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It is September 14th, 2021. I'm at Gearheart Golf Links in

Gearheart, Oregon. That's the Northern Oregon Coast.

And I'm at the US Hickory Open. It is beautiful morning. You can hear the ocean nearby.

Hear that? But you can't see it from here.

And I'm just going to follow some folks around and see if there are any stories here.

Maybe you can hear that note of doubt in my voice.

I'm at the US Hickory Open, the second and final round. Pretty much on a whim.

I live about two hours from Gearheart and figured I had no excuse.

But I arrived, looked around, and realized I was kind of a stranger and a strange land.

So if you don't know much about Hickory Golf, first of all, that makes two of us.

But the main thing you should be aware of up front is the rule about equipment.

In the US Hickory Open, which is put on by the Society of Hickory Golfers,

you need to play with wooden shafted clubs from 1935 or before, or you can use replicas of those

models. Simple enough. But as I walk around the practice screen recording, I find myself just a

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