"Bryson DeChambeau, the reigning strongman on the PGA Tour, can take a modern golf club and smash a modern golf ball nearly 400 yards, almost the length of four football fields.
But It is hard to imagine DeChambeau getting as much joy out of his titanic drives as players did at Shadow Mountain Golf Club last weekend hitting shots not even half that distance.
These golfers see every shot they take with hickory-shafted clubs that are at least 130 years old as a celebration not of technology, but of golf itself.
“This is the history of the game,” said Eddie Breeden, president of the Pacific Coast Hickory Golfers.
Seventeen members of that organization gathered at Shadow Mountain last weekend for the fifth annual Gutty Golf Spectacular. Using golf clubs that mostly dated to pre-1900 and replicate gutta percha golf balls, golfers ranging from their teens to 80-year-olds played through cool temperatures and windy conditions as a way to honor the game and show that old-time golf can still be played on a modern golf course."
