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Podcast: Voices of Oklahoma
Episode: George Matson "Golf Shop George"
Description: For fifty-five years George Matson answered the phone at Southern Hills Country Club as “Golf Shop George”.George painted houses in Ireland until 1955, by which time he had saved $400, enough for passage on the SS America to New York City and a train ticket to Tulsa, where an aunt had previously immigrated.After placing a small ad in the Tulsa World he received a call from Southern Hills Country Club and began work as a maintenance man. In 1955 he was asked to work in the golf pro shop where he spent fifty-five years with the nick name...