Despite being banned by the PGA, Count Yogi received a lot of newspaper coverage in the 1950s in Los Angeles and also appeared on television programs hosted by Steve Allen and Groucho Marx. Maxwell Stiles of the Los Angeles Mirror newspaper (later absorbed by the current LA Times) wrote a multiple-part feature article on Count Yogi around that time. Golf columnist Fred Robledo featured him years later in the LA Herald-Examiner, as did top sportswriter in town, Jim Murray of the LA Times. The organized golf establishment wanted to thwart Count Yogi, but these knowledgable journalists all took issue with that and gave Count Yogi recognition in print. Marty Tregnan, the longtime head of the Los Angeles Municipal Golfer's Association, appeared in the "King of Golf" video and praised Yogi's playing skills and especially his teaching methods and the quick results students achieved with it. Mr. Tregnan's reputation and devotion to golf in Southern California was so great that the City of Los Angeles named its Youth Golf training facility in Griffith Park in his honor. Golf was Tregnan's passion and he'd seen instructors come and go, yet he's on record saying Yogi was the best.