REAL GOLF BOGEY
More than a million and a half seasoned hickory sticks, which would have been converted into golf clubs, were washed away in the Mississippi floods last year, and buried in the river mud. "This loss has caused a serious shortage of material, for nearly all the golf clubs in the world are made from hickory wood grown on the banks of the Mississippi," said Mr. Thompson, of the Professional Golfers' Co-operative Association, to a London "Sunday Express" representative. The Mississippi floods have done enormous damage to the golf-club industry. Prices have not been raised but there will be a noticeable shortage of seasoned wood until the next crop is ready. Hickory cannot apparently be grown with success anywhere else. Steel-shafted clubs are made and used to a certain extent in America, because the climate tends to warp wooden-shafted clubs, but they are barred here.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 151, 23 December 1929, Page 15
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147REAL GOLF BOGEY Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 151, 23 December 1929, Page 15
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