U.S. Hickory Open featured on Fried Egg Podcast

Dec. 5, 2021 Garrett Morrison from The Fried Egg Podcast featured the 2021 U.S. Hickory Open in the latest edition of Fried Egg Stories, a feature-length episode with interviews with sundry members at Gearhart Golf Links and a brief, post-round, interview with the 2021 champion, Andrew Von Lossow. Morrison, a resident of Oregon, spent the final day of the event […]

Tiger and featheries? If only…

Dec. 1, 2021 Tiger Woods recent news conference broadcast on the PGA YouTube channel, was wide ranging, touching on a variety of topics, such as life after his car accident, getting back to golf, etc. But what caught the attention of many historic and hickory golf enthusiasts is his reference to old-time woods and feathery golf balls. Click here to […]

Onion Creek Hickory Classic update for 2022

By Pete League The Onion Creek Hickory Classic in Austin, Texas, has annually increased its participation with the First Chapters in the area. This past March, the inaugural Texas First Tee Hickory Championship was held at the club. The team from The First Tee of Dallas took home The Texas Cup, an antique bronze-with-silver-inlay trophy. Play was in two-person scrambles played […]

Plus Four Podcasts highlight hickory golf, history and travel

Rob Birman’s Plus Four Podcasts are up to nine episodes now. All are hickory-golf themed, with interviews that highlight everything from club repair, and regional hickory golf groups, to the importance of golf history. The latest adds a little golf travel magic with SoHG members Deal Hudson of Lilburn, Ga., and Karl Nagy of Simpsonville, S.C., who describe a most […]

Tom Johnson named the SoHG’s 2021 Mike Brown Award honoree

The committee of three on the Mike Brown Award are not to be envied. The current SoHG president and two previous award recipients are charged with selecting an award recipient from what is usually a list of half a dozen most worthy nominees, each of whom reflects, in his or her own way, the late namesake’s embodiment of friendship, dedication […]

The Heart of The Cup

With MacDuffSept. 25, 2021 It was late at the little pub in Whitehall. I had driven for about 10 hours before pulling up at a little inn nearby and wanted a nightcap before turning in. The place seemed friendly enough, several patrons at tables and the bar, but there was a kind of atmosphere. You can tell when you go […]

Northwest’s own Andrew von Lossow claims 2021 USHO title at Gearhart

By Jim Davis The U.S. Hickory Open last visited the western U.S. in 2017 when it was held at the Del Monte Golf Club in Monterey, Calif. The 2021 version, the 14th playing of the tournament, was held on the oldest course west of the Mississippi (1892), Gearhart Golf Links, in Gearhart, Ore. It was the first held in the […]

Quirici, Sagarra are 2021 Swiss Hickory champions

Carmen Sagarra and Paolo Quirici win 2021 Swiss Hickory Open Sept. 6, 2021 By Rick Adams Carmen Sagarra, playing from the Hittnau Golf & Country Club in eastern Switzerland, won the women’s division, and PGA teaching professional Paolo Quirici from Golf Club Lugano in the southern Ticino region won the men’s open division at the Swiss Hickory Open held at […]

Buckland Trophy new event on European hickory tour

Oct. 23 J.W. Buckland Hickory Trophy Links Course of the Cologne Golf Club Cologne, Germany The Hickory Society Cologne is pleased to announce the inaugural J.W. Buckland Hickory Trophy, to be played as part of the Dutch Hickory Tour. Play will be in accordance with the official golf rules of the R&A Rules Limited, the betting rules of the DGV (unless […]

Two first-time winners and a repeat champ at the 2021 Wisconsin Hickory Open

Bill “Ernie” Ernst reports: Marks, Burgland and Hackstock take top honors at the 10th annual Wisconsin Hickory Open, Aug. 26-28 at Lawsonia Golf course. The Wisc Hickory Open is in the books. Congratulations goes out to our cChampion, Aaron Marks, who on his first trip to Lawsonia found the secret to success. A Colorado native, Aaron proved on two very […]