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Author Archives: Jim Davis
The Guttie Discussion
Opinion It seems for as long as golf has been played, its tools, ie. sticks and balls, have come under scrutiny. Improvement is always paramount in the golfer’s mind. So it is with the providers of the tools. How to make them better? The long evolution in the club has brought it from rude clubs to highly wrought miracles of […]
Trip to Quebec takes in Willie Park Jr. courses
As part of its 25-year celebration next year, the Golf Historical Society of Canada plans a four-day celebration in Quebec. It includes golf at two superb Willie Park Jr. designs – Mount Bruno in Montreal and Royal Quebec in Quebec City. Royal Quebec (pictured at right), founded in 1873, is the second oldest golf club in North America. […]
Rogers Andrews tops year with 2012 CS title
Roger Andrews is the 2012 Championship Series title holder. Max Hollon is the 2012 Championship Series Senior title holder. The season ending Mid Pines event at Southern Pines, N.C. experienced one of the largest hickory golf fields to date, perhaps a record for this type of event outside earlier GCS nationals which may have come close, if not […]
Lang Willie Engelson is 2012 Mike Brown honoree
Bill “Lang Willie” Engelson is one of the familiar faces in hickory golf, especially around the Pinehurst area and in North Carolina generally where he helped found the Carolina Hickory Golf Association. He also finds time to manage the group’s website. For more than three years, Bill served on the board of the SoHG as an equipment, tournament and handicap […]
Woeckener tops field of more than 100 to take Mid Pines trophy
The season ending Mid Pines event at Southern Pines, N.C. experienced one of the largest hickory golf fields to date, perhaps a record for this type of event outside earlier GCS nationals which may have come close, if not over. The total was 105 players, and this after a handful of cancellations, some caused by Hurricane Sandy.SoHG President Chris Deinlein […]
5th Interstate Tournament builds on success
5th ANNUAL INTERSTATE TOURNAMENTOLD KINDERHOOK, MISSOURI 1st – 3rd November, 2012 Hosts – Fred & Sherry Smeltzer We enjoyed the company of 44 hickory players in perfect golfing weather. For the first time it was possible to hold a couples 9-hole scramble competition on Thursday, with 10 couples taking part. This will become an annual feature of the Thursday practice […]
World Hickory Open won by Rick Valentine
The 8th World Hickory Open 2012 – Chairmans Report, Lionel Freedman (Reprinted with permission from the World Hickory Open website.) The 8th World Hickory took place on the 8th and 9th October 2012. Very rarely has a hickory golf tournament been blessed with such wonderful weather and also at the end of two days produced such an exiting finish. Monday […]
Oakhurst Links purchased by Greenbrier
For a brief news report of the transaction, click the following link: 123456
Hickory courses we love to play – Old Bandon Golf Links Bandon Ore.
www.oldbandongolflinks.com Before Bandon Dunes was a gleam in Mike Kaiser’s eye, there was the Old Bandon Golf Links. Built in 1926 by Lee Smith, it was then known as Westmost Golf Course. The little 9-holer has been refurbished for play by Troy Russell, a man who knows a thing or two about course construction and maintenance. The course had gone […]