Can You ID This Image and Recall the Story??

[FrankoSport]

Greetings ...

Please click-on this JPEG image link

Now, see if you can identify the image and recall the story behind it!

I'll let you all take a shot at it, then I'll supply the details.

 

[Brian Manzella]

A shot?

Frank, the PGA and the Tour first started to think about separating in about 1968, when Palmer and Nicklaus threaten to walk. They formed the separate APG but the PGA (club pros) got worried that they would be irrelevant and gave in to a Player's division.

They goy Joe Dey, and the "Player's" division started the next year still with the the PGA moniker.

This still was not separate enough and in about 1983, the Tour changed their name to TPA Tour when the PGA demanded too much money for name use and other stuff that made the players and then commish Dean Beaman cry BS.

The PGA (club pros) were worried that they would be irrelevant (they would have been) and told the tour, "Anything you want, just use the name PGA puleeeeze!

The Tour said ok.



—Brian Manzella, golf's shell answer man

 

[efnef]

Yup, the Tournament Players Association logo. Recognize the silhoutte?

 

[MizunoJoe]

quote:Originally posted by efnef

Yup, the Tournament Players Association logo. Recognize the silhoutte?

Al Geiberger [?]

 

[efnef]

quote:Originally posted by MizunoJoe

quote:Originally posted by efnef

Yup, the Tournament Players Association logo. Recognize the silhoutte?

Al Geiberger [?]

Yup, that's what I'm told. We must be slumming at the same Frank-O-Sport frequented web sites.

http://www.sybervision.com/Golf/driver.htm

 

[FrankoSport]

Greetings ...

OK Folks, here's the rest of the story ---

Around 1981, there was a "little disagreement" between the PGA Tour and the PGA of America over marketing issues involving the initials PGA. So in August of 81, then Commission Deane Beman announced that the Tour would from that point on be known as the TPA Tour, the letters standing for "Tournament Players Association".

Click-on here to see the »»» Front cover of the 1982 Tour Media Guide

The Tour functioned under the "TPA" heading until March 21, 1982, when the marketing issue was resolved. From then on the tour has been known as the PGA Tour.

Originally, when the tournament professionals broke away from the PGA of America back in 1968, the tour functioned for its first seven years as the "Tournament Players Division", then was re-named "PGA Tour".

In the late 1990s, former tour member Danny Edwards tried to get a players' union started, under the title of "The Players' Association". The attempt fizzled!

There is now a group of amateurs in Southern Florida known as the --
"Tournament Players Association of Southwest Florida"


Now you know the rest of the story.

 

[Brian Manzella]

I like my answer better.

Because—unlike FrankO—I am IN the PGA, and I know how they work.