HICKORY GOLF NEWS

Kevin Mendik reports: On June 21, 2025, the historic Myopia Hunt Club in Hamilton, Mass., commemorated its 150th anniversary with a 9-hole hickory event. More than 80 members participated, many in traditional attire. Clubs were provided by Kevin Mendik and Bill Wardwell.  On July 9, 2025, the sounds of hickory could be heard and players in period dress could be […]

Wisconsin’s Ernie Ernst reports on a delightful event on the Baths and Irish courses at Kohler: The Kohler Par 3 Hickory Challenge was contested over July 1-2 at the Kohler Blackwolf Run location (The Baths, Kohler par 3 course) and the Straits on the Irish course.  It was two days of partner golf starting with 30 holes on the Baths […]

Under sunny skies and rising temperatures, the 10th annual Wisconsin Hickory Players’ annual charity event was held June 21-22 at Thornberry Creek at Oneida, Iroquois course. Iroquois is gutty- friendly and allows an unspoiled  walk or cart. The Pay It Forward Gutty Challenge offered a unique weekend of “Auld Gawf” spanning three centuries of golf equipment. Contestants sported Auld Gawf […]

Jacob Orcutt reports: Golfers from Alabama to Massachusetts came together at Shennecossett Golf Course in Groton, Conn. for the 5th annual Smith-Collett Classic – named for former Shennecossett pro and two-time U.S. Open champ Alex Smith, and his star pupil Glenna Collett-Vare, who won the U.S. Amateur Women’s Championship six times.  Shennecossett remains a difficult test of golf, and the […]

Our friends in the Metropolitan Hickory Society returned to the Spring Lake Golf Club on June 17 for its “War at the Shore” competition. It had been on hold for a few years, but the MHS, which hosted the 2023 USHO at the Inwood Golf Club, are a resilient bunch and love playing hickories on the many historic courses in […]

Tournament host Chris Hawes reports: The second Ottawa Hickory Challenge, June 6-8, began with 118 golfers in a two-person scramble. Players came from Arizona, Edmonton, Connecticut, Pinehurst, and all across Ontario to participate. An additional 26 competed in our Saturday/Sunday stroke play tournament. By all measures it was a success! All our goals were met. 1) Have fun. 2) Expose and educate […]

Event Host Tom Tracy reports: The 2025 Idaho Spud Cup, the state hickory shaft golf championship held June 7-8, is in the books. The third annual edition of this event, held under warm sunny skies over the pristine fairways and greens of River Birch Golf Course in Star, drew 31 entrants in three divisions (Open, Seniors, and Ladies) willing to […]

Wisconsin’s “Copper Cup Clan” celebrated the occasion in style at the Scenic View Golf Course in Slinger. Of the 38 golfers, 16 women participated in a 9-hole scramble; nine players in a 65-and-older gutty competition; and 13 in a modern hickory event with eight seniors and five in the Open division. “We had hole prizes, and our very own Teddy […]

Hickory golfers from Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa got together on Sunday, June 1, at The Golf Club at Table Creek in Nebraska City, Neb., for the first NeKaWa Cup. The event is to promote camaraderie and play between regional players from Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa. Central to the NeKaWa Cup is an 18-hole match-play team event. Players will be assigned […]

It was unseasonably cool during the three days of the WHO Classic, but that did not diminish the enjoyment of 38 golfers from around the country who traveled to Wyandotte, Mich., for this enjoyable hickory celebration. Golfers from as far as Florida made it to the event. It began with a Friday warm-up round on the West Shore Country Club […]

THIRD ASIA PACIFIC HICKORY SHAFT CHAMPIONSHIP TOKYO 2025 Les Browne, chair of the Asia/Pacific Championship, reports: We started in Melbourne in 2023, which was a great success, then last year in Christchurch, NZ, which was a step up ;and this year in Tokyo which was a further upward step. The formation of the Asia Pacific Society of Hickory Golfers has […]

May 4, 2025—The Vintage Hickory Classic The Northwest Hickory Players celebrated World Hickory Golf Day at Meadow Park Golf Course (1915) by playing the 13th Vintage Hickory Classic.  Thirty-two players teed it up on a bright Sunday morning  at Meadow Park in Tacoma, Wash.  Not having had rain for a week or so the course was firm—we got some bounce […]

Dale Hallock reports: It was a GREAT Day and a GREAT turnout for the 2025 Nebraska Hickory Golf Association’s Hickory Opening Day on Saturday, May 10, at Omaha’s Elmwood Park.  Congratulations to the Best Ball Winners Brian Frevert and Shawn Carollo, 1st Low GROSS (72); and to Duane Baylor and Rudy Thomas, who were first Low NET at 59. Below […]

Les Browne reports: May the 4th is not only Star Wars Day but the World Hickory Golf Day also celebrated internationally. To celebrate Down Under, the Australian Golf Heritage Society scheduled an event played on sand greens using 100-year-old hickory shaft clubs. So the inaugural World Sand Green Hickory Championship was founded. Throughout Australia, there are approximately 400 courses that have […]

The 5th annual SUNFLOWER Hickory Match-Play was contested and enjoyed by all on a beautiful spring day on Saturday, May 3, 2025 at Falcon Lakes Golf Course in Basehor, Kan. This two-person team match play event is a scramble in which the 12 winners all received gold medals with the rest being awarded silver medals for their efforts. This year drew […]