Do they play hickory golf in Iowa and the mid west ? ” You betcha” !!! The recently held Iowa Hickory Classic held at Hyperion Field Club in Des Moines, literally had hickory players from coast to coast and border to border. Players from Florida to the state of Washington, and Minnesota to the Lone Star state of […]
Author Archives: Jim Davis
Sun shines on Stroshine at McNabb Cup
It’s still the same old storyA fight for love and gloryA case of do or die. As Time Goes ByHerman Hupfeld, 1942 In Homer’s immortal epic, The Iliad, are verses that describe the great warriors preparing for battle – checking their weaponry, their shields, helmets, buckles, and armor. This is a favored theme of writers and movie producers who […]
SoHG prepares for first international match
The SoHG International Hickory Cup In just a few weeks, an U.S. SoHG team led by Capt. Dave Brown of Omaha, Neb., will head for Carnoustie, Scotland for the inaugural International Hickory Cup (IHC). The 21-man roster will compete with a rest-of-the-world team captained by David Kirkwood of Gullane, Scotland, in a Ryder-Cup style match scheduled for Oct. […]
Team USA posts victory at CB Macdonald
The 12th annual Charles Blair Macdonald Challenge was played Sept. 6-7 at the historic Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Course. The course is the oldest in North America on its original site. It has been ranked in the top 10 short courses in the world (excluding the United States) by Golf Magazine. Heavy rains arrived early Saturday morning, but right on cue, they […]
WHO weathers storm for good fun on great course
On a cool Saturday morning, Sept. 6, 26 hickory golfers gathered at Wyandotte Shores Golf Course to compete in the fourth annual Wyandotte Hickory Open.The players looped the nine-hole course twice to complete their 18-hole challenge. The competition was cheerfully intense, and a good time was had by all. Congratulations to the following winners: Open Winner – Ed Ronco, Wyandotte; […]
Results from Michiana Hickory Open
The third annual Michiana Hickory Open Golf tournament was held on Saturday, Aug. 9 at the Warren Golf Course on the campus of the University of Notre Dame. For the third straight year, Bert Coghill from Illinois garnered the top honors with a score of 82. Bert will have his name inscribed on a permanent trophy that will be hung […]
Dyna-Moe cruises to USHO win
Jeremy Moe, the golf professional from Hardscrabble Country Club in Fort Smith, Ark., bettered his first day score of 69 by one to card a 137 for a 13-stroke victory over Rick Woeckener and Mark Hollingsworth. Moe said he had an “up and down round” but managed to scramble well all day and finally “ran away over the last […]
Swedish Hickory results from Bro-Balsta GC
Report on the Swedish Hickory Championship 2014held at Bro-Bålsta GK By Dr. Patric Andersson The 17th Swedish Hickory Championship held at Bro-Bålsta GC on Aug. 1 – 3, was decided in unusually hot weather with temperatures above 90 Fahrenheit degrees, cloudless skies, constant sunshine and little breeze. Situated about 40 kilometers northwest from the Swedish capital Stockholm, Bro-Bålsta […]
First day at USHO belongs to J-Mo
A USHO opening to remember. Our local correspondent, Rick Woeckener, reports that the heavens opened up on Day One of the 2014 U.S. Hickory Open, flooding the Asheville area with sunshine, low humidity, lows in the upper 60s and highs in the low 80s. Apparently, the local chamber of commerce had something to do with this. The field of 84, […]
Johnson bests Big Hickory for Foxburg title
It may be argued that Tom Johnson is one of the nation’s foremost gutty ball players. It fact, it may well be stated so, indisputably. With his latest victory at the Foxburg Hickory Championship, Aug. 8-9, he adds a second title from the year’s Gutty Slam. Johnson claimed the NHC title in early June on the Oakhurst Links in White […]