Sounds like you need to hie on down to Bogeys to Birdies Golf Shop in North Myrtle Beach:
Sun News
15 December, 2007
Charles Henry "Chic" Adams of Little River died on Dec. 8 at the age of 83, and Claude "Buster" Bennett Reed Jr. of Murrells Inlet died on Dec. 9 at 79.
Adams was a golf course designer and builder who had a hand in more than 100 courses in and out of the U.S., including a pair on the Grand Strand. He did the site work on Black Bear Golf Club, designed by Tom Jackson, and Oyster Bay Golf Links, designed by Dan Maples.
He's acknowledged in the book about golf course architecture "The Golf Course," written by Geoffery S. Cornish and Ronald E. Whitten.
He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and served in the U.S. Air Force in WWII. He majored in agronomy at Iowa State and the University of Nebraska, became the superintendent and head pro at Sioux City Country Club, was a member of both the PGA of America and Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, and played on the PGA Tour for a few years in the 1950s before devoting himself to building and designing courses.
He is credited for work on courses including Seminole Lake in St. Petersburg, Fla., Forest Hills in St. Louis and Valleybrook in Hixson, Tenn. He did much of his work as CA Earthmovers Inc., with offices in Atlanta then Florida, and moved to Little River four years ago. He spent most days over the past two years hanging out at Bogeys to Birdies Golf Shop in North Myrtle Beach.
"We really we had a gem here, we just didn't know it," said Bogeys to Birdies master clubmaker Alvin Cloyd. "He was just a super, super nice guy. An unbelievable fella."
Cloyd was going to take Adams to Thanksgiving lunch but Adams fell and broke his hip that morning. He died on the eve of his 84th birthday. Adams' family gave Cloyd this week the blueprints for many of his courses. Cloyd said he hoped to build a course consisting of his 18 favorite holes he was involved with, but never got around to it.
Mark