How is YOUR group celebrating World Hickory Golf Day? The day to celebrate hickory golf falls this year on Sunday, May 1. Well, it’s always the first Sunday in May. The Northwest Hickory Players are well into the swing of things. We hear the Michigan group plans an outing, too. Let us know about your May 1 hickory golf activities; […]
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Baltimore 10-year-old featured with his hickories
SoHG member Michael cruz is only 10-years-old, but he already know his way around a set of hickory golf clubs. Journalist Lyndi McNulty of the Carroll County Times posted a story on the young hickory player in the March 12, online edition of The Baltimore Times’ Carroll County Times. It’s a nice story on young Mr. Cruz and we hope […]
Golf Channel visit to Mission Inn Resort, site of 2022 USHO
March 30, 2022 The NBC/Golf Channel recently visited the Mission Inn Resort, site of the 2022 U.S. Hickory Open, to film 10 episodes for one of its top shows, The Golf Fix. The host, Devan Bonebrake, and the NBC creative team had many wonderful comments about Mission Inn’s beautiful property, practice facilities and courses. For those of you planning to […]
VIP round on historic 12-hole Prestwick layout
Oct. 18 Prestwick GC Prestwick, Scotland Not strictly a hickory golf tournament, this is nonetheless an extraordinary opportunity for hickory golf over an historic layout in commemoration of the 150th playing of the Open Championship. Golf travel company Scottsdale Collection has negotiated an exclusive Prestwick VIP Day on Oct. 18, 2022, for 36 golfers to recreate golfing history and walk in […]
Results of 2022 Arizona Desert Hickory Classic
March 4, 2022Ken Holtz, host of the Arizona Desert Hickory Classic, reports: On Feb. 26-27, 98 players celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Arizona Desert Hickory Classic in Sun City West, Ariz. Equipped with vintage equipment, and attired in knickers, argyle socks, woolen caps and vintage outfits, they challenged Grandview & Pebblebrook Golf Courses in grand style over a two-day […]
World Hickory Golf Day
May 1Global Hickory Golf Celebration Scheduled to fall on the first Sunday in May, World Hickory Golf Day is an international invitation to celebrate our favorite sport. So, get together with friends and enjoy a round. If the weather is inclement in your part of the world, gather with your hickory golfing friends in the local pub, or share a […]
Doug Marshall, Canadian historical golf leader, 1937-2022
Feb. 24, 2022 Douglas W. Marshall, of London, Ont., Canada, member and past president of the Golf Historical Society of Canada, member of the Society of Hickory Golfers and the Golf Heritage Society, passed away at Victoria Hospital of complications from pneumonia on Feb. 23, 2022. He was 85. Born in Niagara Falls, Mr. Marshall was a familiar face at hickory […]
Results of the 2022 U.S. Professional Hickory Championship
Feb. 22, 2022 It was a competitive field for the 2022 U.S. Professional Hickory Golf Championship on Monday, Feb. 21. Daytona professional Thomas Garnier carded a fine 73 to have his name affixed to the John Shippen Cup dedicated to America’s first golf pro. The Oscar Bunn trophy goes to Eddie Peckels of Winter Springs who also recorded a 73. […]
Rare air for Randy Jensen and hickory golf in Florida
Feb. 9, 2022 Since about 1990 until around 2016 or so, Randy Jensen of Omaha, Neb., won darn near every hickory tournament he entered – multiple early Golf Collectors Society national championships, several National Hickory Championship titles and goodness know how many others. One magazine called him “The Hickory Tiger.” Randy recently shared a note about a very special trip […]
Hickory golf leader Ed Ronco, 1949-2022
Edward Ronco, 72, of Wyandotte, Mich., passed away unexpectedly Feb. 5, 2022. He was a past president the SoHG (2019) and former board member for Region 5 of the Golf Heritage Society. Along with three others, he was a founding officer of the Wyandotte Hickory Organization in 2010. A service will be held at St. Patrick church in Wyandotte at […]