Columnist: Fred Altvater

Fred AltvaterFred Altvater is a certified USGTF Level III Golf Instructor, who is the Publisher of the Ohio Golf Journal. He is also a radio show host for the Back 9 Report and has a Roku channel, also called the Back 9 Report.

He enjoys giving golf lessons that help golfer’s of every ability. During his hands-on lessons, he specializes in quickly assessing a golfer’s weakness and helping them correct it in a way that creates an immediate improvement in their game. Get his FREE 5 steps to taking strokes off your game online course with videos at Thought Leaders Online Courses.

2020 Winter Golf Tour was the Trip of a Lifetime!

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My wife and I have finally returned home after extensive travel from Florida to Arizona. During the trip we visited several fantastic golf resorts and points of interest on the Gulf Coast and throughout the Southwestern United States. We especially enjoyed our time in Biloxi, Southern Alabama, Lake Charles, Louisiana, Santa Fe, New Mexico and […]

Is It Time for a World Golf Tour?

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Carlos Torres & Fred Altvater The golf world has been learning more about the proposed Premier Golf League that wants to feature the top 48 players in the world in an 18-tournament league offering $10 million purses, mandatory play, with both a team and individual components. Currently several PGA Tour events offer total purses much […]

Tour Edge Talks New Products for 2020

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Jon Claffey explains Tour Edge’s Full Line of Golf Equipment to Fit every Golfer in 2020.

Jack’s Back at Reynolds Lake Oconee Great Waters Course

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Reynolds Lake Oconee recently re-opened the Great Waters Course. Designed by Jack Nicklaus and originally opened in 1994, Nicklaus completely renovated the entire course and updated it to modern standards.

Is Golf Really Broken?

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At the 2020 PGA Show, the International Network of Golf (ING) hosted their annual state of the industry presentation from analytics veterans Jim Koppenhaver of Pellucid Corp and Stuart Lindsay of Edgehill Consulting. Some key data highlights from their presentation: – 2019 showed 20.6 million golfers played 432 million rounds. Those numbers are comparable to 2018, but are well below 2000, when there […]

Calm Down Everything Will be OK

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New World Golf Handicap System is different, but you will get used to it.   Take a deep breath and calm down, the new World Handicap System creates a few minor changes, but it will all work out in the end. Some of you may have seen a slight change in your handicap as the […]

Coastal Alabama is Perfect for Golfing, Dining & Beaching

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By Fred Altvater   Gulf Shores and Orange Beach on the Gulf Coast of Alabama have been providing the perfect beach and golf resort for travelers for over 30 years. Gulf Shores was a one-course, sleepy retirement village in the early 1980’s. In 1985, a local sod farmer, Robert Craft was searching for ways to […]

A New Event for Junior Champions: We Are The Fifty

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By Fred Altvater   A New National Competitive Golf Event for Girls and Boys from all 50 United States Launches in June 2020 at Hammock Beach Resort.   We Are The Fifty is a new national golf tournament that brings the top junior golfers from all 50 states together for one event. Only the junior […]

LPGA Names Pat Hurst 2021 Solheim Cup Captain

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With the Solheim Cup coming to Toledo’s Inverness Club in 2021, the LPGA announced that Pat Hurst would lead Team USA. Juli Inkster has served as captain for the last three Solheim Cups registering two wins and a loss. She was asked to do it again, but respectfully declined, “been there done that.” Pat Hurst […]

Evans Scholarship Foundation Selects 26 Ohio Caddies

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By Fred Altvater   Golf Clubs from around Ohio that support the Evans Scholarship Foundation met at the Inverness Club in January to conduct oral interviews with 26 caddies, who had been nominated to receive a fully paid college tuition, as well as, room and board. Imagine 17 and 18-year-old kids standing in front of […]
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