HICKORY GOLF NEWS

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 […]

Jan. 30, 2022 It was a chilly, rainy Florida that greeted this year’s Winter Park Hickory Classic participants. Just their luck as cold weather that was affecting the entire rest of the country thought it might as well dip south and give the Sunshine State residents a slight taste of what their northern neighbors were getting; albeit, nearly 50 degrees […]

Hickory golf events grow out of passion, desire to share time with friends, and to challenge the old sticks on traditional, or mostly so, layouts. In the following short piece, Wisconsin’s Jim ‘Wally’ Koss describes the origins of one such event in the great Dairy State. I started playing hickory in 2014. At that time, our Wisconsin clan was looking […]

Jan. 17, 2022 Pete Georgiady, host, founder, and organizer of the now 25-year-old National Hickory Championship has announced that the 2022 edition will be at the Foxburg Country Club in Foxburg, Pa. It is scheduled for June 2-4. “Better late than never,” Georgiady said of the announcement. He had been working with the club, and other venues, to nail down […]

Hickory golf: an adventure for epicureans This profile originally appeared on RedBull.com – https://www.redbull.com/ch-fr/hickory-golf-une-aventure-pour-%C3%A9picuriens?fbclid=IwAR2ypaA1hRwKp1OD0uGvg2evK6hZvL2BvqhKllJLKETPm4GLfepBWkPc3xA January 2022 – Switzerland’s Andi Ahlm is a mathematician, founder of a fintech start-up – passionate about hickory golf. Whether working or pursuing his talent, the same philosophy guides him: for something to work, you don’t always need the latest in novelty and the pinnacle of […]

  Look out for plus fours and flat caps – the World Hickory Open is coming to the Highlands By John Ross Reprinted by permission from the Press and Journal, Evening Express – Aberdeen Journals Ltd. Scotland For many golfers, the latest equipment is key to improving their game with the hope of increasing power, distance and accuracy. But there […]

The world certainly saw its challenges in 2021 –political strife, warfare, Covid, and climate change among them. We are very fortunate, this global hickory golf community, to face our challenges on fairways and greens. However else the great disturbances of the world might have touched us, at least many of us had an opportunity for a bit of peace with […]

  Dec. 14, 2021 Mike Stevens reports: The Florida Hickory Golfers concluded another successful season with our annual championships at Mount Dora Country Club on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 11, 12. Players were seeded based on their performance throughout the year and as expected, top seed Will Peterson coasted to a victory and retains the Stevens Trophy for another year. […]

SoHG board member, Robert Birman, was invited to talk about hickory golf on Golf Today, a flagship show of The Golf Channel, hosted by Damon Hack and Shane Bacon. The original air date was December 13, 2021. Images shown in the interview are from the Society’s 2021 U.S. Hickory Open at Gearhart Golf Links.  Interest in the game is growing […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]