Lots of Hickory Golf Happening Last Thursday
brinkley | June 13, 2010I monitor hickory golf articles on the web on a daily basis. Most the time there isn’t anything during the week. Last week wasn’t the case. Last Thursday there were three articles in one day that clearly demonstrates that hickory golf is catching on.
We start off with a posting from the Akron Ohio News where Dave and Sue Morgan have transformed Old Pine Golf Course from 18 holes into a mom and pop executive course. At the bottom of the article is meat for hickory golfers with a mention of Dave’s collection and his participation in the Hickory Open in West Virgina. Makes me wonder if the rentals at Old Pine are hickory as well.
In the Columbia Daily Tribune the 91 Charlie Digges reluctantly talks about his game. Turns out he consistently shots less than his age. The article contributes his success, which includes several club championships, as well as his longevity to pumping iron the last few years and his hickory putter he’s had for 50 years. Humm…wonder if that’s an Otey or if it’s from the hickory era.
Finally, in Tea with the Vintage Baroness husband Derrick has consistently put off the Baroness’ desire to dress him in vintage clothes. That is until he went to Scotland and played with hickory clubs and plus fours on the open day of Kingarrock Hickory Golf at the Hill of Tarvit in 2008. Now if you ask most of serious hickory golfers spouses, we’re generally not into vintage clothes, but we will dawn our knickers and argyle socks when we go out and play. Of course if we have to run an errand after playing we generally don’t change unless the course has a locker room so you might catch us in vintage clothing outside the club occasionally (oh all right more than occassionally). Of course if you ask my mid 20’s daughter opinion on the matter, one time outside the golf course is one too many. So keep it up Derrick with the plus fours on the golf course. Your wife is happy you’re dressing vintage and you look perfect on the golf course with those hickory sticks.
Oh, and if you want to go back a day to Wednesday you can read the story about long time Canadian PGA professional Pat Little that carded his fourth hole in one and the first one with a hickory set. Of course for all of us that have NEVER gotten a hole in one we would rather dwell on the present rather than the past….Oh all right! Congratulations Pat….Share the wealth, will ya!