Hickory Golf: "It's almost anti-modern in some ways."

CNN's Tom Sweetman looks at hickory golf and the World Hickory Open and if you can look past all of the photos that hearken too much to a Civil War reenactment, you learn that it's pretty cool to be retro.

Thanks to readers Rick and Tad for Sweetman's story:

"Hickory golf has taken on a new lease of life in the past few years because, I'm not sure I really like the word, but it's a bit sort of retro," Lionel Freedman, co-founder and director of the World Hickory Open, tells CNN.

"It's almost anti-modern in some ways."

And so he did, with Freedman's brainchild having gone from strength to strength, annually touring some of Scotland's most prestigious courses and becoming one of the world's leading hickory tournaments in the process.

Next year, it will take place at Carnoustie Golf Links to become the first modern hickory tournament to be played on a current British Open Championship course.

Freedman estimates that 90% of the 100-plus competitors this week -- including ex-professional golfers -- will arrive fully-stocked with their own antique equipment.

And speaking of those elite players, former Masters and Open Champion Sandy Lyle is one of them. This BBC preview has some great images, including one showing Lyle teeing off as architect Scott Macpherson looks on, and another showing several millennials playing in 1930s attire and looking quite dapper!