 Felly, mae'n fwyaf o'ch gweithio'n gweithio, bydd eich stori recruit yn cael ei gweithio yn y cyd-dwyngh. Yna, mae'n gweithio'r gweithio, mae'n ei gweithio'r ffeilio. Felly, fyddwn i'r llwyswch y club, llwyswch y syniadau, y'r olwch chi'n gweithio, mae'r ffifindio gweithio. Nid gweithio chi'n gwybod, oherwydd, mae'n gweithio'n gweithio, y gall, ac yn y cyd-dyliau'r cyhoedd yn ei fod yn gweithio. O'r 24 o'r 24 o'r ochr o'r cyhoedd, y Llyfrgell Hickory yn gweithio'r llyfrgellol i Llyfrgell Llyfrgell, o'r cyhoedd Cymru Gullwn Golf Cubs. A gydw i'n gyflwyno Jack Whites, o'r dda i ddweud cyflwyno Hickory. I'n gweithio Jack White o'r cyhoedd i Llyfrgell Gullwn Ice Street. Ac yn ymddangos, mae'r cyflawn i'r gyflwyno Boris. First of all Boris, thank you for taking some time to give us first of all a brief story on Hickory Clubs and our first question I ask for you is when did all star or when did Hickory Clubs first originate? Yeah, brief history is good, yeah. Yeah, we've got a bit of cover. Yeah, well it's certainly developed on the links. Some say developed in the Netherlands and on the ice when ships were waiting. It's certainly sure that we received leather balls from the Netherlands and it was played on the ice while they couldn't sail and they were playing it towards a stick in the ice and that was 14th, 15th century. 16th century it's documented that golf was played in Scotland. And there was just just moving on a bit so then the last sort of time that Hickory Clubs were used in a sort of world world organisation event. Well the last time they were they were winning was with Bobby Jones in 1930. He won the Grand Slam with wooden shafted clubs and his philosophy is that golf is played with wooden shafted clubs 1931 Tommy Armour who was a Hickory player before he had steel shafts in Canustin one with those all right in the next year because I think I read it in 1929 that's when the steel shafts were approved by the the governing bodies there were steel shafts in 1904 already but they weren't any good all right and then they were with a certain shortness of Hickory or the inconsistency of the quality of the shafts they moved to the steel shafts maybe the price point as well so in 1930 they became I think even 1928 they became legal right but it was Bobby Jones who didn't use them right and won he stuck to the Hickory good on it good on it now a few things in terms of I've also read but you can confirm for me no numbers they the clubs had names yes they had names that developed basically the earliest names really one of them is the clique yes and that was a metal shaft a metal head on a wooden shaft and I believe the origin of the name clique comes from the fact that lobstas are being scored out under the under the rocks with the clique and that's how the earliest clique looked like and a clique is more like a one iron isn't it is that right yeah it's a long it's a one iron it's from the clique willy park developed the the metal headed potter yes and patented that so that was it said that he played with a clique and then came to the use of that shape for a potter yeah so that's how we got the metal potter and then we've got it is a mid iron a mashy then you have well you have you have a clique yes you have a driving mashy yes a driving iron you have a mashy iron a mashy a mashy niblig yeah in a niblig okay and then niblig is that pitching match or so niblig would be like a pitching wedge there was no sandwich so the niblig you need to get out of a bunker out of a hazard that was the most lofted club and the heaviest club there is different versions like a jigger like a spade mashy a sammi there's loads of different clubs but we want to focus on the few main ones okay and again early the earlier clubs no grooves in the face they were purely so 1895 there was smooth face and then they introduced sort of dots was it I've seen in yeah it was you know in the wet a smooth face comes quite slippery yeah and all of these theories about you know how the ball carries better when it has cuts yeah how we get better grip when the faces holes all these things were developed around 1900 the socket headed a wood not the splice nick anymore all the the woods were spliced until 1904 about six seven then they switched to socket heads and then the last thing just on the equipment the ball the gutty ball as I think it's commonly known isn't it the gutty ball was the one that that brought the change from the feathery yes and then there came the rubber ball yeah and then the the haskell the wound ball around 19 1905 to 10 that broke through so I want to talk about the the world hickory championships in a minute too but when they compete the players that compete in those events would they use a a gutty ball or no they would use a modern ball would they today everybody plays soft field balls those are good for hickory play all right okay so it's not necessary that you play the the good no the gutty balls there is gutty balls they are smaller they're 162 yeah you've seen yeah and they actually have the right proportions for the earlier clubs because the people played with smaller balls okay uh but it would be a pricey yeah I believe that there's a five pound of ball at the moment is it something like that well there is only a thousand two hundred gutty balls left that are unused and that were a recreation from pennfold right in the early 90s but there isn't any you have to play with the old one so we've got three minutes to find the ball at the moment I think I'd be spending half an hour if I had one of them in the back you spent seven yeah before I give that one up um so that they were up to coincide with the five hickory world championships being played over