HICKORY GOLF NEWS

  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 […]

The world certainly saw its challenges in 2021 –political strife, warfare, Covid, and climate change among them. We are very fortunate, this global hickory golf community, to face our challenges on fairways and greens. However else the great disturbances of the world might have touched us, at least many of us had an opportunity for a bit of peace with […]

  Dec. 14, 2021 Mike Stevens reports: The Florida Hickory Golfers concluded another successful season with our annual championships at Mount Dora Country Club on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 11, 12. Players were seeded based on their performance throughout the year and as expected, top seed Will Peterson coasted to a victory and retains the Stevens Trophy for another year. […]

SoHG board member, Robert Birman, was invited to talk about hickory golf on Golf Today, a flagship show of The Golf Channel, hosted by Damon Hack and Shane Bacon. The original air date was December 13, 2021. Images shown in the interview are from the Society’s 2021 U.S. Hickory Open at Gearhart Golf Links.  Interest in the game is growing […]

Dec. 5, 2021 Garrett Morrison from The Fried Egg Podcast featured the 2021 U.S. Hickory Open in the latest edition of Fried Egg Stories, a feature-length episode with interviews with sundry members at Gearhart Golf Links and a brief, post-round, interview with the 2021 champion, Andrew Von Lossow. Morrison, a resident of Oregon, spent the final day of the event […]

Dec. 1, 2021 Tiger Woods recent news conference broadcast on the PGA YouTube channel, was wide ranging, touching on a variety of topics, such as life after his car accident, getting back to golf, etc. But what caught the attention of many historic and hickory golf enthusiasts is his reference to old-time woods and feathery golf balls. Click here to […]

By Pete League The Onion Creek Hickory Classic in Austin, Texas, has annually increased its participation with the First Chapters in the area. This past March, the inaugural Texas First Tee Hickory Championship was held at the club.  The team from The First Tee of Dallas took home The Texas Cup, an antique bronze-with-silver-inlay trophy. Play was in two-person scrambles played […]

Rob Birman’s Plus Four Podcasts are up to nine episodes now. All are hickory-golf themed, with interviews that highlight everything from club repair, and regional hickory golf groups, to  the importance of golf history. The latest adds a little golf travel magic with SoHG members Deal Hudson of Lilburn, Ga., and Karl Nagy of Simpsonville, S.C., who describe a most […]

The committee of three on the Mike Brown Award are not to be envied. The current SoHG president and two previous award recipients are charged with selecting an award recipient from what is usually a list of half a dozen most worthy nominees, each of whom reflects, in his or her own way, the late namesake’s embodiment of friendship, dedication […]

With MacDuffSept. 25, 2021 It was late at the little pub in Whitehall. I had driven for about 10 hours before pulling up at a little inn nearby and wanted a nightcap before turning in. The place seemed friendly enough, several patrons at tables and the bar, but there was a kind of atmosphere. You can tell when you go […]

By Jim Davis The U.S. Hickory Open last visited the western U.S. in 2017 when it was held at the Del Monte Golf Club in Monterey, Calif. The 2021 version, the 14th playing of the tournament,  was held on the oldest course west of the Mississippi (1892), Gearhart Golf Links, in Gearhart, Ore. It was the first held in the […]

Carmen Sagarra and Paolo Quirici win 2021 Swiss Hickory Open Sept. 6, 2021 By Rick Adams Carmen Sagarra, playing from the Hittnau Golf & Country Club in eastern Switzerland, won the women’s division, and PGA teaching professional Paolo Quirici from Golf Club Lugano in the southern Ticino region won the men’s open division at the Swiss Hickory Open held at […]

Oct. 23 J.W. Buckland Hickory Trophy Links Course of the Cologne Golf Club Cologne, Germany  The Hickory Society Cologne is pleased to announce the inaugural J.W. Buckland Hickory Trophy, to be played as part of the Dutch Hickory Tour. Play will be in accordance with the official golf rules of the R&A Rules Limited, the betting rules of the DGV (unless […]

Bill “Ernie” Ernst reports: Marks, Burgland and Hackstock take top honors at the 10th annual Wisconsin Hickory Open, Aug. 26-28 at Lawsonia Golf course. The Wisc Hickory Open is in the books. Congratulations goes out to our cChampion, Aaron Marks, who on his first trip to Lawsonia found the secret to success.  A Colorado native, Aaron proved on two very […]

Petra Hellmann reports (translation by Christoph Meister): Playing golf as it was 100 years ago was on the agenda this past Aug. 13-15 at the Vechta-Welpe Golf Club some 80km south of Bremen. Forty-two participants from seven European countries and various German cities came to the county town to compete for the best player of 2021 at the 13th German […]