HICKORY GOLF NEWS

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 […]

This one’s a travel site with easy-to-use navigational features. The reason for the site is pretty straightforward. It’s fundamentally a golf trip planner. But, as such sites go, this is a good one. A color-coded map of the country brings up 17 regions within which you can search for dozens upon dozens of courses. Each page offers a selection of […]

Dear Members, SoHG Board, officer, and staff member conflict of interest statements are to be published annually and updated as necessary. Click on the following link for a PDF of the signed statements:  Board Statements.pdf Please feel free to contact any Board member with any questions or concerns. Your SoHG Board.

Dear Members, The Society of Hickory Golfers will annually publish a budget statement on this Members Only portion of the website. Please feel free to contact any one of the Board members with any questions or concerns. The budget may be found by clicking on the following link: SoHG 2014 Budget.pdf

With the sureness of a new hickory devotee learning what a James Braid approaching cleek was really meant to do, golf’s best writers are getting close to the heart of what hickory golf is all about; at least, when they care to write about hickory golf at all. Thankfully, one of the best in the business today, Curt Sampson, does […]

You never know just where an article on hickory golf is going to show up. Check out the latest from the editors fo Gun & Garden magazine, which has a large circulation in the southern U.S. Here’s the link: 123456

The Temple Terrace Golf and Country Club, site of the 2014 U.S. Professional Hickory Championship.    In Florida, the annual U.S. Professional Hickory Championship is the only hickory golf event of which we are aware that is staged for golf professionals only. Organized by Mike Stevens, executive director of the Professional Hickory Golfers Association, the 2014 event will feature a […]

ESSENTIALS AND OTHER ITEMS    I was educated to be an accountant. Many years later, I discovered I had become a master carpenter.  While my vocation is that of someone who builds, my avocation is that of a restorer of sorts. Repairing hickory golf clubs and seeing or hearing the reaction of the customer upon the return of his or her […]

“At home on the range.” Such is the invitation to this unusual website that dedicates its being to the essence of golf on unmanicured, rough and tumble courses, more pasture than pristine country club. Bruce Manclark in Goldendale, Wash., looks after the site. While we may differ a bit on his take of golf’s early history – “it was the […]