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...black Cadillac, rent the air with a grandiose sweep of his cane and exclaimed: "This was nothing more than a bankrupt cow pasture 17 years ago." For ebullient Promoter George S. May, 63, the 134-acre pasture has grown spectacularly solvent and lushly green. It is now known as Tam O'Shanter, the nouveau Ritz among country clubs, whose 6,915-yd. golf course has a telephone on every...
...Tam O'Shanter's verdant fairways last week. Promoter May was running off golf's biggest money event, the $75,000 "World" Championship, first played in 1943 with a mere prestige pennant as its prize. Among the 119 starters were 22 topnotch foreign golfers whose traveling expenses were footed by Promoter May. Six big signboards showed the leaders' scores, relayed hole by hole via phone and walkie-talkie. On the championship's final day, with hamburgers going for 60(f, some 10,000 fans, who had each paid a record $6 for admission, trailed golf...
Sallying forth from Tam O'Shanter's modernistic, Muzak-wired clubhouse (228 employees, a rash of bars, a swimming pool), Promoter May made occasional rounds of the course with a happy, proprietary air. Far too lavish to make a profit, the tournament's whopping deficit is being underwritten by May's firm of efficiency experts (680 staffers, $8,000,000 yearly sales), which will efficiently charge it off to promotion and publicity. Onetime Bible Salesman May got into golf because so many of his business prospects were found on tees. His fortunes have not always been...
...setbacks on a golf course. "I'll beat it," she said. The doctors had just told her that she had cancer. Before she went under anesthesia for a three-hour operation less than four months ago, husband George Zaharias told the Babe, "Honey, we'll be at Tam O'Shanter this year." Last week, with doctors marveling at her recuperative power (the Babe calls it "spiritual muscle"), she was back on the golf course playing in Chicago's Tam O'Shanter tournament...
...remedy: "I just loosen my girdle and let go." After chiding herself good-naturedly-"I've seen shots today I've never seen in my life"-the Babe loosened up, let go and began playing the kind of golf that won her four "world championships" on the Tam O'Shanter course...