August 25, 2022
The 2022 Canadian Hickory Open, held Aug. 10-12 at the ever popular Legends Golf & Country Club was another splendid event. Some 88 players from several states below the border and throughout Canada traveled to experience the fun and competition, and the legendary hospitality of hosts Ron Lyons and Eddie Chan. None were disappointed. The Open Division was won for […]
August 20, 2022
Bill Martin reports: Gents, Most of us who pursue the roots of golf in America tend to look for unique experiences. Inwood CC this past Wednesday, Aug. 17, certainly provided a truly unique day. Home to the 2023 U. S. Hickory Open, Inwood CC provided a preview to what those who are privileged to attend next year will surely remember as […]
August 18, 2022
Andrew Von Lossow, the 2021 U.S. Hickory Open champion has always been a very good golfer, hickories or no. And we know him for his stellar play in both the USHO and several events around the U.S. Northwest where he, and his father, Jim, are members of the Northwest Hickory Players. But at this year’s U.S. Amateur, Von Lossow is […]
August 16, 2022
The wandering field correspondent, MacDuff, somehow found his way into the competition at Foxburg and filed the following report. August 2022By MacDuff There are many hickory golf tournaments, but few are hosted with such passion and emotion as the Foxburg Hickory Championship. It is Tom Johnson’s passion that drives this sweetly elegant hickory golf event, a gutty golf event, over […]
The 2022 Foxburg Hickory Championship concluded on Saturday, Aug. 13. Tournament host Tom Johnson sends us this report: “Just wonderful…” were the sentiments 40 participants and 20 guests expressed at the close of the 14th annual Foxburg Hickory Championship. Weather conditions were absolutely wonderful, the food was wonderful, the golf course was wonderful, and the play was spirited on a […]
August 9, 2022
In early August the Michigan Hickory Tour made its annual stop in the Toledo, Ohio, area for an event hosted by Bill Tucholski and Tim Stroshine. This year, a staffer from the Bowling Green Sentinel-Tribune was there to take it all in. The brief report and video below were filed by J.D. Pooley for the newspaper…. The Michigan Hickory Golf […]
August 3, 2022
Rick Adams reports: The 10th Swiss Hickory Open golf championship, July 29-30, lured participants from throughout the Alpine nation, as well as hickory aficionados from neighboring countries Germany and France. A contingent from the Hickory Society Cologne journeyed nearly 700 km (about 7 hours by car) from the central German city to the Swiss event site in Aigle on the shores […]
August 1, 2022
July 31, 2022 Jared Paletti reports: “Proving that old dogs still know how to hunt, two of the Founding Fathers of the Metropolitan Hickory Society took honors at our 11th annual Nickel and Dime in mid-July at Ridgewood Country Club in northern New Jersey. Out of the field of 16 competitors, Brian Schuman, a co-founder of the Metropolitan Hickory Society, took low gross followed by […]
July 25, 2022 Rob Ahlschede reports: Lyle Rowland’s ace on No. 15 was the tournament highlight for this year’s Gearhart Hickory Classic, an accomplishment that earns him admission to our hickory Dodo Club for such feats. The 2022 Classic was treated to great weather, great play, and great times together for nearly 50 hickory players. True to Gearhart, day two began with […]
July 24, 2022
MacDuff reports on the 2022 playing of the Keeper of the Spirit Gutty Challenge: Tom Johnson, who hosts the annual Foxburg Hickory Championship, likes to say that pre-1900, or what is called gutta percha golf, is “The hardest golf you will ever play, but it’s the most fun you will have.” The hardest? Well, the jury may still be out […]
July 11, 2022
Duane Baylor reports: The 45th playing of the Heart of America was played July 8-10 in Des Moines, Iowa, at Bright Grandview GC. Originally organized by Warren Olson, the event draws players from around the Midwest and beyond. The chief host is the Hickory Golf Association with friends and assistance from both the Golf Heritage Society and the Society of […]
June 30, 2022
Northern Michigan’s beautiful Charlevoix region was the perfect spot for hickory golf June 16-18 and the players at the 2022 Belvedere Hickory Open took full advantage. Blue skies, sunny weather and lovely temperatures greeted the field. Rick Woeckener, who won the U.S. Hickory Open on this course in 2019, finds the 1925 William Watson-designed course suits his game to a […]
Rich Schmidt, Captain of the Carolina Hickory Golf Association, reports on the second annual CHGA Open Championship. Our 2022 championship was contested June 23-24 on the sporty 9-hole Tryon Country Club course. Players go around twice, and play two different greens on hole No. 5 /15 – straightaway the first time, and on the second, a sharp dogleg right over […]
June 28, 2022
June 28, 2022 This year’s Hickory Championship is over! The 2022 Championship was played at the Park Golf Club Ostrava, Šilheřovice, a unique course laid out in a Rothschild castle park among hundred-year-old trees. Despite unexpectedly small participation, it was successful in all aspects. Ideal weather, pitch in perfect condition (quite possibly the best I ever remember), amazing scenery of the […]
June 27, 2022
June 26, 2022Jacob Orcutt reports: A huge thank you and congratulations to the 29 hickory golfers (and two non-hickory golfers) who came out June 25 to compete in the second annual Smith-Collett Classic at Shennecossett Golf Course in Groton, Conn. The Donald Ross track presented a tough challenge for the entire field, with high temperatures and dry conditions making the […]
SoHG Housekeeping
The Autumn/Winter 2023 edition of A Wee Nip has been mailed to all members. A PDF has also been posted to the website. A Happy to New Year to everybody!ADVERTISE IN THE WEE NIP – Send your message to all SoHG members in the bi-annual magazine. Your ad also helps the SoHG. Click here for 2024 ad rates and information.
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Let us know about your hickory hole-in-one. Click here to check out reports from others who have managed this rare shot with a hickory club. Timothy Chenevert, of Baton Rouge, La., got his on the City Park Golf Course in late September.
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