HICKORY GOLF NEWS

May 16, 2022 By Ernie Ernst The Kohler Hickory Challenge was contested this past week, May 12-15,  at the courses at Whistling Straits and Blackwolf Run. With a little twist in course selection this year, participants were offered a warm up round on the Straits Course on Thursday for fun. Many took advantage of the opportunity to play the Ryder […]

May 4, 2022 The 2022 Southern Hickory 4-Ball was played April 21,22,23. We had great weather, warm and lots of sunshine. This year’s event was played in two formats. For the low handicap players we had the Best Ball Scratch. For the others, we played a Team Total Stableford. Highland Park Golf Course was in great shape. Greens were tough […]

Northwest Hickory Players celebrate World Hickory Golf Day at Meadow Park Golf Course in Tacoma, Wash.  The playing of the Vintage Hickory Classic has been scheduled for WHGD since 2013 and this year there were 46 players for the celebration. It was great having many players making the trip from the Portland area to join in the fun of the day. […]

April 25, 2022 By Jim Clawson VaHGA was well represented at this year’s Southern Hickory Fourball hosted by Tad Moore at the Highland Park Golf Course in Birmingham, Ala. Terry Pemberton and Eric “the Hickory Hokie” Johnson teamed up as did Deal Hudson (now from Lilburn, Ga. but still a VaHGA Founding Member) and yours truly. Non-resident members Mike O’Donnell […]

April 19, 2022 By MacDuff Since the advent in 2000, and even earlier, of modern hickory golf the sport has followed many paths, blossomed in a variety of forms. Hickory tournaments large and small, from gutty to golden-era 1920s style of play, offer opportunities to “discover the playing characteristics of wood shafted golf clubs,” as the Society of Hickory Golfer’s […]

Precision is a word that aptly applies to Dr. David Brown, owner of McIntyre Golf Company, the leading manufacturer of replica golf balls in the world. (He even plays Nicoll Precision irons from the mid-1910s.) An orthopedic surgeon by training, specializing in knees and overall sports medicine, he meticulously crafts gutta percha balls, brambles, mesh pattern and small dimple balls appropriate […]

SoHG member Michael cruz is only 10-years-old, but he already know his way around a set of hickory golf clubs. Journalist Lyndi McNulty of the Carroll County Times posted a story on the young hickory player in the March 12, online edition of The Baltimore Times’ Carroll County Times. It’s a nice story on young Mr. Cruz and we hope […]

March 30, 2022 The NBC/Golf Channel recently visited the Mission Inn Resort, site of the 2022 U.S. Hickory Open, to film 10 episodes for one of its top shows, The Golf Fix. The host, Devan Bonebrake, and the NBC creative team  had many wonderful comments about Mission Inn’s  beautiful property, practice facilities and courses. For those of you planning to […]

Oct. 18 Prestwick GC Prestwick, Scotland Not strictly a hickory golf tournament, this is nonetheless an extraordinary opportunity for hickory golf over an historic layout in commemoration of the 150th playing of the Open Championship. Golf travel company Scottsdale Collection has negotiated an exclusive Prestwick VIP Day on Oct. 18, 2022, for 36 golfers to recreate golfing history and walk in […]

March 4, 2022Ken Holtz, host of the Arizona Desert Hickory Classic, reports: On Feb. 26-27, 98 players celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Arizona Desert Hickory Classic 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 […]

Feb. 24, 2022 Douglas W. Marshall, of London, Ont., Canada, member and past president of the Golf Historical Society of Canada, member of the Society of Hickory Golfers and the Golf Heritage Society, passed away at Victoria Hospital of complications from pneumonia on Feb. 23, 2022. He was 85. Born in Niagara Falls, Mr. Marshall was a familiar face at hickory […]

Feb. 22, 2022 It was a competitive field for the 2022 U.S. Professional Hickory Golf Championship on Monday, Feb. 21. Daytona professional Thomas Garnier carded a fine 73 to have his name affixed to the John Shippen Cup dedicated to America’s first golf pro. The Oscar Bunn trophy goes to Eddie Peckels of Winter Springs who also recorded a 73. […]

Feb. 9, 2022 Since about 1990 until around 2016 or so, Randy Jensen of Omaha, Neb., won darn near every hickory tournament he entered – multiple early Golf Collectors Society national championships, several National Hickory Championship titles and goodness know how many others. One magazine called him “The Hickory Tiger.” Randy recently shared a note about a very special trip […]

Edward Ronco, 72, of Wyandotte, Mich., passed away unexpectedly Feb. 5, 2022. He was a past president the SoHG (2019) and former board member for Region 5 of the Golf Heritage Society. Along with three others, he was a founding officer of the Wyandotte Hickory Organization in 2010. A service will be held at St. Patrick church in Wyandotte at […]

  By Rick Adams Picture this idyllic scene: the snow-draped Alps, a vivid blue sky, cross-country skiers tracking past, dogs frolicking, parents tugging children on sleds, a line of horse-drawn sleighs, the occasional helicopter flying overhead, a neo-romantic stone castle guarding the territory … and golfers trying to balance on slippery packed snow while steering orange golf balls toward distant […]