Click on the following link for the PDF of the continued discussion of swing weights from the Spring 2013 Wee Nip. web discussion.pdf
Author Archives: Jim Davis
Pacific Grove Course Guide
Click on the following link to see Eddie’s course guide for Pacific Grove. eddies course guide.pdf
Reading about Askernish
Those who have seen it, love it. But those are few in number compared with those who visit the more easily accessible course of the British Isles. Click on the following links from stores from Golf Week and the New Yorker Magazine. Golf Week Article.pdf NY Article.pdf
100th anniversary of Francis Ouimet’s U.S. Open victory
This year will likely bring several articles in golf magazines and journals about Francis and his important victory. We wanted to give you a head start with some of the historic writings about the 1913 U.S. Open. Three of the PDF links below will bring up articles written in 1913 from The American Golfer, the USGA Bulletin and the New […]
Oakhurst has new life on Greenbriers website
In a recent newsletter to his National Hickory Championship participants, Pete Georgiady noted that the famous Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia has stepped up its promotions of the old and historic Oakhurst course with a newly designed and added web page. Pete lent the resort several photos, nine of which can be seen on the page. It’s great to see […]
Country Club of Jackson Hickory Masters go to amateur champs
Hickory golfers at the Country Club of Jackson pose for posterity. Chief instigator, Keith Cleveland, is seated at far right. By Keith Cleveland The beautiful blue skies of Good Friday saw the arrival of 32 local hickory golfers at the Country Club of Jackson for the fourth annual playing of the CCJ Hickory Golf Association “Hickory Masters.” Dressed “to […]
Video captures flavor of 2011 World Hickory Open
Lionel Freedman, chief organizer of the World Hickory Open, passed along this video for his favorite hickory golfers – all of them.
Wisconsin golf magazine features hickory group
News of hickory golf just keeps building. Regional groups are spreading the word just through regular play. Bill Ernst shared the following link to a story from wisgolfer.com, the online magazine of the Wisconsin Golfer. It’s from the March 26 edition. Enjoy. 123456
Andrews takes 2013 Mountain Valley Hickory Open
The 2013 Mountain Valley Hickory Open opened a new season with a new date and venue that was greeted by near universal approval. The March 15-17 date opened the Championship Series on the Pinehurst Resort Course No. 3 in Pinehurst, N.C. “It was a treat to play hickories at Pinehurst,” said one contestant, who put in a plea […]
Quebec – The Early Years
Quebec, founded in 1608, was the center of the French empire in the new world. New France, as it was called, controlled the St. Lawrence River and everything upstream to the west. It was based upon the fur trade and the rival English traders were no match for the French voyageurs who explored far to the west of the Great Lakes […]