June 28, 2021 Martin Pool reports: Fifty-six players, a new record in the Pacific Northwest, teed it up for the 7th annual Pacific Northwest Hickory Championship held at Longview Country Club (est. 1923) in Longview, Wash., on June 18-20. Festivities began on Friday with a fun team competition of best two net of four. We had eight members from the host […]
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Smith-Collett Classic off to great start in Connecticut
June 21, 2021 Jacob Orcutt reports: The results are in for the inaugural Smith-Collett Hickory Classic at Shennecossett Golf Course in Groton, Conn. Our thanks to the entire field for their participation; what a great day of golf! Tim Ball of Marston Mills, Mass., and William ‘Wardy’ Wardwell of Turners Falls, Mass., both tied at 75. Both great scores, but only […]
Preddy wins playoff to take inaugural Carolinas Hickory Open
June 21, 2021Rich Schmidt reports: The inaugural Carolinas Hickory Open went off without a hitch and included two perfect days of weather on a superb Donald Ross 9-holer in the mountains in Tryon, N.C. Twenty-eight contestants made the trek, and I have yet to hear a complaint about the venue, the value and the quality of the camaraderie! We had […]
Joe Hollerbach nips Belvedere victory by one
June 15, 2021MacDuff reports: Few fairways seem as smooth and inviting as those of the Belvedere Golf Club in Charlevoix, Mich. The seasoned Belvedere player, though, is well aware of the rude treatment possible once the greens are achieved, the sixth and 16th come to mind as particularly disagreeable to the approach which fails to land just so. Many a […]
2022 Southern Hickory Four-Ball
April 21-23 Highland Park GC Birmingham, Ala The tournament is played on the Highland Park Golf Course in Birmingham, Ala., the event is especially enjoyed for its southern hospitality. This is the second of the major SoHG Order of Merit events on the calendar for 2021-22. Event host Tad Moore reports that Highland Park Golf Course has gone through some […]
Featheries had large presence at 24th NHC
June 14, 2021 Pete Georgiady reports: In the 24th edition of the NHC, gutty ball competition local player Jason Kronenberger won the Open Division. It was his third attempt. John Lavendoski was runner up and Bill Wardwell took another third place medal. Twenty-one-year-old Drew White, Arlington, Va., and product of the Washington DC First Tee Chapter won the Reserve Division (net) […]
Schwab ‘Challengers Series’ presents video on Louisville Golf
The Louisville Golf Company is the subject of a video produced by brokerage firm Charles Schwab. The video premiered on June 2, 2021. Schwab’s videos are part of its “Challengers” series that focuses on people and companies who “challenge, engage and succeed. The Louisville Golf video interviews owner Jeremy Wright and three of the Just brothers who help produce the […]
2021 VaHGA Gutty Gopher
Oct. 1-3 Meadowcreek Golf Course Charlottesville, Va. The VaHGA Gutty Gopher will be held on October 1-3 (Friday practice, Saturday Sunday) at Meadowcreek Golf Course. This will be two rounds of medal play with McIntyre Park (Open) or Braid/Vardon (Senior/Net) ball required, period dress strongly preferred, no range finders permitted. Click here for a tournament registration form. Note that the […]
Switzerland’s Lausanne Golf Club to celebrate centenary with hickory competition
Sept. 11 Lausanne Golf Club Canton of Vaud, Switzerland By Rick Adams The Golf Club of Lausanne, located in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, will host a hickory golf event on Sept. 11 as one of many activities commemorating the 1921 founding. Club manager Pierre Rindlisbacher expects members will have fun dressing up like golfers from the 1920s and […]
2021 Iowa Hickory Classic
Sept. 10-11 Bright-Grandview GC Des Moines, Iowa VENUE CHANGE !!! Due to scheduling and changes in pricing, the 2021 Iowa Hickory Classic Golf Tournament is being held at a the Bright-Grandview Golf Course. The change is for this year only. Without going into a long story, a “ perfect storm” of scheduling conflicts creates this change. Bright-Grandview Golf Course (also the […]