June 16, 2015
By Pete Georgiady Thanks for All the Help! First, a big thanks to the Greenbrier for hosting the 18th National Hickory Championship. Golf Manager Burt Baine has been extremely helpful in the planning for this event and Doug Fox has put in long hours and done a fantastic job of being our venue manager. Hats off to both […]
June 8, 2015
The happy group for the 2015 Polish Hickory Championship. Martin Panosh reports: From 4th to 7th June 2015 the Polish Hickory Championship took place 25 km north of Warsaw at the First Warsaw Golf & Country Club. A challenging course, which was several times venue of the Challenge Tour. Designed in 1989 by the Swede, Jan Sederholm, one finds the […]
June 3, 2015
Wisconsin Gutty Challenge and Eagle Springs Golf Course were pefect for a new gutty event. Faced with scant planning time and an immovable date of Memorial Day weekend, Greg Smith took the reins, organized his team and planned a great, challenging, fun event that is destined to become the fastest growing gutty event in the USA. In addition to six […]
May 24, 2015
Contestants and caddies of The Chambers Bay Hickory Open complete with Scottish bagpipes.(Photo by Jen Trovesi Photography) Amateur Austin Beatty of Mill Creek, Calif., managed to avoid the trials of round-shattering rough to win the inaugural Chambers Bay Hickory Open. Held on May 24, just weeks before the 115th U.S. Open, the event gave 48 hickory players from around the […]
May 21, 2015
The 2015 World Hickory Match Play Championship is in the books. Ben Hollerbach of Chamblee, Ga., came through tough competition to earn the 2015 Championship Division title. He is pictured at right, receiving the Champions Trophy from Brian Schuman, event founder and host. Philadelphia treated us to some magnificent weather for the final day, with cool temperatures in […]
May 19, 2015
First, second, and third place finishers at the inaugural Philadelphia Hickory Open – Jeremy Moe (left), Bill Geisler, and Jeff Schmidt. Sixteen players met to debut the Philadelphia Hickory Open on the Jeffersonville Golf Club. Host Ari Flaisher said that the Donald Ross-designed course “was a delightful host course that was greatly enjoyed for its kind walk, interesting greens, […]
May 15, 2015
The Swift Cup Matches, over March 26-28 at the Onion Creek Club in Austin, Texas, topped the 60 player mark for the first time. Pete League, the Region 4 director for the Golf Collector Society, which helps to sponsor and host the event, sent along a great report. It’s in PDF format, which you can see by clicking on the […]
May 13, 2015
Play on the Irish Course at Whistling Straits over May 8-9. It was a Great Lakes Hickory Team Challenge. Hickory players from around the Great Lakes – 12 from Michigan, seven from Illinois, 19 from Wisconsin and one from Minnesota – gathered at the famed Whistling Straits Course in Kohler, Wisc., home of the 2016 PGA Championship […]
May 7, 2015
2015 Apple City Winners:Back row: Kris Surano (Senior gross), Michael Scott (2nd Place). Front row: Stacy Brown (Net Champion, modern), John Sweeney (Apple City Hickory Champion). The 15th annual Apple City Amateur and Hickory Open was played May 2-3 on the Pajaro Valley Golf Club & Spring Hills Golf Course. It was a pretty special day for John Sweeney, who […]