Susan Skepnek wears old-style clothing during the Hickory Stick Tournament on Thursday, May 8, 2014, at Lawrence Country Club. The event was one of several planned to celebrate LCC’s 100th anniversary.

George Waters sports an old golf cap during the Hickory Stick Tournament on Thursday, May 8, 2014, at Lawrence Country Club. The event was one of several planned to celebrate LCC’s 100th anniversary.

Members of Lawrence Country Club played a nine-hole golf tournament last week with equipment from generations ago, wearing the garb of that period, one of many events as part of LCC’s 100-year anniversary celebration.

The participants used clubs with hickory shafts, iron heads made of forged steel and persimmon wood drivers. The players learned the names of the clubs they carried: the Mashie, the Mashie Niblick and the Niblick. They wore knickers, also known as plus-fours, long socks and colorful caps and used old-style golf balls that had a hint of a rubbery feel. No carts allowed, they walked.

And they competed. The much smaller sweet spot on the irons made them less forgiving, but the scores weren’t a great deal worse than those carded with the help of modern technology, although the tournament was played from the forward tees to compensate for a loss of distance on shots.

The winning score for the scramble event was a six-under par on the front nine at LCC. The foursome survived a challenge with their hardware in tact but not without a penalty down the road, by which time roads might be obsolete.

“At the Hickory Stick Tournament it was discovered that the winning team, captained by Tim Plumb, had indeed snuck out earlier to practice,” club president Bill Wagner said in a prepared statement. “An impromptu meeting was held by the other participants and it was unanimously decided, by a raising of glasses, that they could keep their trophies and title. However, they are banned from the next centennial tournament in 2114.”

Golfers did seem to think getting a feel for the clubs was an issue that shrunk with each hole.

The most impressive single-hole performance was delivered by Christian Walter, who on his own ball carded an eagle on the par-5 third hole. Walter, who has been known to hit drives 310 yards with modern clubs, crushed a 260-yard drive, landed his second shot on the right side of green and it rolled off the back of the green. Walter chipped in for a routine Persimmon, Mashie-Niblick, Niblick eagle.

“It was really, really fun,” Walter said of turning the clock back. “I had no expectations and I wasn’t super excited to come play, but it was really cool.”