www.kingarrock.com Just 10 miles west of St. Andrews, along the B939 in Cupar, is a golf course whose name is likely lost on the majority of pilgrims hastening to the Old Course and its adjacent cousins. The Kingarrock Golf Course is only 9-holes, too, and on top of that only hickories are allowed for play. Kingarrock is built around […]
Author Archives: Jim Davis
Favorite Links
www.northberwick.org.uk/clubmakers_2.html#bsayers Here’s a nifty site for fans of Scottish golf. This North Berwick-related site (the home page is (http://www.northberwick.org.uk/index.html) lists dozens of club makers, professionals and course designers with biographies on most of them and a handful of old photos to boot. You’ll find the Sayers, Jack White, Arnaud Massy, the Ferguson’s, Fred McLeod, Alex Aitken, Willie Anderson and many […]
Dr. Frank Boumphrey Passes Away
Dr. Frank Boumphrey passed away March 4, 2012. He was a beloved member of the Society of Hickory Golfers, former board member and web guru who set up the Society’s earliest web pages. He edited a early monthly newsletter for the Society called “Hickory Happenings” that set a high standard for knowledge and information about modern and early hickory golf. […]
Temple Terrace Pro Hickory Event makes NYTimes
It was a lovely day, it’s always a lovely day in Florida for hickory golf, and PGA pros from around the state and elsewhere traveled to Temple Terrace to test their games with wood shafted clubs. Click here to read the article.
Equipment Guidelines Update
If you have been to the SoHG website recently and visited the Equipment Guidelines pages, you might have noticed some housecleaning. Your Equipment Committee has been busy updating these pages. Go ahead and check in for a look now. We’ll wait…. https://www.hickorygolfers.com/hickory-golf-equipment-guidelines_5127_ct.aspx Now that you’re back, here’s an explanation of what we were trying to do… First, we […]
Courses for the Hickory Soul – Dormie Club Pinehurst N.C.
There was much excitement and anticipation among BGCS Hickory Grail players this past November as the Pinehurst N.C. area hosted the bi-annual match at the newly established Dormie Club. Dormie, a private club a few miles north off Beulah Hill Church Road, is a Ben Crenshaw/Bill Coore design that employs their customary classic tradition to good effect along […]
Favorite Links
www.hickorygolf.com This is the granddaddy of hickory golf sites. It was begun many years ago by modern hickory golf pioneer Ralph Livingston III, whose research into the hickory game as it was played then has brought new understanding to the clubs we hold in our hands today. Although the “Events” and “News” tabs are a bit weaker than in […]
“The Golfer” from January 1903
Though winter this year has allowed some late-, and early-, season golf, in many areas of the country, golfers must wait for sunnier and warmer days to return. Reprinted here, from “The Golfer” of January 1903 is a lament for those days. Shut-in Golfer By Allan P. Ames The course that once was gay with green Is shrouded all in […]
Balls for Hickory Play
As the new Season beckons, it seems appropriate to Your Correspondent to remind Players of the Article in the Spring 2007 Issue of the Wee Nip (SoHG website; under “Resources” to “Wee Nip” then to Spring 2007). The intervening years will have increased, rather than diminished, opinions on this essential topic, not to mention the plethora of new balls offered […]
Thoughts on Hogmanay
Before I discovered hickory golf, my predilection for liquids with alcoholic content often exercised my conscience, particularly when finding myself in “Dry Counties” and among the more abstemious of my religious friends and acquaintances. Generally, the Locals were very kind and tolerant of my evil tendency, ascribing it variously to my Irish blood and lack of sound upbringing. I am […]