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 […]

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; […]

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 […]

  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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

John Berggren, left, is all smiles after winning the 2014 Heart of America title. At right is Tournament Director Bill Reed.    The Grand Daddy of modern hickory golf was conducted July 18-20at the Bright-Grandview Golf Course in Des Moines, Iowa. This flagship hickory tournament, begun in 1978 by past GCS president Warren  Ole” Olson, has been held in GCS […]

   Twenty-eight players participated in the first annual Pacific Hickory Cup over the historic Gearhart Golf Links (1892) in Gearhart, Ore. Hickory players from Washington and Oregon, representing the Northwest Hickory Players, were matched against players from California, representing the Pacific Coast Hickory Golfers and NorCal Hickory Golf. Matches were played straight up – with no handicaps given.    After […]

Grenadier Island in Canada’s beautiful 1000 islands has a 9-hole course designed by A.W. Tillinghast in 1927. The course hosted a hickory event on June 26/27 that was attended by SoGH and Gof Historical Society of Canada, including Roger Hill of Grand Rapids, Mich. Others came from as a far as Montreal and Thailand. As the only way to the […]