HICKORY GOLF NEWS

Precision is a word that aptly applies to Dr. David Brown, owner of McIntyre Golf Company, the leading manufacturer of replica golf balls in the world. (He even plays Nicoll Precision irons from the mid-1910s.) An orthopedic surgeon by training, specializing in knees and overall sports medicine, he meticulously crafts gutta percha balls, brambles, mesh pattern and small dimple balls appropriate […]

SoHG member Michael cruz is only 10-years-old, but he already know his way around a set of hickory golf clubs. Journalist Lyndi McNulty of the Carroll County Times posted a story on the young hickory player in the March 12, online edition of The Baltimore Times’ Carroll County Times. It’s a nice story on young Mr. Cruz and we hope […]

March 30, 2022 The NBC/Golf Channel recently visited the Mission Inn Resort, site of the 2022 U.S. Hickory Open, to film 10 episodes for one of its top shows, The Golf Fix. The host, Devan Bonebrake, and the NBC creative team  had many wonderful comments about Mission Inn’s  beautiful property, practice facilities and courses. For those of you planning to […]

Oct. 18 Prestwick GC Prestwick, Scotland Not strictly a hickory golf tournament, this is nonetheless an extraordinary opportunity for hickory golf over an historic layout in commemoration of the 150th playing of the Open Championship. Golf travel company Scottsdale Collection has negotiated an exclusive Prestwick VIP Day on Oct. 18, 2022, for 36 golfers to recreate golfing history and walk in […]

March 4, 2022Ken Holtz, host of the Arizona Desert Hickory Classic, reports: On Feb. 26-27, 98 players celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Arizona Desert Hickory Classic in Sun City West, Ariz. Equipped with vintage equipment, and attired in knickers, argyle socks, woolen caps and vintage outfits, they challenged Grandview & Pebblebrook Golf Courses in grand style over a two-day […]

Feb. 24, 2022 Douglas W. Marshall, of London, Ont., Canada, member and past president of the Golf Historical Society of Canada, member of the Society of Hickory Golfers and the Golf Heritage Society, passed away at Victoria Hospital of complications from pneumonia on Feb. 23, 2022. He was 85. Born in Niagara Falls, Mr. Marshall was a familiar face at hickory […]

Feb. 22, 2022 It was a competitive field for the 2022 U.S. Professional Hickory Golf Championship on Monday, Feb. 21. Daytona professional Thomas Garnier carded a fine 73 to have his name affixed to the John Shippen Cup dedicated to America’s first golf pro. The Oscar Bunn trophy goes to Eddie Peckels of Winter Springs who also recorded a 73. […]

Feb. 9, 2022 Since about 1990 until around 2016 or so, Randy Jensen of Omaha, Neb., won darn near every hickory tournament he entered – multiple early Golf Collectors Society national championships, several National Hickory Championship titles and goodness know how many others. One magazine called him “The Hickory Tiger.” Randy recently shared a note about a very special trip […]

Edward Ronco, 72, of Wyandotte, Mich., passed away unexpectedly Feb. 5, 2022. He was a past president the SoHG (2019) and former board member for Region 5 of the Golf Heritage Society. Along with three others, he was a founding officer of the Wyandotte Hickory Organization in 2010. A service will be held at St. Patrick church in Wyandotte at […]

  By Rick Adams Picture this idyllic scene: the snow-draped Alps, a vivid blue sky, cross-country skiers tracking past, dogs frolicking, parents tugging children on sleds, a line of horse-drawn sleighs, the occasional helicopter flying overhead, a neo-romantic stone castle guarding the territory … and golfers trying to balance on slippery packed snow while steering orange golf balls toward distant […]

Jan. 30, 2022 It was a chilly, rainy Florida that greeted this year’s Winter Park Hickory Classic participants. Just their luck as cold weather that was affecting the entire rest of the country thought it might as well dip south and give the Sunshine State residents a slight taste of what their northern neighbors were getting; albeit, nearly 50 degrees […]

Hickory golf events grow out of passion, desire to share time with friends, and to challenge the old sticks on traditional, or mostly so, layouts. In the following short piece, Wisconsin’s Jim ‘Wally’ Koss describes the origins of one such event in the great Dairy State. I started playing hickory in 2014. At that time, our Wisconsin clan was looking […]

Jan. 17, 2022 Pete Georgiady, host, founder, and organizer of the now 25-year-old National Hickory Championship has announced that the 2022 edition will be at the Foxburg Country Club in Foxburg, Pa. It is scheduled for June 2-4. “Better late than never,” Georgiady said of the announcement. He had been working with the club, and other venues, to nail down […]

Hickory golf: an adventure for epicureans This profile originally appeared on RedBull.com – https://www.redbull.com/ch-fr/hickory-golf-une-aventure-pour-%C3%A9picuriens?fbclid=IwAR2ypaA1hRwKp1OD0uGvg2evK6hZvL2BvqhKllJLKETPm4GLfepBWkPc3xA January 2022 – Switzerland’s Andi Ahlm is a mathematician, founder of a fintech start-up – passionate about hickory golf. Whether working or pursuing his talent, the same philosophy guides him: for something to work, you don’t always need the latest in novelty and the pinnacle of […]

  Look out for plus fours and flat caps – the World Hickory Open is coming to the Highlands By John Ross Reprinted by permission from the Press and Journal, Evening Express – Aberdeen Journals Ltd. Scotland For many golfers, the latest equipment is key to improving their game with the hope of increasing power, distance and accuracy. But there […]