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Feb. 9, 2022 Since about 1990 until around 2016 or so, Randy Jensen of Omaha, Neb., won darn near every hickory tournament he entered – multiple early Golf Collectors Society national championships, several National Hickory Championship titles and goodness know how many others. One magazine called him “The Hickory Tiger.” Randy recently shared a note about a very special trip […]

Edward Ronco, 72, of Wyandotte, Mich., passed away unexpectedly Feb. 5, 2022. He was a past president the SoHG (2019) and former board member for Region 5 of the Golf Heritage Society. Along with three others, he was a founding officer of the Wyandotte Hickory Organization in 2010. A service will be held at St. Patrick church in Wyandotte at […]

Hickory golf events grow out of passion, desire to share time with friends, and to challenge the old sticks on traditional, or mostly so, layouts. In the following short piece, Wisconsin’s Jim ‘Wally’ Koss describes the origins of one such event in the great Dairy State. I started playing hickory in 2014. At that time, our Wisconsin clan was looking […]

Hickory golf: an adventure for epicureans This profile originally appeared on RedBull.com – https://www.redbull.com/ch-fr/hickory-golf-une-aventure-pour-%C3%A9picuriens?fbclid=IwAR2ypaA1hRwKp1OD0uGvg2evK6hZvL2BvqhKllJLKETPm4GLfepBWkPc3xA January 2022 – Switzerland’s Andi Ahlm is a mathematician, founder of a fintech start-up – passionate about hickory golf. Whether working or pursuing his talent, the same philosophy guides him: for something to work, you don’t always need the latest in novelty and the pinnacle of […]

The world certainly saw its challenges in 2021 –political strife, warfare, Covid, and climate change among them. We are very fortunate, this global hickory golf community, to face our challenges on fairways and greens. However else the great disturbances of the world might have touched us, at least many of us had an opportunity for a bit of peace with […]

SoHG board member, Robert Birman, was invited to talk about hickory golf on Golf Today, a flagship show of The Golf Channel, hosted by Damon Hack and Shane Bacon. The original air date was December 13, 2021. Images shown in the interview are from the Society’s 2021 U.S. Hickory Open at Gearhart Golf Links.  Interest in the game is growing […]

Rob Birman’s Plus Four Podcasts are up to nine episodes now. All are hickory-golf themed, with interviews that highlight everything from club repair, and regional hickory golf groups, to  the importance of golf history. The latest adds a little golf travel magic with SoHG members Deal Hudson of Lilburn, Ga., and Karl Nagy of Simpsonville, S.C., who describe a most […]

The committee of three on the Mike Brown Award are not to be envied. The current SoHG president and two previous award recipients are charged with selecting an award recipient from what is usually a list of half a dozen most worthy nominees, each of whom reflects, in his or her own way, the late namesake’s embodiment of friendship, dedication […]

By Jim Davis The U.S. Hickory Open last visited the western U.S. in 2017 when it was held at the Del Monte Golf Club in Monterey, Calif. The 2021 version, the 14th playing of the tournament,  was held on the oldest course west of the Mississippi (1892), Gearhart Golf Links, in Gearhart, Ore. It was the first held in the […]

The following two articles were prepared and published for the Butler Eagle, the paper of record for the Butler, Pa., area. They describe the 2021 Foxburg Hickory Championship held in nearby Foxburg, Pa. HICKORY ROUND Golf tournament features pre-1900 rules, clubs to preserve tradition John EnriettoEagle Staff Writer August 12, 2021 Amateur Golf  FOXBURG — When it comes to hosting a historical […]