Greater Cleveland and Akron Golf Tournament News, Schedules, Results, Photos and more

Photos from the 2010 Championship Championship, played August 21st – 22nd at the Chippewa Golf Club in Doylestown, Ohio:

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Greg Tayler of North Royalton hits to 17 during round one of the 2010 Chippewa Championship.

Kenny Koprevic grabbed the first round lead of the Chippewa Championship today, posting a smooth 2-over par score of 73 to lead by one shot over defending champion Dave Oates of Canton.

Fred Miller and Ty Kovach sit tied for third place with a score of 75, while Jim Cea finished alone in fifth place at 76 after a roller-coaster round of 32-44. [Read more →]

As the rest of the field found Lake Forest Country Club’s tight fairways and fast greens extremely challenging, Vaughn Snyder had no problem: he was 7-under par as he teed off at the par-5 17th, and even a double-bogey 7 there couldn’t ruin his day. He parred the last hole and finished with a 5-under 67, beating runner-up David Ludlow by 8 shots. [Read more →]

Eddie Neer wasted no time making birdies, pin shots and skins on Thursday night at the Quail Hollow Devlin Course to extend his lead to over $500 in the race for the 2010 Thompson Cup.

Neer birdied the par-4 10th hole to capture the first skin of the night. He then stuck it close on the following hole, the short par-3 11th, to earn the pin shot there, making his haul for the evening $178.20. [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 a warm-up to this weekend’s Chippewa Championship, the team of Dave Trier and Mike Lynch lapped the field in the two man better ball format on Chippewa’s front nine Monday night, shooting a 5-under par 30 and winning by two shots over three teams. [Read more →]

Justin Lower and Richie Schembechler put on a show at Chippewa Golf Club in Doylestown on Sunday in the final 2o1o event of the Stark County Amateur Golf Association series. Both players finished with a sizzling-hot score of 5-under par 66.  [Read more →]

Rick Merrow of Akron followed up a strong showing in this year’s “junior” Summit County Amateur with two steady rounds and a victory in the 2010 Summit County Senior Amateur Golf Championship, played Friday at Barberton Brookside Gountry Club and Saturday at Good Park Golf Course. Merrow won by two shots over Dave Pulk of Hudson, with Ron Bell and Fred Miller tied for third another two shots behind that. [Read more →]