World Hickory Golf Day was created to set aside one day each year, the first Sunday in May, to celebrate the sport. We invite all of you who observed the day in this way to send a photo or other note about your hickory golf day. Two fellows in Wisconsin, in the U.S., held an impromptu match on the […]
Author Archives: Jim Davis
Match play off to great start as Kansas golfers grow the hickory game
April 21, 2021 Mike Needleman reports: The Kansas City Area Hickory Golfers are pleased to announce the success of its inaugural event held April 17, 2021, as 30 golfers gathered to contest their skills in the two-person team, match-play event. Play was held at the Jay Morrish-designed Falcon Lakes Golf Course in Basehor, Kan. Everyone enjoyed hickory friendly fairways, speedy […]
Hickory Stick Golf
May 1 Excelsior Springs Golf Course Excelsior Springs, Mo. The Excelsior Springs Cultural Guild is sponsoring a day of hickory golf. The $70 fee for the 4-person scramble includes cart, clubs, green fees and a sack lunch. The event will begin with a hickory golf club demonstration at 10 a.m. followed by a 10:30 a.m. tee time. For information and […]
Woeckener/Hollerbach best tough field at 2021 Southern 4-Ball
April 19, 2021 By MacDuff At the trailing end of the Appalachian Mountains, flanked by long parallel mountain ridges, Birmingham is one of Alabama’s most populous, and one of America’s most historic, cities. An industrial and educational center, its people have been firsthand witness to many of the Civil Right’s movement’s most tragic as well as uplifting events. It is […]
2021 Pioneer Classic
Nov. 6-7 Mill Creek Golf Course Salado, Texas This marks the second annual Pioneer Classic, a two-person team event on the Mill Creek Golf Course in Salado, Texas. The tournament is a fundraiser for the Salado Museum and College Park which preserves the pioneer history of the Salado area. Chief among the early settlers were the 600 Scottish families of the […]
First Tee excitement makes Onion Creek tourney an overall winner
March 30, 2021 Austin, Texas Pete League, host of the Onion Creek Hickory Classic, reports that it was a splendid 2021 outing from any way you look at it. Several First Tee teams turned out in what Pete hopes might eventually turn into a national First Tee Hickory Tournament. Building toward that future, five First Tee teams from the Dallas, […]
2021 Houston Hickory Team challenge
June 5-6 High Meadow Ranch Golf Club Tomball, Texas The tournament benefits the First Tee of Greater Houston. The registration fee of $215 includes two rounds of golf, cart, gift bag, range balls, Saturday dinner, Sunday awards lunch, and awards. Hickory golf clubs will be made available. The tournament will be played as a two-player team event. High Meadow Ranch […]
In WHO-ville, hickory golf grows one playset at a time
March 2021 By Jim DavisModern hickory golf can be enjoyed on so many levels – playing the game; exploring the history and background of golf from the hickory club era; even donning some period clothing for a little extra hickory sauce. Then there are the clubs, which require a little more TLC than your modern high-tech gear, especially the original […]
Onion Creek raffle donors put dent in homelessness
March 11, 2021 Austin, Texas A generous supporter of hickory golf and the Onion Creek Hickory Classic has donated a new set of Louisville Golf Precision model hickory shaft irons (mid-iron through niblick, a $1050 retail value), to be raffled off, with all proceeds to be turned over to Mobile Loaves & Fishes, the OCHC official charity. See WWW.ML&F.ORG Repeat: these are new, never used; […]
22nd Hickory Stick Invitational
Sept. 13 Edgewood CC Commerce, Mich. The Hickory Stick Invitational is a fund raiser for The Evans Scholars Foundation whose motto is “Changing the Course of a Lifetime…one Caddie at a time.” The Foundation provides caddies with renewable four-year scholarships for tuition and housing. The average scholarship is worth about $125,000. There are presently 1,010 Evans Scholars in school and over 11,300 Evans Alumni. The […]