HICKORY GOLF NEWS

Peter van Eekelen reports: The 2023 New Zealand Hickory Open, March 13, 2023,  had a stellar beginning with an opening competition for the Anzac Flask, a team event between New Zealand and Australia. This is the first time an international match has been contested has been played with wooden shafts since the golden age of hickory. Australia put in an experienced […]

How is YOUR group celebrating World Hickory Golf Day? The day to celebrate hickory golf falls this year on Sunday, May 7. Well, it’s always the first Sunday in May. The Northwest Hickory Players are well into the swing of things. They have an outing planned for April 30, a week early, but that fit their scheduling better. Regardless, it’s […]

It’s a colorful crew, so it’s no wonder the editors and writes of New Zealand’s premier golf magazine, Cut, wanted to feature these happy hickory golfers. Let’s face it, hickory golf is cool and provides readers something fresh. We hope you think so, too. The editors of Cut gave the NZ players permission to share the story on our website, […]

Playing pre-1935 hickory shafted clubs, 99 players celebrated the 11th Arizona Desert Hickory in Sun City West, Ariz.  Equipped with vintage equipment, and attired in knickers, argyle socks, woolen caps and vintage outfits, they challenged Grandview & Pebblebrook Golf Courses in grand style over a two-day competition during the last weekend in February. Players from across the USA and Canada, […]

It was Florida in February and the weather was as the chamber of commerce ordered it – magnificent. Just right for the 13th annual U.S. Professional Amateur Hickory Golf Championship and the preceding casual hickory golf outings. The weekend is hosted by hickory golf champion and professional golf teacher Mike Stevens. On Sunday, five teams competed in a shamble format […]

A full field took to the historic 1914 Winter Park 9, listed as one of the top ten 9-hole golf courses in the United States. The course played firm like a links that you would find at the home of golf. The two-day event, Jan. 21-22, consisted of 18 holes on day one and nine holes where only four clubs […]

There is a beautiful but mysterious lake in front of the first tee box at Naruo Golf Club called the ‘Ijiwaru Ike,’ which means ‘mean-spirited lake’ in English. The mysterious part is that it’s small and picturesque. But when you tee up with your hickory golf clubs, it grows larger and meaner…and…I will leave the rest for you to discover […]

January 2023 In this cautious world of post-covid recovery, golf-related activities in 2022 continued to enjoy support as the largely outdoor sport can be played with minimal precautions against the wily virus. Hickory golf was no exception and the planet’s hickory golf enthusiasts came out in large numbers to play their favorite events, meet with friends, and explore the nuances […]

3 January 2023 – Davos, Switzerland Leading proponents of hickory golf from several European countries have formed the Society of Hickory Golfers – Europe for the purposes of providing support and guidance in promoting growth of the ‘royal and ancient’ game as it was played from its origins. Meeting in late October at Ducks Inn in Aberlady, Scotland, the group […]

By Tom Tracy with Jim Davis Belated, but nonetheless cheerful news for U.S. hickory golfers: Susan Tracy, of Star, Idaho, playing out of River Birch Golf Course, captured the Ladies Division of the 2022 World Hickory Open (WHO), played in the Highlands of Scotland Oct. 11-13.  The WHO, founded by Lionel Freedman and played annually since 2005, draws hickory shaft […]

Every August Ron Lyons of Canada hosts the annual Canadian Hickory Open Championship on his Legends Golf Course in Edmonton. He is also a golf collector of the first order with many dozens of clubs, balls, tees, books… you name it. The item that sets him apart from most others is his passion for golf cars, especially those dating before […]

By Jim Davis Occasionally, to the wondering mind of the hickory golfer there comes the thought of how fine it would be should a well known champion golfer join the field for, say, a U.S. Hickory Open. Masters champion Sandy Lyle has competed twice in the World Hickory Open, winning once, and we have seen videos of such young tigers […]

Report by George Supol, GHSC board member and tournament statistician The Golf Historical Society of Canada’s Fall Hickory Classic was held Saturday, Oct. 1-2, 2022 in the Niagara Falls, Ontario area. This inaugural event was a successor to the well-attended C.B. McDonald tournaments run by Paul Dietz and others at the historical Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Course, in prior years. Over the two days, players generally played hickory […]

By Rick Adams On the multiple occasions I had played golf in Scotland across the past three decades, I had – oddly – never played in what I considered “Scottish weather” : windy, rainy, cold, generally nasty. I had been cursed with only sunny, balmy days from Royal Troon to Old Musselburgh to The Old Course. (Except for waiting seven […]

Dateline – NOW HICKORY GOLF IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA Cheers to the members of the Fleurieu Hickory Golfers, a newly formed South Australian hickory golfing society. The members held their inaugural event on Friday, Aug. 26 at Victor Harbor Golf Club. On a beautiful mid-winter afternoon, eight players participated in a 9-hole non-competitive round and great fun was had by all. […]