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2019 COW Cup – October 5 & 6
Lake Shastina Golf Resort, Weed, California Hickory players from California, Oregon, and Washington (and Idaho) are invited to the 4th Annual COW Cup. In the tradition of the Ryder Cup, the team from California is matched against the team from Oregon and Washington. The surfer dudes and dudettes have a 2-1 record over the canoe paddlers of the Great Northwest. Join us for the most fun hickory event of the year! SATURDAY, Oct 5 Tee times to be determined (approx. noon or later) Chapman format Teams of two hit tee shots, and then play second shots using their partner’s tee shot location. After both players’ second shots,…
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Washington State Hickory Championship
August 14Washington State Hickory Championship Riverside Golf Course, Chehalis, Washington Saturday August 14, 2021 Divisions: Open 10- 59: White tees (5771) Senior 60-69: Green tees (5456) Statesman 70+: Green tees (5456) with #4 playing as a par 5 for par 37 on the front nine. Women The scorecard is at: https://playriversidegolf.com/golf-course/ SOLD OUT Entry Fee: $65.00 (includes greens fee and awards) Cart: $16 – pay at the course Awards for Low Gross and Net Winners for each division Tee Times: Will be announced via email one week before the event EQUIPMENT: Hickory-shafted clubs as approved by the Society of Hickory Golfers. Period attire is encouraged. Hickory…
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Chambers Bay 18 | January 30 and 31
Super Duper Deal… The deal everyone’s been asking for; Chambers Bay at a low seasonal rate! Only $70 + tax! Sorry, no carts. UPDATE! Peter Yagi has tee times on Saturday January 30th from 11:00 a.m., spaces for 44 players. He just added another 32 spaces for Sunday, January 31, starting at 11:12 a.m. for the low daily rate. There will be a $20 “buy in” for challenges and prizes each day, $10 of which will be donated to the U.S. Hickory Open fund for 2021. Hickory players will have first priority but modern players will be invited later since we have quite a few times. IF YOU WISH TO…
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9th Annual Vintage Classic – May 1
Vintage Hickory Tournament Saturday, May 1, 2021 First tee time at 10:00 a.m. The Vintage Hickory Tournament has been one of the Pacific NW “Major” hickory events with Jim Von Lossow as one of the past winners. The Vintage Tournament is in the ninth year and is what started the “World Hickory Golf Day” that is advertised by Society of Hickory Golf (SoHG) and many other hickory groups. The event has always been played at the Meadow Park Golf Course and is supported by the Tacoma Metro Park District Golf Operations Manager, Chris Goodman, who is a avid hickory golfer. Chris always has the course in great condition and set…
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Spokane Hickory Open: October 2-3
The S.H.O. will be contested over two days at Indian Canyon designed by H. Chandler Egan [c. 1930]. 2019’s inaugural event was fantastic as expressed by many participants! Tee times will be Noon on Saturday and 11 a.m. on Sunday. We have space for up to 40 players. The Spokane Hickory open will be 36 holes. Practice rounds are available by calling the course directly. Make your plans and keep the date! Deadline to enter is September 25, and there is an optional Monday round at Wine Valley in Walla Walla for those interested.
