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 […]
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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 […]
Hurricane Florence forces postponement of 2018 USHO
Sept. 11, 2018 There’s nothing like 130 mph winds and torrential rains to put a damper on the best laid plans. The projected path of Hurricane Florence has drawn a dead bead on North Carolina and will certainly make landfall as a Category 4, if not 5, hurricane according to the National Weather Service’s Hurricane Center. The 2018 USHO Committee, […]
Results of the 2018 Iowa Hickory Classic
Sept. 8, 2018 Hosted by Bill Reed of the Hickory Golf Association whose report follows: It was a beautiful day at Hyperion Field Club in Des Moines, Iowa. Blue skies, white fluffy clouds, little or no breeze, and green expanse everywhere to look. However the previous 10 days had been nothing but drenching rain and although the old saying is […]
Inaugural Maine Hickory Golf Tournament
Sept. 28, 2019 Bath Golf Club Bath, Maine Hickory golfers in Maine are planning an inaugural Hickory Golf Tournament at the Bath Golf Club in Bath, Maine. Designed in 1932 by famed architect Wayne Stiles, The Bath Golf Club is a classic New England course located in the rolling farmland of North Bath. The town is known for its world […]