Jarred another one,” reports Bill Tucholski, who plays in the Michigan Hickory Tour. It seems that the holes are snapping at his golf balls like starving dogs looking for a meal. This one occurred Aug. 13, in Edmonton, Alberta, during a warmup round for the Canadian Hickory Open. It was on hole No. 3 of the Trestle Creek GC; 100 yards with a Stewart niblick. “Had to buy drinks for 40 of my closest friends,” Tucholski says. Tough it out, Bill, tough it out.
The Northwest Hickory Players report on several holes-in-one from its members. They have inaugurated what they are calling “The Dodo Club.” The dodo, reports Martin Pool, was a commonly-used term in the 1920s and 1930s to describe a hole-in-one. “It was thought that making a hole-in-one was as rare as sighting a dodo,” he says. “The term gradually faded from common usage and became extinct much like its namesake.” From official sources, then –The dodo was an extinct heavy flightless bird (Raphus cucullatus syn. Didus ineptus of the family Raphidae) of the island of Mauritius. It was larger than a turkey and was related to the pigeon.
The following are members of the exclusive Hickory Dodo Club of the Northwest Hickory Players.
Larry Buckingham – 2016
Galen Peterson – 2015
Martin Pool – 2014
Rob Ahlschwede – 2004
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