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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.

Thanx-A-Lot, Frank-0-Sport

Is this a test?

In the mid to late 90's didn't someone try to start another Tour to compete with the PGA Tour? The Tournament Players Association or Tour Players Association? Something about paying the players that missed the cut because they were making money for the Tour and not being compensated? It's fuzzy but it'll come back to me.

I Googled it and found something...is that cheating? Trying not to give it away (in case I'm right and Google is cheating) does it involve amateurs?

Shade

Someone trying to make a PGA logo - but couldn't spell?

The tournament players were having a squabble with the teaching and club professionals, and threatened to break away completely from the PGA and form their own Tournament Players Association (TPA).

I think the drum roll has begun here...

I have not idea...........................

Greetings ...

OK, Guys. 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.

Thanks for reminding us of that bit of history, Frank-O-Sport!

And even more thanks for following through with the answer!

Thanks for sharing that nice peice of golf history with us.