Category — Golf Chatter

Hard to believe, but the fall golf season is fast approaching. It’s time to get your entries in for some of these early autumn tournaments: [Read more →]

I want to encourage everyone to help us finish The Medalist Tour’s season strong!

We still have five events remaining on our schedule, including our Tour Championship plus a brand new event that we are announcing today. [Read more →]

Champion Ty Kovach attempts his birdie putt on the 11th hole at Chippewa Sunday.

Ty Kovach of Medina played a spectacular round of golf in the most difficult of setups and conditions on Sunday to win the 2010 Chippewa Championship in convincing fashion.

Kovach posted a sterling even par 71 in windy conditions (and with those hole locations!) to win by three shots over perennial champion David Oates of Canton. [Read more →]

In response to the stories posted yesterday related to The Medalist Tour court case and the Coshocton Hospital Pro-Am, professional golfer Scott Holmes of Blacklick sent the following emails to Northeast Ohio Golf today: [Read more →]

Scott Holmes of Blacklick was awarded $800 as the first place prize due to him from The Medalist Tour LLC by a magistrate in Canton Municipal Court today, after the magistrate surprisingly cited the Dustin Johnson episode at last weekend’s PGA Championship as one reason for the decision. [Read more →]

PGA Professional Doug Davis of River Greens Golf Club in Coshocton provided the following response by email when asked by Northeast Ohio Golf about rumors of cheating brought up by a number of professionals at this year’s playing of the Coshocton Hospital’s Charity Pro-Am on August 6th: [Read more →]

The Medalist Tour and player Scott Holmes will meet in Canton Municipal Court this Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. to let a judge decide if Holmes actually shot the winning score in the Freedom Classic at The Quarry Golf Club in Canton on July 3rd of this year, and if he should collect the winner’s share. [Read more →]

Chippewa Golf Club owner Kevin Larizza is asking the players for their thoughts in deciding just how difficult the pin positions should be set for this weekend’s Chippewa Championship! Larizza has placed an online poll on his Chippewa GC website and is letting you vote! [Read more →]

In the past, Chippewa Golf Club owner Kevin Larizza has set a few of his championship’s hole locations in what only can be described as “ironman scramble pins”. This setup has led often to huge scores for a number of players, as the sloping greens of Chippewa can send even well-played pitches and putts racing off down the hills.

Kevin has pulled back on this practice a bit in the last couple of years. But here and now I ask Kevin directly to eliminate “ironman pins” from the Chippewa Championship all together: the quality golf course conditions that superintendent Brad Stewart provides should stand alone as the challenge of the event. [Read more →]

The Munson Township trustees had their first public meeting last night about the proposed purchase and closing of Fowlers Mill Golf Course for water restoration and the creation of a rural park. A whopping crowd of over 200 people showed up at the meeting to voice their disgust over this idea, and the Munson Township trustees did their best to placate the crowd by downplaying and/or deferring their decision as final. But they didn’t squash the idea, either. [Read more →]

Guys on the east side looking for a competitive event this weekend have a $100 Pins & Skins event option on Sunday. Jarrod Dixon will run the game as a 1:30 shotgun start August 15th at the Harbor Golf Club (formerly the Ashtabula Country Club, a pretty good golf course). [Read more →]

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