Hans Jagenburg Hickory Course Borås, , Sweden 8/6/2016 – 8/7/2016 Tournament Information If there is thing we know in the hickory golf world, the Swedish hickory golfers rock! These players are among the best and most enthusiastic in the world, devoted to their sport, and among the most hospitable people anywhere. The annual Swedish Hickory Championship with an average or […]
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California Hickory Open
San Clemente Golf Club San Clemente, Calif. USA 11/5/2016 – 11/6/2016 Tournament Information The 2016 California Hickory Open is a two-day (scramble and individual) golf tournament. Tee times will start in the 10 o’clock hours both days. Round No. 1 will be a scramble event, and round No. 2 will be individual stroke play. Saturday night will be the tournament […]
Wyandotte Hickory Scramble
Wyandotte Shores Golf Course Wyandotte, Mich. USA 6/5/2016 – 6/5/2016 Tournament Information The Wyandotte Hickory Organization and the Wyandotte Recreation Department invite you to participate in our annual Two-person Hickory Golf Scramble. Wyandotte Shores Golf Course is a nine-hole links type course located on the Detroit River about seven miles south downriver from the Ambassador Bridge which connects Detroit and […]
Mid Pines champion Cliff Martin also takes 2015 CS medal
The Mid Pines Hickory Open field for 2015 Cliff Martin of Los Angeles, Calif., took the 2015 title in a playoff with Mark Hollingsworth of West End, N.C. Both men turned in a two-day total of 151. The tournament was played Nov. 6-8 in Southern Pines, N.C., on the Mid Pines Golf Course designed by Donald Ross. “Mark outplayed me […]
Marquat & Phelps repeat at Interstate championship
Hello all, and to those who did not make it this year, you were missed! This year’s outing at Old Kinderhook was Nov. 5-7. Beautiful warm, sunny weather both days, and the usual splendid hospitality of Fred and Sherry Smeltzer at their new mansion adjoining the 13th green, and their generous donation of hickory putters made by Fred and embroidered […]
GolfWorld video of 2015 World Hickory Open
The World Hickory Open continues on its course to become the world’s finest hickory golf event. This video captures many of the reasons why and is one of the most balanced on the subject of hickory golf that this writer has seen in some time. Click here to watch the video on YouTube.
In praise of hickory golf
Curt Sampson’s books are on most of our bookshelves. He has written about Ben Hogan, The Masters, the British Open, Palmer and Nicklaus, and much more. There are some 14 books to his credit. Sampson, who lives in Texas, also enjoys a round or two of hickory golf when opportunity permits, and opportunity recently knocked from the direction of the […]
$3,000 raised in Tufts Archives Pro-Am
Jay Harris reports: Rob Pilewski and I hosted the third annual Tufts Hickory Pro Am on Nov. 5. This was the day before the Mid Pines Hickory Open. We had 102 participants. Vendors Tad Moore, Mike Just, Tony Vecci, and Will Jacoby were present. A silent auction and a raffle added to the atmosphere after the players came in and […]
Lionel Freedman interviewed by Mitch Laurance
There’s no finer exponent of hickory golf on the airwaves than Mitch Laurance, radio host extraordinaire. Recently, Mitch interviewed Lionel Freedman, host and organizer of the the World Hickory Open, one of the planet’s finest modern hickory golf tournaments. Here’s an exceprt from Mitch Laurance’s introduction to the Lionel Freedman interview: In a return visit to “Golf Connections,” speaking from […]
2015 WHO belongs to Andrew Marshall
The 2015 World Hickory Open trophy winners pictured at the Carnoustie Golf Hotel. From left: Andrew Buchan, Willie Tanner, Cliff Martin, Britta Nord, Angus Provost Helen Oswald who presented the trophies, Christina Lindgren, Andrew Marshall, Brian Schuman and Jake Anema.(Photo by Andy Thompson Photography for Carnoustie Country.) More than 120 hickory golfers from across the globe competed in this […]