Rocky Patel Mulligans Bogey Club Review

The Bogey Club pairs a golden-blond Connecticut Shade wrapper with Dominican and Nicaraguan long-filler tobacco, sold in five sizes at bundle prices. Holt's Cigar Company's staff review rated it 92 points and described a smoke that opens mild and creamy before picking up more backbone toward the finish. It's the lightest-bodied cigar in the Mulligans lineup we've covered so far, and a reasonable starting point for a smoker who isn't ready for the darker San Andrés-wrapped blends in the same franchise.

Spec	Detail
Brand / line	Rocky Patel Mulligans (Bogey Club)
Vitola reviewed	Torpedo, marketed as "the Shank"
Size reviewed	6 1/2" x 52
Available sizes	Five total
Wrapper	Connecticut Shade
Filler	Dominican and Nicaraguan long-filler
Binder	Not published by the maker
Strength	Mild, building to medium by the finish
Price	Roughly $3.24–$4.49 per cigar
Packaging	Bundle count not published by the maker
Staff rating	92 (Holt's Cigar Company)

A Connecticut Shade wrapper is grown under tents of cheesecloth in the Connecticut River Valley, a shade-growing method that produces a thinner, lighter, more golden leaf than a sun-grown wrapper like the San Andrés Maduro used on other Mulligans blends. That growing method tends to deliver cream, light spice, and a smoother draw rather than the heavier cocoa-and-earth register a darker wrapper produces, and Holt's staff review backs that up here: crème brûlée and almond milk with light pepper in the first third, moving through almond and oak with smoked maple by the midpoint, before baking spices, wood, and white pepper come through on the finish. That arc, a mild opening followed by more structure by the end, is a common trait of Connecticut-wrapped cigars, since the wrapper leaf itself carries less flavor than the binder and filler underneath, so more of what you taste later in the smoke comes from the tobacco doing the real work.

A bogey is a score of one stroke over par on a single hole, a common, everyday result rather than a standout one and the opposite end of the scale from an eagle. Rocky Patel's Mulligans franchise names its blends after golf terms and situations, and "Bogey Club" leans into that everyday, no-pressure framing rather than positioning itself as a top-tier release the way a name like Eagle Reserve does. That fits the blend itself: a mild, easygoing Connecticut Shade smoke rather than a bold flagship-style profile. It's marketing language, not an independently verified ranking, but the name and the tobacco underneath it tell a consistent story here.

The golf theme runs down to the vitola names too. Holt's staff review covers the Torpedo vitola under the name "the Shank." A shank is a mishit that flies sharply sideways off the club's hosel, one of the more frustrating shots in golf rather than a good one. Pairing a mild, everyday blend name with a mishit vitola name fits the whole Mulligans franchise's sense of humor, since a mulligan itself exists to forgive exactly that kind of bad shot.

Rocky Patel built his name on premium lines like the Decade and the Vintage series, cigars that typically run well above bundle pricing and use longer-aged, single-origin tobacco. The Mulligans franchise, including the Bogey Club, is his budget answer for smokers who want a similar smoking experience without the flagship price tag: bundle packaging instead of boxed presentation, and a blended rather than single-origin filler. A Decade release commonly runs two to three times what the Bogey Club costs per stick, and the strength gap is just as wide: Decade releases run medium to full, while the Bogey Club stays mild through most of the smoke. The Rocky Patel brand page covers the rest of his lineup if you want to see where a Decade or Vintage release would fit alongside this one.

Most of the Mulligans blends we've reviewed lean toward darker wrappers and bolder profiles. The Mulligans Unicorn and the Mulligans Eagle Reserve both wrap Nicaraguan-heavy filler in San Andrés Maduro leaf for a medium-to-full, cocoa-and-espresso smoke. The Bogey Club is the outlier. Same golf-themed bundle franchise, same Dominican-and-Nicaraguan filler base, but a Connecticut Shade wrapper instead of San Andrés, which keeps the whole cigar lighter until the final third. If you've tried one of the darker Mulligans blends and found it too heavy, the Bogey Club is the same franchise's answer to that complaint rather than a completely different product line.

• Smokers who want mild without going all the way to a beginner blend. The crème brûlée and almond-milk opening reads as approachable, while the baking-spice finish gives it more character than a purely mild cigar.
• Fans of Connecticut Shade wrappers looking for a bundle-priced option. At roughly $3.24 to $4.49 a stick, it costs a fraction of most premium Connecticut-wrapped lines.
• Anyone who's tried a darker Mulligans blend and wants something lighter from the same franchise. The Bogey Club shares a filler base with the Unicorn and Eagle Reserve but trades the San Andrés wrapper for something considerably gentler.
• Smokers building a rotation for regular, everyday cigars rather than a single special-occasion stick. Bundle pricing on a mild, dependable profile is exactly what a daily or near-daily smoker wants from a budget line.

Skip the Bogey Club if you specifically want the bold, cocoa-forward profile the rest of the Mulligans line is known for. This is the mildest blend in the family, not a lighter version of the same flavor. It's also not the pick for a smoker chasing maximum strength on a budget, since the mild opening and only-moderate finish sit well below what a full-bodied bundle cigar delivers. Anyone in that camp should look at the Mulligans Eagle Reserve or Unicorn instead, both of which start on a darker San Andrés Maduro wrapper and stay medium to full from the first draw.

This verdict rests on Holt's staff review, since Rocky Patel hasn't published its own tasting notes for the Bogey Club, so it would firm up with more independent reviews describing a similar arc from mild to medium. It would also change if Rocky Patel starts publishing bundle counts and box pricing for this specific blend. Right now, the lack of a published bundle size makes it harder to compare per-cigar value against other Mulligans releases that do list a count.

A mild Connecticut Shade wrapper is more delicate than a thicker maduro leaf, so it's worth being a little more careful with humidity on this one than on a darker Mulligans blend. Keep the Bogey Club at 65% to 70% relative humidity, the range most premium tobacco needs to smoke properly. A wrapper this thin can crack faster if it dries out, and it can also go spongy and hard to draw if it's over-humidified, so consistency matters more than hitting an exact number. Our cigar humidity guide covers dialing in that range with a digital hygrometer and the right humidification pack.

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