EAST
In-to-out as an east bearing
The string sits right of the stick. The ball wants Czech Village. Otis will not call that a draw until the face is invited to the same conversation.
Chain 08 · 1st Street SE · NewBo
Stake the path before the river steals the bearing.
Path Rail is a survey loft, not a catalog counter. Otis Kline stretches a string where the clubhead actually travels. Rhea Dole writes the azimuth in the field book: east of the target is in-to-out, river-side is out-to-in. Peck Han names the Cedar hour that made that line, because Czech Village flood silt is not Brucemore lawn.
RIVER
Out-to-in as a river bearing
The string dives toward the Cedar. Ellis Park wind loves this lie. Rhea writes the number; she does not sell a slice cure in a bottle.
PIN
A square arrow that still drifts
Box arrows are decorations. A path is a chain of positions. If the mid-point is river and the finish is east, that is two bearings, not one slogan.
Why a survey loft
A printed arrow is a souvenir. A string is a fact.
Players walk up from the flood wall with a picture of a path they liked on a hangtag. Cedar Rapids humidity does not read hangtags. It reads whether a 6-iron still travels east of the stick after two summers of NewBo brick, and whether a hybrid that looked honest in a garage has already gone river-side on wet mornings.
Otis stakes the line. Rhea decides close, open, or leave the pin. Peck names the hour: Kingston dawn, Brucemore noon, or the Monday after a river rise. Nobody here draws a prettier arrow to make a snapshot happier.
Heard on Mays Island
Pins people actually planted
My five still looked like the hangtag arrow. Peck put powder on NewBo brick and the mid-point was already in the river. We closed a whisker. Czech Village stopped being the default miss.
They asked whether I play Ellis after rain or Brucemore when it is dust. I said both. Otis said pick a silt hour or keep two bearings. Rude in the useful way.