Aug. 9-10
Wawashkamo Golf Club
Mackinac Island, Mich.
The Wawashkamo National Hickory Stick Classic is a 4-person scramble with a USGA recommended handicap adjustment based on your USGA INDEX.
Competitors must use authentic antique hickory shafted clubs. The heads of the iron clubs must have been produced prior to 1935, however reproduction wood heads are allowed. Solid hickory replacement shafts are allowed. Replica iron clubs and post 1935 iron heads with hickory shafts installed are NOT allowed.
Ties will be played off. Additional games on the course.
Arrange your own team or submit entries for assignment by the Tournament Committee.
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One of Michigan’s oldest active courses, Wawashkamo celebrated its Centennial in 1998. On that occasion, Wawashkamo could claim the distinction of being one of very few American courses laid out in a links style that remains substantially unaltered. Named one of America’s Historic Golf Landmarks by Golf Digest in 1996, Wawashkamo is the only nine-hole course among the dozen in the United States to have been so designated. The development of Wawashkamo Golf Club and the survival of its unique brand of traditional golf parallels the uncommon history of Mackinac Island, a place where much of the flavor of the nineteenth century survives, insulated from the modern world by the blue moat of Lake Huron, a ban on motorized vehicles and public ownership of eighty percent of the land.
Much of the course is on a historic battlefield. On Wawashkamo’s 1st tee, the golfer stands on the spot where British cannon roared on Aug. 4, 1814. This is high ground for warriors and for golfers. Below, across the old sand pit-turned sand trap, are the long 1st and 5th fairways, once part of a farmer’s field where American soldiers charged in a futile attempt to drive the British from their hill.
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2019 National Hickory Stick Classic Committee
Chuck Olson, Steve Rilenge, Russ Sager & Jack Dehring
Wawashkamo Golf Club
PO Box 311
3723 British Landing Road
Mackinac Island, MI 49757
Phone: 906-847-3871 or 906-847-8600