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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The following two articles were prepared and published for the Butler Eagle, the paper of record for the Butler, Pa., area. They describe the 2021 Foxburg Hickory Championship held in nearby Foxburg, Pa. HICKORY ROUND Golf tournament features pre-1900 rules, clubs to preserve tradition John EnriettoEagle Staff Writer August 12, 2021 Amateur Golf  FOXBURG — When it comes to hosting a historical […]

Jeff Shelley has been writing about golf for more than three decades. Hickory golf was bound to make an appearance somewhere along the line. Shelley recently posted an account of the modern hickory game in the September 2021 edition of Golf Course Trades magazine. In the writing of the article, Shelley talked with hickory golfers from around the country, from […]

July 21, 2021 Bob Glass had kept an eye on the weather reports, but there was nothing he could do. A perfect deluge of rain that swept across the Midwest had a special inaugural hickory golf outing at Clearview Golf Course in doubt. The hard rain departed in time, but it left the course in a waterlogged, walking-only condition. No […]

July 2, 2021 The Florida Hickory Golfers recently made a trip to The Villages in Florida, about 50 miles northwest of Orland0. A dedicated retirement community, The Villages famously offers a wealth of recreational and social opportunities for its residents. You may now add hickory golf to the list, not officially, but with this golf outing an introduction has been […]

The Louisville Golf Company is the subject of a video produced by brokerage firm Charles Schwab. The video premiered on June 2, 2021.  Schwab’s videos are part of its “Challengers” series that focuses on people and companies who “challenge, engage and succeed. The Louisville Golf video interviews owner Jeremy Wright and three of the Just brothers who help produce the […]