HICKORY GOLF NEWS

While at the early November hickory outing in Southern Pines at the Mid Pines resort, Mitch Laurance took the time to record four radio shows. Many of the guests were SoHG members, as well as the Golf Collectors Society. You can catch the shows and the interviews at the following link: Hooked on Hickories from Mid Pines. Thanks Mitch! Great […]

Our wills and fates do so contrary runThat our devices still are overthrown;Our thoughts are ours, our ends none of our    own.Shakespeare: Hamlet, III, c. 1601    Golfers, as a tribe, are a hopeful lot, the eternal well of which springs anew on every tee. Regardless of the triumphs or disasters of any previous hole, there is a new beginning […]

   Immediately following the Mid Pines Hickory Open, several members of your Board were at work in an adjacent meeting room to determine the overall Championship Series winners. They were hard put to do so in a timely manner, knowing as they did that the banquet was ongoing nearby. In addition, final CS results were held up until the Mid […]

Follow the link below to see the YouTube video, including a few words from Lionel Freedman.   GW Inside The Game: World Hickory Open

Fine Golf is a website that was created to promote the “running game,” that style of golf that approaches greens along the ground. It espouses a natural approach to greenkeeing, and a style of play that promotes creativity on courses that are not preeminently fair, rather that follow the natural lay of the land and mostly dry, bumpy and running. […]

  Your Society has been planning an international match with an European team for nearly a year. The inaugural event is to take place in conjunction with the World Hickory Open in 2014. David Brown of Omaha, Neb. has been selected to Captain the North American team. David Kirkwood, current Captain of the British Golf Collectors Society, and five-time Captain […]

   Brian Schuman, that indefatigable hickory golf entrepreneur, has announced that the U.S. Hickory Players Club and the Metropolitan Hickory Society have combined forces to create a World Hickory Match Play Championship.   The inaugural event is scheduled for June 2014 at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, site of the 1907 and 1910 U.S. Open Championships. The field will be limited to […]

Around the nation, hickory golfers hone their skills for the fifth and final leg of the U.S. hickory championship to be held in November at the Mid Pines golf course. Anticipation would be high in any year but there is a new twist for 2013. The course amid the North Carolina sandhills so loved by hickory wielders has been re-done […]

West Links Road Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland, EH31 2BB 44 (0) 1620 842 255 www.gullanegolfclub.com/ From Golf Courses of the British Isles (1910), Bernard Darwin writes of Gullane “There is probably no other golfing centre that is quite so good as Gullane, in the East Lothian.” He added that the turf there is the “finest, smoothest and most delicate that […]

Paolo Quirici, winner of the World Hickory Open 2013.Photo courtesy of www.carnoustiecountry.com.    After three days of top-class hickory golf on two historic Carnoustie golf courses, the World Hickory Open 2013 was won by Swiss golf professional Paolo Quirici.   “What a highly enjoyable event,” said Quirici, who only took up hickory golf two years ago.  “It was like going back in […]

   Lionel Freedman, far left, front row, stands next to Brian Schuman. Rick Woeckner holds the Cup won by the Team USA.    Team USA won the cup at the Grand Hickory Match, on Tuesday, Oct. 1, with a score of 16-12. The event was held following the World Hickory Open, Oct. 1-2, at Carnoustie, Scotland. Team USA member Rick […]

Click on the following link to be connected to the “Hooked on Hickories” web page. Scroll down to the bottom of the show’s synopsis to listen to the show itself. Lionel Freedman on Hooked on Hickories

   Thanks to everyone who participated in the survey as your comments/feedback will help the tournament organizers do their very best to create the kind of event that is fun and challenging for all, from high-level players to those who just want to come out and have a bit of fun in a great tournament atmosphere.   There was a high […]

The Pines Course Par 73 7,403 Yards Architect: Graham Marsh Semi-Private – opened in 2010 – Visit The Prairie Club website for additional information. The Prairie Club is an impressive new golf destination in the Sand Hills of western Nebraska. The land at the club is very diverse as the rolling open prairie meets the majestic Snake River Canyon. There […]

Led by Brian Schuman and Rick Woeckener, 15 U.S. hickory players plan a fall adventure to Scotland for a bit of golf with a patriotic flair. The team of 15 players (so far) has coordinated with Lionel Freedman, the SoHG’s English International ambassador, to arrange a series of international matches built around the World Hickory Open, Oct. 1-2, on the […]