Westfield Country Club member and frequent Chippewa Monday Big Skins Game player Jon Brown of Creston died suddenly on Thursday, Jan. 26 in Winter Haven, FL. He was 47.

Jon was a great guy, fun to be around, happy-go-lucky and never an angry word. He was also a heck of a player. It’s tough to lose someone like that from our group and our lives. [Read more →]

Is PGA Tour Player Kyle Stanley the long lost twin brother of Northeast Ohio am Ross Beal?

Watching Torrey Pines this past weekend, all I could think was that Kyle Stanley and Uniontown’s Ross Beal were twins separated at birth. Then CBS announcer Gary McCord said Stanley is 5′ 11″ tall, ending any potential DNA link to the 6’3″ Beal…

Sell your ‘pre-owned’ golf clubs. Review services like golf fitness classes, club fitting, video lessons, more. Look for golf course coupons and deals. Find a partner for an upcoming team event. These are the four categories initially offered for the NEOHgolf.com launch of the Golf Classified Ads Section!

As a welcome to all, every ad posting is FREE until April 15th! So test out the Northeast Ohio Golf Classified Ads today and see if you can’t clean out your club bin or find a buyer for what you’re selling! Give it a try; learn more here…

NEOHgolf.com is proud to welcome Financial Advisor Bryan Barragate and Ameriprise Financial as a Site Sponsor for the 2012 season.

A longtime competitive local amateur, a frequent NOGA player, and a member at Canterbury Golf Club, Barragate sees the opportunity to mix his love of tournament golf with the opportunity to help grow the financial situations of the people he’s met in the game. [Read more →]

In preparation for the 2012 golf season, expect some cool new features to be added to the Northeast Ohio Golf website in the coming weeks. Watch the site for more details on the launch of these concepts; you’ll like them.

Also, some brand new sponsors have already joined with NEOHgolf.com for the 2012 season, and they will be announced shortly. (Want to join that list of 2012 sponsors? Learn more here!)

UPDATE: Unfortunately, none of the pros with Northeast Ohio ties advanced through the second stage of the 2011 PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament. [Read more →]

With the start of November, it’s time to call it a season and wind down on 2011.

To the tournament players of Northeast Ohio, to the ‘executive directors’ of the golf events run throughout the area, and to the readers of this website who don’t play at a competitive level but simply want to keep up with tournament golf in Greater Cleveland — thanks once again for sharing another great golf season right here on NEOHgolf.com. [Read more →]

Derek Duda of Seven Hills completed the Cleveland Metroparks “Fall Tour Triple Crown” by being a part of the winning team at the Fall Tour 2-Man Scramble at Big Met on Saturday.

In chilly and wet conditions, Duda and partner Andrew Bailey shot an 11-under par score of 61 to win by two shots over last year’s Fall 2-Man champions, Brian Smith and Norton Brick. [Read more →]

Northeast Ohio Golf loves passing on tips that can save tournament players some money. So here’s one we’ve heard a couple of times now from a couple of different players: if you’re looking to book a practice round tee time at a specific golf course in advance of a tournament date, spending five minutes online can save you some cash. [Read more →]

Vaughn Snyder of Massillon advanced through the first stage of PGA Tour Qualifying School ‘on the number’ last Friday, finishing in a tie for the final spot at 6-under 282 at Grasslands Golf & Country Club, Lakeland, FL.

Brian Unk of Lewis Center easily made it through his first stage test, finishing T10 after shooting 289 (+1) in windy conditions at Deerwood Golf Club in Kingwood, TX.

And former Kent State player John Hahn of Hudson, now living full time in Las Vegas, tied for fourth place at 284 (-4) to advance from the qualifier at Pinewild Country Club in Pinehurst, NC.

While Snyder, Unk and Hahn will move on to second stage events in mid-November, other local players who also tested the Q-School waters did not fare as well. [NEWLY UPDATED] [Read more →]

In the three-and-a-half months he waited for his $5,000 payment from the LEGT and the National Hole in One Association, Matt Heestand never once made an online comment about the situation. Now he weighs in. [Read more →]

Parma amateur Matt Heestand received his $5,000 payment directly from the National Hole in One Association last Friday, October 14th, when the management team at NHIOA expedited the process after acknowledging the longer-than-usual delay.

Heestand made his hole-in-one at the Lake Erie Golf Tour event at Tam-o-Shanter Golf Course on June 30th. The LEGT had offered a $5,000 hole-in-one prize on its website to any player making an ace at any par-3 hole at any event throughout the 2011 season. But some missing and/or incorrectly completed paperwork by LEGT Director Chris Marino delayed the payment to Heestand for months. [Read more →]

Get your teammates together for the October scramble schedule and get your entries submitted now! On tap this weekend: Oak Harbor 6-M, the Barbour Cup, Twin Lakes 2-M and a biggie on Sunday, the Sawmill Creek 4-M… [Read more →]

To help Matt Heestand get the $5,000 hole-in-one prize he earned with an ace in the Lake Erie Golf Tour’s Tam-O-Shanter event, Northeast Ohio Golf contacted the insurance company that LEGT listed on their website as their sponsor, the National Hole-In-One Association.

Brad Henderson, the Advertising Manager for the National Hole-In-One Association, responded to NEOHgolf.com’s request for additional information about the LEGT’s unpaid prize to Heestand. [Read more →]

The plans were laid for a great night of golf, a carry-over skins pot, and the season’s final steak night. But Mother Nature raised the one finger salute instead.

The Chippewa Scratch League has been CANCELED once again for tonight, Monday, October 3rd due to wet conditions. Hopefully next week…

The Northern Ohio Golf Association announced today that Brad Steven of Quail Hollow Country Club and Norton Brick of Oberlin CC are the 2011 NOGA Players of the Year in the regular and senior divisions respectively. [Read more →]