Season Ends (24-12-2011)
As the 2011 hickory season draws to an end, Hickory clubs can look back at a very successful season; we supplied clubs to the National championships of Germany, Holland, France, Austria and Czechoslovakia. Hickoryclubs.eu also helped to organize hickory events at Berlin (Wansee), Truetelberg (Hamburg) Zuid Limburg GC, het Goyer and has a permanent presence at the The Dutch.

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Dutch Open:

Restoration (24-12-2011)
Iain Forrester has been busy with several restoration projects of important club collections. The Twentse golf club (1926) and de Pan (1894) have asked Iain to restore and catalog their collections.

2012 (24-12-2011)
The calendar for 2012 is looking very healthy; tournaments in Hamburg, Berlin, Paris and Copenhagen have been confirmed. The Dutch championship (co organized by hickoryclubs.eu) will take place on September the 15th, and there is a possibility of a Belgium championship. The EAGHC will also organize the first European championship in Gothenburg in September.

Rental sets (24-12-2011)
Iain Forrester has been busy upgrading hickoryclubs selection of rental sets, with more than 60 matched sets to choose from, including 5 complete 10 club sets, we offer the finest rental clubs available. Because you never get a second chance to make a good first impression, all of our clubs come from the top Scottish makers (T Stewart, R Forgan, W Gibson etc.) and the sets are of the quality that tournament professionals used in the early 20th century.

Articles (24-12-2011)
Iain has had several articles on golf history published in 2011, diverse subjects included, AJ Ife maker, J Spence of ST Andrews, the clubs of Bobby Jones, George Nicoll matched hickory sets. He is working on several new pieces in both Dutch and English for 2012.

Lectures (24-12-2011)
Iain was also asked to give a lecture to the CIOS (a Dutch sport coach’s college) about golf history. Educating young coaches about the traditions and values of golf is vital, as they are the people who will pass this on to their future clients. More than 20, 3rd year students were fascinated by the antiek clubs and balls that were on show.

Perry Somers (08-06-2011)
World Hickory Champion and winner of 8 international hickory titles, Perry Somers has joined Hickoryclubs.eu as an official representative for the German market. Perry , a fluent German speaker, with a considerable business network in Germany will be a great addition to the hickoryclubs team.
Hickoryclubs owner ,Iain Forrester said ”having known and played against Perry for several years I am certain that he is perfectly placed to help me in the busy German hickory market, his commitment to the values and traditions of the golf sport are exactly the same as mine”. Perry, based in Keulen, is a former European tour player and has recently proved to still be competitive on the European seniors tour.


Iain and Perry competing at the 2010 Dutch international hickory championship

Short Film golf history with Iain Forrester (07-12-2010)
Iain has recently been seen on Dutch sport channel Sport 1. A short film he made together with college and golf comentator John Woof about golf history has proved very popular. It has been broadcast during many of the seasons major Champioships.

Article published (07-12-2010)
An article written by Iain about antique golf equipment was published in June’s Golfers Magazine

Website to see (07-12-2010)
The recent Dutch International Hickory Championship at which Hickoryclubs.eu was co organiser, has it own website www.ullerberg.nl Results video’s and photo’s can be found on this site.

English Hickory Championship (07-12-2010)
Iain Forrester won, on the famous links course Rye (West Sussex, England), the open class of the English hickory championship. His 2 over par round was good enough to beat a strong field of hickory players.

European Assocation of Golf Historians (07-12-2010)
Iain was one the guest speakers during the European association of golf historians and collectors congress at the Kennemer golf club, his presentation, How the development of golf equipment influenced the evolution of the golf swing was well received.

Kenemmer GC celebrations (26-08-2010)
Iain Forrester was proud to help the Kenemmer GC with their centenary celebrations. On the 26th of July 70 members played in the centenary hickory competition. The members were are dressed in period clothing, there were 300 sheep roaming over the course and we had perfect weather for the day. Iain had brought most of his hickory sets and also gave a demonstration of the evelolution of the game of golf (see photos and film) http://www.rbossink.nl/hickorygolf.html

Open France Hickory & German Hickory Championship (26-08-2010)
Hickoryclubs.eu owner Iain Forrester, won the second edition of the Open de France hickory on the historic course of Chantilly. He is pictured (see photo) with Dave van Mulken 2nd and Perry Sommers 3rd. Iain finished 2nd to Perry Sommers in the German hickory Champoinship
On the practice day of the tournament Iain gave a hickory clinic to all the competitors.

