HICKORY GOLF NEWS

Opinion It seems for as long as golf has been played, its tools, ie. sticks and balls, have come under scrutiny. Improvement is always paramount in the golfer’s mind. So it is with the providers of the tools. How to make them better? The long evolution in the club has brought it from rude clubs to highly wrought miracles of […]

   As part of its 25-year celebration next year, the Golf Historical Society of Canada plans a four-day celebration in Quebec. It includes golf at two superb Willie Park Jr. designs – Mount Bruno in Montreal and Royal Quebec in Quebec City.     Royal Quebec (pictured at right), founded in 1873, is the second oldest golf club in North America. […]

Roger Andrews is the 2012 Championship Series title holder.   Max Hollon is the 2012 Championship Series Senior title holder.   The season ending Mid Pines event at Southern Pines, N.C. experienced one of the largest hickory golf fields to date, perhaps a record for this type of event outside earlier GCS nationals which may have come close, if not […]

Bill “Lang Willie” Engelson is one of the familiar faces in hickory golf, especially around the Pinehurst area and in North Carolina generally where he helped found the Carolina Hickory Golf Association. He also finds time to manage the group’s website. For more than three years, Bill served on the board of the SoHG as an equipment, tournament and handicap […]

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123456 Though his site is oriented to the U.K., Lorne Smith has created a web site devoted to helping golfers discover the “joy to be alive” element that special courses evoke in us. Smith notes that Fine Golf has a threefold purpose: To raise the profile of the “running game” vs. target golf; to encourage support of greenskeeping according to […]

www.oldbandongolflinks.com Before Bandon Dunes was a gleam in Mike Kaiser’s eye, there was the Old Bandon Golf Links. Built in 1926 by Lee Smith, it was then known as Westmost Golf Course. The little 9-holer has been refurbished for play by Troy Russell, a man who knows a thing or two about course construction and maintenance. The course had gone […]

There is a harmony In Autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which thro’ the Summer is not heard or seen. P.B. Shelley, Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, 1816   Autumn Golf By MacDuff As it must, fall approaches. Though I wish it would hold off just a few more weeks. I feel certain that I am on the brink of […]

Wisconsin’s finest hickory players, here gathered for the Cherokee CC match, are forming a hickory players association. They have issued a challenge to neighboring Midwest states for hickory matches. Any takers?   On Saturday, Sept. 15, eight hickory players from Ridgeway CC in Neenah, Wisc. visited Madison, Wisc. for a hickory golf match with seven players from Cherokee CC. The […]

2012 Gutty Slam Results    On Friday, Sept. 7, the final rounds of the 2012 Gutty Slam were played at historic Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Course, in Ontario, Canada.      In order to qualify for the finale, a player must have participated in at least two of the other three gutty golf events – the All American Hickory Open played at […]

Hickory courses we love to play The Warren Golf Course South Bend, Ind. 123456   The Warren Golf Course at Notre Dame was designed by Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore. It’s the course of the University of Notre Dame and is not shy to describe how they feel Coore and Crenshaw, calling them “arguably the greatest golf architects of the […]

Links to ExploreAncient Golf 123456   This site is maintained by Geert and Sara Nijs, independent sports historians from the Netherlands. It focuses on ancient “stick and ball” games, the predecessors of golf. There are headings for colf/kolf,  jeu de crosse (choule), jeu de mail (pall mall) and their relation to the Scottish game of golf. The couple, according to […]

“As dogs to wanton boys are we to the golf gods, they tease us for their sport.”Paraphrasing the great Shakespeare, from King Lear There is, in this wonderful game we love, room for everyone. It is a democratic pastime that denies no one the opportunity for embarrassment or, equally, ecstatic triumph. From ragged caddies to silver spoons, public links rats […]

“Hickory golf is a challenging sport. If you don’t like the challenge, go take up putt putt golf.” Ralph Livingston III was nothing if not passionately devoted to the game he embraced in the early 90s. His research into authentic hickory equipment and their relationship with the golf course architecture of the time led to ground-breaking theories of the game’s […]

Alabama’s Highland Park Golf Course is the home of Tad Moore’s Southern 4-Ball Hickory Championship. It’s been a popular choice as some 70 players were in the field for the 2012 contest. So, why do they like it so much? The course, the oldest in Alabama, was established in 1903 as the Country Club of Birmingham. The country club had […]