HICKORY GOLF NEWS

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 […]

The little nine-hole course built in 1884 by Russell Montague, the original owner, was created as a treat for himself and friends. They played the first competition over their links in 1888. The medal still exists. It was the first golf competition in the country, we are told. Montague and his golf buds enjoyed the course for years, but as […]

   It has been noted that the earliest golf clubs did not have grips. Gentlemen golfers would simply wear gloves to protect their hands from the exposed wood and to ensure an element of friction to protect their investment from “flying off the handle” so to speak. To conjure up the notion of what these early golfers looked like we […]

As many of you know, the SoHG has been working on a new Ryder Cup format tournament for the past few years. The inaugural tournament, tentatively titled “The SoHG International Hickory Cup”, is scheduled for October 2014, immediately after the World Hickory Open. It will pit a North American Team against a World Hickory select team. North American SoHG players […]

 Editor’s note: Although Rick wrote this piece in late October, it has been saved to coincide with the article about the same event in the recent Wee Nip. Thanks for your contribution, Rick!    In February of this year, what started out as simply a trip to play the World Hickory Open and experience Scotland for six SOHG members, turned […]

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. […]