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Philanthropic 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,…
Read MoreNorthern Ohio PGA Section Foundation Hosts 2nd PGA HOPE Cup at Glenmoor Country Club
Jackson Township: It was the kind of day and the type of golf that every person who ever wore a uniform should – and can — be able to experience. Not any uniform, but a uniform of the United States Army. Or the United States Marines. Or the United States Navy or the United States…
Read MoreNovak/Junior Tour Championship in the Books and One Could Write a book about the 41st
AURORA: Fantastic finishes. Narrow victories and some not so narrow. Satisfying accomplishments and disappointing setbacks. Daring, come-from-behind efforts that led to storybook endings and some admirable come-from-behind efforts that just didn’t have that extra come-from-behind. There were three head-to-head, player-to-player face-offs over 36 holes and in one case, 39 holes. Three of the five age-group…
Read MoreIt Paid to Play Early in the First Round of Kenny Novak Junior Tour Championship
AURORA: The luck of the draw can be cruel and brutal or compassionate and merciful. Just ask the young players who had the misfortune of having a late tee time for the first round of the 41st Kenny Novak Junior Tour Championship on Tuesday. Or, feel free to reach out to the fortunates who played…
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