Jim Krivanek gets the GOY trophy from Dave Chapple, while Tim Davis presents to Senior Jim Cea

FINAL RESULTS: AKRON DISTRICT GOLF ASSN
2011 GOLFER OF THE YEAR TOURNAMENT
RD1: Firestone Country Club West Course – Par 70
RD2: Firestone Country Club North Course – Par 72
RD3: Firestone Country Club South Course – Par 70
Sept 30 – October 2, 2011

SKINS ROUND THREE:
Main Division – $40.00 ea.
Thomas # 1
Mallette # 4
Peterson # 11
Trier # 17

Senior Division – $25.00 ea.
Cea #-3
Recht #-6
Wilson #-9
Cea #-12
Spino #13
Recht #16
Tarter #17
Seever #18
 

SKINS ROUND TWO:
Main Division – $35.00 ea
#1 Crewse
#7 Beal
#9 Beal
#14 Crewse
#18 Peterson

Seniors Division – $40.00 ea
#2 Hedrick
#8 Recht
#12 Davis
#13 Bell
#15 Lahnan
 

SKINS ROUND ONE:
Main Division – $75.00 ea.
Steve Feist (3) #5
Sean Hunka (3) #15
Pete Skirpstas (2) #17

Senior Division – $40.00 ea.
Tom Seever (3) #6
Larry Lahnan (4) #9 & (3) #11
Joel Recht (3) #10
Fred Miller (3) #15

The entry fee for the Golfer of the Year event is $195 and includes all three days of golf, carts, range, event entry fee and food — an incredible deal for three rounds at a nationally-recognized venue.

There will be optional (and extra) cash and skins pots available as well.

The following letter provided by ADGA Director Tim Davis outlines the GOY event format and each player’s entry requirements to confirm his spot in the field:

The Akron District Golf Association has had another outstanding year. The numbers were up in all of our tournaments this year.

I need to say thank you for all the continued financial support of area businesses: InfoCision, Lanning’s Restaurant, House of LaRose, Golf Galaxy, Edgar’s Restaurant, Fleming’s Steakhouse, Dr. Jeff Mallette, Foxy Golf, and the Printers Devil. Without your contributions it would make things difficult for our organization to survive.

Thanks also goes out to all of the area golf courses and golf merchants for continuous support of the ADGA throughout all the years.

Lastly and most importantly, thanks to all of you, the members of the ADGA, for your continued support for one of the longest running golf organizations in the state.

The points list for the Golfer of the Year are finally official. The top 24 and ties in both the Senior and the Regular Divisions automatically qualify for the 54-hole tournament at Firestone Country Club:

Friday Sept. 30, 2011 – West Course, 8:00 a.m. starting time
Sat. Oct. 1, 2011 – North Course, 12:00 p.m. starting time
Sun. Oct. 2, 2011 – South Course, 12:00 p.m. starting time

I need confirmation from each player who is planning to play that weekend by phone (330-608-2096), or by email by Saturday, September 24th at 6:00 p.m.

If I don’t receive confirmation from any player in the top 24 by Sept 24th, I will start working my way down the points list to secure another player for that spot.

The Northern Ohio PGA has donated one spot for the 2012 Ohio Open and one spot for the 2012 Ohio Senior Open for the winners in each division, another incentive to play and play well in the Golfer of the Year!

Congratulation to the top 24 in both divisions; see you at Firestone!

– Tim Davis

2011 ADGA POINTS LIST & GOLFER OF THE YEAR ELIGIBILITY

The top 24 below in each division are automatically eligible; the top 30 are listed so players past the initial 24 are aware of their standings should any of the 24 not commit by the deadline.

The threesome finished at 12-under par 130 in the shamble format (the best tee shot is selected like a scramble, but from there the players finish the hole on their own ball and two of three scores count for the team). That score was good for a two shot victory over the team of Carl Albright, Mike Riley and Lucas Murray, who won two skins worth $150 each to add some heft to the haul of their second place prize total.

In the Senior Division, the formidable veteran team of Jim Cea, Ron Bell and Fred Miller posted a solid 10-under par 132 to win by two shots over three teams. The winners also took three skins worth $40 each, a third of the available skins money.

