This newspaper article is a follow-up to the Spring 2014 Wee Nip article about Joe Sylvester written by Martin Pool. Click on the following link to see the article. NYTIMES7311919
Author Archives: Jim Davis
John Sherwood on the Financial Times website
To see the Financial Times article, please click on the following link: John Sherwood article. Excerpts from Chicago Tribune LifestylesJune 4, 1995“Golfers In For The Long Drive”By Mark Mandernach “John Sherwood loves collecting golf memorabilia. In fact, he loves it so much he came all the way from Canterbury, England, for the fifth annual Midwest Golf Collectors Trade Show, held […]
Video captures action at Mountain Valley Hickory Open
Edmond Brooks IV shot a bit of video at the MVHO which he posted to YouTube. Great choice of Scott Joplin music to accompany the action. Catch the video at MVHO Video or watch it below. In addition, pictures will be posted to the website: www.lifecameracreation.com under “Photos” in the “SOHG” folder. Thank you, Edmond!
U.S. Team takes the day at Swift Cup matches in Austin
It’s one of the season’s finest events – the Swift Cup Matches and Onion Creek Tournament at the Onion Creek Club of Austin, Texas. This year’s outing was March 20. Hosted by Region 4 of the Golf Collectors Society and its director, Pete League, the hickory golf outing regularly draws a crew from Canada as well as players […]
Jeremy Moe off and running with MVHO victory
It was brisk, light jackets the norm, but great golf the common experience. The first event in the 2014 Championship Series has been completed and the Mountain Valley Hickory Open is in the record books. Here are the results: 2014 MVHO Champion – Jeremy MoeReserve Champion – Rick RechterLow Amateur Net – Mark Hollingsworth Senior Champion – Tony SmarrelliSenior Reserve […]
Worlds top players to compete in inaugural World Hickory Match Play Championship
A field of 32 of the world’s best hickory golf champions are to take part in an inaugural match play event June 16-18 on the St. Martins Course of the Philadelphia Cricket Club in Philadelphia, Penn., USA. The event, sponsored by the U.S. Hickory Players Club and the Metropolitan Hickory Society, is the result of dinner table conversation […]
2014 Board Candidates
2014 Candidates for the Board of DirectorsSociety of Hickory Golfers Dear Members,The election for three new board members runs from April 1-30.Voting will be open from April 1-30. SoHG members will be sent a ballot via email for on-line voting. Barbara Kopec I was born and raised in the heart of the Adirondack mountains in upstate […]
From the Archives – March 2014
This, this first issue of Golf Illustrated, launched with the best of intentions. Editor Max Behr noted in his Foreword that “there is a demand for a magazine which will give, not only the best of reading and illustration, but reflect in its appearance a dignity in keeping with the high esteem and love which golfers have for their game.” […]
Member Profile – Christoph Meister
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Day-one rain fails to dampen spirits at 2014 Arizona Desert Hickory
Sixty-five hickory players from around the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. competed in this year’s contest, including nine women. The tournament supported a field for Championship, Senior, New-To-Hickory, Super Senior, and a Ladies Division. Unfamiliar to Arizona, a Scottish weather-front showed up on the first day of the tournament. The normal sunny weather turned into a heavy rain […]