Links to ExploreAncient Golf 123456 This site is maintained by Geert and Sara Nijs, independent sports historians from the Netherlands. It focuses on ancient “stick and ball” games, the predecessors of golf. There are headings for colf/kolf, jeu de crosse (choule), jeu de mail (pall mall) and their relation to the Scottish game of golf. The couple, according to […]
Author Archives: Jim Davis
10 Stages of a Duffer’s Round
“As dogs to wanton boys are we to the golf gods, they tease us for their sport.”Paraphrasing the great Shakespeare, from King Lear There is, in this wonderful game we love, room for everyone. It is a democratic pastime that denies no one the opportunity for embarrassment or, equally, ecstatic triumph. From ragged caddies to silver spoons, public links rats […]
Results for the 2012 Swiss Hickory Championship
By Enrico Degiacomi The Swiss Hickory Championship Days, Aug. 17–19, are history. We had fantastic weather and for the first time we had a hickory pro-am which was a huge success. All the pros liked it very much. (Check out the photo gallery for a glimpse of the beautiful environment in which this wonderful tournament was played. Gorgeous! That’s Martin […]
2012 Foxburg treats gutty players just right
(Images in the gallery are courtesy of Jane Reheard.) By Tom Johnson The Foxburg Hickory Championship is a 36-hole pre-1900 event using the McIntyre gutty. It is held at the historic Foxburg Country Club in the hills of Western Pennsylvania, roughly an hour north of Pittsburgh. The 2012 event was played Aug. 10-11. Foxburg, founded in 1887, is now 125 years old […]
Results for the 2012 Swedish Hickory Open
Results for the 2012 Swedish Hickory Championship at the Lunds Akademiska Golf Club, July 28-29131 participants MensMagnus Persson Atlevi, 144 totalPer G. Nyman, 146Peter Hoberg, 152 WomenMonica Andersson, 82Frida Rydberg, 85Julia Tedvik, 85 SeniorTom Robertson, 82David Kirkwood, 86Claes Kvist, 88 NetTien Panigel, 56Sture Svantesson, 63Johan Arnerfors, 68
2012 Kummel Cup goes to Michigan men
The 2012 Kummel Cup participants on the day before the rains came. Saturday was a perfect day. The greens were fast. Then it got tricky. Sunday’s weather came in with a steady rain and light wind with temperatures in the mid-60’s. Just tough enough. A bit of Scotland in old Wisconsin. The 2012 Kummel Cup competitors had all they […]
Warren Course a winner for Michiana Hickory Open
It was a truly fine event, hosted by the Golf Collectors Society with participants from the Michigan Hickory Tour and the Society of Hickory Golfers. For a summary of the event, check out the Michigan Regional Page on the website. Right here, though, you’ll find a gallery of photos from the event, taken by Tim Gray, son-in-law of event organizer […]
Ralph Livingston III — Modern Hickory Golf Pioneer
“Hickory golf is a challenging sport. If you don’t like the challenge, go take up putt putt golf.” Ralph Livingston III was nothing if not passionately devoted to the game he embraced in the early 90s. His research into authentic hickory equipment and their relationship with the golf course architecture of the time led to ground-breaking theories of the game’s […]
Links to Explore – The United States Golf Association
123456 Can’t imagine why this site hasn’t been covered here earlier. Perhaps it was just too obvious, or perhaps we are just too busy with hickory golf and the USGA whispers not a word of such activities on its site. Nonetheless, the website of the reigning and governing body of modern golf in the United States is worth bookmarking for […]
The Ladies!
From “The Golfer”August 1903 Being a Toast at a Golfers’ DinnerBy William Shaw Mr. Chairman, and Gentlemen: “In spring a young man’s fancy fondly turns to thoughts of love. That may be with the fancy of the ordinary young man – the young man who does not golf. But in the spring the fancy of the young golfer turns fondly […]