October 10, 2017
Oct. 9, 2017 East Lothian, Scotland News Release – Issued on behalf of The 2017 LinkedGolfers World Hickory Festival by Scotland’s Golf Coast. In trying conditions, the players of the 13th LinkedGolfers World Hickory Open showed amazing patience, concentration and above all their sense of humour as they tee’d off yesterday morning at Kilspindie Golf Club on Scotland’s Golf Coast. “They […]
October 4, 2017
Memories, matches highlight N/S Challenge Sept. 18, 2017 The North/South Challenge Matches – Mike Just Memorial over the Sept. 17-19 weekend was a beautiful tournament played under near-perfect conditions on as sweet a golf course as you will find anywhere. The Donald Ross Course at the French Lick Resort in Indiana was celebrating its centennial, so it was a match […]
October 2, 2017
Sept. 30, 2017 Reported by Scott Pilgrim: The inaugural North Texas Hickory Open was a big ole Texas win this past weekend. Hosts Johnny Beach and I organized the event at the Old Course at Firewheel (Garland, Texas) with 32 participants in four divisions: Open, Senior, Statesman, and a two-person scramble. Former PGA Tour and Senior Tour player Rives McBee was […]
Sept. 22-24, 2017 Rich Schmidt reports: Nine hearty lads and one gentlelady met in Long Island to enjoy three spectacular days of hickory golf under sunny skies and warm temperatures. Our event started on the south shore at AW Tillinghast’s Southward Ho club. The membership welcomed us with open arms and we had a lovely morning of golf, followed by […]
Sept. 16, 2017 Five players turned out for the inaugural Mere Creek Hickory Club Open. It is an outing that new hickory player Forrest Dillon hopes will build as more learn about the hickory game. “We had five players,” Dillon says. “Bob Young (Yarmouth, Mass.), Mike Pajak (Woolwich, Maine), and Mere Creek members Helen Boucher, Art Baur, and myself. Our pro […]
September 30, 2017
Sept. 30, 2017 Feldafing GC, Lake Starnberg 42 players from Austria, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, and the U.S. competed in the ninth edition of the German Hickory Championship which this year was played at historic Feldafing Golf Course on the shores of Lake Starnberg, some 30km south of Munich. The Championship started on Friday with a four ball best ball net […]
September 29, 2017
Sept. 21-23, 2017, Green Lake, Wisc. The 2017 Wisconsin Hickory Open was to say, “quite unique” in many ways. Although the attendance was down, the enjoyment level never faltered. After taking a break last year to host the USHO, the WHO started off sizzling (literally). The average temperature for the weekend was 93-95 degrees. That wasn’t the only thing that […]
September 27, 2017
Sept. 24, 2017, Omaha, Neb., Omaha Country Club The 2017 Champion, Brian Frevert, shot a spectacular 75 on a windy, rainy day. Dave Dunigan won the Senior Division. Click here for a PDF of results and photos. The NEHGA Hall of Fame dinner inducted Sam Reynolds and Golf Digest Top-50 golf instructor Gary Wiren, who gave a clinic prior to […]
September 12, 2017
‘SuperCova’ too much for McNabb Cup field Sept. 12, 2017 – Whitehall, Mich. By MacDuff Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit. Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, I, 1599 In a contemplative frame of mind, for his golf had many holes ago given way to […]