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 […]
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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, […]
Memorial round honors departed NHC friends
June 5, 2020 By Jim Davis Gordon Beggs Jr. is a retired law professor (Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University) who makes his home in Tuscon, Ariz. A member of both the GHS and the Society of Hickory Golfers, he has been a long-time player and supporter of the National Hickory Championship (since 2008, seven tournaments). Though slowed in […]
Whitman, McGraw tops at Wisconsin 2-Man best ball matches
May 25, 2020 – Kohler, Wisc. Ernie Ernst reports: Three days of Hickory golf after two months of social distancing was just what was needed. The weather over the three days here in Wisconsin was magnificent (70s and sun all week). If you don’t think that is special, you never played the Kohler Challenge in May at Whistling Straits. Our […]
NHC tries extreme ‘social distance’ competition
May 4, 2020 By Jim Davis Most social distance guidelines today recommend 6 feet as a “safe” distance from which to engage fellow human beings, also known as possible carriers of Covid-19. This has put a damper on nearly all group activities. We refer, of course, to protests in various states in which the assembled feel the guidelines do not […]
NHC 2020 to go forth everywhere
June 11-12 A course of your choosing Location TBD by you The 2020 National Hickory Championship is to be conducted in an unusual manner this year, as host Pete Georgiady has arranged for players to select courses on which they might play in their locales. This wrinkle is designed to overcome the social distancing requirements and the extreme quarantine rules […]
Hopeful signs in the Northwest
May 1, 2020 Early on in the Covid-19 story, Seattle and the Pacific Northwest were rather hard hit. Like everywhere else, people stayed home, businesses closed, and most recreation came to a halt, hickory golf included. But now comes a sign that maybe, just maybe, things are loosening up… sort of, kind of. The Northwest Hickory Players just announced the […]
Florida State Golf Association teams up with Florida Hickory Golfers
May 1, 2020 There’s good news for hickory golfers, indeed, all golfers, in the Sunshine State. The Florida State Golf Association has entered into a partnership with the Florida Hickory Golfers, led by Mike Stevens. The FSGA plans to add a portal to its website for golfers to explore hickory golf through the FSG. Click here to read the news […]