Fourth Annual United States Professional Hickory Golf Championship - Monday February 24, 2014
The fourth annual United States Professional Hickory Golf Championship will be conducted at the Temple Terrace Golf & Country Club on Monday, February 24, 2014. In this retro tournament all participants play with pre -1930 wood shafted golf clubs or replicas of the same along with reproduction balls of the era (Clubs and balls are provided to all participants needing them). Entry is open to all golf professionals – male and female.
The prime reason for the creation of this tournament is to celebrate, preserve and protect the origins of our game. Our hope is that the tournament will provide a link to a time that is getting easier and easier to forget. We believe history is important, useful and should be kept relevant. Do we expect you to thrown down your modern implements and take up hickory golf? Of course not. Just enjoy and celebrate the roots of our game in the manner of Hagen and Sarazen for a single day. We promise it will be an experience you will not forget.
The prime reason for the creation of this tournament is to celebrate, preserve and protect the origins of our game. Our hope is that the tournament will provide a link to a time that is getting easier and easier to forget. We believe history is important, useful and should be kept relevant. Do we expect you to thrown down your modern implements and take up hickory golf? Of course not. Just enjoy and celebrate the roots of our game in the manner of Hagen and Sarazen for a single day. We promise it will be an experience you will not forget.
2013 Tournament Results
Swiss golf pro one ups locals at professional hickory golf championship.
TEMPLE TERRACE, FL 1/21/13 - At the third annual United States Professional Hickory Golf Championship, Switzerland’s Paolo Quirici contemplated his approach to the 18th green. Clearwater’s Richard Bullock in the house at 75 and Sarasota pro John McCann was teeing off tied with both Quirici and Bullock at 2 over par. It was Paolo who stepped it up. An excellent approach and putt for birdie wrapped up the John Shippen Cup for the former European Tour player who now spends his days helping the average Joe improve his or her golf game.
While several places north of the Florida border were dealing with freezes and wind chill, 26 golfers teed off in picture perfect weather at the Temple Terrace Golf & Country Club with clubs and balls from a long forgotten era of American golf. It was as if Gene Sarazen and Walter Hagen stepped out of the Model T Ford parked at the front door of the stately clubhouse replete with wooden shafted clubs, plus four trousers and argyle stockings. As Mike Stevens, Tournament Director put it, “This is a day to celebrate and remember how the game of golf came to this country and the great champions who made the game popular with the masses.” And celebrate they did, men and women from the United States, Canada, Switzerland and Scotland toting implements that Mark Twain proclaimed unsuitable for the job required. In modern lingo it is referred to as hickory golf and many in the field play it regularly while others were here out of curiosity and the chance to collect a piece of the $5,000 prize fund.
Scores: Paolo Quirici 74 $1,500 Switzerland - Richard Bullock 75 $850 FL - John McCann 75 $850 FL - Jon Benson 78 $450 FL Adam Varney 78 $450 FL - David Rummells 79 $300 FL - Mike Stevens 80 $162 FL - Mark Harman 80 $162 SC - Jim Garrison 81 $100 FL - Jennifer Cully 82 $62 FL - Jeff Leonard 82 $62 FL - Eddie Peckels 83 $17 FL - Bill Geisler 83 $17 FL - Tom McCrary 83 $17 FL - Brian Schuman 84 NY - Ben Plaunt 85 Canada - Ron Tickle 85 Scotland - Willie Ducherer 85 Canada - Clay Thomas 88 FL Greg Vogelsang 90 NY - Cathy Reynolds 92 PA - Troy Schnelle 92 Canada - Kevin McDowell 93 FL - Ewan Glen 93 Scotland - Jim Peters 94 KY
The United States Professional Hickory Golf Championshipwas originated by Mike Stevens, teaching pro at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa to preserve and remember golf as it was played in the early years of the sport in America. The Temple Terrace course provides an historically accurate setting for competitors to play exactly like the early pros who started it all.
Swiss golf pro one ups locals at professional hickory golf championship.
TEMPLE TERRACE, FL 1/21/13 - At the third annual United States Professional Hickory Golf Championship, Switzerland’s Paolo Quirici contemplated his approach to the 18th green. Clearwater’s Richard Bullock in the house at 75 and Sarasota pro John McCann was teeing off tied with both Quirici and Bullock at 2 over par. It was Paolo who stepped it up. An excellent approach and putt for birdie wrapped up the John Shippen Cup for the former European Tour player who now spends his days helping the average Joe improve his or her golf game.
While several places north of the Florida border were dealing with freezes and wind chill, 26 golfers teed off in picture perfect weather at the Temple Terrace Golf & Country Club with clubs and balls from a long forgotten era of American golf. It was as if Gene Sarazen and Walter Hagen stepped out of the Model T Ford parked at the front door of the stately clubhouse replete with wooden shafted clubs, plus four trousers and argyle stockings. As Mike Stevens, Tournament Director put it, “This is a day to celebrate and remember how the game of golf came to this country and the great champions who made the game popular with the masses.” And celebrate they did, men and women from the United States, Canada, Switzerland and Scotland toting implements that Mark Twain proclaimed unsuitable for the job required. In modern lingo it is referred to as hickory golf and many in the field play it regularly while others were here out of curiosity and the chance to collect a piece of the $5,000 prize fund.
Scores: Paolo Quirici 74 $1,500 Switzerland - Richard Bullock 75 $850 FL - John McCann 75 $850 FL - Jon Benson 78 $450 FL Adam Varney 78 $450 FL - David Rummells 79 $300 FL - Mike Stevens 80 $162 FL - Mark Harman 80 $162 SC - Jim Garrison 81 $100 FL - Jennifer Cully 82 $62 FL - Jeff Leonard 82 $62 FL - Eddie Peckels 83 $17 FL - Bill Geisler 83 $17 FL - Tom McCrary 83 $17 FL - Brian Schuman 84 NY - Ben Plaunt 85 Canada - Ron Tickle 85 Scotland - Willie Ducherer 85 Canada - Clay Thomas 88 FL Greg Vogelsang 90 NY - Cathy Reynolds 92 PA - Troy Schnelle 92 Canada - Kevin McDowell 93 FL - Ewan Glen 93 Scotland - Jim Peters 94 KY
The United States Professional Hickory Golf Championshipwas originated by Mike Stevens, teaching pro at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa to preserve and remember golf as it was played in the early years of the sport in America. The Temple Terrace course provides an historically accurate setting for competitors to play exactly like the early pros who started it all.
