July 29-30 Montreux Golf Club Aigle, Switzerland The Swiss Hickory Open will be competed for the first time in the ‘Suisse Romande,’ or French-speaking section of the country, 29-30 July, at the Montreux Golf Club in Aigle. The Swiss Hickory Open attracts players from the German, Italian and French sections of the country. Nestled at the foot of the Alps […]
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2022 Thornberry Creek “Pay it Forward” Hickory Challenge
July 30 Thornberry Creek Oneida, Wisc. This will be the 8th annual Pay It Forward Hickory Challenge at Thornberry Creek, hosted by Jim Koss and the Wisconsin Hickory Golfers. The morning nine is on the Iroquois 9 Double Flagstick Course and the afternoon on the 18-hole Legends Championship Course, official course of the Green Bay Packers. Both layouts are gutty-friendly. […]
2022 MHS at Hollywood GC
May 18 Hollywood Golf Club Deal, N.J. The Metropolitan Hickory Society is pleased to announce its first 2022 offering. Rob Wolf has arranged for players to experience Hollywood GC on May 18. Tee times begin at 2 p.m. followed by dinner and lively conversation. We all know we have much to catch up on following a couple of frustrating seasons. […]
2022 Mid American Hickory Open
May 20-22 Soangetaha Country Club Galesburg, Ill. This May the Wisconsin Hickory Players invite you to join them at Soangetaha Country Club to reunite with friends and enjoy the game we love. If you’ve not joined us before for this event, this is a beautiful 125-year-old parkland style course. Revised and expanded by Tom Bendelow in the 1920s, it […]
2022 Florida Hickory Open
May 23-24Bradenton CCBradenton, Fla. The Sunshine State is the only one of the 50 whose state golf association has created and hosted a bona fide state hickory golf championship. It has done so with equipment and tournament guideline assistance from the Florida Hickory Golfers, led by Mike Stevens, and the SoHG. The Florida State Golf Association has recently posted this […]
Results of the 2021 Indiana Hickory Open
The Indiana Hickory Open was played Oct. 8-10 at Cambridge Golf Course in Evansville. Twenty-four players from six different states competed during the three-day event. The weather was unusually warm for October in southern Indiana, but rain on Thursday and Friday nights made the course very wet for the first two days. The first day was a shamble format with […]
Results of the 2021 Spokane Hickory Open
This year’s Spokane Hickory Open, held Oct. 2-3, attracted 19 players from the surrounding Northwest. The fall weather was beautiful, a perfect complement to the beautifully manicured and sloped greens of Indian Canyon GC. Special thanks to the professional staff and restaurant staff for their friendly service and great food. The opening day scores saw a 74 posted in the […]
2022 Kansas Sunflower Hickory Open
April 23, 2022 Falcon Lakes Golf Course Basehor, Kansas The second Sunflower Hickory Open will follow the inaugural number pretty closely, says host and organizer Mike Needleman of the KC Area Hickory Golfers.This early season event is intended strictly for fun and will be formatted as a two-person match play team event. The Falcon Lakes course is a 2002 design […]
The Heart of The Cup
With MacDuffSept. 25, 2021 It was late at the little pub in Whitehall. I had driven for about 10 hours before pulling up at a little inn nearby and wanted a nightcap before turning in. The place seemed friendly enough, several patrons at tables and the bar, but there was a kind of atmosphere. You can tell when you go […]
The 2022 McNabb Cup
Sept. 16-17 Muskegon CC/White Lake GC Muskegon and Whitehall, Mich. This late-summer event has earned a singular reputation on the Michigan Hickory Tour. Perhaps it is the Friday pre-tournament round on Muskegon Country Club, a testing Donald Ross original, or perhaps the very happy Old Channel Trail golf course, a delight to play. Play on Friday is sometimes medal, sometimes […]