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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