2025 Tournament Results

No starch here – Spud Cuppers know how to have fun
June 11, 2025

Event Host Tom Tracy reports: The 2025 Idaho Spud Cup, the state hickory shaft golf championship held June 7-8, is in the books. The third annual edition of this event, held under warm sunny skies over the pristine fairways and greens of River Birch Golf Course in Star, drew 31 entrants in three divisions (Open, Seniors, and Ladies) willing to […]

Results for 2025 Alexander Findlay Hickory Open
June 4, 2025

Results of the Alexander Findlay Massachusetts Hickory Open at The Country Club of Greenfield on Friday, May. 30 Overall Gross –LOUIS FALCONE   72 Overall Net – DAVE BEAMER   67 Stableford 1 PETER BOWMAN 35 2 JIM GALLAGHER 33

Midwest golfers contest first annual NeKaWa Cup

Hickory golfers from Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa got together on Sunday, June 1, at The Golf Club at Table Creek in Nebraska City, Neb., for the first NeKaWa Cup. The event is to promote camaraderie and play between regional players from Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa. Central to the NeKaWa Cup is an 18-hole match-play team event. Players will be assigned […]

Indiana’s Dave Cotton is 2025 WHO Classic champion
June 3, 2025

It was unseasonably cool during the three days of the WHO Classic, but that did not diminish the enjoyment of 38 golfers from around the country who traveled to Wyandotte, Mich., for this enjoyable hickory celebration. Golfers from as far as Florida made it to the event. It began with a Friday warm-up round on the West Shore Country Club […]

Japan hosts a beautiful Asia/Pacific Hickory Championship
May 27, 2025

THIRD ASIA PACIFIC HICKORY SHAFT CHAMPIONSHIP TOKYO 2025 Les Browne, chair of the Asia/Pacific Championship, reports: We started in Melbourne in 2023, which was a great success, then last year in Christchurch, NZ, which was a step up ;and this year in Tokyo which was a further upward step. The formation of the Asia Pacific Society of Hickory Golfers has […]

Vintage Hickory Classic celebrates World Hickory Golf Day in style
May 12, 2025

May 4, 2025—The Vintage Hickory Classic The Northwest Hickory Players celebrated World Hickory Golf Day at Meadow Park Golf Course (1915) by playing the 13th Vintage Hickory Classic.  Thirty-two players teed it up on a bright Sunday morning  at Meadow Park in Tacoma, Wash.  Not having had rain for a week or so the course was firm—we got some bounce […]

Nebraska hickory golfers celebrate opening of 2025 season

Dale Hallock reports: It was a GREAT Day and a GREAT turnout for the 2025 Nebraska Hickory Golf Association’s Hickory Opening Day on Saturday, May 10, at Omaha’s Elmwood Park.  Congratulations to the Best Ball Winners Brian Frevert and Shawn Carollo, 1st Low GROSS (72); and to Duane Baylor and Rudy Thomas, who were first Low NET at 59. Below […]

Star Wars, Sand Greens and World Hickory Golf Day in Australia
May 8, 2025

Les Browne reports: May the 4th is not only Star Wars Day but the World Hickory Golf Day also celebrated internationally. To celebrate Down Under, the Australian Golf Heritage Society scheduled an event played on sand greens using 100-year-old hickory shaft clubs. So the inaugural World Sand Green Hickory Championship was founded. Throughout Australia, there are approximately 400 courses that have […]

Sunflower Match Play a sunny start on a promising season
May 5, 2025

The 5th annual SUNFLOWER Hickory Match-Play was contested and enjoyed by all on a beautiful spring day on Saturday, May 3, 2025 at Falcon Lakes Golf Course in Basehor, Kan. This two-person team match play event is a scramble in which the 12 winners all received gold medals with the rest being awarded silver medals for their efforts. This year drew […]