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Westfield Center: We have a college graduate student and a college golf coach. We have a PGA Head Golf Professional who also happens to be a former tournament champion and we have a long-time professional who also happens to be a former Big Ten champion. If the top of the leaderboard of the 102nd Ohio…

Westfield Center: Perseverance, patience and a whole lot of understanding. That’s what everyone associated with the 102nd playing of the Pyramid Treating Ohio Open – players, officials, grounds crew, media and any spectators who braved Monday afternoon’s persistently impersistent weather — had to have during the elongated second wave of the opening round at Westfield…

The Ohio Open, sponsored by Pyramid Treating and Presented By DEX Imaging, will be played June 26-28 over Westfield Country Club’s two distinctively different courses for the third consecutive year. Tournament Information & Pairings —— Visit northernohio.golf for complete coverage.—— The previous record was 276 entries, set last year when the Open returned to Westfield…

Bob Sowards, PGA won the Michelob Ultra Ohio Senior Open for the fifth consecutive year with a final-round two-under 68 for a 36-hole total of 5-under 135 and a two-shot victory over Loveland’s Mike Thomas (69-68). Sowards who is turning 55 soon has been eligible to participate in the event for five years and has…

One man has been there so often someone joked the Northern Ohio PGA should just retire the trophy and let him take it home. The other man has been close but has never been to the top of the mountain, so to speak. This scenario sets up what could be an intriguing finish to today’s…

Four members of the Northern Ohio PGA will be competing in the PGA Professional Championship beginning Sunday (April 30) in Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico. The four qualified for the 56th PGA Professional Championship by virtue of their finish in the 2022 NOPGA Professional Championship, held in August at Westfield Country Club. Good Luck to…

The Northern Ohio Section of the Professional Golfers Association of America started its 77th season on Monday with the first stroke play event of 2023. Nearly 100 events — spanning from stroke play tournaments for Section professionals, competitions for junior golfers to the PGA Hope program – are scheduled as the Section continues to provide…

The NOPGA crowned two champions on Thursday in the final competitive event of the season. Youngstown Country Club PGA Assistant Golf Professional Jon Jones won the Senior Division of the Denny Shute Memorial Match Play Championship for the second time – and his fourth overall — and Pepper Pike Club Assistant Golf Professional DJ Holub…

Never let it be said that members of the Northern Ohio Section of the Professional Golfers Association of America cannot handle the cold, the wind and the wet that can be Northeast Ohio any time after Labor Day. A handful of Section members proved otherwise on Wednesday. They laughed in the face of brutal weather…