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 […]
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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 […]
Arizona Desert Hickory Championship melts winter blues
March 4, 2021 Sun City West, Ariz. Tournament Director Ken Holtz reports: Having fun and staying safe – 84 players, sporting 100-year-old clubs with wooden shafts and attired in knickers, argyle socks, woolen caps and vintage outfits, found their way to Sun City West, Ariz., and the Grandview & Pebblebrook Golf Courses, Feb. 27-28, for the 9th annual Arizona Desert […]
Polish hickory golfers offer ‘virtual’ hickory open
May 1 – Aug. 31 Anywhere Shades of the 2020 National Hickory Championship! The Polish Hickory Golf Society is inviting hickory golfers of today to compare their games against the competitors in the first Open Championship, played in 1860 at Prestwick Golf Club in Ayrshire, Scotland. Due to the pandemic situation, and the 161-year time gap, the 2021 competition will […]
Jeremy Moe wins 2021 U.S Pro hickory title
Temple Terrace, Fla.Feb. 24, 2021 Mike Stevens reports: For the third consecutive year, Boca Raton professional Jeremy Moe captured the John Shippen Cup to become the U.S. Professional Hickory Golfer of the Year. Seventeen professionals and 18 amateurs entered the 2021 contest held Monday, Feb. 22 at the historic Temple Terrace Golf Course, near Tampa, Fla. Moe’s 73 bested former champion […]
2021 Homesteader Hickory Golf Tournament
May 1-2 Beatrice Country Club Beatrice, Neb. Though it was postponed in 2020, as with so many others, the Homesteader plans to return in 2021. The Homesteader is a fun two-day stroke play event played on a very challenging golf course. Beatrice CC has been used in the past as a USGA Open qualifying course. The original nine was built […]
World Hickory Golf Day
May 2Global Hickory Golf Celebration The day was conceived as National Hickory Golf Day in 2016 by Durel Billy of the AP National Golf Club in Federal Way, Wash. Billy, who enjoys hickory golf, hoped to provide a day where regional groups across the U.S. might celebrate together. Scheduled to fall on the first Sunday in May, the concept has […]
2021 Alexander Findlay Massachusetts Hickory Open
May 14 Country Club of Greenfield Greenfield, Ma. The Hickory Golfers of Massachusetts and the Country Club of Greenfield cordially invite you to participate in the fourth annual, Alexander Findlay/Massachusetts Hickory Open Championship, to be held at the Country Club of Greenfield, the Gateway Course to Hickory Golf in New England. Deadline for entry is May 10. Registration: Call Country Club of Greenfield, 413-773-7530 […]