Flashback Friday: 1964 APBA Golf glossy brochure

For this week’s Flashback Friday, we’re heading back into Scott Veatch’s Vault.  This time, we’re going to find a 1964 APBA Golf brochure from 1964.

For the time, these 1964 brochures looked pretty snazzy with full-color photos of the game

This brochure follows the same format as the other glossy ones touting the Football game.  Saturated with both color and content, these brochures really captured the essence of the game. Also like the brochures for the other games, APBA championed the tenet that you were in charge with statements like, “You Analyze the Shots” and You Select the Club” (much akin to “You are the Manager”)

Arnold Palmer was one of 32 contemporary golfers you could get in 1964.  Below is a list of the rest:

In a way, the original game was a starter set.  Instead of an actual real course, you received selected golf holes from courses from around the U.S.  For hard core replayers, it may not be ideal but it was enough to get a new fan interested in the game of APBA Golf.    No doubt, the idea, was to get you to buy the real life 18-hole courses.

I remember this set as my brother bought it when I was young (the golfers may have been from a later year, though).  In 1964, the entire game, cards and boards went for a whopping price of $7.25.

You can view the entire 1964 APBA Golf brochure here.

Thanks again to Scott Veatch for sharing his archive.   You can see what we’ve exhibited so far from Scott’s collection of APBA brochures and paraphernalia at Scott Veatch’s Vault.