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LPGA Names Pat Hurst 2021 Solheim Cup Captain
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
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 […]
Toledo Golf Show is Set for February
Winter is Golf Show season and the 12th annual Toledo Golf Show will be held February 21-23 at the Tam-O-Shanter Center in Sylvania. As always, Maple Hill Golf will have a huge display of everything a golfer needs to get ready for the links. The best deals on equipment will go to the early birds, […]
New World Handicap System
By Ed Travis The calculation of golf handicaps has gone global, with significant changes. For players in this country, however, the revised system will have minimum impact on their Indexes. The conversion to the World Handicap System will began January first in the United States and ten other countries, but will not be completed […]
Ace Indoor Golf Makes Winter Golf FUN!
For most golfers who take their game seriously (and there are a lot of very passionate people out there who consider golf their religion), the season is WAY too short. From the time the spring rains stop, to that first snowflake in late Fall, life can be heaven to a golfer. The winter months, when […]
Golf Never Forgets You and Is Always Awaiting Your Return
By Fred Altvater “Golf never forgets you and is always waiting for your return.” This quote, from by Tommy Barnes in Jim Dodson’s book, “The Range Bucket List,” has never been so true as Lara Tennant’s return to golf. Tennant has been playing golf as a young girl, but the game was never an all-consuming […]
Some Things are Bigger than Golf
By Fred Altvater There were several incidences over the past couple of months that confirmed my love for golf. Yes, I love to play and visit beautiful courses, but I am also proud of the billions of dollars generated for charity in this country every year through golf. Last month we saw Russell Henley call […]
Play Where the Pros Play: Innisbrook Resort
In March Innisbrook’s Copperhead Course plays host to the Valspar Championship, a stop on the PGA TOUR. The resort is located in Palm Harbor, Florida, slightly northwest of Tampa, but it’s so much more than just the famed Copperhead course and its treacherous ‘Snake Pit.’ The ‘Snake Pit’ is a collection of three holes beginning […]
Caddie Tales: Worldwide Travel on the Cheap
By Fred Altvater The life of a professional caddie can be very demanding. First you work long hours carrying a 40-pound bag filled with everything a professional golfer needs during a round of golf. There are also countless hours standing either on a practice range or putting green watching your guy hone his game. […]
Shirley Spork to be Inducted into PGA Hall of Fame
By Fred Altvater The PGA of America announced last month that Annika Sorenstam, David Marr, Davis Love III, plus LPGA founding member and longtime teaching professional, Shirley Spork would be inducted into the PGA Hall of Fame. Sorenstam, Davis Love and even Dave Marr are familiar names in golf, but the most intriguing inductee, plus […]