Dave Oates hits his drive off the 10th tee during Saturday's Summit County Am first round.

Dave Oates posted a smooth 2-under par 69 to grab the overnight lead after the first round of the 2010 Summit County Amateur Golf Championship at Good Park Golf Course on Saturday.

Oates leads by a single shot over six players, and a whopping 33 players are within four shots of the lead. Look for a shoot-out in tomorrow’s final round! [Read more →]

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Photos from the 2010 Summit County Amateur Golf Championship, played Saturday, July 31 and Sunday, August 1 at the Good Park Golf Course in Akron, Ohio:

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When Joey Hurtuk, Phil Bojc, Les Brock and Josh Mayle teed it up last Wednesday in the Kent State Blue & Gold Alumni Golf Outing at the KSU Golf Course, it seemed like just another day of scramble golf for these four friends.

But by day’s end, the foursome was scheduling an expenses-paid trip to Pinehurst (including two rounds at famed #2) and one of the guys had the keys to a brand new $56K car. [Read more →]

It was a beautiful night for golf at Fowlers Mill in Chesterland on Thursday, and the three players who came away with a skin that evening enjoyed it even more.

First up, Rob Skebe captured his first skin of the year with a birdie on the 375-yard par-4 second hole. [Read more →]

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Vaughn Snyder became the first professional to capture three titles in the inaugural Medalist Tour season by shooting a 4-under par 67 to win The InfoCision Copley-Fairlawn Open at Rosemont Country Club.

And InfoCision CEO Carl Albright wore two hats on Tuesday: sponsor and player. By the end of the day, he went home wearing a crown, shooting a 1-under par 70 and winning the Amateur Championship Flight. [Read more →]

Chris Okeson came out of the gate birdie-eagle-birdie, and that sizzling hot start put him and partner Rob Schustrich on their way to earning half of the carry-over skins pot, a one shot win at Week 11, and a huge jump up the season-long money list of the Chippewa Scratch League. [Read more →]

The local qualifying tournament for the 2010 U.S. Amateur golf tournament Monday had a distinctive Mid-American Conference flavor with a heavy dose of Kent State. [Read more →]

Last week, Northeast Ohio Golf wrote in three different stories that the Munson Township trustees, in conjunction with the Northeast Ohio Sewer District and the Geauga County Park District, have submitted an application to the Ohio EPA in an effort to obtain $5.1 million in “water clean-up funding” to purchase — and then close — the nationally-recognized Fowlers Mill Golf Course in Chesterland.

It was also reported (based on a story in the Lake County News Herald) that Todd Peterson’s investment group, FMGC LLC, paid $3.1 million for the property in December of 2009.

Those stories concluded that courtesy of taxpayer money, the investment group potentially could earn a $2 million windfall in just nine months.

But in reality, the windfall would be much greater than $2M, as the purchase price from last December was not correctly reported by the News Herald. [Read more →]

As the last group of the day was still grinding it out on the golf course in search of a win, Lucas Murray of East Sparta was sitting in the clubhouse waiting.

Starting the day tied for ninth place and five shots off the lead, Murray’s final round six-under par 65 at the Sanctuary Golf Club in North Canton was an incredible turn-around, giving him a three shot victory in the 2010 Stark County Amateur Golf Championship with a 54-hole total of even par 215. [Read more →]

Final results from the 36-hole Cleveland Amateur Golf Championship Qualifying Events and Course Championships, played at Sleepy Hollow, Big Met, Manakiki and Shawnee Hills Golf Courses July 24-25, 2010. [Read more →]

Doug Hauenstein earned a comeback win in the resident’s division of the 2010 Portage County Amateur Golf Championships Sunday, posting an even par 71 at Aurora Country Club for a 149 total to win by a single shot over Rob Schustrich and John Oyster.

In the Open Division (non-county residents), Kevin Miller ran away from the field with a score of 144, good for an 8-shot win and the overall championship.

For complete results from these divisions plus scores from the Women, Senior and Super-Senior divisions, [Read more →]

2010 Portage County Amateur Golf Championships
First Round Results: Saturday, July 24th
Windmill Lakes Golf Course, Ravenna – Par 70
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Results from Round 2 of the 54-hole Stark County Amateur Golf Championship, played on Saturday, July 24, 2010 at Seven Hills Country Club in Hartville. [Read more →]

Results from the first round of each of the 36-hole Cleveland Metroparks Golf Course Championships / Cleveland Amateur Championship Qualifying Tournaments, played on Saturday, July 24, 2010 at Sleepy Hollow, Big Met, Manakiki and Shawnee Hills: [Read more →]