Tournament Artifacts Update

"Since the Jaycees, who founded the tournament in 1938, issued a call recently for tournament artifacts, items have been arriving to join the impressive trove collected during the past two years.

Haley presented the archives this week wirh a putter embossed "GGO, 1977." That was the first year the tournament moved 15 miles or so to Forest Oaks in southeast Guilford County. It was at Sedgefield Country Club from 1961 to 1976, and before that at both Sedgefield and Starmount Country Club.

Haley, whose family started the McDonald's outlets in Greensboro in 1958 (the year Bob Goalby won the tournment), also has turned over a tournament scrapbook from 1971, the year he was tournament general chairman and the event winner was Vietnam veteran Bud Allin.

Kevin von der Lippe, a former Jaycee president who with another former president, Randy Harris, are collecting items, said the scrapbook will be scanned and returned to Haley.
The two collectors encourage others with photos and film they don't want to give up to do like Haley.

Let the Jaycees scan and return them.

Another man called to say he had a watch from a GGO of long ago. He wanted to know how much it was worth. The Jaycees weren't sure what, if any value, it has. Finally the man said, "I'll just give it to you."

Von der Lippe says the Jaycees received word that an estate in Sedgefield may contribute a treasure of tournament artifacts. The Jaycees and Sedgefield Country Club are starting a tournament museum.

For at least the next year, items will be placed throughout the Sedgefield Club House. The goal is to convert a nearby cottage, once the pro shop, into a permanent, public museum."

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