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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…

By Tim Rogers NOPGA Media MANSFIELD: Captain Mitch Camp needed a strong second- round performance and a strong second-round performance is what he got. With thoughts of last year’s debacle undoubtedly looming in their collective minds like a bad dream revisited, Camp’s Northern Ohio PGA team answered a collective gut-check in stunning fashion on Wednesday…

By Tim Rogers NOPGA Media Pepper Pike: The Regular Division was a two-horse race from start to finish and what a finish it was. The Senior Division had a few more contenders but a terrific start to the finish made it one-man show at the end. The Northern Ohio PGA’s 23rd Mitchell-Haskell Tour Championship ended…

By Tim Rogers NOPGA Media Pepper Pike: Michael Balcar and Blake Sattler have taken up residency at the top of the leaderboard in the Mitchell-Haskell Tour Championship. Click here for complete leaderboard We will learn on Tuesday if it is a permanent residency or just temporary – golf’s version of squatters’ rights — when the…

Grant Haefner (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan) came back from a three stroke deficit to win the 94th Habitec Toledo Open by two strokes after firing a final round 65 (-6) to follow up his first round 66 (-5). Haefner made 8 birdies on his way to his third professional win. Patrick Deardorff (Clarkston, Michigan) who shot…

By Tim Rogers, NOPGA Media MASSILLON: When Michael Balcar hits a golf ball it goes a long way, longer than hit by most of his contemporaries in the Northern Ohio Section of the Professional Golfers Association. How long was Balcar on Tuesday when he won the 55th NOPGA National Rental Car Assistants Championship for the…

By Tim Rogers NOPGA Media Mansfield: Steve Parker will admit that patience over the years has not been one of his stronger points during an otherwise successful career in the Northern Ohio Professional Golfers Association. It will be begrudgingly, but he will eventually say it and agree at his lack of patience – some will…

Mansfield: It was windy. It was unseasonably cold. It was wet after a brief overnight rain and the sun made fewer appearances than Halley’s Comet. Those adversities and a difficult golf course made things difficult for most of the 31 players on Monday during the first of two rounds in the 40th Northern Ohio PGA…

Favorites? Not hardly. Longshots? Perhaps. Maybe underdogs would have been a more appropriate tag to hang on Jim Troy, Randy Dietz and Mark Sierak before the start of the 47th Northern Ohio PGA Professional Championships at Tippecanoe Country Club on Monday. But, by Wednesday, after the final putt had fallen and the numbers had been…