Word: fairborn
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Soon after Garnet Carter started using cottonseed hulls for greens, he was pounced upon by two young gentlemen named Drake de Lanoy and John N. Ledbetter. They had started using cottonseed hulls for miniature indoor courses, had likewise been pounced upon, by one Thomas M. Fairborn, golfing cottongrower from Mexico. Thomas M. Fairborn built a full-sized course on his plantation, had been annoyed by the way grass greens withered and sand greens blew away. He had observed that cottonseed hulls made smooth paths through the plantation, tried them for greens. Nobody pounced upon him. So he patented the idea...