Modern-day equipment will be left at home with golf clubs more than 100-years-old taking pride of place at the 28th Australian Hickory Shaft Championship to be played on Melbourne’s world-renowned Sandbelt from September 3-5.
And for the first time, the Asia Pacific Hickory Championship, presented by the Society of Hickory Golfers, will be played in conjunction with the Australian event.
Jointly organised by the Australian Golf Heritage Society and the Golf Society of Australia, the Australian Hickory Shaft Championship celebrates the origins of the game when wooden hickory shafts dominated the fairways instead of the more modern steel and graphite varieties of today.
This year’s championship will feature some of Australia’s most accomplished hickory players who have mastered a different style of golf, as well as contingents from New Zealand and Japan, all competing for the…
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