September 5, 2022
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 […]
September 2, 2022
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. […]
September 1, 2022
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 […]
August 25, 2022
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 […]
August 20, 2022
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 […]
August 18, 2022
Andrew Von Lossow, the 2021 U.S. Hickory Open champion has always been a very good golfer, hickories or no. And we know him for his stellar play in both the USHO and several events around the U.S. Northwest where he, and his father, Jim, are members of the Northwest Hickory Players. But at this year’s U.S. Amateur, Von Lossow is […]
August 16, 2022
The wandering field correspondent, MacDuff, somehow found his way into the competition at Foxburg and filed the following report. August 2022By MacDuff There are many hickory golf tournaments, but few are hosted with such passion and emotion as the Foxburg Hickory Championship. It is Tom Johnson’s passion that drives this sweetly elegant hickory golf event, a gutty golf event, over […]
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 […]
August 9, 2022
In early August the Michigan Hickory Tour made its annual stop in the Toledo, Ohio, area for an event hosted by Bill Tucholski and Tim Stroshine. This year, a staffer from the Bowling Green Sentinel-Tribune was there to take it all in. The brief report and video below were filed by J.D. Pooley for the newspaper…. The Michigan Hickory Golf […]
August 3, 2022
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 […]
August 1, 2022
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 […]
July 25, 2022 Rob Ahlschede reports: Lyle Rowland’s ace on No. 15 was the tournament highlight for this year’s Gearhart Hickory Classic, an accomplishment that earns him admission to our hickory Dodo Club for such feats. The 2022 Classic was treated to great weather, great play, and great times together for nearly 50 hickory players. True to Gearhart, day two began with […]
July 24, 2022
MacDuff reports on the 2022 playing of the Keeper of the Spirit Gutty Challenge: Tom Johnson, who hosts the annual Foxburg Hickory Championship, likes to say that pre-1900, or what is called gutta percha golf, is “The hardest golf you will ever play, but it’s the most fun you will have.” The hardest? Well, the jury may still be out […]
July 11, 2022
Duane Baylor reports: The 45th playing of the Heart of America was played July 8-10 in Des Moines, Iowa, at Bright Grandview GC. Originally organized by Warren Olson, the event draws players from around the Midwest and beyond. The chief host is the Hickory Golf Association with friends and assistance from both the Golf Heritage Society and the Society of […]
June 30, 2022
Northern Michigan’s beautiful Charlevoix region was the perfect spot for hickory golf June 16-18 and the players at the 2022 Belvedere Hickory Open took full advantage. Blue skies, sunny weather and lovely temperatures greeted the field. Rick Woeckener, who won the U.S. Hickory Open on this course in 2019, finds the 1925 William Watson-designed course suits his game to a […]
SoHG Housekeeping
The Spring/Summer 2026 edition of A Wee Nip has been mailed. Thanks to all who contributed! Click on the cover image to view the latest edition.The PlusFour Podcast hosted by Rob Birman regularly publishes interviews with hickory golfers, leaders in the hickory golf world and golf historians. Rob is a gifted interviewer and his guests are both knowledgeable and interesting. It's a good mix. The latest is an interview with Stephen Proctor, whose recent book, Matchless, brings to life the storied careers of golf's legendary women greats, including Joyce Wethered and Glenna Collett. Click here for the latest episode (airing Monday, Nov. 17).
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