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Local media enjoys Foxburg Hickory Championship
August 20, 2020

It’s always fun when the local media of any particular tournament picks up on an event. Local journalists approach such stories gleefully, without the jaded perspective of larger and national news outlets. So it was great fun to read about the 12th annual Foxburg Hickory Championship in the Clarion News this past August. Click here to see the story, and […]

Tad Moore, Florida Hickory Golfers featured in Golf Central Magazine
August 10, 2020

He does make a dandy golf club, does Tad Moore. The folks at Golf Central Magazine think so, too, featuring the award-winning club maker in its Vol. 21 Issue/2 edition. Also featured are the Florida Hickory Golfers and their burgeoning partnership with the Florida State Golf Association. Hickory events will now be offered and promoted through the Sunshine State’s premier […]

Mike Hobson – The Hickory Guru of The Villages
July 16, 2020

July 15, 2020 – The Villages, Florida Bound to happen. Hickory golf is just too much fun and in a place like The Villages, Florida’s famed retirement community, it was sure to find a home at some point. Jeff Shain, a senior writer for The Daily Sun, the Village’s news leader, learned of Mike Hobson, a retiree from Virginia, who […]

Pastor Gillespie preaching hickory gospel in Kansas City
June 15, 2020

SoHG member John Gillespie is a pastor at the Westbrook Church in Overland Park, Kansas. When time allows, the good pastor is often on the local golf courses with his favorite bag of hickories. Somehow, word of his game got to the newsroom of KCTV5, Kansas City’s news leader. Sports Producer Neal Jones filed a report on the “retro” game […]

Florida State Golf Association teams up with Florida Hickory Golfers
May 1, 2020

May 1, 2020 There’s good news for hickory golfers, indeed, all golfers, in the Sunshine State. The Florida State Golf Association has entered into a partnership with the Florida Hickory Golfers, led by Mike Stevens. The FSGA plans to add a portal to its website for golfers to explore hickory golf through the FSG. Click here to read the news […]

No golf, no problem – Kansas City father-son duo make music for area residents
April 9, 2020

Kansas City Area Hickory Golf members Mike Needleman and son, Mikey, had high hopes of playing together at the hickory group’s inaugural Match Play Tournament this April. But just as several other events have had to cancel due to the coronavirus, so, too, Kansas, and the father and son duo must wait until next year to test their hickory play […]

2021 USHO announced for Oregon’s Gearhart Golf Links
March 8, 2020

SEATTLE, WASH. – The Society of Hickory Golfers (SoHG) has announced that the 2021 U.S. Hickory Open (USHO) will be held Sept. 12-14 at the historic Gearhart Golf Links (1892) in Gearhart, Ore. It will mark the 14 playing of the  premier hickory golf tournament in the United States, presented each year by the SoHG. This marks only the second […]

Winter Park Hickory Classic in GolfWeek and other media
February 29, 2020

The recent Winter Park Hickory Classic was a welcome note for an early winter hickory golf outing. The inaugural event drew praise from all contestants as well as GolfWeek correspondent Jason Lusk who was on hand with a photographer to cover a hickory golf outing. He liked what he saw. Lusk’s story, titled “Straight from the heart of hickory,” was […]

World of Hickory – 2019
December 18, 2019

December 17, 2019 The report attached here is a summary of, not all, but of very many world-wide hickory outings from 2019. They range from modest hickory golf meetings attended by a dozen friends, to near 100 or more at annual events that have grown in stature over these past two dozen years. Each is growing into its own character […]

Randy Jensen, SoHG co-founder, honored with 2019 Mike Brown Award
November 22, 2019

By Jim DavisNov. 21, 2019 – Randy Jensen, a co-founder of the Society of Hickory Golfers, hickory golf champion, and golf club expert, was named the 2019 Mike Brown Award recipient at the Mid Pines Hickory Open. Though Jensen could not be present, his good friend, Rob Ahlschwede, accepted the award on his behalf. “I am very honored to be […]