This exclusive four-hour immersive experience takes you beyond the game and into the workshop, offering a rare opportunity to explore the craft, materials and techniques that shaped golf's golden age. Working alongside an experienced clubmaker, you'll discover how historic clubs are identified, restored, assembled and preserved. You'll learn traditional woodworking and metalworking techniques, handle original clubs dating back over a century and gain a deeper understanding of the craftsmanship behind the game. Throughout the day you'll shape hickory, restore historic club components, learn how club heads were made and assembled, build a replica long nose golf club and personalise your own restored hickory club to take home. Designed for collectors, enthusiasts, historians and golfers who love the details behind the game, this is a hands-on experience unlike anything else in golf tourism. At the end of the day you'll leave with your own personalised hickory golf club which you have restored and assembled and a unique insight into a craft that has almost disappeared from the modern game. What's Included:• A four hour immersive workshop • Hands-on clubmaking and restoration activities • Traditional woodworking and metalworking demonstrations • Restore a genuine hickory-era club from start to finish • Your own restored and personalised hickory golf club to take home • Certificate of completion • Tea, coffee and refreshments • Plenty of stories from golf's golden age

A full workshop experience inside a working hickory golf workshop and take part in the restoration of genuine antique golf clubs using traditional tools, materials and techniques from golf’s hickory era. Guided by your expert host, you will learn how hickory clubs were originally made, repaired and restored over 100 years ago. Throughout the session, you will work hands-on at the bench using period-style tools and authentic restoration methods to help bring a vintage club back to life. You will also personalise your own genuine hickory club to take home , creating a one-of-a-kind piece of golf history connected to your experience in the workshop. What You Will Do Guided introduction to the history of hickory golf and the evolution of early clubmaking. Explore original clubs, materials, tools and restoration equipment inside the workshop. Learn the anatomy and construction of hickory golf clubs and how they were traditionally assembled. Take part in genuine restoration processes used in the workshop today. Learn how traditional hosel pins are removed and reinstalled during restoration work. Discover how hickory shafts were shaped and prepared using period tools and techniques, with the opportunity to try elements of the process yourself. Learn traditional finishing methods including whipping, grip fitting and final preparation. Select and personalise your own restored hickory club using your choice of leather grip, whipping thread and optional tartan or tweed detailing. Add an optional engraved name, date or short message to the shaft of your club. Take Home Options Optional personalised restored hickory club for a discounted price of £95 You can pre-purchase your personalised club as an add-on when purchasing your ticket Practical Details Duration: approximately 2 hours. Group size: up to 8 guests. No experience required. Age guidance: under 12s welcome with supervising adult. Clothing: casual and comfortable. Closed-toe footwear recommended. Accessibility: seated working positions available. Most activities are low impact. Location: Teasses Estate, KY8 5PG just 10 miles from St Andrews.

Full Workshop Experience + Personalised Hickory Club + Handmade Gutty Ball Step deeper into golf’s early history by taking part in both the restoration of genuine hickory golf clubs and the making of a traditional-style gutty golf ball. Inside our working hickory golf workshop, you will learn how antique clubs were originally made, repaired and restored using traditional tools, materials and techniques from golf’s golden age. Guided by your expert host, you will work hands-on at the bench and take part in genuine restoration processes used in the workshop today. You will then continue your journey into early golf craftsmanship by creating your own replica gutty golf ball using historic-inspired moulding methods and safe modern materials — discovering how early ball design transformed the game forever. At the end of the experience, you will leave with your own personalised hickory club and handmade gutty ball, each connected to the story and craftsmanship of golf’s earliest era. What You Will Do Guided introduction to the history of hickory golf and early golf ball development. Explore original clubs, tools, materials and restoration equipment inside the workshop. Learn how hickory golf clubs were traditionally made, assembled and repaired. Take part in genuine restoration processes used in the workshop today. Learn how traditional hosel pins are removed and reinstalled during restoration work. Discover how hickory shafts were shaped and prepared using period tools and techniques, with the opportunity to try elements of the process yourself. Learn traditional finishing methods including whipping, grip fitting and final preparation. Select and personalise your own restored hickory club using your choice of leather grip, whipping thread and optional tartan or tweed detailing. Add an optional engraved name, date or short message to the shaft of your club. Create your own replica gutty golf ball using a traditional-style moulding process. Finish and detail your gutty ball with historic-inspired surface patterns and seam finishing techniques. Learn how early golf ball materials and designs influenced distance, flight and the evolution of the game. What You Take Home Your handmade replica gutty golf ball Take Home Options Optional personalised restored hickory club for a discounted price of £95 You can pre-purchase your personalised club as an add-on when purchasing your ticket Practical Details Duration: approximately 2 hours 30 minutes. Group size: up to 8 guests. No experience required. Safety: supervised use of simple hand tools and workshop materials throughout. Age guidance: under 12s welcome with supervising adult. Clothing: casual and comfortable. Closed-toe footwear recommended. Accessibility: seated working positions available. Most activities are low impact. Location: Teasses Estate just 10 miles from St Andrews.