The Vermont Hickory Golf Association is pleased to announce that this year’s Vermont Hickory Open will be a two-day medal (stroke) play event featuring four divisions: the Open division (any age or gender), the Senior division, (60 years of age or older), the Statesmen division (70 years of age or older), and a Women’s division. Both low gross and low net in each division will be acknowledged. A division must have a minimum of four competitors for the low gross winner’s name to be engraved on the Vermont VHO trophy.

The 2024 VHO will return to the Brattleboro Country Club, in Brattleboro, Vt. The course is a mix of the original golf course design in 1914 by Tom McNamara, a three-time U.S. Open runner up, a redesign in 1930 by Wayne Stiles, and an expansion, with some re-routing of play, in 2000 by Steve Durkee.

Green fees and a cart are included in the registration. Please note that practice rounds and carts for a practice round are not included in the registration fee. Call the pro shop at BCC to schedule your practice round at 802-257-7380.

SCHEDULE OF PLAY
Play will be by tee times; the first expected to be at 10 a.m. each day. There is a restaurant with both inside and outside seating where we may gather for refreshments after play each day. Food is not included in the event fee, but is available a la carte. We expect to have table space available after play each day for club swap, trade, buy or sell.

RULES OF PLAY
The Society of Hickory Golf rules will apply. See the Society of Hickory Golf web site at https//www:hickorygolfers.com and look for guidelines under the tournament tab. Play must be with a hickory shafted clubs manufactured before Dec. 31, 1934, or with SoHG-approved reproductions. There is no limit to the number of clubs allowed in your bag. Cell phone GPS and/or other distance measuring devices are not permitted during tournament play. Local rules will be made available before start of play.

REGISTRATION
Click here for a registration form. The form also is available at the Vermont Hickory Golf Association website: https//www.vthga.org. Click on the Events tab and then on the 2024 Vermont Hickory Open tab. The registration fee is $150.

WEBSITES OF INTEREST
Brattleboro Country Club www.brattleborocountryclub.co
The Brattleboro Chamber of Commerce website – www.brattleborochamber.org – lists places to stay, restaurants and activities in the Brattleboro area.

TRAVEL
Brattleboro is in the southeast corner of Vermont; Interstate 91 passes through Brattleboro. Amtrak’s “Vermonter” provides rail service between St. Albans, Vt. and Washington, D.C. It stops in Brattleboro once daily northbound and once daily southbound. Greyhound Bus provides service throughout the country to and from Brattleboro. Air travel is available via Bradley International Airport, BDL, (Windsor Locks, Conn.); the Manchester, N.H. regional airport; and Boston’s Logan International Airport.