Passport Scotch ups the ante – The Passport Scotch Grand Prix of Platform Tennis Tour culminating in the Men’s and Women’s Nationals. The purse for the Men’s and Women’s tournaments was $169,000; the Nationals $25,200 each
Calvert Distillers, a division of Joseph E. Seagram & Son. Inc., renewed its sponsorship of professional men’s and women’s platform tennis for the season.
The 1978-79 Passport Scotch Grand Prix of Platform Tennis featured the highest prize money in the sport’s 50 year history, a total of $169,400 for both men’s and women’s circuits.