A pig, a Friday night tradition and a legendary golf course. Ernie Ernst reports: It took the 36th hole of the two-day event (Aug. 26-27) for the 2022 Wisconsin Hickory Open Champion to be determined at Lawsonia on the Links course. With a tie in place between Peter Flory and Ohio’s Rick Woeckener and a heavy rain storm coming in, it […]

Gonzalo Retana reports: On 29th and 30th August, the Real Nuevo Club de Golf SS Basozabal has held for the fourth consecutive year a golf prize in the Hickory modality, that is to say, with wooden clubs, clubs prior to 1935 and with the rules corresponding to the beginnings of golf. This IV San Sebastian Hickory Golf Open has been […]

Jim Jeselnick reports: The Michiana Hickory Open, hosted by Jim Jeselnick, a past president of the Golf Heritage Society, and Spike Abernethy, a member of the South Bend Country Club, hosted its largest field yet – 42 golfers – on Saturday, Aug. 21. The field for the tenth annual Michiana HO included a couple of players from the Valparaiso, Ind. […]

Bruce Johnson reports: The second annual H₂G Hickory Classic was held Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022, at Coldwater Golf Links in Ames, Iowa. The event was a fundraiser to benefit “Moving Veterans Forward,” a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to helping homeless veterans in Iowa and Nebraska to get placed in homes.  The main goal of the organization is to give these […]

The 2022 Canadian Hickory Open, held Aug. 10-12 at the ever popular Legends Golf & Country Club was another splendid event. Some 88 players from several states below the border and throughout Canada traveled to experience the fun and competition, and the legendary hospitality of hosts Ron Lyons and Eddie Chan. None were disappointed. The Open Division was won for […]

Bill Martin reports: Gents, Most of us who pursue the roots of golf in America tend to look for unique experiences. Inwood CC this past Wednesday, Aug. 17, certainly provided a truly unique day. Home to the 2023 U. S. Hickory Open, Inwood CC provided a preview to what those who are privileged to attend next year will surely remember as […]

The 2022 Foxburg Hickory Championship concluded on Saturday, Aug. 13. Tournament host Tom Johnson sends us this report: “Just wonderful…” were the sentiments 40 participants and 20 guests expressed at the close of the 14th annual Foxburg Hickory Championship.  Weather conditions were absolutely wonderful, the food was wonderful, the golf course was wonderful, and the play was spirited on a […]

Rick Adams reports: The 10th Swiss Hickory Open golf championship, July 29-30, lured participants from throughout the Alpine nation, as well as hickory aficionados from neighboring countries Germany and France. A contingent from the Hickory Society Cologne journeyed nearly 700 km (about 7 hours by car) from the central German city to the Swiss event site in Aigle on the shores […]

July 31, 2022 Jared Paletti reports: “Proving that old dogs still know how to hunt, two of the Founding Fathers of the Metropolitan Hickory Society took honors at our 11th annual Nickel and Dime in mid-July at Ridgewood Country Club in northern New Jersey. Out of the field of 16 competitors, Brian Schuman, a co-founder of the Metropolitan Hickory Society, took low gross followed by […]