Despite all Covid restrictions in place, 42 players were able to attend from Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Switzerland, England, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands; Mexico, Scotland and Sweden, to compete in the 12th edition of the German Open Hickory Championship, played over 36 holes at Kallin Golf Course just outside the German capital, Berlin. The Championship started on Friday, Aug. 14, […]

Aug. 17, 2020Event host Bill Reed reports on the Heart of America Tournament. On July 9 the City of Des Moines, Iowa, informed the tournament director of the annual Heart of America Hickory Championship that the municipally-owned clubhouse of the Bright-Grandview Golf Course would not be available for the scheduled receptions, dinners, and trade and raffle tables that are a […]

Aug. 17, 2020 Event host Tom Johnson reports on the 12th annual Foxburg Hickory Championship, Aug. 14-15. Our weather was excellent, warm in the mid-80s on Friday, cooler in the mid-70s on Saturday, nice breezes both days kept temperatures moderate. Long time Foxburg CC green keeper Jeff “Tex” Texter had the course in fine condition. The western Pennsylvania region suffered a […]

Peter Knowlan reports: The 2020 Vermont Hickory Open was contested Aug. 15-16 at the picturesque Golf Club at Equinox, a historic Walter Travis designed course nestled between the western slope of the Green Mountains and the eastern slope of Mt Equinox, the highest peak in the Taconic range. Rick Woeckener, of Garrettsville, Ohio, the reigning U.S. Hickory Open champion, is now […]

Aug. 12-14, 2020 – The Legends GCC, Alberta, Canada Ron Lyons and Chris Ream report: With the ongoing worldwide pandemic we were fortunate to be able to still run a modified Canadian Open Hickory Championship. With quarantine rules in effect, sadly we weren’t able to accommodate the many enquiries we had from the U.S. and Europe, but we were happy […]

The field at the 2020 Spanish Hickory OpenAugust 12 – San Sebastian, Spain Gonzalo Retana Ardanaz reports: On Aug. 11, the Real Nuevo Club de Golf SS Basozabal held for the second consecutive year a golf prize in the hickory modality, that is, with clubs from the years before 1935 and with the rules corresponding to the beginnings of golf. […]

July 20, 2020 – Eagle Springs, Wisc. Greg Smith reports that the unique sound of gutty golf again rang out over the 1893 course in Eagle Springs this July. Near a dozen stalwarts gathered to test the smoothies against Dave Brown’s replica Park gutty balls. “It was a small group, but competitive,” Greg says. “We all played the Park ball from […]

July 14, 2020 – Gearhart, Ore. by Rob Ahlschwede Thirty-one players met for the 8th annual Gearhart Hickory Classic. Covid-19 kept the entries down from the usual 45+players, but contestants found the weather near perfect with partly cloudy skies, temps in the 60s early, breaking into the 70s by mid afternoon. Evenings cool with dew and maybe a drizzle did not keep […]

July 6, 2020 – Aetingen, Switzerland by Rick Adams Former European PGA Tour player Paolo Quirici, who won the World Hickory Open championship in 2013, added the inaugural Swiss Hickory Golf Match Play championship to his trophy case at Quirici Golf School in Lugano, but it was not easy. He had to hold off the event’s youngest player, 19-year-old Andri Hausamman. […]

June 26, 2020 As the coronavirus prevented its customary June gathering in Ohio, the National Hickory Championship came up with its own solution. Host Pete Georgiady allowed contestants to “play in place,” as it were, using their own local courses, with McIntyre gutty balls, and to a length that as much as possible matched that of the original Oakhurst Links, […]