HICKORY GOLF NEWS

The first-ever Gloria Minoprio Challenge, hosted by Robert Birman of the Northwest Hickory Players, took place on Saturday, Sept. 16 at Port Townsend Golf Club. A field of 20 players competed with one club (an iron cleek or driving iron) in a 9-hole event, all wearing trousers in honor of the great one. Gloria Minoprio, a British woman golfer of […]

Early in the going Inwood, N.Y. looked like it would present a rainy prospect and the practice rounds were indeed somewhat drizzly; but the skies cleared and all was well for the 16th U.S. Hickory Open. This year, 100 years later, the sounds of hickory clubs echoed again over the storied course on which Bobby Jones outlasted Bobby Cruickshank in […]

Report by Les Browne The 28th Australian Hickory Shaft Championship was recently played on Melbourne’s world renowned sand belt courses. The courses were set up for hickory play and although the clubs are 100+ years old the winning scores were surprisingly low. Hickory players from around Australia, as well as, for the first time, contingents from New Zealand and Japan, […]

Canadian Ben Plaunt, who also won the 2023 Gearhart Hickory Open title, added the Canadian Open Hickory Championship title to his successes for the year. Always blessed with a great turnout, this year’s event hosted 94 players, many of whom enjoyed the two-day pre championship golf trip. Beautiful weather, good times and lots of wonderful hickory spirit and friendships. Click […]

It’s always good fun when some of the mainstream golf publications work to provide their readers a little taste of hickory golf. In Australia, the Golf Australia Magazine found a good thing in the upcoming 2023 hickory championships for the great “Down Under” country. Click here to read the post. Good on ya, mate!

Tournament host Tom Johnson reports: After some time for reflection, and to recover from an emotional weekend, here are some thoughts and a summary of the 2023 tournament, Aug. 10-13. What a grand four days we had at Foxburg!  Weather was terrific, the course was in great condition, food was classic, the camaraderie in full bloom. We are thankful for […]

Organizers are working hard to launch the inaugural Asia/Pacific Championship presented by the SoHG. Peter van Eekelen, chair of New Zealand Hickory Golf, reports that the event, scheduled for March 2024, is being organized around the 18-hole championship scheduled for Tuesday, March 5 at the Christchurch Golf Club in Christchurch, N.Z. The SoHG is sponsoring a trophy for the event (shown […]

Mike Stevens reports: Great weather and a great hickory course for the third annual Florida Hickory Open, Aug. 21-22, conducted by the Florida State Golf Association. Dubsdread GC was in fabulous condition justifying its ranking as one of the top public courses in the Orlando area. For the third straight year Will Peterson was too much, staving off a challenge […]

Christoph Meister reports: During the second weekend of August 2023 a total of fifty-nine hickory golfers from eight nations met during three days at Golf Club Rhein-Main in Wiesbaden to crown the 2023 German Open Hickory Champion. The Hickory Scramble on Friday was won by the Team from the Czech Republic consisting of Andrea Hoffmannová, Vita Hoffmann, Libor Jirasek and […]

Result of the 2023 Vermont Hickory Open, played Aug. 12-13, 2023. This year’s VHO was hosted at beautiful Brattleboro Country Club, a Wayne Stiles design with a Steve Durkee addition, under blue skies. A great venue, a great weekend. Bill Houghton of Plano, Texas, is the 2023 Open champion. Jack Crosby of Concord, Mass., took first net in the Open […]

Jim ‘Wally’ Koss reports: The Grand Event: Ernie captures yet another title as two new-to-hickory gents garner their first Wisconsin titles while Rob and Jen Kress capture the tightly contested scramble championship. Our 9th annual Pay It Forward Charity Challenge, hosted by Thornberry Creek at Oneida, was an outstanding success. We were graced with blue skies and a cooling southerly wind. […]

Bob Glass reports: There’s a saying that is starting to be circulated around the Canton, Ohio, area that if  “we need rain just schedule a hickory event at Clearview.” Rain is “Four for Four” with the Tri-State Hickory players and Clearview GC. But this year the golfers were the winners. With the gracious hospitality of Renee Powell and the new […]

Rob Ahlschwede reports: The Northwest Hickory Players’ 9th Gearhart Hickory Classic welcomed 57 players from 10 states and Alberta in Canada. We played two rounds over the Gearhart Golf Links in beautiful weather on the Oregon coast. Weather? – mid 60s with some early fog and bright sunshine.  Kinda windy on the first day as the scores indicated, but still […]

Greg Smith reports on the 2023 Keeper of the Spirit gutty tournament: “Thank y’all” “as Lynn Just would say, for participating in the 2023 Keeper of the Spirit gutty challenge. I thought this was a great event with fantastic players. Can’t wait till next year. Speaking of which, 2024 will be the 10th anniversary of the event and I’m planning something […]

Martin Pool reports: Twenty-three hickory players teed it up at the 9th annual Pacific Northwest Hickory Championship held at the beautiful Bear Creek Country Club in Woodinville, Wash., on June 26-27. Festivities began the day before when 15 club members joined us for a Member Mixer team event.  In a two-best-net-of-four format, the team of Kurt Jones, Matt Stearn, Jeff […]