May 17, 2021 The season is finding its way to cooler climes as regional groups host opening day events. Here’s a note from the Nebraska, Michigan, and Illinois groups. Dale Hallock, president of the Nebraska Hickory Golf Association, reports:The 2021 NEHGA Hickory Opening Day Challenge was held at Elmwood Park GC in Omaha on Saturday, May 8. It what was […]
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Record field for Findlay/Massachusetts Hickory Open and 125th anniversary for Country Club of Greenfield
Bill Conant reports: It was a near record turnout of 32 players who enjoyed beautiful weather and a fun day at a club celebrating its 125th anniversary this year. The Alexander Findlay/Massachusetts Hickory Open was held May 14 at The Country Club of Greenfield (The Gateway Course to Hickory Golf in New England), in Greenfield, Mass. Players attending were: Bill Wardwell, Dave […]
NWHP celebrates World Hickory Golf Day at Meadow Park GC
The Northwest Hickory Players hosted the 9th Vintage Hickory Classic at Meadow Park Golf Course, a 1915 public course near Tacoma, Wash. The Vintage was initiated 10 years ago to celebrate National Hickory Golf Day, and now continues to celebrate World Hickory Golf Day, offered by the Society of Hickory Golfers. The day started grey and cool but developed into […]
World Hickory Golf Day celebrated on Sunday, May 2
World Hickory Golf Day was created to set aside one day each year, the first Sunday in May, to celebrate the sport. We invite all of you who observed the day in this way to send a photo or other note about your hickory golf day. Two fellows in Wisconsin, in the U.S., held an impromptu match on the […]
Match play off to great start as Kansas golfers grow the hickory game
April 21, 2021 Mike Needleman reports: The Kansas City Area Hickory Golfers are pleased to announce the success of its inaugural event held April 17, 2021, as 30 golfers gathered to contest their skills in the two-person team, match-play event. Play was held at the Jay Morrish-designed Falcon Lakes Golf Course in Basehor, Kan. Everyone enjoyed hickory friendly fairways, speedy […]
Woeckener/Hollerbach best tough field at 2021 Southern 4-Ball
April 19, 2021 By MacDuff At the trailing end of the Appalachian Mountains, flanked by long parallel mountain ridges, Birmingham is one of Alabama’s most populous, and one of America’s most historic, cities. An industrial and educational center, its people have been firsthand witness to many of the Civil Right’s movement’s most tragic as well as uplifting events. It is […]
First Tee excitement makes Onion Creek tourney an overall winner
March 30, 2021 Austin, Texas Pete League, host of the Onion Creek Hickory Classic, reports that it was a splendid 2021 outing from any way you look at it. Several First Tee teams turned out in what Pete hopes might eventually turn into a national First Tee Hickory Tournament. Building toward that future, five First Tee teams from the Dallas, […]
In WHO-ville, hickory golf grows one playset at a time
March 2021 By Jim DavisModern hickory golf can be enjoyed on so many levels – playing the game; exploring the history and background of golf from the hickory club era; even donning some period clothing for a little extra hickory sauce. Then there are the clubs, which require a little more TLC than your modern high-tech gear, especially the original […]
Onion Creek raffle donors put dent in homelessness
March 11, 2021 Austin, Texas A generous supporter of hickory golf and the Onion Creek Hickory Classic has donated a new set of Louisville Golf Precision model hickory shaft irons (mid-iron through niblick, a $1050 retail value), to be raffled off, with all proceeds to be turned over to Mobile Loaves & Fishes, the OCHC official charity. See WWW.ML&F.ORG Repeat: these are new, never used; […]
Arizona Desert Hickory Championship melts winter blues
March 4, 2021 Sun City West, Ariz. Tournament Director Ken Holtz reports: Having fun and staying safe – 84 players, sporting 100-year-old clubs with wooden shafts and attired in knickers, argyle socks, woolen caps and vintage outfits, found their way to Sun City West, Ariz., and the Grandview & Pebblebrook Golf Courses, Feb. 27-28, for the 9th annual Arizona Desert […]