Complete results below.

The updated ADGA Player of the Year totals will be posted to the ADGA website soon. The 3-M Shamble is the last ‘regular season’ event run by the ADGA until the Player of the Year tournament at Firestone September 30th – October 2nd, but points can still be earned for that event through the upcoming Ohio Publinx at Seven Hills, the Summit County Am and the Senior Summit County Am.
 

FINAL RESULTS: 2011 Akron Distric Golf Association 3-Man Shamble
Chippewa Golf Club, Doylestown, Ohio, Par 71 – Saturday, July 16th, 2011

The rough was thick and wet and the fairways were soaked in spots, but the greens were in fantastic shape given all of the rain during the previous two days. The long-hitting twosome of Krivanek and Skirpstas took advantage of those challenging conditions to edge out the teams of Dave Oates / Nick Lambos and Jon Lenton / Mike Heim.

In the Senior Division, Fred Miller and Larry Lahnan followed up their winning effort at the Ungvary Memorial a week ago with another first place finish in the ADGA better ball. Lahnan and Miller posted a sizzling 8-under par 64 to nip ADGA Director Tim Davis and his partner Tom Seever by one shot.

Complete results below. Updated 2011 Player of the Year points lists will be posted here soon: Main Division | Senior Division

The next event on the 2011 ADGA schedule is the 3-Man Shamble on Saturday, July 16th at Chippewa Golf Club in Doylestown; entry details here.

FINAL RESULTS: 2011 Akron District Golf Association
Nick Lazor Memorial 2-Man Better Ball Tournament
Saturday, June 26, 2011, Barberton Brookside Golf Club – Par 72

FINAL RESULTS: 2011 ADGA / SCAGA STROKE PLAY
Rd 1 – Raintree Golf Club, Uniontown – Par 72
Rd 2 – Rosemont Country Club, Fairlawn – Par 71
Saturday and Sunday, June 4-5, 2011

TOURNAMENT DIVISION:

SKINS: Sunday at Rosemont $65 ea
#3 Score 3 Crewse, Aaron
#5 Score 3 Grosso, Jim
#9 Score 3 Grosso, Jim
#10 Score 2 Essik, Richard
#11 Score 3 Clay, Josh
#15 Score 3 Loomis, Rob
#16 Score 3 Yacovazzi, Anthony

SKINS: Saturday at Raintree $90 ea
#2 Score 3 Braunlich, William
#8 Score 2 Braunlich, William
#10 Score 3 Kabasky, John
#14 Score 3 Tornabene, Joe
#16 Score 2 Mallette, Jeff

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SENIOR DIVISION:

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SENIOR SKINS: Sunday at Rosemont $84 ea
#6 Score 3 Miller, Ron
#13 Score 3 Miller, Fred
#17 Score 2 Spino, Sam

SENIOR SKINS: Saturday at Raintree $36 ea
#2 Score 3 Thompson, Tom
#3 Score 3 Cea, Jim
#4 Score 2 Martin, Fred
#6 Score 3 VanNostran, Doug
#12 Score 3 Recht, Joel
#14 Score 3 Miller, Ron
#18 Score 3 Spino, Sam

The ADGA’s Golfer of the Year is a year-long ranking system combined with a season-ending invitational tournament. Throughout the year, players are awarded points for competing not only in each of the ADGA’s events, but for other top local amateur tournaments as well (like the Ungvary, Summit County Am and several others). See the GOY event list here.

Late this fall, the top 24 players in each division will be invited to a season-ending tournament; in October 2011, that event will be conducted as a 54-hole individual stroke play tournament at all three of the courses at Firestone Country Club in Akron.

The Golfer of the Year points list has a main division for players under 50 years of age and a senior division for players 50+. The current GOY list is posted on the ADGA website. The 2010 ADGA Golfer of the Year was Mike Simpson.