Dutch International Open (26-08-2010)
Hickoryclubs is organising, together with the owners of Landgoed Ullerberg, the first Dutch International hickory Open. The championship will be played on the 2nd of October on the unique historic private course with pure heather fairways. Rental sets will be availible on the day. Prospective competitors can contact me for more information.

Czech Hickory Open
As offical rental set partner hickoryclubs is supplying rental sets at the Czech hickory Open 2010.

Official club supplier (19-05-2010)
Hickoryclubs.eu is proud to have been chosen as the official club supplier for both the 2010 German Hickory Open and the Open de France Hickory 2010. We will be supplying a range of top quality sets for players without their own equipment.Players intrested in competing can contact me for more information.

The evolution of the golf swing (19-05-2010)
Iain Forrester gave 3 performances of his “the evolution of the golf swing” golf show (see photo’s),
which was well received. Iain was also displaying a range of antique clubs and balls on the stand of golfscotland.de




Film golf history (19-05-2010)
Iain has been asked by presenter/professional John Woof to help in the making of a 12 minute intructional film about golf history. The film will be broadcast on Sport1 during 2010.

Facebook (19-05-2010)
Iain has a facebook page dedicated to golf en hickory. Have a look at www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100000634002620

Eemnes visit (19-05-2010)
Hickoryclubs.eu has recently played hickory with a small groep of business people at the great golf course of the Goyer.

Intercoperate golf day,(back in time) at La Tournette (belguim) (08-09-2009)
The business club of golf club La Tournette had a lot of fun going back in time in May 2009.
Iain was on hand to provide advice on the art of playing hickory golf (see photo’s).

German champion 2009 (08-09-2009)
Iain Forrester owner of hickoryclub.eu won the inaugural German hickory Championship (see photo) which was played at the beautiful course of Bad Wildungen. Iain won with a score of 73, from a field that included the legendary American hickory player Randy Jensen (see photo). Later in the week Iain was less successful in the French Championship, finishing 6th.

Rheingolf Show in Cologne (15-05-2009)
Hickoryclubs.eu proved to be very popular with German golfer fans when we displayed our antique clubs, balls and playable sets during the Rheingolf show in Cologne this spring. 27000 golfers visited the show and a large percentage came to visit us on the Gold Scotland stand.

German Hickory Open (15-05-2009)
Hickoryclubs.eu is honored to have been chosen as official hickory set supplier for the German Hickory Open which will be played in August of 2009. Iain Forrester will also take part in this prestigious championship. More information and entry forms can be found at www.germanhickory.com

Speach training summit PGA Holland (10-01-2009)
Iain Forrester has been asked by the Dutch PGA to present a speach concerning the evolution of the golf swing during the national training summit in march 2009.

Hickory in style(10-11-2008)

World Hickory Open (10-11-2008)
Iain Forrester finished 23rd in the world Hickory Open that was played in Scotland in September 2008.

Van Lanschot Masters (10-11-2008)
Iain Forrester arranged all the hickory activities for the event organizer, Made in Scotland (see photo). Almost 200 visitors experienced hickory golf during this prestigious event. Top tour players Martin Laefeber, Joost Luiten, Ross Fisher and Nick Dougherty (see photo) also used hickory’s during their demonstration match.

Increased stock (18-06-2008)
Hickoryclubs has increased its stock of playable sets to 42, allowing for larger events with more participants to be catered for.

Hickoryclubs has a new specially made hickory period ball available for hickory events; the ball has been made using an original mould from 1920, and greatly increases the hickory experience. The ball is designed to reduce the wear and tear on the hickory clubs.

Iain Forrester will represent Hickoryclubs.eu during the World Hickory Open in Scotland in September 2008. The Championship is the most important international tournament on the hickory calendar. Top hickory players from over the whole world are competing.

Hickoryclubs has been asked to organized hickory events at de Golf societiet de Lage Vuursche and golf course Biddinghuizen for business golf specialist Made in Scotland.

The business club of Hoenshuis golf bv had a seasons ending, hickory experience in October 2008.

Hickoryclubs.eu supplied all the clubs to the Royal Haagsche Golf club when they celebrated their 115th anniversary in January of 2008. Almost 100 players, many in period clothing, competed on an unseasonably sunny day.