Opened 2014
West Pine still smells like rosin if the kettle just ran.
Grip Wrap began because Lyle Pender was tired of Hattiesburg players buying a printed midsize and then flipping every pitching face when longleaf steam came up.
The first ring was a leftover sizing dowel from a cousin who wrapped tool handles at a turpentine camp west of De Soto. The first solvent was hardware-store mineral. The charter has not changed: count first, drop second, printed sizes never.
We still will not wrap a driver as a primary. The kettle maps irons and wedges, because that is where extra cloth tells on you in this pine town. Humidity still lifts the stack while the trunk stays shut overnight. That is the whole story, reprinted every July.