November 15, 2013
The 10th annual Mid Pines Hickory Open fielded some 112 competitors who challenged the newly restored Mid Pines Course in Southern Pines, N.C. All of them faced newly built and restored greens that rejected balls like a giant shooing away flies. Nothing could land and remain put. The best of us figured it out, however, and played safe to the […]
October 6, 2013
2013 CCJ Hickory Golf Association Club Championship Until his passing in 1859, Alan Robertson of St. Andrews Golf Links was considered the finest player in all of golf. It is generally accepted the he never lost a match for money in his storied career. The next year, at the urging of Robertson’s former assistant, Tom Morris, Sr., the members […]
September 25, 2013
The 4th annual Virginia Hickory 4-Ball Championship was held on Sept. 20-22 at Fredericksburg Country Club in historic Fredericksburg, Va. Eighteen hickory players took on the Fredericksburg course, founded in 1925 on a southern plantation. The tournament was a modified Stableford, awarding points for the different scores on each hole. Friday’s practice round was followed by a cocktail party/club swap […]
THE WILLIE PARK JR. ADVENTURE – A SUMMARY What was intended to become a tournament and walk through the history of early golf in French Canada in the end became a memorable golf trip for 10 avid hickory golf historians. Guided by locals Claude Gravel and Jocelyn Vachon and Denzil Palmer, General Secretary of Royal Montreal Golf Club we spent […]
September 17, 2013
On Sept. 13-14, golfers from around the Midwest and further visited the Hyperion Field Club in Johnston, Iowa for the Iowa Hickory Classic, hosted by the Hickory Golf Association. Hyperion is a private club established in 1900. Tom Bendelow was contracted in 1910 to design the present day course. The participants enjoyed a swap meet/trade show and a […]
September 13, 2013
I have raised a monument more lasting than brazen statues, and higher than the royal pyramids, a monument which shall not be destroyed by the wasting rain, the fury of the north wind, or the flight of ages.Horace: Carmina III, c. 20 BC How fleet is fame. How invigorating the laurel, but how fickle the adulation. This year’s champion […]
September 11, 2013
The 2013 Charles Blair Macdonald Challenge and the Eastern Canadian Hickory Championship were played over the historic Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club, Sept. 6-8. The course is the oldest golf course in North America on its original site (1875). The event is unique in that it is the only tournament in North America where the contestants play with both pre-1900 and post-1900 […]
August 26, 2013
Second annual Michiana Hickory Open finding a great home at Warren Golf Course The second annual Michiana Hickory Open was hotly contested on the Warren Golf Course at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. on Saturday, Aug. 24. Thirty-two intrepid golfers from five Midwestern states, an increase of seven from last year, challenged the Coore-Crenshaw links style […]
August 18, 2013
Players of the Fourth annual Kummel Cup, a Midwestern hickory classic. Wisconsin Hickory Kummel Cup at Lawsonia Links Aug. 16-18 brought beautiful weather to the Green Lake, Wisc. area. Of course. These were the dates of the Fourth annual Kummel Cup Wisconsin Hickory Challenge. The weather is figured in. The wonderful Lawsonia Links is the venue for […]