Press Room

Golf website talks about hickory golf courses
June 21, 2017

Where to golf next? Gotta be traditional for hickory golf. Golf writer Lisa D. Mickey has posted a story to the website Where To Golf Next, on the desirability of traditional courses for hickory golf. As well as Belvedere, she lists Chambers Bay, Bright-Grandview and Wawashkamo. Check it out here.

Chuck McMullin video interviews at Belvedere Hickory Open

Charlevoix, Mich. – Chuck McMullin of Williamsburg, Va. is one of the founding members of the Society of Hickory Golfers, an enthusiastic golf collector and a summer resident in the Charlevoix, Mich. area. As well, the hickory golf veteran has a lovely swing and it was this that caught the eye of roving reporters at the Belvedere Golf Club during […]

Canada’s Norm Moreau Hickory Golf Day
May 19, 2017

May 17, 2017, Pickering, Ont., Canada – Originally planned for May 7 to coincide with the Hickory Golf Day in the U.S.A., mother nature didn’t co-operate, so the event was re-scheduled.  Thus, on May 17, an enthusiastic group took part in celebrating hickory golf and honouring Norm Moreau, an original founder of the Golf Historical Society of Canada, at the […]

2011 USHO Champ Alan Grieve in the news in Australia
May 17, 2017

May 2017, Brisbane, Australia – He came, saw, and conquered the U.S. Hickory Open at French Lick in 2011 and now Alan Grieve is making the news, Golf Australia News, for being the first player – in a very long while – to win a monthly medal playing with hickory golf clubs. Check out the story on Alan by clicking […]

FOX Sports golf video of Arizona Desert Hickory Classic
April 19, 2017

FOX Sports Arizona hosts visited the Arizona Desert Hickory Classic to learn a little bit about why people dress up in odd ways to play with 100-year-old clubs – and they seem to like it! Click here to see the video.

Pete Georgiady in Links Magazine

One of our favorite authors, Bill Fields, has “done up” the Czar of the National Hickory Championship for Links Magazine. Pete Georgiady hosts the 20th NHC this year and Fields thought a story on the avid pre-1900 hickory enthusiast, author, and USGA Museum committeeman would be just right. We’re glad Links editors thought so, too. Click here to see Field’s […]

Hickory golf story in Garden & Gun Magazine
September 20, 2015

We had a link to this story on the former SoHG website, but it was lost when the transition was made to this site. Thanks to John Fischer III for restoring the story to our Press Room list of hickory golf in the national media. It’s from the February/March 2014 edition of that southern magazine. Click here to see the […]

Video captures flavor of 2011 World Hickory Open
March 26, 2013

Lionel Freedman, chief organizer of the World Hickory Open, passed along this video for his favorite hickory golfers – all of them.

Golf Channels Morning Drive on pros with hickories
April 26, 2012

The Golf Channel’s Morning Drive show on Thursday a.m. April 26, had a piece about several tour players who teed up hickories for a three-hole showcase to celebrate the 100th annversary of the Zurich insurance company. Click here to see the story. These guys definitely need to tee it up at the U.S. Hickory Open. Might give Alan Grieve and […]

Temple Terrace Pro Hickory Event makes NYTimes
February 21, 2012

It was a lovely day, it’s always a lovely day in Florida for hickory golf, and PGA pros from around the state and elsewhere traveled to Temple Terrace to test their games with wood shafted clubs. Click here to read the article.