2025 Tournament Results

2025 Ottawa Hickory Challenge shows hickory golf at its finest
June 13, 2025

Tournament host Chris Hawes reports: The second Ottawa Hickory Challenge, June 6-8, began with 118 golfers in a two-person scramble. Players came from Arizona, Edmonton, Connecticut, Pinehurst, and all across Ontario to participate. An additional 26 competed in our Saturday/Sunday stroke play tournament. By all measures it was a success! All our goals were met. 1) Have fun. 2) Expose and educate […]

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 […]

Copper Cup celebration of World Hickory Golf Day in Wisconsin
June 8, 2025

Wisconsin’s “Copper Cup Clan” celebrated the occasion in style at the Scenic View Golf Course in Slinger. Of the 38 golfers, 16 women participated in a 9-hole scramble; nine players in a 65-and-older gutty competition; and 13 in a modern hickory event with eight seniors and five in the Open division. “We had hole prizes, and our very own Teddy […]

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 […]