August 3, 2022
Rick Adams reports: The 10th Swiss Hickory Open golf championship, July 29-30, lured participants from throughout the Alpine nation, as well as hickory aficionados from neighboring countries Germany and France. A contingent from the Hickory Society Cologne journeyed nearly 700 km (about 7 hours by car) from the central German city to the Swiss event site in Aigle on the shores […]
August 1, 2022
July 31, 2022 Jared Paletti reports: “Proving that old dogs still know how to hunt, two of the Founding Fathers of the Metropolitan Hickory Society took honors at our 11th annual Nickel and Dime in mid-July at Ridgewood Country Club in northern New Jersey. Out of the field of 16 competitors, Brian Schuman, a co-founder of the Metropolitan Hickory Society, took low gross followed by […]
July 25, 2022 Rob Ahlschede reports: Lyle Rowland’s ace on No. 15 was the tournament highlight for this year’s Gearhart Hickory Classic, an accomplishment that earns him admission to our hickory Dodo Club for such feats. The 2022 Classic was treated to great weather, great play, and great times together for nearly 50 hickory players. True to Gearhart, day two began with […]
July 24, 2022
MacDuff reports on the 2022 playing of the Keeper of the Spirit Gutty Challenge: Tom Johnson, who hosts the annual Foxburg Hickory Championship, likes to say that pre-1900, or what is called gutta percha golf, is “The hardest golf you will ever play, but it’s the most fun you will have.” The hardest? Well, the jury may still be out […]
July 16, 2022
The second iteration of the Lake Sunapee CC Hickory Classic on July 14 in New London. N.H., went very well, with 23 golfers hailing from Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and other New England states. The course was in buff, beautiful shape. Jeff Blomstedt of Massachusetts and Sam Webster of Annapolis, Md., won with 28 Stableford points. They were followed by […]
July 15, 2022
Results for the July 2022 White Mts Hickory Open, Bretton Woods NH. We had a gorgeous day in Bretton Woods, N.H. this past July at the Omni Mt Washington resort for the 5th annual White Mountains Hickory Open. It is a spectacular spot with a lot of history. Jack Crosby of Concord, Mass., and Bill ‘Wardy’ Wardwell of Turners Falls, […]
July 11, 2022
Duane Baylor reports: The 45th playing of the Heart of America was played July 8-10 in Des Moines, Iowa, at Bright Grandview GC. Originally organized by Warren Olson, the event draws players from around the Midwest and beyond. The chief host is the Hickory Golf Association with friends and assistance from both the Golf Heritage Society and the Society of […]
June 30, 2022
Northern Michigan’s beautiful Charlevoix region was the perfect spot for hickory golf June 16-18 and the players at the 2022 Belvedere Hickory Open took full advantage. Blue skies, sunny weather and lovely temperatures greeted the field. Rick Woeckener, who won the U.S. Hickory Open on this course in 2019, finds the 1925 William Watson-designed course suits his game to a […]
Rich Schmidt, Captain of the Carolina Hickory Golf Association, reports on the second annual CHGA Open Championship. Our 2022 championship was contested June 23-24 on the sporty 9-hole Tryon Country Club course. Players go around twice, and play two different greens on hole No. 5 /15 – straightaway the first time, and on the second, a sharp dogleg right over […]