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Arthur Vernon Macan: Pacific NW Legend
The following article is from the Pacific Northwest Golf Association, who inducted Macan into their Hall of Fame in 1989. Every now and then, a personality emerges with such passion and conviction that he warrants being called a “renaissance man.” In Northwest golf circles, Arthur Vernon Macan was truly a renaissance man. Though he had considerable skills as a tournament golfer, Macan is best known for his brilliant golf course designs. Macan was born in Ireland. His eponymously-named father graduated from Dublin’s Trinity College with a degree in medicine in 1868. While serving in the Prussian Army as a field doctor, Macan Sr. learned advanced surgical techniques that would later…
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Early History of Longview Country Club
Established 1923 Course Opened First Nine: 4-30-1927; Second Nine: 1958 Course Architect: 1927 – Francis L. James; 1958 – unknown A year before the City of Longview was incorporated, a group of businessmen met in the summer of 1923 to organize Cowlitz County’s first golf club: the Longview Golf and Country Club. The club initially planned its first golf course at the base of Mount Solo, just west of Longview. Given the primitive roads at the time, the distance proved to be too much, and those plans were dropped. They then decided on another course closer to the soon to be City, and a nine hole course was built on…
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Niblick & Spoon: Read All About It
Niblick & Spoon – How the name and sign came to be… By Mark Persinger After a round at Jackson Park in Seattle, I was having a beer with my playing partners, a couple of brothers who were 85 years young, and former caddies during the hickory era of golf. We reclined in the café, in the new couch and TV area which had been recently set up, complete with an electric fireplace. I explained to the brothers that our GM, Kathy Wake, had added this area to give the café a sort of Irish bar feel, the first step to rebrand the café into a proper 19th hole. “Every…
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First Annual Northwest Hickory Golfers Black Friday Hickory Golf Outing
Black Friday Hickory Golf Outing November 23, 2018 Maplewood Golf Course First Starting time 11 a.m. Deadline to sign up is November 16th Hosted by Kit Ledbetter This is the First Annual Northwest Hickory Golfers Black Friday Hickory Golf Outing. Why go shopping and face the crowds or just sit at home and watch sports when you can join your hickory friends and enjoy being outside at beautiful Maplewood Golf Course in Renton? We have reserved 24 spots (six starting times) for our outing. Maplewood is in great shape and Kit played it twice this last week. Winter rates start on Monday November 6th with weekday senior rates of only…
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First Annual Seattle Antique
Golf Show & SaleSaturday, October 27, 2018 FREE ADMISSION 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Jefferson Park Golf Course 4101 Beacon Avenue South Seattle, Washington CLUBS, TROPHIES, BALLS, BOOKS, ARTWORK, MAGAZINES, COLLECTIBLES, AND MORE! Display Tables: $45 (includes lunch) Additional Tables: $30 each Sellers register at: nwhickoryplayers.org SPONSORED BY: Golf Collectors’ Society Society of Hickory Golfers Northwest Hickory Players Choose Number of Tables One Table $45.00 USDTwo Tables $75.00 USDThree Tables $105.00 USD With the Seattle Antique Golf Show and Sale coming up on October 27th at Jefferson in Seattle, the Northwest Hickory Players is planning to offer a round of golf at West Seattle on Friday, the 26th. Jefferson has 9 holes that…
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Eastmoreland 100 Hickory Stick Tournament: June 16
JUNE 16, 2018 Eastmoreland Golf Course, Portland OR Play hickory 100 years to the exact date of the very 1st round! Tee Times begin at 2 p.m. Pay Regular Weekend Green Fees to Club House ($44 for 18 / $25 for 9) Hickory Sticks Available 4-Person Scramble – 9 or 18 holes (small prizes awarded for both) $25 donation is recommend per person to fund the Eastmoreland 100 Historical Society 501c3 We have a donation page for those that want to fundraise more Free showing of “The Greatest Game Ever Played” on the 10th fairway Dress up and look sharp like its 1918!!!
