Mullins has found flying has become more of a headache so this fall he’s organizing a trip within driving distance to Cape Cod to play at Cranberry Valley in Harwich, Falmouth CC and another course or two instead of heading south. When they first started playing down south, they’d fly out in the morning, play that afternoon and golf two rounds a day for three days. “Unfortunately, a lot of courses we like have closed,” he said. They’ve also been to North Carolina, Florida and Alabama.
Last year, they played the Legends, Heritage and Orchard Bay. Asked if taking Latin helped him as a neurologist, he admitted it didn’t.įor nearly three decades, Mullins has organized spring golf trips down south, primarily to Myrtle Beach. Mullins said his typing skills are weak because he took fourth-year Latin instead of typing at St. “One of the guys said he was going to put it on a computer, and I’m still waiting,” the West Boylston resident said. You’d never know Mullins was a doctor judging by his excellent penmanship. Paul Cummings, 78, of Worcester assists Mullins by emailing the itinerary to the golfers each year.
The group of golfers didn’t go south in 2020 or 2021 because of the pandemic, but they traveled last year to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
The following year, 16 golfers took part, and up to 28 golfers have played some years. In 1993, eight golfers played four Myrtle Beach courses. The 77-year-old retired neurologist writes the names of each golfer, the year and the courses on 8½-by-11-inch sheets of cardboard, which he keeps in a folder. Tom Mullins has kept a record of every golfer on each southern golf trip he has organized nearly every spring since 1993.īut he doesn’t keep this information on a laptop.
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