VERY RARE MID 1960'S DEANE BEMAN SIGNATURE GOLF BALL DOZEN HERCULES TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY. DEANE WAS AN ELITE AMETUER PLAYER WINNING THE 1950 BRITISH AMETUER AND THE US AMETUER TWICE IN 1960 & 1963. HE ALSO PLAYED ON FOUR CONSECUTIVE WALKER CUP TEAMS. HE WON FOUR TIMES ON TOUR AND BEAT TOM WATSON IN THE 1972 QUAD CITIES. HE WAS THE FIRST TO METHODICALLY PACE OUT, MEAURE AND RECIRD EXACT COURSE YARDAGES IN A NOTEBOOK IN 1954. HE CREATED THE PROTOTYPE FOR THE YARDAGE BOOKS EVERY PRO USES TODAY. HE RETIRED AND AGE 35 IN 1974, TO BECOME THE SECOND COMMISSIONER OF THE PGA. HE IS CREDITED OVER THE NEXT 20 YEARS AS FUNDAMENTALLY MODERNIZING THE SPORT. HE IS THE "FATHER OF STADIUM GOLF" AND CREATED THE PLAYER CHAMPIONSHIP. HE CREATED THE SENIOR TOUR AND THE BEN HOGAN TOUR. HE TRANSFORMED THE TOUR INTO A 501(C)(6) NON-PROFIT AND MANDATED THAT ALL TOURNAMENTS MUST SUPPORT A LOCAL CHARITY. HE WAS INDUCTED INTO THE WORLD GOLF HALL OF FAME IN 2000. AFTER STEPPING DOWN AS COMMISSIONER HE RETURNED TO GOLF NAD PLAYED IN 69 EVENTS ON THE SENIOR TOUR.

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