A first-hand account that the NEOHgolf.com Classified Ads work: I sold my TaylorMade R7 driver last night to a gentleman I had never met prior to our transaction.

He now has the driver he’s been looking for, and I have money I can toss into the next big skins pot. Win-win.

If you have golf gear you want to sell, list it for FREE! in the Classified Ads section of Northeast Ohio Golf. Pick a club that’s taking up space in your garage, take a picture of it, post the details, list a price, and get it sold…

The Lake Erie Golf Tour, a professional mini-tour tournament series with a separate amateur division, plays its first event of the 2012 season this Friday at Ohio Prestwick Country Club in Uniontown. Players interested in competing in that event (or the rest of the series) should review the Lake Erie Golf Tour website.

In their meeting Monday night, the Aurora City Council approved an agreement to use Ohio EPA taxpayer funds to give a whopping $3.9 million to current Aurora Golf Club owner Hunter Banbury, so together they can shut down the golf course and turn it into a park and river restoration project.

Even with the inflated $3.9 million dollar purchase price, Banbury still retains ownership of the 10 commercially-zoned acres around the clubhouse and its main buildings — a sweetheart deal by any definition. Banbury paid $2.5 million for the entire property in 2007.

So what, if anything, can still be done? [Read more →]

It was an email break-up after an early April fling: sorry, it just didn’t work out.

Long time Chardon pro Dwayne Randall, who is now head professional at Peek-n-Peak Resort in western NY, received an email from The Big Break with the bad news last week that he had not made the final cut for the next installment of the golf reality TV show. [Read more →]

[UPDATE: as of Tuesday evening, 50 teams are already entered!]  The golf course played tough at the ADGA’s 2-Man Better Ball last Saturday, and the conditions for this coming Saturday’s 2-Man Scramble at Turkeyfoot Golf Links should be the same — maybe even more so! A couple days of rain with some sun and warmer temps should speed up the greens by this weekend. A big field is expected once again for Saturday’s 2012 Turkeyfoot 2-Man Scramble. Entry details here; entry deadline is this Thursday, May 10th at 9 pm. Watch NEOHgolf.com for starting times and results.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer ran a survey for the past six weeks asking for votes for the best this-that-and-the-other-category as it relates to golf in Northeast Ohio. On Sunday, the results were in. [Read more →]

UPDATED AFTER ORIGINAL POSTING: Ohio EPA response now included… — Two weeks ago, Northeast Ohio Golf wrote about how the Mayor of the City of Aurora was working with the Trust for Public Land to obtain financing to buy then close Aurora Golf Club for the purpose of ‘water conservation’.

The Mayor’s press release on the project seemed to infer that the $4.5 million dollars for the purchase was coming from grant sources being secured by the Trust for Public Land.

But thanks to the sharp eye of Aurora resident George Heisler, it is now clear that the Ohio EPA is the real source for the $4.5 million dollar ‘grant’ in the same way that the failed Fowler’s Mill ‘restoration project’ was to be financed back in 2010, and that the money is merely being passed through to the Trust for Public Land to provide political cover for the Aurora Mayor, the City Council and perhaps even the Ohio EPA.

Even more outrageous, the Mayor’s ordinance as written tries to force through the buy-and-close legislation as an ‘emergency measure’ that only requires a single vote for immediate implementation if approved by six council members, thereby eliminating further public discussion on the process. [Read more →]

Time to get on the phone, send some emails, text your teamies. Because the early spring scrambles and team events are upon us, and it’s time to get your entries submitted so you don’t get shut out. Let NEOHgolf.com help you set your team golf schedule… [Read more →]

FINAL RESULTS
2012 Stark County Amateur Golf Association
2-Man Scramble
The Sanctuary Golf Club, North Canton, Ohio
Saturday, April 21, 2012 | Par 71 [Read more →]

The sweeping, tree-lined view of the downhill then uphill 9th hole at Aurora Golf Club

According to a press release issued by the office of the Mayor of the City of Aurora, another Northeast Ohio golf course has been targeted for closing for the questionable purpose of ‘watershed conservation and restoration’. [Read more →]

Golf pro Dwayne Randall, a long-time Chardon resident and successful tournament player, will spend a few hours in Orlando tomorrow for an in-person range session and camera test as an audition for the upcoming season of the Golf Channel’s “The Big Break” reality show. [Read more →]

Chris Plute is looking for players interested in joining a competitive 9-hole 2-man scratch league at The Fairways at Twin Lakes in Kent on Thursday evenings in 2012. Plute has provided the following details and contact information:
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Call it our own little marketing experiment. Or our gift to area golfers who have a basement full of clubs. But we’ve decided to make the Northeast Ohio Golf Classified Ads FREE for the entire 2012 season to test the concept. So visit the section, post an ad, check out the existing listings, and buy or sell…

A new pro golf mini-tour series has been announced with a mid-May kickoff. It will feature 11 events across Northern Ohio, running as far east as Boulder Creek GC in Streetsboro, as far south as The Quarry in Canton, and as far west as Maumee Bay GC in Oregon.

Kent Prine announced the launch of the Buckeye Tour last Thursday in the following press release, but there are still a number of unanswered questions: [Read more →]