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How PGA WORKS is Helping Emily Jones Forge A New Path in the Game She Loves
Hayden Lewis, PGA The game of golf is all-reaching. It’s a universal game that connects us, challenges us, and can even forge a new path that we never even knew existed. Golf has continuously developed as a game that everyone can love and enjoy, and these days, its industry has become one of the most…
Read MoreMike Stone, Patrick Wilkes-Krier Win PGA Senior-Junior Team Championship
Click here for final results. Click here for a photo of Stone and Wilkes-Krier. By Craig Dolch Special to the PGA of America PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (Jan. 30, 2025) – Mike Stone of Perrysburg, Ohio, and Patrick Wilkes-Krier of Ann Arbor, Mich., could sense Thursday’s victory coming. After all, in the last three PGA Senior-Junior Team Championships, the duo finished…
Read MoreDrive, Chip & Putt 2025 Registration Now Open
Registration for the 2025-26 Drive, Chip and Putt season is now open. With more qualifying sites than ever before, there is an opportunity around every corner. Visit drivechipandputt.com to find a qualifier near you and sign up today! This season’s schedule includes 357 local qualifiers and 64 subregionals throughout the summer, and 10 prestigious venues will host…
Read MorePGA of America Board of Director Steve Parker Earns PGA Master Professional Designation
FRISCO, Texas (December 5, 2024) – PGA of America Golf Professional and Board of Director Steve Parker, Teaching Professional at Portage Country Club in Akron, Ohio, has earned PGA Master Professional status, the highest education designation a PGA of America Golf Professional can obtain. A Member of the Northern Ohio PGA Section, Parker joins a…
Read MorePepper Pike Club Head Professional Rob Moss to become 82nd NOPGA Hall of Fame Inductee
By: Tim Rogers, NOPGA Media WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS: Long-time Pepper Pike Club head professional Rob Moss, one of the most decorated players in the Northern Ohio Section of the Professional Golfers Association, will become the 82nd member of the organization’s Hall-of-Fame next month. Moss, who has won 14 of the NOPGA major championships during a storied 33-year…
Read MoreFirestone Country Club to Host the 104th Ohio Open Championship in 2025
Photo by Gary Kellner Story by Tim Rogers WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS: The Ohio Open Championship, one of the oldest and longest-running golf tournaments in the state, will move to the iconic Firestone Country Club for the 104th playing in 2025. The Ohio Open, conducted by the Northern Ohio Section of the Professional Golfers Association, is regarded as…
Read MoreNorthern Ohio PGA Announces 2024 Award Winners
WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS, OH – The Northern Ohio Section of the Professional Golfers Association (NOPGA) proudly announces its 12 award winners for the 2024 season. These distinguished professionals and associates will be honored during the section awards dinner on December 8th at the Cary Blair Center, adjacent to Westfield Country Club. The winners, selected by the NOPGA…
Read MoreNorthern Ohio Section dominates Singles Matches; and rolls to second straight Junior Ohio Cup title
By: Tim Rogers, NOPGA Media COLUMBUS: Victories come in different ways. Some arrive gift-wrapped, complete with a big red ribbon and a smiley face thanks in part to an opponents’ misadventures. Others are achieved through exemplary performance, snatching victory from the jaws of possible defeat as they say. Some are expected. Others are not. The levels of…
Read MoreAtchison, Lewicki, and McGuire Prevail in 50th Denny Shute Match Play Finals
By TIM ROGERS NOPGA MEDIA AKRON: Three matches. Three divisions. More than 80 holes. And so many story lines. Perhaps it was only fitting for the 50th playing of the Denny Shute Match Play Championships at Portage Country Club and you have to imagine old Densmore would have liked it that way. Let’s begin by…
Read MoreNOPGA Prevails in the 28th Ohio Cup; Pops the Cork over the end of the Streak
By Tim Rogers NOPGA Media MANSFIELD: Drama. The Oxford dictionary says drama is an exciting, emotional or unexpected series of events. You can find it in the theater with a bunch of Shakespeareans. Or you can find it on the big screen in a Marlon Brando or Bette Davis flick. Or you can find it…
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