Jeremy Moe claims 2020 U.S. Pro Hickory title

Feb. 24, 2020, Temple Terrace., Fla. – Boca Raton, Fla. golf professional Jeremy Moe, a four-time U.S. Hickory Open champion, captured his second consecutive U.S. Professional Hickory Golf Championship and the John Shippen Cup. His 72 bested the field by five shots. The course played its usual tough challenge as only five pros managed to score in the 70s. Dylan Malafronte […]

Scottish Hickory Tour announced

Jan. 24, 2020 By Jim Davis Organizers in Scotland, led by Boris Lietzow, owner of the Jack White shop in Gullane, Scotland, have created a 10-event Scottish Hickory Tour that offers top professionals and amateurs a season-long opportunity to compete for honors and prizes. The professional purse is £5,000. The first tournament, called the “Icebreaker,” is scheduled for the 9-hole […]

Winter Park event shows every sign of becoming a true ‘hickory classic’

This event held over a 1914 Florida gem has every potential to become a highlight on the national hickory “tour.” Hogan, Snead, Sarazen, and Hagen, have walked its fairways and now modern hickory golfers are following in their footsteps. The Winter Park Golf Course was rebuilt in 2016 with the idea of revitalizing its role as a community treasure. And […]

2020 German Hickory Open Championship

Aug. 15-16 Golfanlage Kallin Berlin, German Dear Hickory Friends, We are happy that a lot of European countries are now going back to “normal” life and it looks like the lock down period in Austria, Czech Republic, France, the Netherlands, Germany and other countries is coming into a more relaxed phase. During the past 12 weeks or so we have […]

Tributes to Archie Baird

Dec. 19, 2019 As a follow-up to the notice of Mr. Archie Baird’s passing on Saturday, Dec. 7, we offer the following links to news articles that contained tributes to Mr. Baird. His funeral was scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 19. Many thanks to John Pearson for these news items. The East Lothian Courier. This tribute details the public man from […]

World of Hickory – 2019

December 17, 2019 The report attached here is a summary of, not all, but of very many world-wide hickory outings from 2019. They range from modest hickory golf meetings attended by a dozen friends, to near 100 or more at annual events that have grown in stature over these past two dozen years. Each is growing into its own character […]

Archie Baird, Scotland’s ‘ambassador for golf’, dies at 95

Archie Baird, beloved ambassador for golf who lived in Gullane, Scotland, died Sunday, Dec. 7, 2019. He was 95. He passed away very peacefully at Edington Cottage Hospital in North Berwick. Mr. Baird, a former RAF fighter pilot and veterinary surgeon, is survived by his wife, Sheila, a medical doctor and great-grandaughter of the legendary Willie Park Sr., first winner […]

Randy Jensen, SoHG co-founder, honored with 2019 Mike Brown Award

By Jim DavisNov. 21, 2019 – Randy Jensen, a co-founder of the Society of Hickory Golfers, hickory golf champion, and golf club expert, was named the 2019 Mike Brown Award recipient at the Mid Pines Hickory Open. Though Jensen could not be present, his good friend, Rob Ahlschwede, accepted the award on his behalf. “I am very honored to be […]

Flory tops field at chilly 2019 Mid Pines Hickory Open

Nov. 21, 2019 Peter Flory, of Glencoe, Ill., a native of Ann Arbor, Mich., handily won the 2019 Mid Pines Hickory by nine shots clear of runner-up Ted Kopec of Niceville, Fla. Flory’s 156 (79-77) was far and away the top of the leaderboard both days of a rather chilly Mid Pines Hickory Open, the 16th such event at the […]

Rylee Stovall is 2019 Monterey Hickory Classic Champion

Nov. 13, 2019 Even host Steven Henneuse reports: DAY ONE – 1897 Del Monte – par 72 (site of U.S. 2017 Hickory Open) NorCal Hickory might be unique in that the entire field is lumped together into one division due to the coziness of its events. Our events consist of a single winner. This year’s field of three ladies, which […]