HICKORY GOLF NEWS

Sept. 30, 2018 – Kevin Cawley reports:   Omaha, Nebraska’s best hickory golfers met for the 2018 Johnny Goodman River City Hickory Championship which was held at Champions Run on Sept. 30. The battle for the Open Division came down to Trevor Kula defending Pete Hanley in a playoff. Pete Hanley took the honors of the Open Reserve Division, while […]

Sept. 30 – The 8th annual Wisconsin Hickory Championship was held this past week in Green Lake, Wisc. at Lawsonia Golf Course.  It is the home course for the Wisconsin Hickory group and was in great shape, with a hint of fall in the air and the trees just starting to change. Thursday was the traditional practice round and meet-and-greet at the […]

Sept. 8, 2018 Muskegon Country Club Muskegon, Mich. It is the unexpected that always happens. By MacDuff Four days before the McNabb Cup, a lightning bolt caused a cottage three doors to the north to erupt in flames. No one was home, although there were people in residence next door. The charred ruins were still in evidence as the McNabb […]

Aug. 4-5, 2018 Båstad Golfklubb Båstad, Sweden By Georg Kittel Once again Sweden has taken centre stage in the world of hickory golf. The 21st Swedish Hickory Championship  was staged at Båstad Golfklubb Aug. 4-5, 2018 with 141 contestants in the Championship Divisions and additional 15 players in the Handicap Division, in total 156 participants, all playing with old hickory clubs. Arguably the largest […]

Sept. 11, 2018 There’s nothing like 130 mph winds and torrential rains to put a damper on the best laid plans. The projected path of Hurricane Florence has drawn a dead bead on North Carolina and will certainly make landfall as a Category 4, if not 5, hurricane according to the National Weather Service’s Hurricane Center. The 2018 USHO Committee, […]

Aug. 18, 2018 By Chris Ream The 2018 Canadian Open Hickory Championship was held the week of Aug. 13-17 at the Legends G.C. Sherwood Park, Alberta. The hickory event included a two-day road trip on Monday and Tuesday, Wednesday Scramble, Thursday USA/Canada match (Ryder Cup format) and Friday Championship tournament. The road trip included 18 holes at Trestle Creek GC […]

By Ross Hays Aug. 10, 2018 – The U.S. Hickory Open Championship Committee and the Society of Hickory Golfers are proud to introduce the USHO Patrons Fund.  It is our belief that, as our sport has developed and grown, it is important to showcase our most important event, the U.S. Hickory Open Championship. This tournament should stand alone, atop all […]

July 15 Des Moines, Iowa Duane Baylor reports: It was a great day for participants in the 41st Heart of America. It is the oldest continuously held hickory tournament in the world and was begun in 1978 by Warren Olsen, who was a past GCS president. The event is now hosted by Bill Reed on the Bright-Grandview Golf Course in […]

July 2018 Patrick Reed was not the only person to stop in the old Jack White shop in Gullane during the 2018 Scottish Open Championship (hosted by Aberdeen Standard Investments). Young Brandon Stone, the eventual winner, also had the shop’s owner and hickory club expert Boris Lietzow, set him up with a set of hickories. Click here to read Geoff […]

July 16, 2018 Patrick Reed, the 2018 Masters champion, has shown a new love for hickory golf, according to a Golfweek digital edition article by Geoff Shackelford. Looks like the pros are beginning to discover what we’ve known for years; this sport brings a lot of “golf” back to “golf.” Click here for the article.

July 11, 2018 Canton, Ohio Bob Glass reports: The first Glenmoor Hickory Open is now in the books. Twenty hickory enthusiasts teed it up on a sun drenched Glenmoor Country Club in Canton, Ohio, on July 8. The Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course, though modern, lent itself to a fair test for the hickory golf clubs. There were three categories […]

July 10, 2018 White Mountain, N.H. Jim Pucci reports: The second annual White Mountain Hickory Open was completed on Sunday, July 8 under beautiful blue skies.  The weather all weekend was spectacular.  Those who played well overcame the distraction of the inspiring views on nearly every hole. Players from Florida, Pennsylvania and New Brunswick, Canada made the trek to northern New Hampshire.  Day […]

June 21 – Miamisburg, Ohio Former Junior wins National Hickory Championship Pete Georgiady reports: Seth Lomison’s golf career has come full circle. He was part of the first “class” of junior interns from the First Tee of the (N.C.) Triad to play in the NHC back in 2011. Now a month shy of his 21st birthday he is the National Hickory Champion Golfer. Tied […]

June 21, 2018 – East Lothian, Scotland – Archie Baird, who is a lifetime honorary member of the Society of Hickory Golfers, has been recognized for services to the history of golf in the Queen’s Birthday Honors. The award is the British Empire Medal (BEM). Archie is well known to those visitors from the U.S. who are regular golfing pilgrims […]

June 5 Bainbridge Island, Wash. Martin Pool reports: Thirty-eight hickory players, including six fabulous ladies, took part in the fourth annual Pacific Northwest Hickory Championship held at the historic Wing Point Golf and Country Club on beautiful Bainbridge Island, Wash. Day one greeted the players with brilliant sunshine and gentle, marine breezes on this island course, which is but a cannon’s […]