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While Temple Terrace lacks the length seen on modern PGA and L.P.G.An excursion courses, the real challenge in hickory golf is mastering the clubs. The wooden shafts torque differently inside swing process from modern-day equipment, forcing players to adjust to different timing. Probably the most successful players subdue the longing to overpower the ball.

The challenge is hitting a ball using a less-than-perfect Titleist VG3 Forged Irons implement, just make sure pull off a fantastic shot, it's exhilarating, Stevens said. Hickory golf is difficult, but it really uncovers your imagination.

Eddie Peckels showed some imagination as he holed out a mashie, the equivalent of a 7-iron, from 170 yards for the par-4 12th hole to have an eagle. Peckels, an experienced guitarist at Tuscawilla Golf Club in the winter months Springs, Fla., shot a three-over 76 to win the discount golf clubs wedding. Jim Garrison, the Temple Terrace host club pro, also carded a 76, but hurt his back late in the round and conceded the playoff.

Jennifer Cully, who shot an 85 and won the women's tournament for the second time, said today's modern clubs think that cheating in comparison with hickory clubs.

The hickory clubs are pretty whippy, so you have to have good timing, said Cully, a teaching pro at Apollo Beach (Fla.) Driver.

Tom McCrary, your head pro at Glen Lakes Country Club in Weeki Wachee, Fla., assembled his pair of hickory clubs after he helped a neighbor drive out an attic. He explained he enjoyed the process of hickory golf although he'd to sacrifice the traditional duration of his modern clubs.

It's a different technique as well as a different strategy using these clubs, he was quoted saying. You don't just hit it problematical.

Curiosity is usually the allure for players to test hickory golf. That was true for Gregor Jamieson, the director of golf at Lake Nona Golf and Country Club in Orlando, who tinkered with hickory clubs the first time Monday. His father was obviously a clubmaker Ping K15 Irons and the longtime head professional at Turnberry Resort in Scotland, who Jamieson said played with hickory clubs for 15 years after steel clubs were introduced.

Golf isn't easy anyway, but this brings it to a different level, Jamieson said. You're to not get any aid from these clubs. You need to hit the ball with precision.

Of course, precision is not easy using the hickories, nevertheless the hunt for it's enticing, said Brian Schuman of Long Island, who began the Metropolitan Hickory Society inside The big apple, New Jersey and Connecticut region.