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AKRON, Ohio: Whether you are a first timer or a multi-timer winning an event that is regarded as a major will put a smile on your face as wide as the widest fairway. So it was on Wednesday during the final day of the Denny Shute Memorial Match Play Championships at Portage Country Club. Two…

Grove City, Oh. –You could blame it on home-course advantage. But, in the end there was only one reason why the Northern Ohio Section’s five-year winning streak came to an end during the 25th Ohio Cup at the Pinnacle Club on Wednesday. The SOPGA simply played better when it mattered most – during the third-round…

Grove City, Oh. – It was more than nine hours of golf with some great and not so great shots. Day One of the 25th Ohio Cup got a late start because a two hour delay caused by dense fog hovering over the Pinnacle Club. And Day One never did reach its entirety as the…

WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS, Ohio: The Northern Ohio Section of the Professional Golfers Association of America will attempt to win for the fifth straight year when the 25th annual Ohio Cup is played at the Pinnacle Golf Club, in Grove City, October 4-6. Coming on the heels of the 43d Ryder Cup, the Ohio Cup is a…

Chardon, Ohio- The East Team will retain the Assistants Cup for the second year in a row. After a slow start in the fourball matches the morning of day one, the East Team made a nice comeback in the Foursome matches to square the match after the first day of competition. The West Team won…

Pepper Pike: Par is a good. No doubt. Jim Troy and Steve Parker showed Tuesday that beating par is better. A lot better. Full Leaderboard Troy and Parker were in select company as the only players in the field of 44 to beat par at The Country Club and it led to winning their respective…

Pepper Pike: Can Pepper Pike Club’s Rob Moss pull off the Northern Ohio PGA’s version of the double play? We will find out on Tuesday when the final round of the Mitchell-Haskell Tour Championship is played at The Country Club. Moss, one of the Section’s most decorated players, shared the lead of the Regular Division…

MEDINA, Ohio: For Michael Balcar it was a blistering first round. For Darin de Lelys is was a sterling second. Full Results That was the formula those players used over 36 holes to prevail in the Northern Ohio PGA Assistant Professional Championship at a windy Weymouth Club on Tuesday. Balcar opened with a sizzling 6-under…

WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS, Ohio: David Griffith will take a few days off but that does not mean he will stop working. Griffith, in his second year as the Executive Director of the Northern Ohio Section of the Professional Golfers Association of America, has been selected to serve as a rules official for the playing of the…

ORANGE VILLAGE, Ohio: It took 54 holes, the aggravation of several weather stops and restarts and eventually a couple of playoffs but the Northern Ohio Nine were finally determined on Wednesday during the Northern Ohio PGA Professional Championship at Beechmont Country Club. At the end of the long and wet day, Jim Troy wiped out…