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Alabama Golf Association:
The First 100 Years
The Alabama Golf Association is 100 years old this summer and I was commissioned to write a book ti-
tled Alabama Golf Association: The First 100 Years to celebrate this signal milestone. After years of research,
interviews and writing, the
AGA has now taken receipt
of this coffee-table style, 11"
x 8.5" landscape book which
is 280 pages, includes over
300 images and is around
86,000 words.
From the early days of
the association, through
almost 100 State Amateurs,
the reader is transported
to yesteryear as champion-
ships are chronicled, char-
acters introduced and tales
told, in some cases, from
first-hand reports and many
gleaned from newspaper
stories of the day.
State Amateur champi-
ons with such memorable
names as Files Crenshaw
through Smylie Kaufman,
and all the champions be-
fore, after and in-between,
are introduced.
The dust jacket of Alabama Golf Association: The First 100 Years features storied State
Amateur champions (top, L-R): Glenn Crisman, M.C. Fitts, Miss Chris Spivey and Mrs. Kathy
Hartwiger, and (bottom, L-R): Sam Perry, Sam Farlow, Mrs. Virginia Derby Grimes, Miss Bee
McWane, Jackie Cummings and Scudday Horner.