Sept. 8, 2018 Muskegon Country Club Muskegon, Mich. It is the unexpected that always happens. By MacDuff Four days before the McNabb Cup, a lightning bolt caused a cottage three doors to the north to erupt in flames. No one was home, although there were people in residence next door. The charred ruins were still in evidence as the McNabb […]
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2019 Wisconsin Gutty Golf Challenge
July 18-21 Eagle Springs Golf Resort Eagle, Wisc. Eagle Springs Golf Resort opened for play in 1893. As the course grew to 18 holes, it is believed that Tom Bendelow, who worked for the AG Spalding Golf Company in Chicago, was the course architect. After the depression in 1929 the golf course was cut to 9-holes. Much of the historic […]
2019 Gearhart Hickory Classic
July 19-21, 2019 Gearhart Golf Links Gearhart, Ore. The Gearhart Hickory Classic, presented by the Northwest Hickory Players, is played over a beautiful 1890s course on the coast of Oregon. The practice round is played in a scramble style with local members, all playing hickory. Saturday and Sunday medal rounds to determine the championship. There will be four divisions for competition […]
Results of the 21st Swedish Hickory Championship
Aug. 4-5, 2018 Båstad Golfklubb Båstad, Sweden By Georg Kittel Once again Sweden has taken centre stage in the world of hickory golf. The 21st Swedish Hickory Championship was staged at Båstad Golfklubb Aug. 4-5, 2018 with 141 contestants in the Championship Divisions and additional 15 players in the Handicap Division, in total 156 participants, all playing with old hickory clubs. Arguably the largest […]
2019 Spokane Hickory Open
Sept. 21-22 Indian Canyon GC and Downriver GC Spokane, Wash. The Northwest Hickory Players have announced that the Spokane Hickory Open will replace the Gamble Sands event in 2019. S.H.O. to be contested over two of the area’s finest courses, Indian Canyon designed by H. Chandler Egan (1930), and Downriver (1916). Special arrangements have been made to play Spokane’s oldest course, […]
Annual Meeting Golf Heritage Society
Sept. 26-28 Holiday Inn-Rockside Cleveland, Ohio The Annual General Meeting and Trade Show of the Golf Heritage Society is scheduled for Sept. 26-28 at the Holiday Inn-Rockside in Cleveland. The GHS will contest its golf championship at the nearby Stanley Thompson-designed Sleepy Hollow GC. Check the web page of the GHS for updates. This is the largest trade show of […]
Warm-up golf outing for the 2019 Golf Heritage Society AGM
Sept. 26 Manakiki GC Willoughby, Ohio The Golf Heritage Society’s Annual General Meeting and Trade Show is set for Sept. 26-28 in Cleveland, and that means the Hickory Golf Association is hosting its customary warm-up golf outing. The golf is to begin with noon tee times on Thursday, Sept. 26. Address is the Manakiki Golf Course, 35501 Eddy Road Willoughby, […]
Maine Hickory Golf outing
Sept. 28 Bath Golf Club Bath, Maine Hickory golfers in Maine are planning an event on Sept. 28. “We hope to attract a good local turn-out, and of course will welcome any SoHG and Vermont Hickory Golf Association members to the event,” says Forrest Dillon who is organizing the outing. The original nine-hole course of the Bath Golf Club was […]
2019 River City Hickory Golf Championship
Sept. 29, 2019 Happy Hollow Club Omaha, Neb. This annual event honors the great Nebraskan amateur Johnny Goodman and includes a reception, and hall of fame banquet. The members of the Nebraska Hickory Golf Association annually induct celebrated state golfers, past and present, into its hall of fame. Click here for a registration form. Click here for information about the […]
Nebraska Hickory State Championship
July 28, 2019 Quarry Oaks Golf Club Ashland, Neb. The fourth annual Nebraska Hickory State Championship is scheduled for July 28 on Nebraska’s top ranked public golf course. All are invited to participate, it is not necessary be a member of the Nebraska Hickory Golf Assoc. Three divisions of play – Championship (59 and under), Senior (60 and over), and […]