HICKORY GOLF NEWS

By Jim Davis It was hot and dry at the 2023 NHC, just the way that gutty players like it. The brown fairways were fast, the greens brutal and the after-golf conversations, as always, spiced with bitter acceptance and sweet reminiscence.  Twenty-four players from around the Midwest and further afield came to test the hills and plateaus that are the […]

It was a little late, but that’s the way scheduling works sometimes. Although World Hickory Golf Day was officially May 7, the Copper Cup Clan made time to celebrate the day on June 3, and they did so in the best of spirits with good friends and great golf. Here’s a report from the Clan’s Michael Brown: Thirty-seven hickory players […]

The 10th annual Danish Open Hickory Championship was played on 27 May at the Royal Copenhagen Golf Club. It was cancelled in 2020-21 for covid. Christian Joel, president of the Danish Golf Historical Society, reports that that 39 players were entered, including players from Sweden, Switzerland, Germany and Norway. “All in all a wonderful day in the most fantastic summer […]

May 20, 2023 Hickory golf has finally made it to Idaho, thanks to Tom and Sue Tracy and the members of the Northwest Hickory Players. The inaugural SPUD CUP is in the books!  Thanks to everyone who participated and contributed to the fun and camaraderie. Tom Tracy reports on the event: The inaugural Spud Cup hickory event was held May […]

Putter maker and hickory golf club specialist Tad Moore was interviewed by Ricky Potts on The Wednesday Match Play Podcast presented by Mindful U. Tad provides an overview of Tad Moore Golf, talks about the 1991 Masters Tournament, explains his pricing model, and takes us on a tour of his workshop. He also gives some advice for hitting a hickory […]

The Kohler Hickory Challenge was played at the Kohler properties this past week, May 11-13. Players started their week with a practice round on the Straits course (home of the 2020 Ryder Cup) and then continued their Kohler adventure with a round on the Meadows course Friday and the Irish course on Saturday. Friday, after the Meadows round, players went […]

As the SoHG prepares for its 16th annual U.S. Hickory Open at the Inwood CC in September, others are also keen to note the 100th anniversary of Bobby Jones’ first U.S. Open victory at the historic club. This latest account comes from Stan Awtrey, the editor of Golf Georgia, the magazine of the Georgia State Golf Association. Awtrey describes Jones […]

The Kansas City Area Hickory Golfers completed its third annual Sunflower Hickory Match-Play Outing on April 22, 2023, at the Falcon Lakes Golf Course in Basehor, Kan.  The field consisted of 31 enthusiastic golfers, all determined to battle their matches in cool temperatures; it was 42 degrees at tee-time and never above 45 degrees throughout the day. Match winners earned […]

World Hickory Golf Day was celebrated in a the best way possible in San Clemente, California. Participants came from around Orange and San Diego counties to join in the festivities. Rick Perrault of San Clemente, Calif., got into the spirt of World Hickory Golf Day by inviting his hickory golf playing friends to enjoy the finer things in golf at […]

Rob Ahlschwede reports: The Northwest Hickory Players celebrated World Hickory Golf Day early at Meadow Park Golf Course (c. 1915) with the 11th playing of the Vintage Hickory Classic. Seven new hickory players were part of the 42 players who signed up to celebrate the day.   One of the highlights was having 18 players in the Open Division – […]

It’s all in good fun and for a good cause, two things the Wisconsin Hickory Golfers really like. Their Pay It Forward Hickory Challenge has been a popular golf outing these past nine years and last year a local Senior Living magazine picked up on the story. Below are photos from the publication. Great going ladies and gents! Hickory golf […]

By Jim Davis There were no caddies with this group. The sternly dressed men in black coats wore an odd mix of bowlers, top hats and tradesmen caps. Under their arms they each carried from four to eight clubs of a peculiar, though somehow graceful, look – long, slender  and narrow, a few with noticeably curved faces. A few clubs […]

Andrew Baker reports: Early April 2023 saw the inauguration of the two-day South Australian Hickory Shaft Championships. The foursomes championship was held Sunday 2 April at Victor Harbor Golf Club, followed by the individual championship at The Royal Adelaide Golf Club the next day. Both events were played on cloudless autumn days with temperatures in the mid-twenties. The individual championship was contested by […]

By Jim Davis There is something about hickory golf that, for many, leads to a journey of discovery; of looking for lost methods of employing wood shaft clubs, or finding classic beauties from makers of the 1920s and earlier, or of simply connecting with a time when the game seemed, somehow, more pure, at least with regard to course design, […]

Played over the Onion Creek Golf Course in Austin, Texas. Pete League reports: In the Swift Cup Results on March 25, the Texas Team beat the North American Team by 20 to 11. Texas Team Captain was Ken Jackson; Dennis MacIntyre for the North America Team. Five teams competed in the Texas First Tee Hickory Championship with the Dallas Chapter […]