Aug. 17, 2020Event host Bill Reed reports on the Heart of America Tournament. On July 9 the City of Des Moines, Iowa, informed the tournament director of the annual Heart of America Hickory Championship that the municipally-owned clubhouse of the Bright-Grandview Golf Course would not be available for the scheduled receptions, dinners, and trade and raffle tables that are a […]
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Summer gutty golf in full flower at Foxburg
Aug. 17, 2020 Event host Tom Johnson reports on the 12th annual Foxburg Hickory Championship, Aug. 14-15. Our weather was excellent, warm in the mid-80s on Friday, cooler in the mid-70s on Saturday, nice breezes both days kept temperatures moderate. Long time Foxburg CC green keeper Jeff “Tex” Texter had the course in fine condition. The western Pennsylvania region suffered a […]
Vermont Hickory Open adds Rick Woeckener’s name to list of champions
Peter Knowlan reports: The 2020 Vermont Hickory Open was contested Aug. 15-16 at the picturesque Golf Club at Equinox, a historic Walter Travis designed course nestled between the western slope of the Green Mountains and the eastern slope of Mt Equinox, the highest peak in the Taconic range. Rick Woeckener, of Garrettsville, Ohio, the reigning U.S. Hickory Open champion, is now […]
Hickory newcomer Mitch Mitchell takes 2020 Canadian Hickory Open title
Aug. 12-14, 2020 – The Legends GCC, Alberta, Canada Ron Lyons and Chris Ream report: With the ongoing worldwide pandemic we were fortunate to be able to still run a modified Canadian Open Hickory Championship. With quarantine rules in effect, sadly we weren’t able to accommodate the many enquiries we had from the U.S. and Europe, but we were happy […]
Golfers enjoy Spanish Hickory Open in San Sebastian
The field at the 2020 Spanish Hickory OpenAugust 12 – San Sebastian, Spain Gonzalo Retana Ardanaz reports: On Aug. 11, the Real Nuevo Club de Golf SS Basozabal held for the second consecutive year a golf prize in the hickory modality, that is, with clubs from the years before 1935 and with the rules corresponding to the beginnings of golf. […]
Tad Moore, Florida Hickory Golfers featured in Golf Central Magazine
He does make a dandy golf club, does Tad Moore. The folks at Golf Central Magazine think so, too, featuring the award-winning club maker in its Vol. 21 Issue/2 edition. Also featured are the Florida Hickory Golfers and their burgeoning partnership with the Florida State Golf Association. Hickory events will now be offered and promoted through the Sunshine State’s premier […]
Gary Melanson adds to Canadian golf titles – with hickories, of course
July 20, 2020 – New Brunswick, CanadaSoHG golfer Gary Melanson of New Brunswick, Canada, loves showing others how much fun hickory golf can be. His competitors might not find his enthusiasm so engaging as Melanson just captured another golf New Brunswick golf title with his hickories. The tournament was the 2020 New Brunswick (Canada) Senior Provincial Championship. The website http://golfnb.ca […]
Gutties click for Wisconsin players at annual challenge
July 20, 2020 – Eagle Springs, Wisc. Greg Smith reports that the unique sound of gutty golf again rang out over the 1893 course in Eagle Springs this July. Near a dozen stalwarts gathered to test the smoothies against Dave Brown’s replica Park gutty balls. “It was a small group, but competitive,” Greg says. “We all played the Park ball from […]
Mike Hobson – The Hickory Guru of The Villages
July 15, 2020 – The Villages, Florida Bound to happen. Hickory golf is just too much fun and in a place like The Villages, Florida’s famed retirement community, it was sure to find a home at some point. Jeff Shain, a senior writer for The Daily Sun, the Village’s news leader, learned of Mike Hobson, a retiree from Virginia, who […]
Gabe Tonan takes 2020 Gearhart Classic title
July 14, 2020 – Gearhart, Ore. by Rob Ahlschwede Thirty-one players met for the 8th annual Gearhart Hickory Classic. Covid-19 kept the entries down from the usual 45+players, but contestants found the weather near perfect with partly cloudy skies, temps in the 60s early, breaking into the 70s by mid afternoon. Evenings cool with dew and maybe a drizzle did not keep […]