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The 1913 Professional International Match at Versailles
With the Ryder Cup being contested in France this year, it is a fitting time to reflect on a celebrated match pitting the UNITED STATES vs. FRANCE… The 1913 Professional International Match at Versailles It was pretty clear beforehand that the international match between sides of French and American professionals which had been carefully arranged between the French Association and the United States Golf Association would be a close thing and opinions differed as to the probable result. I think few people were prepared for the Americans losing everything as they did. The arrangement was that on Monday, June 30, and Tuesday there should be two four-ball matches and four…
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History: Chandler Egan’s
Plantation Country Club
Boise, IDGolf was first introduced to Boise in 1900 by a group of golf enthusiasts who laid out six holes at Fort Boise, a federal army installation also known as Boise Barracks. From all indications this was an unflattering course, probably more akin to what we now know as a pitch and putt course. Nevertheless, it was golf, and by any measure this was a very early appearance of golf in the Northwest, and most likely the first in Idaho. Only a few golf clubs existed at that time in the Northwest states, most notably the Tacoma Golf Club (1894), the Seattle Golf Club (1896), the Country Club of Seattle (1896),…
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Classic Chapman – February 15
Join us for the 2020 Classic Chapman on Saturday, February 15. The outing will be held at The Classic Golf Club in Spanaway, Washington, and hosted by club member, Steve Malmquist. Individual closest to will be awarded on each of the par 3’s with a modest payout. The two lowest net scores will also receive a payout – the more players the less modest the payouts will be. The Chapman System is a two person team format, this is how it is played. Both players, A & B tee off — but player A goes to players B’s ball and plays the next shot. Player B does the same with…
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Pacific Northwest Hickory Championship: June 2-3, 2018
Wing Point Golf and Country Club Bainbridge Island, WA Northwest Hickory Players and the membership of Wing Point G&CC invite you to the fourth annual 2018 Pacific Northwest Hickory Championship. It will be held at the historic Wing Point Golf and Country Club (est. 1903) on Bainbridge Island, Washington. This is a rare opportunity to play one of the top private courses in Washington. The championship will be a two-day gross and net competition with awards for Open, Senior (60-69), Super Senior (70+) and Women’s Divisions. ENTRY FEE: $195 includes green fees for both days, tee prizes, competition awards, dinner on Saturday and box lunch on Sunday. Carts are…
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Book Review: Allan Robertson and Tom Morris
Allan Robertson, Golfer: His Life and Times By Alistair Beaton Adamson ISBN090718605X 1985 Grant Books, Worcestershire Tom Morris of St. Andrews; The Colossus of Golf By David Malcolm and Peter Crabtree ISBN139781841588186 2008 Berlinn, Edinburgh Legends of 19th Century Links By Robert Birman, co-founder NW Hickory Players Old Tom Morris’ renown and acclaim – now stretching more than 150 years – can be in part attributed, in my view, to the formative influence of his mentor and playing partner, Allan Robertson. In fact, Robertson might well have been the first name everyone today associates with the “founding” of golf in Scotland, had it not been for the fact that…
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20 Questions with Bill Zilberts, aka carlingbill54
With a population of 9,300, Lutterworth, England, might appear to be an odd place to find one of the most active hickory golf club sellers on eBay. In the 14th century, the religious reformer Canon John Wycliffe, who hailed from the vicinity, was traditionally believed to have produced the first translation of the Bible from Latin into English. Later, in the days of the stagecoach, Lutterworth was an important stopping-place on the road from Leicester to Oxford and London, and many former coaching inns remain in the town. The town also contains some historic half-timbered buildings, some of which date back to the 16th century. Half way between London and…
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Honoring Jack Wilson September 17
Our gathering for Jack will be held at the Oakbrook Golf Course Clubhouse on Sunday, September 17 at 10:30 a.m. The morning time gives people time to get to Seattle for the Seahawks game if they have tickets and allows the rest of us plenty of time to get next to a television to watch, if interested. Click here for directions. Before and after the service, there will be a sale of golf clubs, bags and books. Donna, Jack’s wife, thought that doing this would be a good thing, so we will be taking a lot of Jack’s collection to the clubhouse, putting it on display for sale. I have gone thru…
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Old Tom Morris Commemorative Bumper Sticker
Celebrate Old Tom with a commemorative hickory golf bumper sticker for your travel case, auto, boat or golf room. Dubbed Scotland’s “King of Clubs,” Morris came up one Open short of owning the Champion’s Belt outright, only to see his son accomplish the feat in 1870. $1 each plus S&H. Size = 6” x 4”. PayPal.
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Olsen Bests Miller in Five Extra Holes in the Pacific Northwest Hickory Championship
The fairways were baked, running hard and fast. Plumes of dust rose in the air with each mashie shot. (Yes Virginia, there is dust in Seattle.) With a recent record of 56 consecutive days without rain, the sites of the 3rd Annual Pacific Northwest Hickory Championship, played at Snoqualmie Falls Golf Course and Mount Si Golf Course (est. 1927), offered unfamiliar tests for the Northwest hickory players. As it was in the ‘20s, the roughs were rough, and the fairways rougher. But the hard grounds also had its advantages as 270 yard drives were not uncommon for the long hitters. Click Here for a PDF file of Martin Pool’s write-up…
