July 6, 2020 – Aetingen, Switzerland by Rick Adams Former European PGA Tour player Paolo Quirici, who won the World Hickory Open championship in 2013, added the inaugural Swiss Hickory Golf Match Play championship to his trophy case at Quirici Golf School in Lugano, but it was not easy. He had to hold off the event’s youngest player, 19-year-old Andri Hausamman. […]

June 26, 2020 As the coronavirus prevented its customary June gathering in Ohio, the National Hickory Championship came up with its own solution. Host Pete Georgiady allowed contestants to “play in place,” as it were, using their own local courses, with McIntyre gutty balls, and to a length that as much as possible matched that of the original Oakhurst Links, […]

The Vermont Hickory Scotch Foursomes was a great success, reports Tom Wawrzeniak. “Six two-person teams met at the scenic Copley Golf Course on Sunday, July 19, a hot and sunny day,” he writes. “The scores were very close with Matt Dodds and Scott McAllister the overall winners. Runner-up was Greg Paus (new to hickory) and Tom Wawrzeniak. Then the sudden-death […]

June 16, 2020Martin Pool reports:Thirty-five hickory players teed it up June 13-14 in the 6th annual Pacific Northwest Hickory Championship. This year’s tournament was contested at Eagle’s Pride Golf Course, formerly known as Fort Lewis Golf Course, a hickory-era military course in Dupont, Wash. After hunkering in the bunker for so long, it was good to see and enjoy the company […]

June 5 By Jim Clawson Dear Virginia Hickory Players and Friends, We had a small outing this past week playing Gutties at Old Trail Golf Club (www.oldtrailgolf.com ).  The results are shown below.  Eight matches so far in the year-long competition.  On that day we discussed what balls to play.  In the end, all played the McIntyre Vardon ball, a […]

June 8, 2020 By Rick Adams Thirty-one well-dressed ladies and gentlemen from around Switzerland braved the forecast of thunderstorms for the annual Swiss Hickory Golf event at Waldkirch Golfpark, the first SHG gathering of the 2020 season. After light rain for the first couple of holes, the skies cleared long enough to get the round in. In the Stableford format, […]

May 25, 2020 – Kohler, Wisc. Ernie Ernst reports: Three days of Hickory golf after two months of social distancing was just what was needed. The weather over the three days here in Wisconsin was magnificent (70s and sun all week). If you don’t think that is special, you never played the Kohler Challenge in May at Whistling Straits. Our […]