Your Society has been planning an international match with an European team for nearly a year. The inaugural event is to take place in conjunction with the World Hickory Open in 2014. David Brown of Omaha, Neb. has been selected to Captain the North American team. David Kirkwood, current Captain of the British Golf Collectors Society, and five-time Captain […]
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World Hickory Match Play Championship set for June 2014
Brian Schuman, that indefatigable hickory golf entrepreneur, has announced that the U.S. Hickory Players Club and the Metropolitan Hickory Society have combined forces to create a World Hickory Match Play Championship. The inaugural event is scheduled for June 2014 at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, site of the 1907 and 1910 U.S. Open Championships. The field will be limited to […]
The Renaissance at Mid Pines
Around the nation, hickory golfers hone their skills for the fifth and final leg of the U.S. hickory championship to be held in November at the Mid Pines golf course. Anticipation would be high in any year but there is a new twist for 2013. The course amid the North Carolina sandhills so loved by hickory wielders has been re-done […]
Gullane Golf Club Course Review
West Links Road Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland, EH31 2BB 44 (0) 1620 842 255 www.gullanegolfclub.com/ From Golf Courses of the British Isles (1910), Bernard Darwin writes of Gullane “There is probably no other golfing centre that is quite so good as Gullane, in the East Lothian.” He added that the turf there is the “finest, smoothest and most delicate that […]
Swiss pro takes 2013 World Hickory Open title
Paolo Quirici, winner of the World Hickory Open 2013.Photo courtesy of www.carnoustiecountry.com. After three days of top-class hickory golf on two historic Carnoustie golf courses, the World Hickory Open 2013 was won by Swiss golf professional Paolo Quirici. “What a highly enjoyable event,” said Quirici, who only took up hickory golf two years ago. “It was like going back in […]
Inaugural Hickory Championship held at CC of Jackson
2013 CCJ Hickory Golf Association Club Championship Until his passing in 1859, Alan Robertson of St. Andrews Golf Links was considered the finest player in all of golf. It is generally accepted the he never lost a match for money in his storied career. The next year, at the urging of Robertson’s former assistant, Tom Morris, Sr., the members […]
Scottish Adventure players victorious in Grand Hickory Match
Lionel Freedman, far left, front row, stands next to Brian Schuman. Rick Woeckner holds the Cup won by the Team USA. Team USA won the cup at the Grand Hickory Match, on Tuesday, Oct. 1, with a score of 16-12. The event was held following the World Hickory Open, Oct. 1-2, at Carnoustie, Scotland. Team USA member Rick […]
Lionel Freedman interviewed on Hooked on Hickories
Click on the following link to be connected to the “Hooked on Hickories” web page. Scroll down to the bottom of the show’s synopsis to listen to the show itself. Lionel Freedman on Hooked on Hickories
Hickory golf in the Old Dominion
The 4th annual Virginia Hickory 4-Ball Championship was held on Sept. 20-22 at Fredericksburg Country Club in historic Fredericksburg, Va. Eighteen hickory players took on the Fredericksburg course, founded in 1925 on a southern plantation. The tournament was a modified Stableford, awarding points for the different scores on each hole. Friday’s practice round was followed by a cocktail party/club swap […]
Canadian events in Quebec a great treat for historians
THE WILLIE PARK JR. ADVENTURE – A SUMMARY What was intended to become a tournament and walk through the history of early golf in French Canada in the end became a memorable golf trip for 10 avid hickory golf historians. Guided by locals Claude Gravel and Jocelyn Vachon and Denzil Palmer, General Secretary of Royal Montreal Golf Club we spent […]