The overall consensus of the field going into the newly established World Hickory Match Play Championship was that the final would be a contest between U.S. Hickory Open Champ Jeremy Moe and World Hickory Open Champ Paolo Quirici. However, match play can be a devilish trickster that empties the tank of the speediest racer well ahead of the checkered […]

   Members of the Michigan Hickory Tour and Society of Hickory Golfers were part of the early round action at the Senior PGA Championship at Harbor Shores Golf Club in Benton Harbor, Mich., on Thursday May 2.   The Senior PGA Championship is sponsored by Whirlpool Corporation and its Kitchenaid brand appliances. The Harbor Shores course is a Jack Nicklaus design […]

   Three new directors have been elected to the Society of Hickory Golfers – from left, Bill Ernst, Eddie Breeden, and Barb Kopec. They will take their seats effective June 1, 2014.    Retiring from the board are Breck Speed, Rob Ahlschwede, and Bob Caston. These three have worked very hard to make the SoHG a success on behalf of […]

The Championship Series for 2013/2014 is complete. Points won by players have been posted to the website, under “Tournaments.” The 2013/2014 season was an abbreviated one of four events as the SoHG has shifted the season to begin with the Mid Pines Hickory Open and end with the U.S. Hickory Open. In this way, it is hoped, the overall winners […]

The nomination form for the annual Mike Brown Award is posted to the website under “About Us”, then “Mike Brown Award.” Or by clicking on the link below. Please have your nominations in by June 13. Bill Engelson’s article in the Spring Wee Nip does a fine job describing the award and what Mike meant to the game and to […]

Thanks to Lionel Freedman and Brian Schuman who both sent the video below. It was prepared by the Carnoustie Country agency in Scotland that is charged with promoting that area of the U.K. to visitors. Not surprisingly, they have taken a strong liking to Lionel and the World Hickory Open, which has, for the past several years, played the WHO […]

Sure, it’s a bit outdated, having been posted on March 6, 2011, but it’s a story that hits home with so many new-to-hickory golfers. Darin is a friend of Mitch Laurance, the radio host, actor, and all around good guy whose “Hooked On Hickories” radio show regularly features news and interviews with people in the sport. Plus, Mitch is not […]

   Bill Conant has been busy down east (or is it up New England way?). He and good friends Bill Wardwell, Jeff Blomstedt and Kevin Piecuch have formed the Hickory Players of Massachusetts and have arranged for their first outing a the Country Club of Greenfield where Piecuch is the PGA professional.    Bill says the reponse has been exciting, […]

  Jack Fleck at the 1955 U.S. Open at the Olympic Club    Notice of Jack Fleck’s passing on March 21 at 92 was sent to me by Breck Speed who included a note from Jeremy Moe, the professional at the Hardscrabble Country Club in Little Rock, Ark. where Mr. Fleck was a long-time member. Moe is our reigning U.S. […]

Club Triage   Now that you have found the confidence or, perhaps, ambition to perform your own club restoration, let us return to the initial stage of the process and point your hickory ship in the right direction.   Whether it is via eBay, a garage sale, a trade show or grandpa’s attic, you find yourself examining a club with the notion […]