Nov. 9-11 Queensland, Australia The 2019 Queensland Hickory Golf Festival is comprised of three days of events over three golf courses – the St. Lucia Golf Links in Brisbane (Nov. 9), the Brisbane Golf Club (Nov. 10), and the Royal Queensland Golf Club Nov. 11). The first is a an 18-hole 4BBB Stableford event, the second an 18-hole foursomes stroke-play […]
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Results of the Wee Nip/The Golf Survey
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2019 COW Cup
2019 COW Cup Oct. 5-6 Lake Shastina, Weed, Calif. Our 4th annual COW Cup will be held in Weed, Calif., just off the I-5 corridor about 50 miles south of the Calif./Ore. border. The two-day team match play reunites players from California, Oregon, and Washington in hard fought battles going to the final holes and often down to the final match. […]
Tracy takes club championship with hickories
Sept. 8, 2019 From an article by the River Birch Golf Club. For possibly the first time in 80-plus years, at least in Idaho, a club championship has been won by a player wielding a full set of hickory-shafted sticks. Tom Tracy, 69, of Star, won the senior club championship at River Birch Golf Club Aug. 17-18 playing his hickories. […]
Results of 2019 Steam Shovel Open
Sept. 11, 2019 Once again Hackensack GC impressed with pristine conditions and great plain air dining for the Sept. 10 outing. Sean and fellow members David and Tom provided perfect September breezy weather and their usual high level of hospitality. Year after year they continue to top themselves and produce a tournament that is a must attend on their Steam […]
Bill Ellington first repeat champion at Michigan’s McNabb Cup
Sept. 10, 2019 – Whitehall, Mich.By MacDuff It was the 9th playing of The McNabb Cup. There was concern. From the outset, the August & Ancient Committee of The McNabb Cup were disturbed by reports, unfounded as it turned out, planted by “bad actors” from the Baltic states through social media and other outlets, that contenders for the ninth playing of […]
Peter Flory is 2019 Wisconsin Hickory Open champion
Sept. 10, 2019 Ernie Ernst reports: The 8th annual Wisconsin Hickory Open is in the books. Three days of wonderful early fall weather made The Links course at Lawsonia shine. A field of 32 players made their way to Green Lake, Wisc. to participate. Thursday was the practice day and players were out getting reacquainted with the Langford/Moreau design. A wet summer produced […]
Economy of strokes at Swiss Hickory Championship in Davos
Sept. 10, 2019 Rick Adams reports: The fourth Swiss Hickory Golf Open Championship, Aug. 22, 2019, attracted about three dozen aficionados to the idyllic Alpine mountain village of Davos, Switzerland (site of the famous World Economic Forum each January). At 1,500 meters altitude and with narrow fairways nestled between the mountains and the rail line, accuracy and strategic placement was required. […]
Retro Cup highlights 2019 Polish Hickory Open
Sept. 12, 2019 The first Polish Hickory Open and traditional tournament Retro Cup took place Sept. 6-8, at Palace Brzezno in Poland. From Friday till Sunday, Retro Festival participants could participate in many attractions in the atmosphere of the 20-30 years of the last century. The hickory tournament was attended, among others, by Christoph Meister, secretary of the European Association […]
Pomp and ceremony highlight 2019 German Open Hickory Championship
Sept. 10, 2019 Christoph Meister reports: Fifty-seven players from 10 nations accepted the invitation of the Fürstlicher Hickory Golf Club Reuss and the German Hickory Golf Society to take part in a special championship weekend at Gera Golf Club in Harth-Pöllnitz. The tournament was kicked off with the traditional fourball bestball match Germany vs. Rest of the world. The visitors […]