{"id":426,"date":"2025-05-12T14:33:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T14:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.italiahickorygolf.it\/a-dive-into-the-past\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T13:45:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T13:45:57","slug":"a-dive-into-the-past","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.italiahickorygolf.it\/en\/a-dive-into-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"A dive into the past"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Hickory Golf is a fascinating discipline, played with clubs made of hickory wood, a precious and naturally elastic material, perfect for the construction of shafts.<\/p>\n

Until 1929, the year in which the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews officially authorized the use of steel shafts, all golf clubs were made of hickory wood.<\/p>\n

Great golf legends such as Harry Vardon<\/strong> and Bobby Jones<\/strong> used these clubs to write some of the most glorious pages in the history of golf.<\/p>\n

The heads of the clubs, in iron hand-forged by Scottish craftsmen or in finely worked wood by master builders, tell a tradition that has its roots in the 18th century. The hickory wood, imported by sea from the United States, was seasoned for two or three years before being transformed into elegant shafts. The finishing touch was given by the leather grips, with a characteristic and refined scent.<\/p>\n

These clubs, true playing companions, bore names<\/strong> rather than numbers \u2014 Brassie, Spoon, Mid Iron, Mashie, Niblick,<\/em> and more \u2014 and the champions of the era were often their own craftsmen, crafting custom sets tailored to their own playing style.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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There is no sporting gesture more beautiful than a well-executed shot with a hickory bat.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Playing golf with hickory clubs is like traveling back in time, reliving the elegant and fascinating atmosphere of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A unique experience that combines sport, tradition and history.<\/p>\n

A traditional hickory golf set consists of seven clubs,<\/strong> about half of the 14 clubs allowed in competition today by the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews.<\/em><\/p>\n

Woods:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • Driver<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Brassie<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    • Mid Iron<\/strong><\/li>\n
    • Mashie<\/strong><\/li>\n
    • Mashie-Niblick<\/strong><\/li>\n
    • Niblick<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Putter<\/strong><\/p>\n

      Each club has its own personality, a name and a precise function. Playing with this set requires sensitivity, technique and a touch of imagination \u2014 just like the great champions of the time did.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      A dive into the past Hickory Golf is a fascinating discipline, played with clubs made of hickory wood, a precious and naturally elastic material, perfect for the construction of shafts. Until 1929, the year in which the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews officially authorized the use of steel shafts, all golf clubs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-426","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.italiahickorygolf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.italiahickorygolf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.italiahickorygolf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.italiahickorygolf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.italiahickorygolf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.italiahickorygolf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/www.italiahickorygolf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/426\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.italiahickorygolf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}