Author Archives: Jim Davis

SoHG players embark on international trial run

Led by Brian Schuman and Rick Woeckener, 15 U.S. hickory players plan a fall adventure to Scotland for a bit of golf with a patriotic flair. The team of 15 players (so far) has coordinated with Lionel Freedman, the SoHG’s English International ambassador, to arrange a series of international matches built around the World Hickory Open, Oct. 1-2, on the […]

Bert Coghill repeats as Michiana Hickory Open champ

Second annual Michiana Hickory Open finding a great home at Warren Golf Course The second annual Michiana Hickory Open was hotly contested on the Warren Golf Course at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. on Saturday, Aug. 24. Thirty-two intrepid golfers from five Midwestern states, an increase of seven from last year, challenged the Coore-Crenshaw links style […]

Fourth annual Kummel Cup builds on success

  Players of the Fourth annual Kummel Cup, a Midwestern hickory classic.  Wisconsin Hickory Kummel Cup at Lawsonia Links    Aug. 16-18 brought beautiful weather to the Green Lake, Wisc. area. Of course. These were the dates of the Fourth annual Kummel Cup Wisconsin Hickory Challenge. The weather is figured in.    The wonderful Lawsonia Links is the venue for […]

Tad Moore to design new series of Orlimar putters

While it’s not strictly hickory golf, our own Tad Moore, who earlier built an international following among pros and amateurs with his great putters, has reached an agreement with Orlimar to design a new series. Following is some information from the press release about their cooperation. TURNING BACK THE HANDS OF TIME: Orlimar made its name back in the 90s through […]

Mike Heil takes title at 5th Foxburg

  The 5th annual Foxburg Hickory Championship was held Aug. 9-10 at historic Foxburg Country Club in the hills of Western Pennsylvania, roughly an hour north of Pittsburgh. Foxburg Country Club was established in 1887, and is considered the oldest golf course in continuous use in the United States. Foxburg Country Club is also home to the American Golf Hall of […]

News article on USHO Champ Jeremy Moe

   The Times Record wasn’t going to lose an opportunity to feature a story on a U.S. Hickory Open champion, not when the fellow comes from their own backyard at the Hardscrabble Country Club. Check out the story on the TR website at the link below. Moe tells reporter Grant Tolley about his liking for hickory golf and the experience […]

Excerpt from The American Golfer

     From the archives we travel to August 1913, 100 years ago, to the pages of Walter Travis’ American Golfer. The issue has interesting accounts of Francis Ouimet’s golfing prowess leading up to the U.S. Open at Brookline, a treatise by Henry Leach on up-and-coming young American amateurs, accounts of the French and British national championships and, of course, […]

Dustin Johnson nails hickory drives of 285 yards

An article under the “Forecaddie” column in the July 26th issue of Golfweek featured a report on Dustin Johnson and his prowess with a borrowed hickory driver. The club, made by Tad Moore, is owned by Sandy Lyle, 1985 Open Champ, who has a set of hickories made by Tad and often plays them for fun. DJ apparently had no […]

Roger Andrews is 2013 Heart of American champion

   The 36th Heart of America was played under wonderful conditions on the Field Club in Omaha, July 27, 28. More than 56 golfers from around the Midwest and beyond came to the event, one of the oldest hickory golf events in the country, long a fixture of the Golf Collectors Society. Those in the Open Division were vying to […]