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Baltimore 10-year-old featured with his hickories
April 3, 2022

SoHG member Michael cruz is only 10-years-old, but he already know his way around a set of hickory golf clubs. Journalist Lyndi McNulty of the Carroll County Times posted a story on the young hickory player in the March 12, online edition of The Baltimore Times’ Carroll County Times. It’s a nice story on young Mr. Cruz and we hope […]

World Hickory Golf Day
March 3, 2022

May 1Global Hickory Golf Celebration Scheduled to fall on the first Sunday in May, World Hickory Golf Day is an international invitation to celebrate our favorite sport. So, get together with friends and enjoy a round. If the weather is inclement in your part of the world, gather with your hickory golfing friends in the local pub, or share a […]

Rare air for Randy Jensen and hickory golf in Florida
February 9, 2022

Feb. 9, 2022 Since about 1990 until around 2016 or so, Randy Jensen of Omaha, Neb., won darn near every hickory tournament he entered – multiple early Golf Collectors Society national championships, several National Hickory Championship titles and goodness know how many others. One magazine called him “The Hickory Tiger.” Randy recently shared a note about a very special trip […]

Hickory golf leader Ed Ronco, 1949-2022
February 6, 2022

Edward Ronco, 72, of Wyandotte, Mich., passed away unexpectedly Feb. 5, 2022. He was a past president the SoHG (2019) and former board member for Region 5 of the Golf Heritage Society. Along with three others, he was a founding officer of the Wyandotte Hickory Organization in 2010. A service will be held at St. Patrick church in Wyandotte at […]

Origins of a Wisconsin hickory golf tournament
January 29, 2022

Hickory golf events grow out of passion, desire to share time with friends, and to challenge the old sticks on traditional, or mostly so, layouts. In the following short piece, Wisconsin’s Jim ‘Wally’ Koss describes the origins of one such event in the great Dairy State. I started playing hickory in 2014. At that time, our Wisconsin clan was looking […]

Switzerland’s Andi Ahlm talks hickory golf
January 10, 2022

Hickory golf: an adventure for epicureans This profile originally appeared on RedBull.com – https://www.redbull.com/ch-fr/hickory-golf-une-aventure-pour-%C3%A9picuriens?fbclid=IwAR2ypaA1hRwKp1OD0uGvg2evK6hZvL2BvqhKllJLKETPm4GLfepBWkPc3xA January 2022 – Switzerland’s Andi Ahlm is a mathematician, founder of a fintech start-up – passionate about hickory golf. Whether working or pursuing his talent, the same philosophy guides him: for something to work, you don’t always need the latest in novelty and the pinnacle of […]

Summary of World Hickory Golf in 2021
December 15, 2021

The world certainly saw its challenges in 2021 –political strife, warfare, Covid, and climate change among them. We are very fortunate, this global hickory golf community, to face our challenges on fairways and greens. However else the great disturbances of the world might have touched us, at least many of us had an opportunity for a bit of peace with […]

Hickory Golf featured on The Golf Channel

SoHG board member, Robert Birman, was invited to talk about hickory golf on Golf Today, a flagship show of The Golf Channel, hosted by Damon Hack and Shane Bacon. The original air date was December 13, 2021. Images shown in the interview are from the Society’s 2021 U.S. Hickory Open at Gearhart Golf Links.  Interest in the game is growing […]

Plus Four Podcasts highlight hickory golf, history and travel
November 6, 2021

Rob Birman’s Plus Four Podcasts are up to nine episodes now. All are hickory-golf themed, with interviews that highlight everything from club repair, and regional hickory golf groups, to  the importance of golf history. The latest adds a little golf travel magic with SoHG members Deal Hudson of Lilburn, Ga., and Karl Nagy of Simpsonville, S.C., who describe a most […]

Tom Johnson named the SoHG’s 2021 Mike Brown Award honoree
October 31, 2021

The committee of three on the Mike Brown Award are not to be envied. The current SoHG president and two previous award recipients are charged with selecting an award recipient from what is usually a list of half a dozen most worthy nominees, each of whom reflects, in his or her own way, the late namesake’s embodiment of friendship, dedication […]