Professional Hickory Golf Association - PHGA - Directors - Mike Stevens - Tom McCrary
An organization of Golf Professionals who appreciate the origins of our game. The PHGA is open to all pros, male and female, interested in preserving our time honored traditions and who want to pass them on to future generations. History comes alive on the links with our use of authentic era wood shafted clubs and balls.
Hickory Pros Announce Plans for Team Competition to Honor Walter Hagen and Bobby Jones
National Hickory Champion, Mike Stevens of Tampa and World Hickory Open Champion, Paolo Quirici of Switzerland are teaming up to create an event to honor two of the greatest hickory golfers of all time – Walter Hagen and Bobby Jones. The contest will be entitled the Hagen–Jones Hickory Trophy.
The inaugural competition consisting of eight professionals and eight amateurs selected by Stevens from North America and a similar contingent selected by Quirici from Europe will be held the first week of November 2020 at 1914 Winter Park Golf Course, Winter Park, FL and Dubsdread Golf Course, Orlando, Florida. The matches will become a biennial competition with the second edition scheduled for Rome, Italy in 2022.
The three-day event will consist of foursome’s matches on Day 1 at Winter Park, fourball matches on Day 2 at Dubsdread and singles matches on Day 3 at Winter Park. All participants will be playing with authentic pre 1930 drivers and fairway woods and original or replica pre 1930 irons. The tournament is conducted by the Professional Hickory Golfers Association and Golfvision Sagl.
The inaugural competition consisting of eight professionals and eight amateurs selected by Stevens from North America and a similar contingent selected by Quirici from Europe will be held the first week of November 2020 at 1914 Winter Park Golf Course, Winter Park, FL and Dubsdread Golf Course, Orlando, Florida. The matches will become a biennial competition with the second edition scheduled for Rome, Italy in 2022.
The three-day event will consist of foursome’s matches on Day 1 at Winter Park, fourball matches on Day 2 at Dubsdread and singles matches on Day 3 at Winter Park. All participants will be playing with authentic pre 1930 drivers and fairway woods and original or replica pre 1930 irons. The tournament is conducted by the Professional Hickory Golfers Association and Golfvision Sagl.