HICKORY GOLF NEWS

June 16, 2020Martin Pool reports:Thirty-five hickory players teed it up June 13-14 in the 6th annual Pacific Northwest Hickory Championship. This year’s tournament was contested at Eagle’s Pride Golf Course, formerly known as Fort Lewis Golf Course, a hickory-era military course in Dupont, Wash. After hunkering in the bunker for so long, it was good to see and enjoy the company […]

SoHG member John Gillespie is a pastor at the Westbrook Church in Overland Park, Kansas. When time allows, the good pastor is often on the local golf courses with his favorite bag of hickories. Somehow, word of his game got to the newsroom of KCTV5, Kansas City’s news leader. Sports Producer Neal Jones filed a report on the “retro” game […]

June 5 By Jim Clawson Dear Virginia Hickory Players and Friends, We had a small outing this past week playing Gutties at Old Trail Golf Club (www.oldtrailgolf.com ).  The results are shown below.  Eight matches so far in the year-long competition.  On that day we discussed what balls to play.  In the end, all played the McIntyre Vardon ball, a […]

June 8, 2020 By Rick Adams Thirty-one well-dressed ladies and gentlemen from around Switzerland braved the forecast of thunderstorms for the annual Swiss Hickory Golf event at Waldkirch Golfpark, the first SHG gathering of the 2020 season. After light rain for the first couple of holes, the skies cleared long enough to get the round in. In the Stableford format, […]

June 5, 2020 By Jim Davis Gordon Beggs Jr. is a retired law professor (Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University) who makes his home in Tuscon, Ariz. A member of both the GHS and the Society of Hickory Golfers, he has been a long-time player and supporter of the National Hickory Championship (since 2008, seven tournaments). Though slowed in […]

May 25, 2020 – Kohler, Wisc. Ernie Ernst reports: Three days of Hickory golf after two months of social distancing was just what was needed. The weather over the three days here in Wisconsin was magnificent (70s and sun all week). If you don’t think that is special, you never played the Kohler Challenge in May at Whistling Straits. Our […]

May 4, 2020 By Jim Davis Most social distance guidelines today recommend 6 feet as a “safe” distance from which to engage fellow human beings, also known as possible carriers of Covid-19. This has put a damper on nearly all group activities. We refer, of course, to protests in various states in which the assembled feel the guidelines do not […]

May 1, 2020 Early on in the Covid-19 story, Seattle and the Pacific Northwest were rather hard hit. Like everywhere else, people stayed home, businesses closed, and most recreation came to a halt, hickory golf included. But now comes a sign that maybe, just maybe, things are loosening up… sort of, kind of. The Northwest Hickory Players just announced the […]

May 1, 2020 There’s good news for hickory golfers, indeed, all golfers, in the Sunshine State. The Florida State Golf Association has entered into a partnership with the Florida Hickory Golfers, led by Mike Stevens. The FSGA plans to add a portal to its website for golfers to explore hickory golf through the FSG. Click here to read the news […]

April 24, 2020 By Jim Davis The situation is fluid, as they say. Even as the PGA of America discusses re-opening tour events as well as staging a fan-less Ryder Cup, we wondered how hickory golf is doing. Several regional hickory golf groups, including those in Canada and Europe, responded to a brief survey with answers below. Your correspondent is […]

April 13, 2020 The 2020 Belvedere Hickory Open has been cancelled. Host professional Dennis “Marty” Joy said it was both an easy and a hard decision to make. Easy, because safety is the priority, but hard because it is such a joyous event. “All our members look forward to it, but we just can’t do it this year,” he said. […]

Kansas City Area Hickory Golf members Mike Needleman and son, Mikey, had high hopes of playing together at the hickory group’s inaugural Match Play Tournament this April. But just as several other events have had to cancel due to the coronavirus, so, too, Kansas, and the father and son duo must wait until next year to test their hickory play […]

A message from the SoHG: The SoHG is mindful of the evolving situation surrounding the novel coronavirus. We hope that you will continue to enjoy our great sport as much as possible, but also be knowledgeable of preventative measures such as those posted at the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) UPDATE – MARCH 26, 2020 Many state governments […]

The annual Southern Hickory 4-Ball Championship, scheduled for April 16-18, has been cancelled by event host Tad Moore. His message follows: Dear Southern Hickory players, As you know the tournament is scheduled for a month from now, April 16-18. Even though the State of Alabama does not have a large number of COVID-19 cases, the governor has now put restrictions […]

SEATTLE, WASH. – The Society of Hickory Golfers (SoHG) has announced that the 2021 U.S. Hickory Open (USHO) will be held Sept. 12-14 at the historic Gearhart Golf Links (1892) in Gearhart, Ore. It will mark the 14 playing of the  premier hickory golf tournament in the United States, presented each year by the SoHG. This marks only the second […]