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 […]
October 4, 2016
March 30 El Campeon GC Howey in the Hills, Fla. WANNA GET AWAY? Mission Inn Resort and the Florida Hickory Golfers invite you to a centennial celebration of the resort’s famed El Campeon golf course at Howey in the Hills, Fla. Enjoy a day of golf as it was played in 1917 with hickory shafted clubs and then relax afterwards at the Gatsby […]
October 3, 2016
Mr. Michael Just, 66, president and owner of Louisville Golf, passed away Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016 after a long battle with cancer. With him was his wife of nearly 40 years, Lynn, his children, and other members of his family. Mr. Just was a well-known and beloved figure, not just in the hickory golf community where his hand-crafted clubs found […]
September 26, 2016
The golfers’ King The sports world is saddened today by the passing of golf legend Arnold Palmer. There is little need, here, to revisit Arnie’s many accomplishments, you can find them from many sources. The fact that this writer feels it easy to write “Arnie” speaks volumes about the man. He was for all people; as Ben Jonson said of […]
September 24, 2016
It was a finish you might expect from two talented golfers who have faced each other on more than one occasion. After 36 holes on the tough Links of Lawsonia, in Green Lake, Wisc., Cliff Martin of Los Angeles, and Jeremy Moe, pro at the Hardscrabble Golf Club in Fort Smith, Ark., each had carded a 151. Moe settled the […]
September 23, 2016
The 14th annual Charles Blair Macdonald Challenge was played Sept. 9-11 at the historic Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Course. The course is the oldest in North America on its original site. It has been ranked in the Top 10 short courses in the world (excluding the United States) by Golf Magazine. The tournament format has been altered over the years, and the event is now […]
September 3, 2016
Christian Juel reports: The European Association of Golf Collectors and Historians (EAGHC) held its annual meeting Sept. 1-2 at the Danish Golf Museum. Current president of EAGHC, Mr. Poul Erik Jensen, curator of the Danish Golf Museum was the host of the event. Many interesting lectures were given, including Robin Bargman’s lecture Allen Culpepper Sealy in Pau; J. B. Kazmierczak […]
August 14, 2016
By Mike Stevens Playing hickory golf in Scotland is the ultimate for anyone into that form of the game. I have had the great fortune to have participated in several World Hickory Opens since 2005. It is a fantastic experience and one that is very affordable. This year the tournament will take place at the Panmure Golf Club, right down […]
August 13, 2016
The No. 1 hickory golf tournament in the United States will be held at the Del Monte Golf Course, July 10-12, 2017. When golf made its way to California in the early 1890s the Hotel Del Monte built a 9-hole track that today is the site of the historic Del Monte Golf Course. It is one of two of the […]
SoHG Housekeeping
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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