It’s all in good fun and for a good cause, two things the Wisconsin Hickory Golfers really like. Their Pay It Forward Hickory Challenge has been a popular golf outing these past nine years and last year a local Senior Living magazine picked up on the story. Below are photos from the publication. Great going ladies and gents! Hickory golf […]
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2023 Oddball Hickory Classic a day for history
By Jim Davis There were no caddies with this group. The sternly dressed men in black coats wore an odd mix of bowlers, top hats and tradesmen caps. Under their arms they each carried from four to eight clubs of a peculiar, though somehow graceful, look – long, slender and narrow, a few with noticeably curved faces. A few clubs […]
Victoria’s Justin Ryan captures inaugural South Australian title by a single stroke
Andrew Baker reports: Early April 2023 saw the inauguration of the two-day South Australian Hickory Shaft Championships. The foursomes championship was held Sunday 2 April at Victor Harbor Golf Club, followed by the individual championship at The Royal Adelaide Golf Club the next day. Both events were played on cloudless autumn days with temperatures in the mid-twenties. The individual championship was contested by […]
Peter Flory’s 3D work helps restore lost Lido golf course
By Jim Davis There is something about hickory golf that, for many, leads to a journey of discovery; of looking for lost methods of employing wood shaft clubs, or finding classic beauties from makers of the 1920s and earlier, or of simply connecting with a time when the game seemed, somehow, more pure, at least with regard to course design, […]
2023 Onion Creek won by Cole Houghton
Played over the Onion Creek Golf Course in Austin, Texas. Pete League reports: In the Swift Cup Results on March 25, the Texas Team beat the North American Team by 20 to 11. Texas Team Captain was Ken Jackson; Dennis MacIntyre for the North America Team. Five teams competed in the Texas First Tee Hickory Championship with the Dallas Chapter […]
Sir Bob Charles adds NZ Hickory Open title to distinguished career
Peter van Eekelen reports: The 2023 New Zealand Hickory Open, March 13, 2023, had a stellar beginning with an opening competition for the Anzac Flask, a team event between New Zealand and Australia. This is the first time an international match has been contested has been played with wooden shafts since the golden age of hickory. Australia put in an experienced […]
World Hickory Golf Day is May 7
How is YOUR group celebrating World Hickory Golf Day? The day to celebrate hickory golf falls this year on Sunday, May 7. Well, it’s always the first Sunday in May. The Northwest Hickory Players are well into the swing of things. They have an outing planned for April 30, a week early, but that fit their scheduling better. Regardless, it’s […]
NZ golfers make splash in country’s prime golf mag
It’s a colorful crew, so it’s no wonder the editors and writes of New Zealand’s premier golf magazine, Cut, wanted to feature these happy hickory golfers. Let’s face it, hickory golf is cool and provides readers something fresh. We hope you think so, too. The editors of Cut gave the NZ players permission to share the story on our website, […]
Matt Stovall a winner in the Arizona desert
Playing pre-1935 hickory shafted clubs, 99 players celebrated the 11th Arizona Desert Hickory in Sun City West, Ariz. Equipped with vintage equipment, and attired in knickers, argyle socks, woolen caps and vintage outfits, they challenged Grandview & Pebblebrook Golf Courses in grand style over a two-day competition during the last weekend in February. Players from across the USA and Canada, […]
South Carolina’s Harman takes 2023 U.S. Pro & Amateur title
It was Florida in February and the weather was as the chamber of commerce ordered it – magnificent. Just right for the 13th annual U.S. Professional Amateur Hickory Golf Championship and the preceding casual hickory golf outings. The weekend is hosted by hickory golf champion and professional golf teacher Mike Stevens. On Sunday, five teams competed in a shamble format […]