Wearing early 20th century-inspired attire and donning wooden shafted clubs, golfers are turning their backs on titanium to take up the game from what they say is a purer era.
Hickory golf has a resonance of being from a different, more romantic age. Great golfers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were artists. Their clubs were works of art and had names rather than numbers. They were called things like ‘mashie’ and ‘niblick’, ‘brassie’ and ‘spoon’, a spade’ and ‘jigger’.
