2025 Tournament Results

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 […]

36 players attend re-invented Southern Hickory Classic
April 14, 2025

Southern Hickory Classic marks a successful new launch of a beloved hickory golf tournament.

Proctor authors another winner with Melbourne Weekend for Florida Hickory Golfers
April 2, 2025

Mike Stevens reports: We are fortunate to live in a state with so many golf courses and the Florida Hickory Golfers were able to sample two excellent municipal tracks March 29 and 30, thanks to author Stephen Proctor – The Habitat and Spessard Holland courses in Melbourne. (Note: Stephen was the former editor at the San Francisco Chronicle and Baltimore […]

Chautauqua adds a hickory flair to St. Patrick’s Day
March 18, 2025

Eighteen players gathered for the third annual Chautauqua Hickory Open, March 15-16, at the Eagle Springs Golf and Recreation Center in DeFuniak Springs, Fla. Most of the players were members of the Society of Hickory Golfers (www.hickory golfers.com), an international organization dedicated to encouraging the use of these clubs from early in the last century. Players came from Alabama, Florida, […]

Score another classic for the Arizona Desert Hickory
March 4, 2025

Playing pre-1935 hickory shafted clubs, 96 players celebrated the 13th Arizona Desert Hickory, March 1-2, in Sun City West, Ariz. Equipped with vintage equipment, and attired in knickers, argyle socks, woolen caps and vintage outfits, they challenged Grandview & Pebblebrook Golf Courses in grand style over a two day competition. Click here for a complete report compiled by event organizer […]