By Jim Davis If you want to grow up to become a U.S. Hickory Open champion, it helps to have a father who loves golf, as well as a country club course adjacent to your backyard. Rick Woeckener had both. The youngest of three children, Woeckener, 50, was born in New Brunswick, N.J. and moved to the Miami area of […]
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Woeckener wins title at picture-perfect 2019 USHO
June 25 – Charlevoix, Mich. By Jim Davis Early last year, when organizers of the 12th annual USHO were planning the tournament, June 13-15 were the original dates of choice. Later, for logistical reasons, Belvedere GC’s Head PGA Professional, Dennis “Marty” Joy, moved the date back a week, to June 20-22. A stroke of genius, that. For the weekend of […]
100-Hole Hike to benefit First Tee of Greater Charleston
June 15, 2019 Bo Turocy, the SoHG’s secretary and the head professional at Wescott Golf Club in Summerville, S.C., is participating in a First Tee fundraiser on Aug. 8 that involves a 100-hole golf marathon. He’s looking for pledges from his fellow hickory golfers. Here’s his note: “Hey everyone! I have an opportunity to use my passion for golf to […]
Results of the 2019 Pacific Northwest Hickory Championship
June 5, 2019 Martin Pool reports: Amid the towering fir trees, on a gorgeous sunny weekend in Seattle, the Northwest Hickory Players conducted its fifth rendition of the Pacific Northwest Hickory Championship. Thirty-nine players teed it up on June 1-2 at the historic Inglewood Golf Club, which is celebrating its centennial year. The course is as challenging as they come, […]
Hickory golf getting start in Baton Rouge
June 6, 2019 Stan Spring of Baton Rouge, La., reports that things are going well in his quest to introduce hickory golf as an inducement to preserving the town’s City Park Golf Course, which had come under some pressure to close. “Yesterday, George Morris, feature writer for the Baton Rouge Advocate, came with his photographer to do a feature on […]
Seth Lomison continues reign at NHC
The 22nd National Hickory Championship, organized by Golf Heritage Society executive director Pete Georgiady, was held at the Mound Golf Course in Miamisburg, Ohio, on June 6-8. Seth Lomison, 21, of Pfafftown, NC, won for a second straight year. He first played in 2011 as a 13-year-old intern from the First Tee of the Triad. His father, Matt, who has accompanied […]
Results of 4th annual Alexander Findlay Massachusetts Hickory Open
May 18, 2019 Bill Conant of the Hickory Golfers of Massachusetts reports: The 4th annual Alexander Findlay, Massachusetts Hickory Open was held at the historic Country Club of Greenfield on Friday, May 17. Thirty-two players from six countries and eight states participated and we were pleased that Ed Ronco, SoHG president, also played in the event while visiting family in Connecticut. […]
2019 Mid American Hickory Open Results
May 19, 2019 The first Mid American Hickory Open is in the books. Thirty-four players had a very wet, rain delayed first day. We dodged a bullet the second day, watching severe weather pass by to our north, and finished in sunshine. Thank you to the staff at Soangetaha Country Club in Galesburg, Ill. for letting us continue. You know […]
Results of 2019 Open Danish Hickory Championship
May 18, 2019 Copenhagen, Denmark On Saturday, May 18 the 8th Open Danish Hickory Championship was contested at the Asserbo Golf Club – north west of Copenhagen. Sweden’s Henrik Peyron (Helsingborg Golf Club) took the championship trophy with a very fine 78. Second was Dennis Willadsen (Ikast Tullamore Golf Club) of Denmark who was only two strokes off Henrik’s pace. The men’s […]
Results of 2019 Whistling Straits Challenge
May 13, 2019 Report by Ernie Ernst: We are certainly lucky here in Wisconsin to have so many great courses to play and 10 that are nationally recognized. We are even luckier that we get to play some of these courses with our hickory sticks in fun events. This weekend, May 10-11, the Whistling Straits Hickory Challenge was contested on […]