A Bit O' Pinehurst History
By Paul R. Dunn, Pinehurst Country Club Historian

Little children are lifted to touch it, members rub it for good luck, and visiting tourists take photos of it as a keepsake of their time in Pinehurst. It is the Putter Boy sundial statue, located by the practice green at the club. Originally it was known as the Sundial Boy or the Sun Dial Golf Lad. In Gorham Company catalogs the piece was sometimes referred to as a Bronze Caddy Sundial.

The sculptress, Mrs. Lucy P. Currier Richards, created the statue on commission from Leonard Tufts, whose wife was a friend of the artist. The arrangements for the creation of the statue may have been completed wh...