kill spindy and gullun um and you run an event to yourselves as well I don't do but what time you use that um we also have an april event yes which is called jacks opens the tournament of the shop yes and both of these events will draw crowds from all over the planet chinese australian uh canadian most canadian swedish players yeah it's a good gathering well that's what what what do you think of the idea sort of well obviously preserving that the history of the game the history of hickory shafts and what's your sort of general overview of that how long will that sort of that will all this continue for uh I just see it being continued already I mean there's there's a load of clubs they're all made in scotland that's the good thing about it yeah and uh in the in the next step there would be replicas needed there is replicas as well they're also very good golf clubs but you kind of enjoy the the history of it and uh is there a rise in popularity over recent years back to the sort of tradition of the hickory club well I think the main point is the fact that the modern equipment you hit the ball farther but the course designs didn't change you can put a t back you can change that a bit but let's say you play a james braid course and you play that with hickory clubs the whole course makes sense and is more fun to play than just trying to outright the bunkers unsuccessfully yeah yeah a and then and then finally um jack whites so first of all who is jack whites jack white he was born in dealton nearby gullun and he was the only eastlothian champion muslim burrow wasn't eastlothian in the 19th century he won the open in 1904 in sandwich yes and he had a I believe a shot just down there over he had the shop down where the pharmacy is yeah and that was a rather popular shop until the end of the demise of the hickory clubs okay he gave evening lessons how to maintain them so people keep on playing them and then the war broke out and then wood shafted clubs were completely forgotten so you've opened this shop up to us you say three years you've been here yeah so it's all about the sort of the selling of the clubs you you restore clubs and well it's about continuing to play with them it's a way of recycling that's what I like about it too but it's also it could be a way to improve your game yeah because you you will instinctively find the rhythm for the shaft you okay confronted with so if a shaft is a bit whipier you'll you'll smoothen your swing you slow down and as we know slowing down isn't a bad thing for you no no it's right we all get a little bit carried away at times so then the next part of the process is uh we're going to get fit if you like for our set of golf clubs which we're going to take out on a course and play and I say we lose this behind a camera and we're both going to go through this next part of the process where we'll get a few clubs together and we'll see you out there on the golf course do you have the tailor-made mini driver um yeah I do I do I give you the tailor-made mini driver is this one here right it's uh yeah I'm feeling that all day perfect yeah so that takes you 120 that's a very long shaft okay and with some feel you can start from 120 to 150 with this one okay I can't promise any important okay serious you pick out the niblet yeah butter knife with bounce ha ha ha ha we're pinky a good player I'll see how you hit that it has a bit of a little bit in the grip but it's a it's a two iron let's see how good you are with that and uh that's a challenge that's a butter knife without bones and loft that's your that's your risk I was going to laugh for so long I'd say you want to tear it up yeah I think you want to tear it up yeah don't don't break it no it's not about that it's about you know you think you're gonna take it off leave me safe you're really hitting the grant here driving 325 yards to the green great start hello Luke they leave that in there good good good two family right there so Luke first have you hit hickory clubs before never no so literally the t-shots you've seen is it on that little part three to start that's the first time I've ever hit a hickory club yeah so it's a great track this is uh proper getting through links the right place to be trying these clubs out first opinions right so uh what are we about three shots in I think I had six on the first I was impressed I've made up that I hit it first of all I think was the main thing but I got good fit from Boris yeah yeah to be honest here pot of smile on your face that means absolutely this is very enjoyable anyway let's go and see if we can uh really drove the green on this old 17 fantastic Luke first experience of hickory what do you think loved it loved it it's great isn't it I got my my kind of golf do you know what it's so enjoyable and like I said four four or five clubs in a bag whiskies to start whiskies to finish amazing yeah that's over all this birdie putt but there's one challenge to go yet right so I did say that we have one more challenge left we'll get to that very very short before I do that the pleasure of staying in in Duxin on many occasions when I visit Slavia alongside Malcolm duck did you see any yeah and you too um first of all I just want to talk about Duxin great location perfect for all the Slavia coastline it's um yeah Aberdeity's right in the heart of Scotland's golf course and you can set that up as a little bit of a competition to St Andrews and over golf because golf really all started at leaf links and the new stanch has been built there for the first captain in Muirfield that's that's where life started the muscle rule course inside the racetrack that from the first hole was cut yeah and now we all play into