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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…

In another down to the wire victory, the Southern Ohio PGA defeated the Northern Ohio PGA 16.5 to 15.5 during the 26th Ohio Cup Matches which were held at Barrington Golf Club on October 4-5. In other years at other venues there have been other losses that hurt. But, this loss seems to hurt a…

A pair of Summit County golfers came to Stark County and walked away with all the hardware on Tuesday in the Northern Ohio PGA’s 21st Mitchell-Haskell Tour Championship at Brookside Country Club. Randy Dietz, of Tallmadge, won event for the second time in four years when he rolled in a birdie putt on the third…

On Monday after experiencing an hour and a half rain delay, forty-six players battled the course, each other, and wet conditions during the first round of the NOPGA Mitchell Haskell Tour Championship at Brookside Country Club in Canton, Ohio. The Regular Division leaderboard is crowded at the top with four players (DJ Holub, Adam Lewicki,…

Two Northern Ohio PGA Members took top honors in the Senior Division of the Habitec Toledo Open earlier this week. Steve Parker, NOPGA Past President, backed up his first round leading 69 with a 1-over par 72 on Tuesday to earn a three shot victory over Perrysburg’s Mike Stone, PGA. The Habitec Toledo Open was…

On a cold and drizzly day at The Mayfield Sand Ridge Club – Mayfield Campus, Michael Balcar, the Assistant Golf Professional at Brandywine Country Club, shot back-to-back rounds of 2-under 69 for a 36-hole total of 4-under 138 to become the first repeat winner of the NOPGA National Car Rental Assistant Professional Championship since Jim…

Jim Troy became the first repeat winner of the Northern Ohio PGA Professional Championship since Rob Moss’s five-year winning streak from 2010-2014 with a dynamic performance when nothing less than a dynamic performance would suffice. Troy, who recently became an PGA Assistant Golf Professional at Windmill Golf Center after several years with the Honma Golf…

The top of the leaderboard at the Professional Championship is a group of familiar strangers? Jim Troy, Darin de Lelys and Jason Carbone – the tri-leaders by one stroke heading into Wednesday’s final 18 holes at Westfield Country Club — have a more than just their score in common. Yet, when it comes to this…

Tannenhauf Golf Club PGA Head Professional Mary Suitca shot a final-round 2-over 72 to win the NOPGA’s Ladies Professional Championship for the second straight year. Suitca, who won the inaugural event at Lakewood Country Club last year, played Westfield’s North Course to a two-day total of 75-72-147, to win by a comfortable seven shots. To…