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Show Indoor Golf Fad Sweeping Country The newest fad in the country club set is holding mid-winter golf outings. At club after club across the country they are donning shorts, golf shirts and rakish hats, forming form-ing foursomes and teeing off for nine holes of tournament play. This does not mean they are turning to a golfing equivalent of polar bear clubs of midwinter swimmers. Rather, the January golf tourneys are scheduled indoors in-doors with a new game, which simulates the real thing with nine table top holes, imaginary clubs and the luck of the cards. The country club crowd as well as society benefits in using the game for tournament play. Developed by golf champion Arnold Palmer, Inside Golf if just what the name implies a way to play golf indoors in any and all weather. Some of the most enthusiastic Inside Golf tournament players, in fact, are wives to whom real golf courses have been primarily landscaped backdrops for the country club dances and bridge games. "The biggest enthusiasts of all may well turn out to be the social so-cial chairmen of the nation's country clubs," muses the game's inventor, David Bremson. "They have latched on to the game in their constant quest for new party ideas. I guess they are intrigued in-trigued by golf that defies the calendar." The indoor golf idea is spreading spread-ing from the country clubs to charities and community organizations, organi-zations, which are holding inside golf tournaments as fund-raising events. |