HICKORY GOLF NEWS

Event host Ken Holtz reports on another great winter visit to the desert for hickory golfers. Playing pre-1935 hickory shafted golf clubs, 105 players celebrated the 14th annual Arizona Desert Hickory in Sun City West. Dressed in knickers, argyle socks, woolen caps, and equipped with vintage equipment, they challenged Grandview & Pebblebrook Golf Courses in grand style over a two-day […]

The field for the 2026 U.S. Hickory Open was sold out within an hour of its opening time of Noon PST on Feb. 15. However, a waitlist has begun, so if you did not make it into the field please do register anyway as history shows that there are spots that open up over time. The Society of Hickory Golfers’ […]

MacDuff (who, through an error, perhaps, on the part of the hosts, was in the field) reports on the 2026 Winter Park Hickory Classic (Jan. 17-18): Anxious eyes kept watch on the weather in advance of the seventh annual Winter Park Hickory Classic. A brutal cold snap had the rest of the country in its grip and Florida did not […]

The registration form for the inaugural World Gutty Championship, a match play tournament, is now live on  the World Tournament Calendar page of this website, under the tournament’s title. The tournament dates are March 14-15, 2026. Interested international players should call or email tournament director Bill Geisler for specific payment directions. William Geisler c/o World Gutty 776 Andover Circle, Winter […]

Mike Stevens reports: Friday, Nov. 21 was a brilliant sunny day as the Florida Hickory Golfers celebrated along with the city of Lakeland the Cleveland Heights GC centennial. Several dignitaries were on hand from the city to recognize the 100th year on this William Flynn design. The course played tough and the small elevated greens provided some difficult recovery shots […]

When you’re playing hickory golf at a course called the Bobby Jones Golf Course, you know you’re in for something special. So it was Nov. 13-14 for the inaugural Bobby Jones Hickory Challenge, hosted by Larry Rice in Atlanta, Ga.  Larry reports: The week started out with Monday and Tuesday giving us a high of 40 degrees with rain and […]

The second China Hickory Open was be played on the No. 3 Course at the noted Mission Hills Golf Club in Haikou, Hainan Island on Nov. 11-12, 2025.  Ladies Champion was defending ladies champion Ms. Nian Yaying from Beijing. On the right, Paolo Quirici was Open Champion and defending champion from Switzerland and Luise Dudzus, Best Amateur from Germany.   […]

The Mid Pines golf professional staff reports: We would like to start by thanking all of our long-time supporters and any of our first timers for a great weekend of golf.  This is truly a unique event, and we enjoy the opportunity to host year-after-year. Will Peterson won the Open division with 79-79—158. He is a multiple time winner and […]

The 2025 U.S. Hickory Open this past Oct. 4-5 was surely one for that will be long remembered for its over-the-top service to SoHG members. The 2025 organizing committee from the Hickory Golf Association of Texas – Scott Pilgrim, Alan Alison, Michael Sloan, Sam Sinclair, and their chief ringleader, the colorful Gary Krupkin – seemed to leave nothing to chance […]

Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Johnny Goodman River City Championship held at Omaha’s Happy Hollow Club on Sunday, Oct. 12.  It was a perfect day and perfect setting for the final 2025 NEHGA hickory event.  A BIG thank you to Happy Hollow Club for hosting the event and a BIG thank you to Beardmore Subaru for sponsoring the […]

The Society of Hickory Golfers has announced the inaugural World Gutty Championship (WGC), scheduled for March 14-15, 2026, at the nationally recognized historic Winter Park Golf Club in Winter Park, Florida. The format is to be match play. “The SoHG is bringing to the national and international rota of hickory golf tournaments an annual, pre-1900, gutty match play championship,” said […]

Jacob Orcutt, event host, reports: The second annual Goodwin Gutty Open was contested on Sept. 29.  A field of 10 gutty and three modern hickory golfers (post-gutty era clubs) enjoyed a beautiful fall day of golf at Goodwin Park Golf Course in Hartford, Connecticut. Our modern division played the nine-hole event to a par of 36.  For the modern hickory […]

Event organizer Maurus Lauber reports: Yara Berger and Paolo Quirici played in their own classes to secure the Swiss Hickory Open Ladies and Gentlemen’s titles at Golf Club Neuchatel. The 10th wins Hickory Open was played Sept. 21, 2025 at the renowned Neuchâtel golf course and was a resounding success. In perfect weather conditions, the two favourites clearly prevailed: Yara […]

The Captain’s Medal hosted by the SoCal Hickory Golfers was played on Sept. 21 at the Victoria Club in Riverside, Calif.  The course is a Max Behr design that dates from 1903. There were 14 two-man teams who played the event in a Ryder Cup format of matches and singles. It was a beautiful day and fun was had by […]

Ernie Ernst reports: The 14th annual Wisconsin Hickory Open was held at Lawsonia Sept. 18-20 on the Links Course of the Golf Courses of Lawsonia in Green Lake, Wisc. A wonderful fall weekend in Wisconsin; a wee bit of sun and heat, a touch of rain and a breeze that could never settle on a direction made for a challenging […]