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In the salute to prospects stars of the 1920s and also the history of golf, 24 players appeared Monday for the second annual United States Professional Hickory Golf Championship. They walked the venerable 1922 Tom Bendelow course, carrying small bags of wooden-shafted clubs.

Men in ties, caps and argyle socks and ladies in skirts and trendy hats played low bump-and-run shots in the greens. They used clubs with names like mashie, brassie, niblick and jigger stamped in to the tiny club heads, some irons looking much more straight Mizuno MP-58 irons razors than golf clubs. They tinkered with replica rubber projectiles in the 1920s have a tendency to landed at least 10 yards in short supply of typical targets.

It's like we entered into a time machine, said Kevin Weickel, the 2011 North Florida Golf P.G.A. pro of the year and the tournament director from the P.G.A. Tour' Children's Miracle Network Hospital Classic in Orlando. ?¡ãYou almost see the ghosts of those old pros scattered round the first tee.

He added: ?¡ãSome of such old trees were here back in 1925, and they were an integral part of that tournament. Looking around today, celebrate me wonder if this sounds like my field of dreams.

Mike Stevens, the tournament director along with the club pro at MacDill Air Force Base in nearby Tampa, decided to bring a hickory golf tournament for the area after he won titleist 910H hybrid the 2005 and 2010 National Hickory Championship and competed on the planet Hickory Open in Scotland, where hickory golf is popular.

Since the majority golfers tend not to own hickory-shafted clubs, he also asked Jay Harris, a retired dentist in Vermont who collects the vintage clubs, to deliver clubs for contestants. Harris took 40 teams of hickory clubs with him, giving players in the case an opportunity to practice with them per day early.

Like Stevens, Harris is surely discount golf clubs an ambassador to the game's history. And the man says he wants golfers to know more to do with the roots in the game.

Baseball fans know their history, i really would hope that golfers have a involvement in their game, said Harris, the winner of the 2008 United states of america Hickory Open championship.

It will require players more enamored with the romance from the game's rich history compared to the repetitive act of muscling shots on 7,400-yard layouts to appear with an event this way. Just like they did on the 1925 Florida Open, contestants faced training measuring less than 6,400 yards.