September 22, 2020
Sept. 19, 2020 – Ogunquit, Maine On Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020, the first (modern era) official hickory tournament in Maine was played at Cape Neddick Country Club in Ogunquit. Cape Neddick CC is an 18-hole Donald Ross course established in 1919. Because of travel and accommodation concerns related to Covid-19, only five hickory players were able to attend, playing as […]
September 21, 2020
Sept. 21, 2020 – Green Lake Wisc. The ninth annual Wisconsin Hickory Open featured a hickory course record of 65 posted by eventual Champion Peter Flory on the first day. The Links of Lawsonia offer many challenges, but on this day Mr. Flory had all the answers. The weather this year was as perfect as you could ask for. The […]
September 4, 2020
Connecticut, the Constitution State, has added its voice to the growing numbers of hickory golfers in New England. Begun this year by Jacob Orcutt and Christian Williams, the Connecticut Hickory Golf Association is off and running and we wish them all the best as they work to attract new players and find their place in the greater hickory golf community. […]
September 1, 2020
June 26 Shennecossett Golf Course Groton, Conn. This is an an inaugural event for the Connecticut Hickory Golf Association. Tee times will begin at 1 p.m. The fee is $40 per walking player, or $60 per riding player. Please click here to register by Friday, June 11. Fees are due to the golf course on the day of the event. The format […]
August 31, 2020
Aug. 29, 2020 Forty-five golfers from seven states, including three First Tee players, participated in the 2020 Michiana Hickory Open held at the South Bend Country Club in South Bend, Ind. The course had been drenched by the previous night’s heavy rains and large puddles remained throughout the waterlogged course. It was cart paths only. This and strong winds made […]
August 18, 2020
Despite all Covid restrictions in place, 42 players were able to attend from Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Switzerland, England, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands; Mexico, Scotland and Sweden, to compete in the 12th edition of the German Open Hickory Championship, played over 36 holes at Kallin Golf Course just outside the German capital, Berlin. The Championship started on Friday, Aug. 14, […]
Aug. 17, 2020Event host Bill Reed reports on the Heart of America Tournament. On July 9 the City of Des Moines, Iowa, informed the tournament director of the annual Heart of America Hickory Championship that the municipally-owned clubhouse of the Bright-Grandview Golf Course would not be available for the scheduled receptions, dinners, and trade and raffle tables that are a […]
Aug. 17, 2020 Event host Tom Johnson reports on the 12th annual Foxburg Hickory Championship, Aug. 14-15. Our weather was excellent, warm in the mid-80s on Friday, cooler in the mid-70s on Saturday, nice breezes both days kept temperatures moderate. Long time Foxburg CC green keeper Jeff “Tex” Texter had the course in fine condition. The western Pennsylvania region suffered a […]
August 17, 2020
Peter Knowlan reports: The 2020 Vermont Hickory Open was contested Aug. 15-16 at the picturesque Golf Club at Equinox, a historic Walter Travis designed course nestled between the western slope of the Green Mountains and the eastern slope of Mt Equinox, the highest peak in the Taconic range. Rick Woeckener, of Garrettsville, Ohio, the reigning U.S. Hickory Open champion, is now […]
Aug. 12-14, 2020 – The Legends GCC, Alberta, Canada Ron Lyons and Chris Ream report: With the ongoing worldwide pandemic we were fortunate to be able to still run a modified Canadian Open Hickory Championship. With quarantine rules in effect, sadly we weren’t able to accommodate the many enquiries we had from the U.S. and Europe, but we were happy […]
August 13, 2020
The field at the 2020 Spanish Hickory OpenAugust 12 – San Sebastian, Spain Gonzalo Retana Ardanaz reports: On Aug. 11, the Real Nuevo Club de Golf SS Basozabal held for the second consecutive year a golf prize in the hickory modality, that is, with clubs from the years before 1935 and with the rules corresponding to the beginnings of golf. […]
August 10, 2020
He does make a dandy golf club, does Tad Moore. The folks at Golf Central Magazine think so, too, featuring the award-winning club maker in its Vol. 21 Issue/2 edition. Also featured are the Florida Hickory Golfers and their burgeoning partnership with the Florida State Golf Association. Hickory events will now be offered and promoted through the Sunshine State’s premier […]
July 27, 2020
July 20, 2020 – New Brunswick, CanadaSoHG golfer Gary Melanson of New Brunswick, Canada, loves showing others how much fun hickory golf can be. His competitors might not find his enthusiasm so engaging as Melanson just captured another golf New Brunswick golf title with his hickories. The tournament was the 2020 New Brunswick (Canada) Senior Provincial Championship. The website http://golfnb.ca […]
July 20, 2020 – Eagle Springs, Wisc. Greg Smith reports that the unique sound of gutty golf again rang out over the 1893 course in Eagle Springs this July. Near a dozen stalwarts gathered to test the smoothies against Dave Brown’s replica Park gutty balls. “It was a small group, but competitive,” Greg says. “We all played the Park ball from […]
July 16, 2020
July 15, 2020 – The Villages, Florida Bound to happen. Hickory golf is just too much fun and in a place like The Villages, Florida’s famed retirement community, it was sure to find a home at some point. Jeff Shain, a senior writer for The Daily Sun, the Village’s news leader, learned of Mike Hobson, a retiree from Virginia, who […]
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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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