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The 2025 U.S. Hickory Open this past Oct. 4-5 was surely one for that will be long remembered for its over-the-top service to SoHG members. The 2025 organizing committee from the Hickory Golf Association of Texas – Scott Pilgrim, Alan Alison, Michael Sloan, Sam Sinclair, and their chief ringleader, the colorful Gary Krupkin – seemed to leave nothing to chance […]

The Society of Hickory Golfers has announced the inaugural World Gutty Championship (WGC), scheduled for March 14-15, 2026, at the nationally recognized historic Winter Park Golf Club in Winter Park, Florida. The format is to be match play. “The SoHG is bringing to the national and international rota of hickory golf tournaments an annual, pre-1900, gutty match play championship,” said […]

The Alex Lowe Trophy was played at the historic Wollongong Golf Club in New South Wales this past Feb. 23. The course was laid out on one morning in 1897 by Royal Sidney members Leonard Dobbin and Irving Kent. That same afternoon the two held an exhibition match over the newly built course, the holes barely fresh from being dug. […]

Photographers Greg and Beverly Wise not only served as the official event photographers for the 2024 U.S. Hickory Open at the Kenosha Country Club in Wisconsin, but Greg also wrote about it for various regional golf magazines. The most recent to pick up the story was the Texas Golf Insider. That ought to create a little stir for the 2025 […]

Hickory golf in Kansas received a colorful bit of press courtesy of the Tee Times Golf Guide, a monthly golf magazine for the Kansas City area. The magazine’s lead feature writer Alan Hoskins visited the Kansas City Sunflower Hickory Open hosted by Mike Needleman on April 20 this year. He was impressed by the enthusiasm and the enjoyment he found […]

Still looking to gain some traction, World Hickory Golf Day, selected for the first Sunday in May, was celebrated by a few regional groups who got into the spirit of the day. Turns out there are a few other “national days” that were celebrated on May 5 this year, most notably Cinco de Mayo, the Mexican celebration of freedom. But, […]

Kenosha Country Club and the Wisconsin Hickory Golfers have collaborated to produce a short video that showcases the 1921 Donald Ross-designed course that will host the 2024 U.S. Hickory Open. The YouTube video below is just over 3 minutes long. Enjoy!

Win Padgett Jr. passed away on March 6, 2024. He was one of the original co-founders of the Society of Hickory Golfers, a gentleman and a strong influence on the early growth of modern hickory golf. Win was 78 and had been in poor health for several years.  “Win loved hickory golf and was a giant for the hickory game’s […]

It’s always good fun when some of the mainstream golf publications work to provide their readers a little taste of hickory golf. In Australia, the Golf Australia Magazine found a good thing in the upcoming 2023 hickory championships for the great “Down Under” country. Click here to read the post. Good on ya, mate!

Organizers are working hard to launch the inaugural Asia/Pacific Championship presented by the SoHG. Peter van Eekelen, chair of New Zealand Hickory Golf, reports that the event, scheduled for March 2024, is being organized around the 18-hole championship scheduled for Tuesday, March 5 at the Christchurch Golf Club in Christchurch, N.Z. The SoHG is sponsoring a trophy for the event (shown […]