August 1, 2011
The 2011 All American Hickory Open concluded on Saturday, July 23 at the Downers Grove Golf Club in Chicago. Organizer Connor Lewis called it a “tremendous success.” Record heat continued to dominate as it did during the U.S. Hickory Open. Chicago recorded the hottest day in its history – 112 F – during the practice rounds. Then, Mother Nature dropped […]
The 2011 German Hickory participants. From left: Britta Nord, Sabine Oelmann, Ingrid Wolf-Hayn, Perry Somers, Miep Eussen, Christoph Meister, Boris Lietzow, Kuno Schuch, Petra Dudzus, Harry Altmann, Sofia Lelakowska and Iain Forrester. The German Hickory Championship 2011 was played on Sunday, July 31 at historic Bad Wildungen Golf-Club in Central Germany. The course was designed in 1930 by Charles […]
July 14, 2011
To say that Alan Grieve has a passion for hickory clubs is an understatement. The Queensland Australian native was the first person to sign up for the U.S. Hickory Open Championship and traveled more than 36 hours and nearly 10,000 miles to participate in the event at French Lick Resort in southern Indiana. The 39-year-old captured his first hickory championship […]
July 11, 2011
On July 2, the 2011 Finnish Hickory Championship was held at Pickala Golf Club, about 35 km west of Helsinki. Antti Paatola tells us that a small but strong Swedish team swept almost all the honors. Jörgen Isberg won with a 77, eight shots clear of second place. As Jörgen also had the best net results, he also won the Finnish […]
June 30, 2011
The 2011 National Hickory Championship fielded more than 60 players June 8-9 who enjoyed fine weather and good play on the historic Oakhurst Links in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. The course was dry and hard with temperatures in the low 80s (F), reports NHC Director Peter Geordiady. Bobby Sly of Kingston, Ont., took the Kameika Cup for a second time […]
The 2011 Belvedere Hickory Open was nearly washed away as a slow moving low pressure system decided that Charlevoix, Mich., would be its home for a two-week vacation. Rain fell in buckets. Flooding was severe on several holes of the front nine, causing Belvedere pro Dennis Joy to remark that he had never seen his beloved course under so much […]
June 13, 2011
The first international Austrian Hickory Championship 2011 was played on Austria’s historic Golf-Club Salzkammergut. The club commemorated it’s 75th anniversary three years ago with a visiting delegation from the British Golf Collectors Society resp. the European Association of Golf Historians & Collectors playing the course with hickory shafted golf clubs and bringing the idea of hickory golf back to the […]
June 10, 2011
Also at the event was a representative from Seven Days “Vermont’s Independent Voice” newspaper. Reporter Eva Sollberger had great fun assembling the YouTube video show on the News page of the website. It was clear she enjoyed her time with the players.. and who wouldn’t? They’re a great bunch of people every one. No wonder they have so much fun […]
June 6, 2011
On June 2, 52 players came together at Germany’s oldest still existing golf club, the Golf- und Landclub Berlin-Wannsee (founded 1895 as Berlin Golf Club) to play an 18-hole greensome using only original pre-1935 hickory shafted golf clubs. At stake was the the Miller trophy, donated by the German Society of Periodontology commemorating Willoughby Dayton Miller, the first president of Berlin […]