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Steve Parker Wins Senior Professional Championship
Five Ohio Pros Qualify for PGA Senior Professional Championship. Steve Parker demonstrated a lot of game and plenty of patience over 36 holes to win the 40th NOPGA Senior Professional Championship at an extremely windy and testy Westbrook Country Club. Parker fired two rounds of 69-70, five-under par, to earn a three-shot victory. Scott Pollack, […]
Andrew Bailey Repeats As Ohio Amateur Champion
Sylvania Country Club hosted the 2024 Ohio Amateur. Andrew Bailey from Shaker Heights fired four rounds of 67-70-66-66 to get to 19-under par and best the runner-up Xenia’s Tyler Goecke by a single stroke. Eight players finished tied for third place at 13-under par. Sylvania’s rolling terrain and tree-lined fairways proved to be no match […]
Maricocchi Wins Ohio Mid-Amateur
The Ohio Mid-Amateur Championship was held at Coldstream Country Club in Cincinnati with Domenic Maricocchi, from Cincinnati finishing at even par for the three rounds and besting Delaware’s Jeg Coughlin III by five shots. Maricocchi was a member of the University of Dayton Men’s Golf Team and is now volunteers as an assistant coach for […]
Western Amateur Was Held At Moraine Country Club
The Western Amateur is annually one of the best amateur golf tournaments in the world. It has been a prestigious national championship since 1899 and many great players have etched their names on the George R. Thorne Trophy. The field features 156 of the best amateur golfers from across the world. Contestants play 36 holes […]
Gabby Woods Wins Women’s Ohio State Amateur Title
The 101st Women’s Ohio State Amateur Championship was held last month at Belmont Hills Country Club. Gabby Woods survived the battle of attrition and earned a berth in the U.S. Women’s Amateur at Southern Hills in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Gabby started fast grabbing 1-up lead after the first hole of the championship match against the No. 3 seed Cara Heisterkamp. […]
Ohio’s Cheryl Fox Wins Tennessee Women’s Senior Open
The Tennessee Women’s Open began in 1999 and has been contested at the Stonehenge Golf Club in Fairfield Glade for the last 16 years. Past winners include LPGA members and top amateur players. Stonehenge, designed by Joe Lee, sits on the rolling landscape on the Cumberland Plateau and is a 6,549 yard par 72 layout. […]
Buckeye Neal Shipley Had a Tremendous Year
Last August OSU’s graduate transfer recorded a runner-up finish at the U.S. Amateur, which gained him entry into the 2024 Masters. He made the cut, won the Silver Medal as the Low Amateur and received national attention playing with and besting Tiger Woods in the final round on Sunday. He then rolled that into his […]
Max Moldovan earns PGA Tour Americas membership
Another Buckeye with big aspirations and someone to watch in future professional golf tournaments is Max Moldovan. The graduating senior who helped lead his team to the NCAA Semi-Finals has earned status on the PGA Tour Americas from finishing inside the Top 25 in the PGA Tour University rankings. PGA Tour University is designed to […]
Ohio Women Wrap Up NCAA Spring Season
KSU women Do IT AGAIN!! Kent State is still the only women’s golf team to win the Mid-America Conference (MAC) Women’s Golf Championship. In the 25-year history of the MAC Women’s Golf Championship, KSU has won every title. Two of the Golden Flashes, sophomore Leon Takagi and senior Hester Sicking both finished tied atop the MAC leaderboard and […]
Dana Open Announces “Champions for Children” to Support Local Children’s Charities
The Dana Open, one of the longest running events on the LPGA Tour schedule, announced that it will expand on the tournament’s four-decade commitment to raising local support and national awareness for the charities committed to improving the lives of children. “Champions for Children” emphasizes a holistic focus on children’s health and the factors that […]