June 10-12Mound Golf CourseMiamisburg, Ohio The 24th NHC is scheduled for the Mound Golf Course, but organizer Pete Georgiady is again offering players the the opportunity to compete remotely. At the Mound golf course, the Thursday is set for an International Feather Challenge and foursomes play. NHC rounds will be on Friday and Saturday with clubhouse lunches and a championship dinner […]
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Inaugural Carolinas Hickory Open in Tryon, N.C.
June 18-19 Tryon CC Tryon, N.C. There are not many golf courses in Western North Carolina where wooden-shafted hickory golf clubs have been played. Tryon Country Club, founded in Tryon, N.C. in 1916, is one of those. The Carolina Hickory Golf Association (CHGA) will recreate those thrilling days of yesteryear in Tryon when it stages the first Carolinas Hickory Open. […]
2021 Pacific Northwest Hickory Championship
June 19-20 Longview CC Longview, Wash. The Northwest Hickory Players is hosting the seventh annual 2021 Pacific Northwest Hickory Championship, scheduled for June 19-20 at the historic Longview Country Club in Longview, Wash. Longview CC, established in 1923, has hosted numerous major Northwest championships. The front nine was designed by Francis L. James and opened in 1927. The back nine […]
2021 Washington Hickory Open
June 25-27 Gailes and Blackshire golf courses Lakewood Shores Resort Oscoda, Mich. This new two-day event on the Michigan Hickory Tour calendar is played over two courses, the Gailes and Blackshire at Lakewood Shores Resort. This is a lovely area of Michigan along Lake Huron and the golf courses choses have been widely hailed as two of Michigan’s best. Designed by […]
2021 inaugural Connecticut Smith-Collett Classic
June 26 Shennecossett Golf Course Groton, Conn. This is an an inaugural event for the Connecticut Hickory Golf Association. Tee times will begin at 1 p.m. The fee is $40 per walking player, or $60 per riding player. Please click here to register by Friday, June 11. Fees are due to the golf course on the day of the event. The format […]
Results of 2020 Wyandotte Hickory Open
Aug. 22-23 The tenth annual Wyandotte Hickory Organization Classic was held recently with 20 golfers participating in Saturday’s Two-person Scramble and 20 also playing in the Open event on Sunday. It was a stellar weekend for John Cova of Hazel Park, Mich., as he won the Open Championship with a solid score of 76. He also partnered with Joe Cerri, […]
South Bend CC hosts well-attended Michiana Hickory Open
Aug. 29, 2020 Forty-five golfers from seven states, including three First Tee players, participated in the 2020 Michiana Hickory Open held at the South Bend Country Club in South Bend, Ind. The course had been drenched by the previous night’s heavy rains and large puddles remained throughout the waterlogged course. It was cart paths only. This and strong winds made […]
Local media enjoys Foxburg Hickory Championship
It’s always fun when the local media of any particular tournament picks up on an event. Local journalists approach such stories gleefully, without the jaded perspective of larger and national news outlets. So it was great fun to read about the 12th annual Foxburg Hickory Championship in the Clarion News this past August. Click here to see the story, and […]
Germany had strong field and a young champion for 2020
Despite all Covid restrictions in place, 42 players were able to attend from Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Switzerland, England, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands; Mexico, Scotland and Sweden, to compete in the 12th edition of the German Open Hickory Championship, played over 36 holes at Kallin Golf Course just outside the German capital, Berlin. The Championship started on Friday, Aug. 14, […]
Heart of America will go on… and did, for 43rd annual event
Aug. 17, 2020Event host Bill Reed reports on the Heart of America Tournament. On July 9 the City of Des Moines, Iowa, informed the tournament director of the annual Heart of America Hickory Championship that the municipally-owned clubhouse of the Bright-Grandview Golf Course would not be available for the scheduled receptions, dinners, and trade and raffle tables that are a […]