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Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship awards $2.1 Million to area charities
Tournament officials announced today that the 12th annual Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship, concluded August 26, 2018, at The Ohio State University Golf Club, raised a total of $2,218,004 for central Ohio charitable organizations, including $2,104,254 for pediatric cancer research and treatment at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. The total marks the largest single-season charitable donation raised for […]
Marathon Classic Donates $554,000 to Northwest Ohio Children’s Charities
In December, the Marathon LPGA Classic Presented by Owens Corning & O-I distributed $554,000 to 17 northwest Ohio children’s charities today as a result of this year’s annual LPGA tournament. Since its inception as the Jamie Farr Toledo Classic in 1984, the tournament has generated a total of $10.8 million for 180 northwest Ohio children’s […]
Is TopGolf finally breaking ground in Cleveland?
TogGolf continues to expand with a new facility coming to Cleveland. It appears that work has begun on the proposed site at 5700 Brecksville Road, in Independence. The original announcement of TopGolf coming to Cleveland was made in January, but nothing official has been added since then. However, heavy equipment has been spotted moving dirt […]
Ohio Professional Wins Senior PGA Professional Championship
Bob Sowards has amassed over 17 wins at the PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie, Florida, but none as prestigious as the Senior PGA Professional Championship. Sowards resides in Dublin and is the Head Professional at Kinsale Country Club. He is the first winner of the Senior PGA Professional Championship from the Southern Ohio […]
Evans Scholarship Director John Kretzschmar Passes at age 82
John Kretzschmar was by training a plastics engineer. He saw the importance of plastics as a young man and along with his wife and a partner founded a successful plastics plant outside of Bowling Green, in northwest Ohio. Kretzschmar was a former caddie and became a tireless supporter of the Evan Scholars program not only […]
Stacy Lewis has Daughter
Toledo native and LPGA Tour Star Stacy Lewis gave birth to a beautiful baby girl Ocotober 25th. Lewis and her husband, Gerrod Chadwell, the women’s golf coach at the University of Houston are happy to welcome the new addition, Chesnee Lynn Chadwell. Lewis last played in the Marathon Classic in Toledo and hopes to return […]
Cleveland Pro on Golf Channel
Mike Pickett, Director of Golf at StoneWater Golf Club in Cleveland, has parlayed his artistic abilities into an appearance on Golf Channel for exceptional ability to carve pumpkins. Pickett has always enjoyed drawing and creating art, but his real talents lay in creating beautiful and unusual pumpkin carvings around Halloween. It takes between 40-75 minutes […]
U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur
Two Ohio women, Lynn Thompson & Suzi Spotleson both qualified in the Top 64 during the stroke-play portion of the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur, held at Orchid Island Beach & Golf Club in Vero Beach, Florida. Both, however were knocked out in the first round of match play.
Annual Ohio Cup Matches Results
In the 22nd renewal of the Ohio Cup, the Northern Ohio PGA Team defeated the Southern Ohio section 17-15. The annual Ohio Cup features a match-play format with teams comprised of the nine top section members, six senior members, plus one Captain’s Pick. The Northern Ohio PGA team started strong in the first day’s four-ball […]
OSU’s Jaclyn Lee Qualifies for 2019 LPGA Tour
The revamped method to qualify for the LPGA Tour, the Q-Series completed its two event, eight-round format early this month, with a Lady Buckeye near the top of the leaderboard. Instead of a five-round gauntlet, Q-School as in past years, LPGA Tour hopefuls competed in two 72-hole tournaments held at Pinehurst over two weeks at […]