July 20, 2020 – New Brunswick, CanadaSoHG golfer Gary Melanson of New Brunswick, Canada, loves showing others how much fun hickory golf can be. His competitors might not find his enthusiasm so engaging as Melanson just captured another golf New Brunswick golf title with his hickories. The tournament was the 2020 New Brunswick (Canada) Senior Provincial Championship. The website http://golfnb.ca […]
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Gutties click for Wisconsin players at annual challenge
July 20, 2020 – Eagle Springs, Wisc. Greg Smith reports that the unique sound of gutty golf again rang out over the 1893 course in Eagle Springs this July. Near a dozen stalwarts gathered to test the smoothies against Dave Brown’s replica Park gutty balls. “It was a small group, but competitive,” Greg says. “We all played the Park ball from […]
Mike Hobson – The Hickory Guru of The Villages
July 15, 2020 – The Villages, Florida Bound to happen. Hickory golf is just too much fun and in a place like The Villages, Florida’s famed retirement community, it was sure to find a home at some point. Jeff Shain, a senior writer for The Daily Sun, the Village’s news leader, learned of Mike Hobson, a retiree from Virginia, who […]
Gabe Tonan takes 2020 Gearhart Classic title
July 14, 2020 – Gearhart, Ore. by Rob Ahlschwede Thirty-one players met for the 8th annual Gearhart Hickory Classic. Covid-19 kept the entries down from the usual 45+players, but contestants found the weather near perfect with partly cloudy skies, temps in the 60s early, breaking into the 70s by mid afternoon. Evenings cool with dew and maybe a drizzle did not keep […]
Quirici wins premiere Swiss Hickory Match Play
July 6, 2020 – Aetingen, Switzerland by Rick Adams Former European PGA Tour player Paolo Quirici, who won the World Hickory Open championship in 2013, added the inaugural Swiss Hickory Golf Match Play championship to his trophy case at Quirici Golf School in Lugano, but it was not easy. He had to hold off the event’s youngest player, 19-year-old Andri Hausamman. […]
2020 Hickory Stick Classic
Aug. 14-15 Wawashkamo Hickory Stick Classic Wawashkamo GC Mackinac Island, Mich. The 2020 Wawashkamo National Hickory Stick Classic is a four-person scramble with a USGA recommended handicap adjustment based on your USGA INDEX. Competitors must use authentic antique hickory shafted clubs. The heads of the iron clubs must have been produced prior to 1935, however reproduction wood heads are allowed. Solid […]
2020 Mike Fatke Memorial Tournament
Aug. 15, 2020 Manistee Golf and Country Club Manistee, Mich. Mike Fatke, Manistee Golf and Country Club’s longtime course Superintendent, took impeccable care of the course he loved. He could often be found, late in the day, playing the back nine with his hickories. To honor Mike we are hosting the 2nd annual Mike Fatke Memorial Hickory Tournament, Saturday, Aug. […]
‘Remote’ NHC had players on 24 courses
June 26, 2020 As the coronavirus prevented its customary June gathering in Ohio, the National Hickory Championship came up with its own solution. Host Pete Georgiady allowed contestants to “play in place,” as it were, using their own local courses, with McIntyre gutty balls, and to a length that as much as possible matched that of the original Oakhurst Links, […]
2020 Czech Hickory Open prevails over covid, rain
June 22, 2020 Golf Club Semily Slana, Czech Republic Dalibor Procházka reports: This year’s championship is history! At the end we were lucky as for the weather – after a couple of rainy days the rain ceased in the very morning of the championship day and the play wasn’t disturbed by it at all. The Jizera river rose threateningly over the […]
Vermont players have a blast at annual Scotch Foursome
The Vermont Hickory Scotch Foursomes was a great success, reports Tom Wawrzeniak. “Six two-person teams met at the scenic Copley Golf Course on Sunday, July 19, a hot and sunny day,” he writes. “The scores were very close with Matt Dodds and Scott McAllister the overall winners. Runner-up was Greg Paus (new to hickory) and Tom Wawrzeniak. Then the sudden-death […]