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 […]
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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 […]
Courses for the Hickory Soul – Highland Park Golf Course
Alabama’s Highland Park Golf Course is the home of Tad Moore’s Southern 4-Ball Hickory Championship. It’s been a popular choice as some 70 players were in the field for the 2012 contest. So, why do they like it so much? The course, the oldest in Alabama, was established in 1903 as the Country Club of Birmingham. The country club had […]
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 […]
Correspondent for August – Observations from the Links
At a recent Hickory Event, my group was kept in the field for more than six hours on a very hot day – at least two hours too long to be kept from the bar! In this case the main reason was given as interloping golfers jumping in at various holes between the Tournament groups – a not uncommon hazard […]
Tony Smarrelli putts way to 2012 U.S. Hickory Open title
Following two days of heated – it was 97 in the shade – competition, Pinehurst resident Tony Smarrelli, 62, emerged as the 2012 U.S. Hickory Open champion. Some 65 players turned out for the 5th annual U.S. Hickory Open played with clubs that pre-date 1935, or are accurate modern replicas of such clubs. Held under the auspices of the Society […]
New clubs approved for play
NOTICE to MEMBERS: Newly Approved Hickory Shafted Replica Clubs available to be played in SoHG sanctioned events. The Equipment Committee – Rob Ahlschwede, chair – has approved the application of the BTI Company (playhickorygolf.com) for a set of irons and a special niblick for play in Society of Hickory Golfers-sanctioned events. The irons are replicas of the early RTJ […]
Rutherford Cup hosted at Toronto’s Scarboro Club
The Jack Rutherford Cup – Hickory Stick Open On a warm and sunny Canada day, 18 of our veteran hickory members joined with 52 members of the Scarboro Club to celebrate their 100th anniversary. Format was a five-person scramble with a mixture of men’s and mixed foursomes groups. Dedicated to Jack Rutherford, a longtime Scarboro Member and one […]
Heart of America another winner on Championship Series
There were 49 registered players and 17 guests and they made the 35th edition of the Heart of America a success by any standard. The temperature averaged twice the number of our players and the scores were just as hot on a links style golf course that was tough but fair for hickory play. Golf course management of your ball […]