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Spotleson Wins 3rd Ohio Women’s Mid-Am Title
They have only been holding the Ohio Women’s Mid-Am Championship for five years, but this year Suzi Spotleson defeated Brit Platt to win it for the third time. In June Spotleson also won the Senior Division of the inaugural Northeast Ohio Women’s Amateur Championship hosted by the Northern Ohio Golf Association.
Cara Heisterkamp Wins 2021 Ohio Junior Girls Championship
Cara Heisterkamp of Westlake shot a 6-under par 138 to capture the 45th Ohio Junior Girls Championship at Marion Country Club by five shots over Dublin’s Annika Namjunath. Cara has been an avid golfer since she was three years old and will be a sophomore at Rocky River Magnificat. The weather was an issue both days of the championship and Heisterkamp fought through […]
Ohio State’s Max Moldovan Sets NEW Scoring Record in Southern Amateur
Two-time OHSAA State Champion and now a sophomore at Ohio State, Max Moldovan shattered a 28-year-old scoring record held by Justin Leonard to win the Southern Amateur at Old Waverly Golf Club in West Point, Mississippi. Moldovan fired rounds of 64-68-65-67 and didn’t make a bogey in the final 36 holes. His 20-under par performance bested the previous scoring record by six shots.
Stefani & Young to Entertain at Solheim Cup
Gwen Stefani will headline the concert following the 2021 Solheim Opening Ceremonies on Friday, September 3. The three-time GRAMMY® Award winner and has achieved global success as a performer, songwriter, frontwoman for an iconic rock band and multi-platinum solo artist. She also won numerous awards, in addition to being a regular judge on NBC’s The […]
Ohio Amateur Championship will return to Canterbury Golf Club in 2023.
The Ohio Golf Association announced that the Canterbury Golf Club in Beachwood, Ohio will host the 117th Ohio Amateur Championship in July of 2023. They will celebrate the 30th anniversary of longtime Canterbury Golf Club member Robert Fairchild’s Ohio Amateur Championship title. At the age of 42 Fairchild won the 1993 Ohio Amateur Championship on his home course in a playoff […]
I Got This Foundation to Hold Special Skills Invitational at Wedgewood
Remember Amy Brockerstette, the young lady with Downs Syndrome? In 2019 she made a new friend, when she parred the par 3, 16th from a green side bunker at TPC Scottsdale with Gary Woodland ahead of the Waste Management Phoenix Open. At the time Woodland commented, “That is by far the coolest thing I’ve ever […]
Ohio State Red-Shirt Freshman Jillian Bourdage Finished Runner-up at U.S. Women’s Four-Ball
A pair of 17-year-olds, Texan Savannah Barber and Alexa Saldana, from Mexico walked away with the 2021 USGA’s Women’s Four-Ball Championship contested at Maridoe Golf Club in Dallas. The winners defeated Jillian Bourdage a Red-Shirt Freshman at Ohio State and Casey Weidenfeld, who will a Freshman at Auburn University this fall. For the Bourdage/Weidenfeld team, […]
Ohio to Host 6 Professional Golf Tournaments in 2021
The 2021 Ohio Golf season kicked off early and it will last into November. Buckeyes will be able to watch the best men and women golfers in the world play in events around the state this year. Of course, it all starts with Jack Nicklaus and Muirfield Village Golf Club hosting PGA Tour pros in […]
Renee Powell’s Clearview Legacy Foundation Beneficiary of LPGA Event
The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) announced a partnership with KPMG and the Mariah Stackhouse Foundation to sponsor an event at the Bobby Jones Course in Atlanta. Proceeds from the inaugural Renee Powell Clearview Legacy Benefit, celebrating Renee and her father, William Powell’s legacy, will be donated to the Clearview Legacy Foundation Set to take […]
Ohio Loses A Golf Legend
A former Ohio State Buckeye golfer and four-time winner on the PGA tour, Jerry McGee passed at the age of 77. Born in New Lexington, McGee played on the Buckeye Golf Team in the mid-1960’s and joined the PGA Tour in 1967. His first win came at the 1975 Pensacola Open. He won again in […]