Up until the 1930's all golf clubs had wooden shafts and the vast majority were made of Hickory wood. Hickory grows best in the southern states of the US and many of the great Scottish clubmakers had their own plantations to supply their trade. Each clubmaker had their own 'cleek mark', an early logo which was stamped into the back of each club when forging the head. Many of the cleek marks of the great clubmakers can be found on our clubs.

Championship courses tended to be shorter in those days at around 6750 yards but the scores shot with Hickory clubs by the great golfers of the day, Bobby Jones, Henry Cotton and Walter Hagen were still remarkable.
In 1930 Bobby Jones won all four Major Championships playing with Hickory Shafts when most of this contemporaries had changed to steel. In  the Open at Hoylake that year he shot rounds of 70-72-74-75 for a winning score of 291.