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Golf On The Gulf
By Paul Tiblier
Golf Damage
Unity Emerges
All o! the 11 Mississippi Gulf Coast golf courses have been unplayable since the hurricane, wiht numerous trees blocking the	fairways	and	greens.	Club facilities,
including those pro	shops exposed	to the	winds and tide-
water at some of the courses, were almost wiped out.
But it can be	reported	that	several	courses will be
cleared sufficiently	that they	will	be opened this coming
weekend.
The catastrophe in the south Mississippi	counties as
far inland as Hattiesburg are designated as	federal dis-	Bayou View	Golf Club near the	airport at Gulfport
aster areas and the mopping up operations are fully un- lost its improvised golf shop that it has been using, derway. This includes the tourist-attracting gold courses, pending construction of new clubhouse. The course will Pass Christian Isles gold facility was wiped out and be playable soon. Keesler Field, Gulf Hills, Hickory Hill, the club membership is starting from scratch rebuilding. Pascagoula and the three Par Three courses all suffered A Labor Day weekend tournament, of course, is can- from the damaging winds.
celled, but the Pass can get ready for its	annual fall	Sectionalism	in Mississippi could	be the optimistic
tournament.	victim of the disaster. This was fully evidenced by the
Broadwater Beach's Sea Course (the old Great “We Care’’ statewde television and radio hookup eman-
Southern on the beachfront) lost hundreds of its beautiful trees. The hurricane swept through the brick golf house where Mr. and Mrs. Charles Webb reside. They narrowly escaped drowning before they were rescued and moved to the Broadwater Beach Hotel.
The new multimillion dollar Sun Course across the L & N railroad tracks from the hotel lost many of its beautiful pine triees, but cleanup operations were expedited in time for the course to be ready for the upcoming Gulf States Section PGA championship tournament scheduled Sept. 23-24-25.
ating Sunday from the State Coliseum at Jackson.
Upwards of 1.3 million dollars was contributed to help the disaster counties rehabilitate. The money came from all sections of the state, from the people in large and small town in north Mississippi.
County and city officials of the coast communities, united now as never before, put in an appearance at the Coliseum, thanking the people in all parts of Mississippi for their encouraging contributions.
Bob Hope was ushered into the. coliseum by the governor and his adjutant-general, Gen. Walter G. Johnson,
Sunkist Country Club will be ready for its	annual	a close	friend of Hope,	the golfer. This friendship was
Midwinter tournament, but has much work to do	on the	sparked	back in 1943 when the two met on the golf links,
clubhouse and the golf course.	Johnson	flew Hope over the devastated coastal area
Pro Billy Applewhite has been maintaining the Edge-	enroute	to Jackson. The	Bob Hope Golf Classic of three
water Club greens and' clearing the fairways	to the	courses	.in Palm Desert,	Calif., is one of the biggest PGA
point where it will be playable this coming weekend. tournaments on the tour.
In the recent PGA championship at Dayton, Ohio, which ended the Sunday of the hurricane, Johnny Pott was among the first day leaders interviewed by the daily papers.
Pott was quoted as saying he knew better than to get excited about one day’s round. Johnny put in a plug for Broadwater and the Gulf Coast when he told about the fishing	trips	he	enjoyed with his oldest son in
the gulf waters.	Pott,	a	realist, told the sports	writ-
ers that he couldn't get excited about his game when in his 13-year career he averaged on a half victory a year. He won only five	big	PGA tournaments.
Pott said: “I	don’t	let	one good day fool me.”	Aft-
er his 69 he finished 75-71-70 cashing in on $2,137.
Gulf States PGA Secretary A1 Michael of Baton Rouge said Pott definitely will play in the upcoming section championship on his home grounds at Broadwater. He holds the Sun Course record of 68.
Pott and Freddie Hass of New Orleans have won the Section Championship several times. The Louisiana Chapter of the Gulf States hopes to get the Hebert Brothers, Jay and Lionel, to compete with Pott at Broadwater.