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Tag: Herb Graffis

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The Golfdom Files: A record-setting purse at the PGA Championship

June 28, 2023 By
We're throwing it back to the September 1959 edition of Golfdom where Herb Graffis notes the PGA Championship’s largest purse ever at the time. ...

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Rees Jones presents Graffis Award to Alex J Stuedemann, CGCS, at the 2023 GCSAA Show

April 13, 2023 By
Former TPC Deere Run superintendent Alex J Stuedemann, CGCS, accepted his 2022 Herb Graffis Businessperson of the Year Award at the 2023 GCSAA Show. ...

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John Shaw (Photo by: Scott Galvin Photography)

2021 Herb Graffis Businessperson of the Year: John Shaw

September 14, 2021 By
A golfer’s heart, a helping attitude and an engineer’s mind make John Shaw, CGCS, the 2021 winner of the Herb Graffis Businessperson of the Year Award. ...

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July 1966 cover (Photo: Golfdom archives)

Golfdom Files: Giving golfers what they need

June 26, 2020 By
In this July 1966 article, Golfdom founder Herb Graffis takes a look back at how much the game owes to a golf salesman and pioneer, Sam Clapper. ...

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2019 Herb Graffis Businessperson of the Year: Alan FitzGerald

September 23, 2019 By and
The Herb Graffis Businessperson of the Year Award is named in honor of Golfdom’s founder, World Golf Hall of Fame member Herb Graffis. Graffis was one of the first people to think of golf as a business when he and ...

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Golfdom Files: Are kids answer to today’s grief, tomorrow’s hope in golf

September 17, 2019 By
The year is 1933. Golf pros are giving golf lessons to high school and college students. The kids are loving it. Meanwhile, club manufacturers are having issues moving golf clubs frozen in inventories from 1931 and 1932. Do you see ...

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