November 19, 2016
May 7 Golf Courses Everywhere Every city, Everywhere North America and abroad National Hickory Day is the second annual event for a yearly homage to hickory golf, designed for the first Sunday in May. The promotion was proposed by SoHG member Durel Billy, who is chairman of the APNational Golf Club in Seattle, Wash. Hickory golfers, regional hickory golf groups, the Golf […]
November 18, 2016
May 12-13 Whistling Straits and Irish Course Kohler, Wisc. Agenda for the Kohler Challenge: Your entry fee includes your greens fee for both Friday on the Straits course and Saturday on the Irish course and your corresponding caddie fee for the Straits course on Friday (caddie is mandatory) and awards. What it does not include is your tip on Friday for the caddie (course […]
November 17, 2016
May 20 Golf Club Svratka Svratka, Czech Republic Built in 1932, Svratka Golf Club is celebrating the 85th anniversary of the club and 70th anniversary of the course. Start: 10: a.m. from hole No. 1 or shotgun – depending on the number of players Form of Play: The Championship will be decided by brutto – stroke play – over 18 holes according to the lowest score. In case […]
November 7, 2016
Beautiful weather was the inducement to great play at the 13th annual Mid Pines Hickory Open in Southern Pines, N.C. Though late in 2016, the event is the season opener for the 2016-17 Championship Series of the Society of Hickory Golfers. Some 89 hickory golfers competed on the wonderful Donald Ross-designed Mid Pines course, a favorite of many of the participants. The competitors […]
October 21, 2016
Participants in the Metropolitan Hickory Society’s Jersey Shore outing had a beautiful day to golf on Oct. 19. Frank Flood of Connecticut took home the Open Division Championship with a sweet 80 at the wonderful Spring Lake Golf Club in Spring Lake, N.J. Jon Byron shot a fine 83 to take home the Runner-Up Medal in the Open Division. In […]
Golf lovers head to Green Lake to play the sport the way it began by Aaron Becker aaronb@riponprinters.com The new golf pro at Lawsonia wondered if he’d stepped into a time machine. “It doesn’t feel like 2016, Josh Carroll thought as he tooled around the Green Lake Course in late September. “Everyone’s got the hickory shaft. The club makes a […]
October 18, 2016
Newly renamed as the Johnny Goodman River City Hickory Championship, this event of the Nebraska Hickory Golfers Association was held at the Happy Hollow Country Club on Oct. 15. In conjunction with the event, the NEHGA inaugurated a Hickory Hall of Fame, inducting as its first three honorees Alexander Findlay, Johnny Goodman, and Randy Jensen. Twenty players in the 2016 […]
October 17, 2016
From the DeForest Times Sun Prairie, Wisc. By Joe Pruski A century ago it would have been common for men in knickers and plaid vests to talk about their mashies, jiggers, and niblicks while setting off on an early morning round of golf. While those days, and much of the equipment from that era, are long gone, a growing group of enthusiasts led by the […]
October 16, 2016
The following video of Sandy Lyle at the 2016 World Hickory Open is on the Reuters News website. Click here to see the video.
October 14, 2016
Oct. 14, 2016 Seven SoHG members have indicated they would like to stand for three open board positions. One position was created by the passing of Mike Just, whose Board term, along with Dave Brown and Hamp Munsey, ends on Dec. 31, 2016. Each Board term is for three years. The seven candidates are Durel Billy, Hugh Cameron, Ben Hollerbach, Scott McAllister, Bob […]
October 13, 2016
Memories of Mike from several of his close friends and acquaintances. Plus a few photos from here and there. Mike Just was not only a friend but he was also a business partner. When I started making the first new wood shafted clubs since the early 1930s here in the USA I went to Mike to make the wooden heads […]
World Hickory Open Champion Sandy Lyle is pictured with his trophies at Panmure Golf Club. © Andy Thompson Photography / ATIMAGES Oct. 13, 2016 By Wendy Glass Carnoustie Country After two days of highly-competitive games between many of the world’s top hickory golfers, double Major winner Sandy Lyle has claimed the World Hickory Open Champion title for 2016. “I’m delighted […]
October 12, 2016
By Brian Giboney (Brian Giboney is an SoHG member who has been an avid parachutist for years. He is a long-time contributor to Parachutist magazine and also pens the occasional free-lance golf article. He was happy to share this outing with his friends in the SoHG. – Ed.) In life we all meet some very unique people. Through my passion for the sport of […]
Leave it to Bill “Ernie” Ernst to hook another guy on hickories. This time it was Midwest Golfing Magazine writer Glen Turk who tried them out at Sand Hollow Resort in Utah, and again with pal Brian Weis of GolfTrips.com at the La Belle Country Club near Milwaukee. What did he think? He’s a golf writer. He wrote it all […]
October 7, 2016
By Wendy Glass Carnoustie Country On Oct. 11, almost 120 hickory golfers wearing stylish outfits inspired by the game’s 1920s and 1930s glory days will tee off at Panmure Golf Course for the first round of the World Hickory Open 2016, sponsored by LinkedGolfers. “Watching competitors from all over the world walk onto the first tee in their finest hickory golf […]
SoHG Housekeeping
The Autumn/Winter 2023 edition of A Wee Nip has been mailed to all members. A PDF has also been posted to the website. A Happy to New Year to everybody!ADVERTISE IN THE WEE NIP – Send your message to all SoHG members in the bi-annual magazine. Your ad also helps the SoHG. Click here for 2024 ad rates and information.
SoHG Book Club – Sam Sinclair, our new member director, is also a reader and would like to start an SoHG Book Club for a monthly Zoom chat on all things golf and golf history, or whatever's tickling your reading fancy. Once we have a few signed up, Sam will set up a monthly Zoom meeting for an hour or so chat on the latest good reads. Reach him at txhickorygolf@gmail.com.
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Let us know about your hickory hole-in-one. Click here to check out reports from others who have managed this rare shot with a hickory club. Timothy Chenevert, of Baton Rouge, La., got his on the City Park Golf Course in late September.
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