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1973

Founding of ASGCA Foundation

1973

ASGCA adopts ‘Ross Tartan’

jackets in tribute to first ASGCA

President Donald Ross

Photos: ASGCA

agronomists, four were contractors, three

golf professionals, and two businessmen.

Their building materials were earth and turf,

shaping landscape to create golf courses.

That first meeting took place in February

1947. World War II had ended and America

continued its recovery from the depression

of the previous decade. The group had

been short of work for some time, but

hoped to capitalize on a changing outlook.

Pictured at the

1947 ASGCA

Annual Meeting

in Pinehurst,

North Carolina,

from left to right:

William P. Bell,

Robert White,

W.B. Langford, Donald Ross, Robert Bruce Harris, Stanley Thompson,

William F. Gordon, Robert Trent Jones, Sr., William Diddel, and

J.B. McGovern. ASGCA founders not pictured were Jack Daray,

Robert ‘Red’ Lawrence, Perry Maxwell and Wayne Stiles.

ASGCA

Founding

Fathers

1970

ASGCA Environmental

Committee established