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. […]
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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 […]
‘Young Von’ Lossow reigns at 2020 Pacific NW Hickory Championship
June 16, 2020Martin Pool reports:Thirty-five hickory players teed it up June 13-14 in the 6th annual Pacific Northwest Hickory Championship. This year’s tournament was contested at Eagle’s Pride Golf Course, formerly known as Fort Lewis Golf Course, a hickory-era military course in Dupont, Wash. After hunkering in the bunker for so long, it was good to see and enjoy the company […]
Pastor Gillespie preaching hickory gospel in Kansas City
SoHG member John Gillespie is a pastor at the Westbrook Church in Overland Park, Kansas. When time allows, the good pastor is often on the local golf courses with his favorite bag of hickories. Somehow, word of his game got to the newsroom of KCTV5, Kansas City’s news leader. Sports Producer Neal Jones filed a report on the “retro” game […]
Virginia gutty players enjoy getting out – finally!
June 5 By Jim Clawson Dear Virginia Hickory Players and Friends, We had a small outing this past week playing Gutties at Old Trail Golf Club (www.oldtrailgolf.com ). The results are shown below. Eight matches so far in the year-long competition. On that day we discussed what balls to play. In the end, all played the McIntyre Vardon ball, a […]
Swiss inaugurate 2020 hickory season
June 8, 2020 By Rick Adams Thirty-one well-dressed ladies and gentlemen from around Switzerland braved the forecast of thunderstorms for the annual Swiss Hickory Golf event at Waldkirch Golfpark, the first SHG gathering of the 2020 season. After light rain for the first couple of holes, the skies cleared long enough to get the round in. In the Stableford format, […]