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Northern Ohio PGA Rallies in Foursomes to take 9-7 Lead in the 28th Annual Ohio Cup Matches at Westbrook
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…
Read MoreSattler Rallies, Rusnak Takes Charge Early to Win Mitchell-Haskell Tour Championship
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…
Read MoreBalcar, Sattler Lead Regular Division; Four Seniors Tied in Mitchell-Haskell
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…
Read MorePhilanthropic NOPGA Members Respond Again in Smucker’s Birdies & Charity
By Tim Rogers NOPGA Media Akron: It was a great day for golf and a better day for those in need. For the fifth consecutive year nearly 70 members of the Northern Ohio Section of the Professional Golfers Association stepped to the tee – many of them for 72 holes or more — in the…
Read MoreHaefner & Stone Win at 94th Habitec Toledo Open
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…
Read MoreBALCAR WINS THIRD NOPGA ASSISTANTS TITLE
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…
Read MoreParker Wins Senior Professional Championship; Pollack, Moss & Adcock Earn Qualifying Spots
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…
Read MoreParker Leads, Waitrovich Second In 40th NOPGA Senior Professional Championship
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…
Read MoreTroy, Dietz, Sierak, Hansen Prevail in NOPGA Professional Championship
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…
Read MoreSuitca Wins a Third and Troy is close to same in NOPGA Professional Championships
CANFIELD: It’s a tired, worn-out and mundane cliché that’s been repeated way too often in way too many stories. But a cliché probably never sounded better to Tannenhauf Golf Club professional Mary Suitca on Tuesday and barring a total collapse the same can hold true for Jim Troy, a teaching pro at The Golf Dome,…
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