May 6-7 Beatrice Country Club Beatrice, Neb. The Homesteader is a fun, two-day stroke play hickory golf event played on a very challenging golf course. The original nine was built in 1917 and designed by Tom Bendelow. The new second nine keeps some of the same design as it winds south of the original nine. There are nice reasonably priced motels in […]
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National Hickory Golf Day
May 7 Golf Courses Everywhere Every city, Everywhere North America and abroad National Hickory Day is the second annual event for a yearly homage to hickory golf, designed for the first Sunday in May. The promotion was proposed by SoHG member Durel Billy, who is chairman of the APNational Golf Club in Seattle, Wash. Hickory golfers, regional hickory golf groups, the Golf […]
Alexander Findlay Hickory Open
May 12 Country Club of Greenfield Greenfield, Mass. The Hickory Golfers of Massachusetts and the Country Club of Greenfield are hosting the second annual Alexander Findlay Hickory Open Championship. Host William Conant refers to the historic course as the “Gateway Course to Hickory Golf in New England.” It was built by Alexander Findlay in 1901 and completed by Ralph Martin Barton […]
Whistling Straits beckons for Kohler Challenge
May 12-13 Whistling Straits and Irish Course Kohler, Wisc. Agenda for the Kohler Challenge: Your entry fee includes your greens fee for both Friday on the Straits course and Saturday on the Irish course and your corresponding caddie fee for the Straits course on Friday (caddie is mandatory) and awards. What it does not include is your tip on Friday for the caddie (course […]
2017 Czech Hickory Championship
May 20 Golf Club Svratka Svratka, Czech Republic Built in 1932, Svratka Golf Club is celebrating the 85th anniversary of the club and 70th anniversary of the course. Start: 10: a.m. from hole No. 1 or shotgun – depending on the number of players Form of Play: The Championship will be decided by brutto – stroke play – over 18 holes according to the lowest score. In case […]
Martin masters Mid Pines for 2016 Championship Series crown
Beautiful weather was the inducement to great play at the 13th annual Mid Pines Hickory Open in Southern Pines, N.C. Though late in 2016, the event is the season opener for the 2016-17 Championship Series of the Society of Hickory Golfers. Some 89 hickory golfers competed on the wonderful Donald Ross-designed Mid Pines course, a favorite of many of the participants. The competitors […]
Hollon hosts WHO in Evansville for inaugural Indiana Hickory Open
Indiana Hickory Open Oct. 20-23, 2016 Evansville, Ind. At the invitation of Wyandotte Hickory Organization (WHO) member Max Hollon and friends, a small contingent of Michigan WHO-ers ventured to Evansville, Ind. for the First Indiana Hickory Open scheduled for Oct. 20-23. The weather was cooperative, the company gracious, and the golf super. It is said that Julius Caesar described his military achievements as […]
Frank Flood wins Jersey Shore outing of MHS
Participants in the Metropolitan Hickory Society’s Jersey Shore outing had a beautiful day to golf on Oct. 19. Frank Flood of Connecticut took home the Open Division Championship with a sweet 80 at the wonderful Spring Lake Golf Club in Spring Lake, N.J. Jon Byron shot a fine 83 to take home the Runner-Up Medal in the Open Division. In […]
Old School
Golf lovers head to Green Lake to play the sport the way it began by Aaron Becker aaronb@riponprinters.com The new golf pro at Lawsonia wondered if he’d stepped into a time machine. “It doesn’t feel like 2016, Josh Carroll thought as he tooled around the Green Lake Course in late September. “Everyone’s got the hickory shaft. The club makes a […]
Nebraska golfers celebrate Johnny Goodman, add Hall of Fame
Newly renamed as the Johnny Goodman River City Hickory Championship, this event of the Nebraska Hickory Golfers Association was held at the Happy Hollow Country Club on Oct. 15. In conjunction with the event, the NEHGA inaugurated a Hickory Hall of Fame, inducting as its first three honorees Alexander Findlay, Johnny Goodman, and Randy Jensen. Twenty players in the 2016 […]