# @playmassgolf on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CstkJbDuA7T
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/18114304-playmassgolf-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-05-26T15:48:30.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Mass Golf (@playmassgolf) — https://gondola.cc/playmassgolf

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The Cult of Hickory - Rakishly charming, Hickory Bill was the perfect character to guide me into this new, old world. When I shook his hand, I half expected to be transported to 1920 like some sort of Field of Dreams time warp. He grew up at the Country Club of Greenfield and his grandfather helped build the original clubhouse in 1905, so I suspect that when he’s strolling the fairways there, he is actually experiencing temporality in layers of memory, rather than a linear plotting of 18 holes.

The par-5 14th is defined by a railroad track that lines the left side of the hole. Hickory Bill said that when he was a kid, long, slow freight trains frequently chugged by on those rails. If the timing was right, after he hit his drive, he would hop on the train and ride it up to his ball. He had mentioned that the head pro was like a babysitter for him and his siblings back then, but I’m guessing the pro wasn’t privy to this mischievous use of transportation. As he told the story, his gaze steadily traced the line of railroad tracks, and I’d bet he was picturing those old train cars.

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