Josh Fischer is stoked about the 2011 Championship Series. He should be. Fischer is one of a handful of players who have an opportunity to win the inaugural Championship Series title. The Championship Series of the Society of Hickory Golfers is a series of four events, the whole sponsored by Mountain Valley Spring Water. Point totals have been awarded […]
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Greg Smith Featured on The Golf Affects Radio Show
Greg and Ann Smith photograped on the Oakhurst Golf Links during a National Hickory Championship. SoHG member Greg Smith of De Forest, Wisc. was invited to speak on The Golf Affects Radio show, WTSO AM in Madison, Wisc. Called the Big 1070, it is billed as Madison’s Sports Station. This show featured special guests Steve Stricker and Jerry […]
Hickory golf, then and now
There are striking similarities between Hickory Golf of today and the last decades of the 19th century! Our engaging hobby is almost unknown to the golfing world outside our little band of Practitioners here and abroad, and attracts no professional reward or public notice, with the happy result that it can be competitive without risk of ungentlemanly conduct, and entirely […]
One Hacker’s U.S. Hickory Open
By Hugh Menzies French Lick, Indiana. There is a name to conjure with. The name derives from a Frenchman who owned a salt works by a creek many moons ago. Lick was a word used for creek back then. It is, as basketball cognoscenti know, the hometown of NBA great, Larry Bird. It was also, for three days of early […]
2011 Heart of America Tournament Results
Open Division Champion Chris Wiemers, left, with Dave Brown Senior Division Champion John Hutton, left, with Dave Brown Under beautiful – warm, but not hot – weather, the Heart of America, the third in the SoHG’s Championship Series sponsored by Mountain Valley Spring Water, came to a fine conclusion Saturday, July 30 at the Happy Hollow Club in […]
All American Hickory Open 2011 Wrap Up & Results
The 2011 All American Hickory Open concluded on Saturday, July 23 at the Downers Grove Golf Club in Chicago. Organizer Connor Lewis called it a “tremendous success.” Record heat continued to dominate as it did during the U.S. Hickory Open. Chicago recorded the hottest day in its history – 112 F – during the practice rounds. Then, Mother Nature dropped […]
2011 German Hickory Championship
The 2011 German Hickory participants. From left: Britta Nord, Sabine Oelmann, Ingrid Wolf-Hayn, Perry Somers, Miep Eussen, Christoph Meister, Boris Lietzow, Kuno Schuch, Petra Dudzus, Harry Altmann, Sofia Lelakowska and Iain Forrester. The German Hickory Championship 2011 was played on Sunday, July 31 at historic Bad Wildungen Golf-Club in Central Germany. The course was designed in 1930 by Charles […]
The 2011 U.S. Hickory Open
To say that Alan Grieve has a passion for hickory clubs is an understatement. The Queensland Australian native was the first person to sign up for the U.S. Hickory Open Championship and traveled more than 36 hours and nearly 10,000 miles to participate in the event at French Lick Resort in southern Indiana. The 39-year-old captured his first hickory championship […]
2011 Finnish Hickory Championship Report & Results
On July 2, the 2011 Finnish Hickory Championship was held at Pickala Golf Club, about 35 km west of Helsinki. Antti Paatola tells us that a small but strong Swedish team swept almost all the honors. Jörgen Isberg won with a 77, eight shots clear of second place. As Jörgen also had the best net results, he also won the Finnish […]
SoHG to Support Historic Golf in Florida
The Society of Hickory Golfers has agreed to be listed as a supporter of a new effort to identify and locate historic courses in the sunshine state. The Florida Historic Golf Trail (FHGT) Program “will greatly enhance public awareness of Florida’s historic golf courses, increase awareness of historic preservation, promote tourism throughout the state, and help provide an economic impact […]