Experience the Joy of Hickory Golf with Our Restored Clubs
Groundhog Hickory Golf is a place where golf isn’t measured by strokes gained, club speed, and a laser rangefinder. It’s where golf is a pastime again.
Come see how simple tools of wood, iron, and leather can create an opportunity for you to connect with the history of the game, the outdoors, and each other.
From the Workshop to the Fairway
All our clubs are individual pieces of history. We find original hickory clubs from the 1890s to the early 1930s, and bring them back to their playable glory at our Phoenixville, PA workshop. Our restoration process brings out the natural beauty of the wood and steel. The we customize each club with hand cut leather grips and waxed linen thread in every color of the rainbow.
These clubs are not only beautiful, they are also functional. We ensure the shafts can handle the stress of play, and the club heads are secure. You can experience the unmatched feel of playing golf with hickory clubs with one of our unique creations, restorations, or rental sets.
From Our Customers:
Colton, Slow Roll Golf & Social
“Handcrafted, full of character, and loaded with golf history.”
Christian, Los Gallos Cigars
“If you appreciate authenticity, heritage, and handcrafted excellence, check them out and own a piece of golf history.”
Pam, Orlando, FL
“I love having something so unique that can be in our family for a very long time”
Featured Products
A playable late hickory era matched set of 8 Spalding Kro-Flite irons in Philadelphia football colors. These clubs are from the early 1930’s and are numbered as opposed to named like most hickory era clubs. This is the perfect set for a modern golfer looking to transition to hickory play as the club lofting will more closely correspond to what they are used to in their modern bag.
These clubs are done in Philly’s twice champion colors, with midnight green suede leather grips with black, silver and white whipping thread. To add some extra flair, a matching tartan fabric detail is on every club. All the clubs are US made Spalding Kro-Flites .Green, white and black paint fill is on the heads to enhance the original markings and stamping, including their signature swooping bird cleek mark. A perfect set for any fan of eagles, either on the course, or on the gridiron.
1 Iron: 21 degree loft, 39.75” length, D2 swing weight
2 Iron: 26 degree loft, 38.75” length, B9 swing weight
3 Iron: 30 degree loft, 38.5” length, C4 swing weight
5 Iron: 36 degree loft, 36.25” length, C1 swing weight
6 Iron: 40 degree loft, 36.25” length, C7 swing weight
7 Iron: 42 degree loft, 36” length, C3 swing weight
16 Iron (wedge/niblick): 45 degree loft, 36.25” length, C0 swing weight
Putter: 4 degree loft, 34.75” length, C0 swing weight, blade style
All clubs have reset heads with epoxy and new brass hosel pins. Shafts are refinished with oil stain and shellac. Grips are hand cut suede leather. Whipping is 4 ply waxed Irish linen thread. All club shafts and heads are originals from the 1930’s and had no discerned cracks, splits or play affecting damage seen during restoration.
A putter with a purple personality. This Picadilly UK made putter from the 1920’s is done in stunning ruby purple leather with a tartan detail. The Greyfriars tartan is exclusive to the Grassmarket Tartan Shop in Edinburgh. This wee tartan shop is part of the Grassmarket Community Project, which provides meals and activities for Edinburgh residents experiencing isolation, exclusion, or poverty. $10 of this will go directly to them. So get a stunning one of a kind golf club, and help a good cause.
Original hickory shaft is intact and was sanded, stained, and shellacked. Club head was removed and reset with a new brass pin and epoxy. The club has 10 degrees of loft, 35.5 inches of length, and mid-range C8 swing weight. Grip is USA chrome tan leather with waxed Irish linen thread whipping. Tartan is 100% Scottish wool.
Classic golf and premium cigars are a timeless combination. This creation was inspired by the label for Los Gallos cigars, a premium artisan cigar maker specializing in Honduran grown tobacco blends.
El Cigarro is a 1910-1920 UK made Spalding with London markings on the club head and markings on the shaft for sale in France. Its unique crosshatch face has twelve degrees of loft and a light feeling B3 swing weight. Total length of the club is 35 inches
The grip is tobacco leather with triple layer underpinning. The whipping is in red and orange to emulate the lit end of a cigar with gradient grey going to white to evoke the ash and a smoke ring. The grip has a “band” of navy and gold in the colors of Los Gallos’ cigar bands.
A unique treasure for any golfer and cigar lover.
Send those putts to the underworld with this left handed putter named for the Egyptian god of resurrection. This lovely hickory and brass putter, made by the Leyland and Birmingham Rubber Company in the 1910s, has a little pyramid stamped on it, so of course we named it for an Egyptian deity. Orisis’ skin was often depicted as green symbolizing fertility and rebirth. He was also typically shown bearing a crook and flail with an alternating blue and yellow pattern. So this club has a green Italian pebble grain leather grip with blue and yellow bands of waxed Irish linen whipping thread. The original hickory shaft is refinished and free of cracks and splits, and gives the club an overall length of 34 inches. The brass club head has 9 degrees of loft and an agile B0 swing weight.
Experience Hickory Golf
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Rent Hickory Clubs For Your Next Outing
From a simple golf weekend, to a pre wedding celebration, to a charity golf tournament, Groundhog Hickory Golf offers hickory club rentals and experiences to make your next golf outing uniquely memorable.
Groundhog Hickory Golf Featured on Main Line Tonight!
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I started playing golf before I was ten years old. Twenty five years later the game had become a frustrating pursuit of lower scores and even lower joy. I quit the game. I donated my two sets of modern fancy “high performance” clubs to a inner city high school for their golf team with the hope that they would bring some joy to a future phenom. Golf became something I used to do.
Ten years later, my family took my father to Scotland for the birthday of a lifetime. While there, we visited a historic site with a private course that only allowed play with antique hickory clubs. Playing a round without the cart, without all the tech, and with the customs and feeling of a time passed was the most fun I had on a golf course in twenty years.
Upon returning to the states, I set out to bring this fun to other golfers like myself. Whether you are new to the game or played for decades, I hope that visiting this site inspires you to play the game more simply and more joyfully than you have before.
Adam Gresek
Founder, Groundhog Hickory Golf