that size of all all across the world yeah so really you know it's all going on and really over golf sorry st Andrews yeah or the cradle we go but you know Scotland's a lot of golf really so um competition's good but you know we've got a fantastic stretch here and if you have done lots of videos in here but what I want to talk about I will get like is that there's a challenge that I want to have a look at but we've we've just been I've just shot a video which is all about um the history of higory clubs the fact that the world championships the higory world championships has come into this area in a few weeks time what are your thoughts on some of the the history and the preserving the history of higory clubs well again we've talked a minute ago about the home of golf and where it all started all these courses in scotland have done for higory clubs yeah yeah we talked about setting what yeah this is a cool start and cool we're in earlier on we're just at the donnell championship and higory saying it's it's too easy yeah it's not about life it's it's it's and the more we've new balls new clubs new new equipment likes they would actually it's about getting the ball of that size of hole yeah and you play with a career is you did it today for the first time oh yeah first time and um the club end here yeah you could move the ball a lot more you have fewer clubs it's quicker yeah and uh it's just great fun so i think it's really important before we do that and actually the future of golf i think if more people played with fewer clubs like you did with higory i went back to higory and played with them i didn't really enjoy it higory golf is great for your swings great for your golf well that's what i was just going to say if you think it teach people to play the game on the move absolutely dad you hit higory you've got a commitment shot yeah your rhythm's got to be good and your tempo's got to be good yeah you go to slow okay we've now got a look at the final challenge in this video and i believe it takes place on that bar over there not easy no no not guarantee you'll succeed and get it on film right but it can be done it's just a loaded fun and on the names on the wall yeah all that left hand side they've all done it better be able to do it correct will the average golfer be able to do that we'll find out very soon for now thank you to mountain pleasure having you great have you yeah thanks for all the video to enjoy and uh we'll get up on that bar to see finish off one final challenge in this video that's where we're going oh i didn't have mine on the front yeah so that takes you 120 at the very long shaft okay and with some feet you can start from 120 to 150 of this one okay i can't promise anything important okay there is a special club now comes a special club this is a jigger right this is a bit rusty but it plays well it's a shallow faced machine or less yeah it's it's picked the boy it's the center of gravity is below the ball yes the ball will go up but it's used for from chipping around the green okay up to a long high shot you want to do right you want to approach the green from farther than your niblit can do okay try to get under the ball with this or you chip it from 120 yeah let it fly 50 meters and roll the rest yeah that's a tool universal tool for that can i ask you a question i didn't get on the uh i forgot see is that is there any is there a change from the way i would play golf um into the technique or swing or what how does it only one rule as slow as you can okay you'll have the most fun so it's more it's more it should become your inner schweinerhunde german would say right uh to swing as low as you can you suddenly feel like you're playing golf because you're in sync with the club okay you feel that way more fine better thank you do you have the tailor made mini driver um yeah i do i do i give you the tailor made mini driver is this one here it's a a small little head the shaft was broken it was so soft somebody broke it okay and i put a very sturdy long man's shaft in it and that's the tailor made mini driver there you go beautiful and if you play it like a slightly longer then it's a bit longer and uh the head is rather light but gives you a fast head speed yes it's more hydrodynamical than any modern club it's beautiful that's nice yeah and when you hit that straight it's much much smoother and you will be able to repeat it yeah when you once you have to find this the spot in your stance and the speed of the swing for every shaft when you find that and you can and you adjust to it yeah it's for the skilled golfer i was just gonna ask the question again now that it's just come up from it is that do you think golfers were more skilled at playing these clubs or is that too much of a when it comes to shot making it was more of a game yeah some not some another yeah and it was match play yeah you know they didn't they played the course but they played the appell yeah yeah it was uh interesting isn't it pick out the lible yeah butter knife with bounce we pick out yeah we're talking about special clubs the big ball model yeah that's for the 168 that doesn't have to do with any other balls than golf balls and this would be the the spade mashy top so to hit it far and low this would be like a clique and i know you're a good player i'll see how you hit that it has a bit of a little span in the grip but it's it's a two iron let's see how good you are with that and uh that's a challenge that's a butter knife without bounce and loft that's your that's your wrist gone that's gone a lot more so a lot better you have a wood don't you uh yes yeah you have the you have the tailor made yeah and you give your head cover for that