Can You ID This Image and Recall the Story??

[FrankoSport]

Greetings ...

Please click-on this JPEG image link

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.

[Chieflongtee]

I cheated. Could that be the following?
http://www.tpagolf.com/membership.php

[mpkeith]

You're close Chief, but I think he's referring to when the PGA itself changed its name to the Tournament Players Association. This was from a while back... I was just a chitlin!

Here's the story:

Running from January to October, 1981 - and comprising 44 tournaments, total prize money exceeded $13 million. Floyd, Watson, and Lietzke won three tournaments each. Jerry Pate, Jay Haas, Hale Irwin, Larry Nelson, David Graham, and Johnny Miller won twice each.

Graham became the first Australian to win the United States Open, held from June 18 to 21 in Ardmore, Pa. He rallied from three shots behind on the final round with a brilliant 67 for a 273 that beat Rogers and George Burns by three strokes.

Watson, who had been Player of the Year for the four previous years, won the Masters in April in Augusta, Ga. His 280 beat Miller and Jack Nicklaus by two strokes.

Larry Nelson took the PGA championship in August in Duluth, Ga., with a 273, defeating Frank (Fuzzy) Zoeller by four strokes. Nicklaus tied for fourth there and tied for sixth in the U.S. Open.

TOUR officials faced many problems. Television ratings were low. Many sports fans seemed uninterested. Sponsors complained that many leading players did not enter their tournaments.

The players rejected a proposal to establish two separate but equal tours. They rejected another proposal to create two concurrent tours--one major, one lesser.

In November, the tour's policy board established new qualifying standards for tournaments, starting in 1983. Monday qualifying for lesser players will be eliminated. Instead, an all-exempt tour will be created with at least 200 eligible players--chiefly the previous year's 125 top money winners and the 50 leaders in the tour's qualifying school.

TOUR officials made one change for identification and marketing reasons. Most of the members of the PGA were club professionals who never or seldom played on the tour. So the PGA TOUR, which involved 355 professionals in all, changed its name to the Tournament Players Association (TPA) Tour.