Posts by Tim Rogers, Northern Ohio PGA Contributor

He was an astute businessman, an innovator, a manufacturer and a pioneer of sorts. He was a golfer. He was a husband and a father and a grandfather. He was a giver, never a taker. Above all, Gino Zavarella was a friend. And, local golf, from the juniors to the seniors and amateurs to the…

Jim Troy admits to having an affinity for old-style, traditional golf courses. The assistant pro at Mount Vernon Country Club proved it Wednesday when he cruised to a six-shot victory in the NOPGA Assistant Championship at the Mayfield Campus of Mayfield Sand Ridge Country Club. Troy was the only player in the 34-man field to…

We’ve heard it thousands of times from pros and amateurs alike and it rarely gets debated. Fairways and greens. It might sound cliché-ish and border on the mundane, but fairways and greens rarely lose a tournament. That was the plan Perrysburg’s Mike Stone plotted for himself at the start of the week and it paid…