Category — State & National Associations

Entry blanks for the 2010 Ohio Amateur Golf Championship at Kirtland Country Club are now available! See the OGA’s tournament schedule page for details and to download a PDF entry blank, or you can apply online (extra fee).

Qualifying tournaments in the Northeast Ohio area will be played on May 24th at both Elyria Country Club and Youngstown Country Club, and there are other qualifier dates and locations throughout the state as shown on the schedule. The entry fee for a member of an OGA club is $150, for a non-member player the entry fee is $175.

The Ohio Amateur will be played July 13-16. Get your entry form submitted soon to ensure a spot!

Although not yet officially announced by the OGA, the 2010 Ohio Amateur Championship will be played in the Cleveland area: the beautiful and challenging Kirtland Country Club in Willoughby on July 13th – 16th.

Watch Northeast Ohio Golf for details and an entry blank in the spring…

Local players Matt Heestand of Cleveland and Saumil Jhaveri of Westlake made it through the Northeast Ohio qualifier for the United States Golf Association’s U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship at the Country Club of Hudson today. The Mid-Am is for players age 25 and older. The Championship proper will be held at the Kiawah Island Club in Charleston, S.C. on October 3-8.

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Nick Latimer of Brooklyn posted rounds of 75-73=148 to tie for 61st place and participated in a playoff this morning to make it to the match play portion of the United States Amateur Golf Championship at Southern Hills. But he was not able to secure one of the four spots remaining in the match play field against the 27 players at 148.

Northeast Ohio players Trevor Bowman of Harpster scored 78-77=155, Mac McLaughlin of Shaker Heights shot 76-81=157 and Dan Metzendorf of Medina posted 81-85=166 to miss the cut.

Skip Snow of Dayton played steady golf while the rest of the field backed up, and steady was what it took to win the 2009 Ohio Senior Amateur Championship at Congress Lake on Wednesday.

Snow began the day two behind the leaders and posted his second straight 2-over par 73. The 4-over par 146 total was good for for a one shot victory over Ray Sovik and Tom Elfers. Complete results follow:

FINAL RESULTS, 2009 OHIO SENIOR AMATEUR
Congress Lake Country Club, Hartville – Par 71

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Dan Smith of Fairfield and G.M. Bingman of Medina posted even par rounds of 71 to lead the 2009 Ohio Senior Amateur Golf Championship, being played at Congress Lake Country Club in Hartville.

The final round will be played today. Complete scores from Round One below:

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Tom Castor of Ashland, Norton Brick of Elyria, and Bob Kain of Hunting Valley advanced from the local qualifier of the U.S. Senior Amateur Championship, held today at the challenging Kirtland Country Club.

Castor was medalist with a solid 1-over par 72, and Brick settled for a 74 after starting with a front nine of 34. Kain advanced after a round of 75 (which included a hole-out for eagle on a par 4) by winning a 3-players-for-one-spot playoff.

Castor, Brick and Kain move on to the Beverly Country Club in Chicago to play Sept. 12-17 in the U.S. Senior Amateur Championship. Complete results from the Kirtland qualifier follow:    [Read more →]

Final results from the 2009 Ohio Public Links Championship, the 81st playing of this statewide amateur event. This year, the tournament was played at Cook’s Creek Golf Club in Ashville, Ohio with a starting entry of 137 players. David Haley’s 7-under par total was good for a one-shot victory. Results of the 59 players who made the cut:

281    HALEY, JR.    DAVID    Hilliard
282    BALLINGER    TOM    Mansfield
283    LEEDS    JASON    Westerville
283    LOWER    JUSTIN    Canal Fulton
283    STOCKE    RYAN    Boardman   [Read more →]

Results after three rounds of the 2009 Ohio Public Links Championship, being played at Cook’s Creek Golf Club in Asheville, Ohio:

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Results after two rounds from the 2009 OPGA Publinx Championship, a 72-hole event held at Cooks Creek Golf Club in Ashville, Ohio:

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Fresh off a record-setting victory in the Northeast Ohio Am, Nick Latimer of Brooklyn earned the medalist honors at the greater Cleveland area 36-hole qualifier for the United States Amateur Championship, posting a 2-under par total 142 that included a 4-under par 68 at Red Tail Golf Club in Avon.

Also qualifying was Dan Metzendorf of Strongsville with an even par score of 144 that included a second-round 69 at Avon Oaks. Joe Juszczyk of Dearborn Heights, MI grabbed the final qualifying spot by winning the first playoff hole in a four-player shoot-out after posting 1-over par 145.

The U.S. Amateur Championship will be played August 24 – 30 at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, OK. Complete results for all players in the qualifier follows… [Read more →]

Keep up with the scores from the 2009 Ohio Amateur Championship, being played this week at Moraine Country Club in Dayton. The OGA’s Ohio Am results page is here.