 "Tell the Members" is Vital Phase of Plan
20 Is Monthly Minimum Charge Legal?
20 Golf Ball Manufacturers Form Association
22 P.G.A. Hour of Destiny is Here: So What Will Pros Do About It?
26 "Champion's" Treatment Makes Sales
28 Treat for Brown-Patch Often Enough
29 What's in the Pro Job?: The Bright and the Drab Side of a Professional Career Analyzed by Bob White
32 What We Did to Get Our Course Watered Right
34 "No Free Tees" Policy Works O.K.
36 Fire Him? No!: Better Appraise the Kicks on the Greenkeeper's Work
42 Jacobsen has Greens Brush
42 Hagen Announces Allied Bag Tie-Up at Sales Meet
43 Walter Hagan and His "Gang" Line Up at Annual Sales Meeting
43 L. A. Ferguson Heads Enlarged Chicago Ideal Operations
48 Table of Contents
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7 Pros Probe Progress Problem of P.G.A.
9 Why Hide Pro Light Under Bushel?
11 P. G. A. Member Says Increase Dues
11 Should Tell Clubs Good Pro's Qualities
12 Selective Control of Weeds Explained
15 [Arsenate of Lead]
16 Fall Work that Cuts Expenses
18 [Erect Bird Houses in Fall]
19 Today's Conditions Make Winter Operation Big Query
20 Written Tie-Ups Help Smooth Operations
22 Golf Club Taxes get Another Boost
23 How Long is Cry for Tax Justice to be in Vain?
24 Pick Pro Shop Goods that Move
25 Running Things Right at a Golf Outpost
26 Caddies Help Keep Handicaps Right
26 Do Your House Accounts Match These Percentages?
27 Fee Plan Brings Good Golf Northwest
29 "Brighten the Corner Where You Are"  Helps Sales
30 Trials and Triumphs of the Green-Committeemen
32 Drastic Treatment for Divot Carelessness
33 Greensmen's Comforts too Often Neglected
34 Club Stages Committee Event
34 "Tree" Tournament Aids Landscaping
35 Test Greens Uniformity with Home-Made Device
35 Pros Missing Great Bet on Matched Sets
36 "Ring Around Rosy" Course Good for Resorts
38 Kewanee Announces Line of Centrifugal Pumps
38 Roseman Issues New Mower Book
39 Pro, Out of Luck, Asks for P.G.A. and U.S.G.A. Aid
40 Merchandising Brings New Era, New Problems to Pros
44 The Right Man - The Right Job
46 Ohio Club Attacks Lost Ball Problem
46 [Nurseries for Fairways too]
46 [Minor Defects and the Green-Chairman]
48 Table of Contents
48 Advertisers' Index
   
   
   
1928 November
Volume #2, No. 11
1928 December
Volume #2, No. 12
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5 Year's Advance in Golf is Surveyed
7 Plan Fee Course Owners' Conference
9 Fenimore's Working Methods
11 We Corrected Green Contour WithMinimum Play Loss
12 Pro Prospects are Viewed
12 [PGA Meeting and Golfdom's Position]
14 Assistant is Important in Pro Success
15 Indiana Greenkeepers to Organize, Nov. 10
16 Business Baron Gives "Close-Up" on Greenkeeper 
19 Golf Business Notables Comment on Season
19 -District Stations are Biggest Greenkeeping Advance
19 -Today's Pro is Real Business Man
20 -Co-Ordination is Major Need of Clubs
25 -Manufacturer and Pro Relations Improve
25 -[Swimming Pool at Knollwood (Chicago District)]
26 -Year's Pro Progress Along Better Business Lines
26 -Fairway Watering and Arsenate of Lead are Features
27 -Progress of Turf Study is Chief 1928 Advance
27 -Style Selling and Thinking are Bright Spots
28 -Better Financing - More Study; Year's Features
28 -Good Signs in "Getting Down to Business"
29 -Better Methods, Close Contacts, in Year's Business
29 -Knowing Costs is Hopeful Sign
30 -Give Pro Credit for Progress
30 -Free Tees Unnecessary with Sand Displaced
31 -Watering Economy has Field's Attention
31 Some Questions and Answers from Leach's Mail
31 -[Uncertain Grasses and Arsenate of Lead]
33 -[Arsenate of Lead on Bermudagrass]
33 -[Brass Button Control]
34 -[Arsenate of Lead on St. Augustinegrass?]
36 Golf Taxation Plan Fits City Growth
37 Greenkeepers Show Space Going Fast
41 Fertilization gets More Attention
41 Invisible Hose Reel New Maintenance Boon
41 Montieth [Monteith] of U. S. G. A. Green Section is Benedict
42 The Ladies
44 Table of Contents
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5 Test Plots and Testing Procedure Outlined
8 Three California Clubhouse 
9 Green-Chairman's Path to a Padded Cell
11 [Dyker Beach Club Course Revenue and Use]
12 P. G. A. Re-Elects Officials at Annual Meeting
14 Taylor's Profitable Policies at Famous Club
22 Public School Golf Boon to Pros
23 Pebble Beach Being Rebuilt for 1929 Amateur
25 Greenkeeping Cost Survey Reveals Interesting Variations
28 100 Per Cent Membership Co-Operation
29 Indiana Greenkeepers Start State Association
30 Coast Club has Unusual Dues-Fixing System
31 [Coupons in Lieu of Cash]
32 Greenkeeping Questions and Answers
32 -[Water Grass Control]
32 -[Arsenate of Lead on Clover]
33 -Chinch Bug Extermination
33 -Arsenate of Lead Helps Roth
36 Table of Contents