The Ohio Open and Ohio Senior Open are conducted each year by the Northern Ohio PGA. David Griffith, Tournament Director for the Northern Ohio Section, confirmed on Friday that the ADGA’s Golfer of the Year winner in each division will earn a big added bonus in 2011:

- The ADGA’s Golfer of the Year points list winner for 2011 will receive a fully-paid exemption into the 2012 MinuteMenJobs.com Ohio Open, which will be held mid-July at Fox Meadow Country Club and Weymouth Country Club, both in Medina;

- The ADGA’s Senior Golfer of the Year points list winner for 2011 will receive a fully-paid exemption into the 2012 MinuteMenJobs.com Ohio Senior Open, which will be held Firestone Country Club’s West Course in Akron in early May.

Ronnie Bell rolls a long birdie effort on #2; he and Jim Cea take the ADGA 2-M BB Senior Division.

Jason Chadima holed a 6-iron from 175 yards for eagle on a par-5 while Mark Thomas made a bundle of birdies.

Jim Cea and Ron Bell showed that age means little and that getting it in the hole means everything, winning the Senior Division with the same final score as the main division.

Those were the two story lines from the Akron District Golf Association’s first event of the 2011 season, the Parke Thornton 2-Man Better Ball at Turkeyfoot Lake Golf Links on Saturday.

The greens at Turkeyfoot were perfect and the overall course conditions were surprisingly good, as it is one of the few courses in the area that drains well regardless of the amount of rain it receives. But truly challenging hole locations coupled with a schizophrenic weather pattern throughout the day kept the scores from going too far under par.

Chadima and Thomas used their long-shot hole-out eagle and a slew of birdies to post an impressive front nine score of 5-under par 31 at Turkeyfoot Saturday, on their way to shooting a 5-under par total of 66 and a two shot victory in the main division.

On the senior side, Cea and Bell matched that scoring effort with a 5-under par 66 of their own, good for a three shot win.

Complete results below. Photo gallery here.

The ADGA’s next event will be run in conjunction with SCAGA as an individual 36-hole stroke play event, played on Saturday, June 4th at Raintree GC and Sunday, June 5th at Rosemont CC. See the ADGA or SCAGA websites to register.
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FINAL RESULTS: 2011 ADGA PARKE THORNTON 2-M BB
Turkeyfoot Lake Golf Links, Akron Ohio – Par 71
Saturday, May 7th, 2010

MAIN DIVISION

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SENIOR DIVISION:

A whopping 45 teams are already registered and entries close Wednesday at 10 p.m. To sign up, visit the ADGA website.

We hope golfers from all over Northeast Ohio will join us in 2011 in the events of the ADGA!

Again in 2011, the ADGA will offer a Players Membership. While membership is not required to enter and compete in ADGA events, only ADGA members receive Ungvary Cup Points and Golfer of the Year qualifying points. Members also have the opportunity to obtain points in certain non-ADGA events. The cost of membership is just $50 for the year.

The 2011 tournament schedule features four open events, as in 2010. However the season-ending Golfer of the Year event has been increased to 54 holes, contested over three days on all three courses at Firestone Country Club. The top earners in the Golfer of the Year points race will be offered a chance to compete in this premium event.

Senior Membership will also be offered in 2011. Members (and non-member tournament participants) at least 50 years of age will have the opportunity to compete in the Senior Division. For team events, both players must be at least 50 years of age prior to May 7, 2011, to be eligible.

Payouts and points were increased in 2010, which will continue in 2011 to make our events more appealing. As in 2010, the amount of the 1st through 10th place is established prior to the event with depth of payouts dependent on the size of the field. First place ties are decided by a sudden-death playoff immediately after completion of play and continuing until the tie is broken. The balance of finishing positions are split as necessary.

As in 2010, ADGA Members will receive Ungvary Cup and GOY Points in select non-ADGA events. These points are only open to ADGA Members and will be awarded at the completion of each tournament. Points will be awarded in order of finish among Player Member participants. Points will be awarded in both the junior and senior players divisions.

See the Northeast Ohio Golf Tournament Calendar for all of the 2011 tournament dates.

For information on ADGA membership and to register for any of the tournaments of the 2011 ADGA season, visit ADGAgolf.com.