HICKORY GOLF NEWS

   Bill Conant has been busy down east (or is it up New England way?). He and good friends Bill Wardwell, Jeff Blomstedt and Kevin Piecuch have formed the Hickory Players of Massachusetts and have arranged for their first outing a the Country Club of Greenfield where Piecuch is the PGA professional.    Bill says the reponse has been exciting, […]

  Jack Fleck at the 1955 U.S. Open at the Olympic Club    Notice of Jack Fleck’s passing on March 21 at 92 was sent to me by Breck Speed who included a note from Jeremy Moe, the professional at the Hardscrabble Country Club in Little Rock, Ark. where Mr. Fleck was a long-time member. Moe is our reigning U.S. […]

Club Triage   Now that you have found the confidence or, perhaps, ambition to perform your own club restoration, let us return to the initial stage of the process and point your hickory ship in the right direction.   Whether it is via eBay, a garage sale, a trade show or grandpa’s attic, you find yourself examining a club with the notion […]

Carnoustie Country* Press ReleaseMarch 31, 2014    This October, the World Hickory Open 2014, an international golf competition celebrating golf’s hickory heritage, will ensure the east of Scotland remains in the global media spotlight after the Ryder Cup.    This is the third year Carnoustie Country has hosted the World Hickory Open, with this year’s tournament being played Oct. 7-8 […]

Tad Moore has long been synonymous with excellence in club making. We, of course, claim him as a first among modern hickory club makers, as well as a heck of a good hickory player, and organizer and founder of the Southern Hickory 4-Ball Championship. Check out this interview with Tad in the current edition of Golf Wire’s e-mag. It’s not […]

Pleae click on the following for 2013 financial report of the Society of HIckory Golfers. A copy of the report was also inserted into the Spring 2014 Wee Nip. As always, contact any of your Board members for questions, concerns, or comments regarding this or any other matter regarding your Society. Spring 2013 Financial ReportClick here for a list of […]

This article complements the Doug Marshall story about Jim Barnes in the Spring 2014 edition of the Wee Nip.Click on the following link to see the Golf Journal article about Jim Barnes. Jim Barnes in Golf Journal  

This newspaper article is a follow-up to the Spring 2014 Wee Nip article about Joe Sylvester written by Martin Pool. Click on the following link to see the article.  NYTIMES7311919

To see the Financial Times article, please click on the following link: John Sherwood article. Excerpts from Chicago Tribune LifestylesJune 4, 1995“Golfers In For The Long Drive”By Mark Mandernach   “John Sherwood loves collecting golf memorabilia. In fact, he loves it so much he came all the way from Canterbury, England, for the fifth annual Midwest Golf Collectors Trade Show, held […]

Edmond Brooks IV shot a bit of video at the MVHO which he posted to YouTube. Great choice of Scott Joplin music to accompany the action. Catch the video at  MVHO Video or watch it below. In addition, pictures will be posted to the website: www.lifecameracreation.com under “Photos” in the “SOHG” folder. Thank you, Edmond!

    A field of 32 of the world’s best hickory golf champions are to take part in an inaugural match play event June 16-18 on the St. Martins Course of the Philadelphia Cricket Club in Philadelphia, Penn., USA.  The event, sponsored by the U.S. Hickory Players Club and the Metropolitan Hickory Society, is the result of dinner table conversation […]

    2014 Candidates for the Board of DirectorsSociety of Hickory Golfers   Dear Members,The election for three new board members runs from April 1-30.Voting will be open from April 1-30. SoHG members will be sent a ballot via email for on-line voting.   Barbara Kopec   I was born and raised in the heart of the Adirondack mountains in upstate […]

This, this first issue of Golf Illustrated, launched with the best of intentions. Editor Max Behr noted in his Foreword that “there is a demand for a magazine which will give, not only the best of reading and illustration, but reflect in its appearance a dignity in keeping with the high esteem and love which golfers have for their game.” […]

Christoph Profile.pdf  

   There is, they tell us, the scientists tell us, in the lack of sunshine and long winter days, a dearth of necessary hormones generated by the nervous system. Scant exposure to sunlight deprives the functioning nervous system of endorphins or melatonin or something. Anyway, it all adds up to a certain madness of long enforced indoor imprisonment that has […]