Northeast Ohio Golf

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 →]

FINAL RESULTS:
2011 Eagle Creek Fall 6-Man Scramble
Eagle Creek Golf Course, Norwalk, Ohio – Par 71
Sunday, October 16, 2011
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FINAL RESULTS:
2011 Bunker Hill Fall 2-M Scramble
Bunker Hill Golf Course, Medina, Ohio – Par 72
Saturday, October 15th, 2011 [Read more →]

Last Saturday’s Erie Shores 3-Player Ironman Scramble was canceled after one hole when a storm made the course unplayable. The event has been rescheduled for Saturday, October 29th; entry details here.

Derek Duda and Frank Livak take the Manakiki Fall 3-M with teammate David Stover.

FINAL RESULTS: 2011 Cleveland Metroparks Fall Tour
Manakiki 3-Player Scramble
Manakiki Golf Course, Willoughby Hills, OH – Par 72
Saturday, October 15, 2011
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The top four players on the 2011 Greater Cleveland Skins Game Leaderboard always play in the final group in the final event of the season at Powderhorn Golf Course in Madison.

This year, those four players were (left to right) Dave Sotka, Carl “Unk” Quercioli, Dan Predovic, Mark White.

When none of those top-four competitors earned a earned a skin or a pinshot at Powderhorn, Dave Sotka of Chardon walked away with the 2011 Greater Cleveland Skins Game Championship, and with it his second Thompson Cup. [Read more →]

Someone near the top of the standings needed to put together a really big final night to overtake the lead Jim Cea had built up for the season in the 2011 Chippewa Scratch League.

Let’s see: a team victory and three skins from a carry-over pot at Rosemont; yup, that qualifies as a really big final night… [Read more →]

FINAL RESULTS:
Sawmill Creek Fall 4-M Scramble
Sawmill Creek Golf Club, Sandusky, Ohio – Par 71
Sunday, October 9th, 2011
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FINAL RESULTS: 2011 Barbour Cup
Sleepy Hollow Golf Course, Brecksville Ohio
Saturday, October 8th, 2011
2-Player Jumble Format: 9 holes each of
Better Ball, Scramble and Modified Alternate Shot
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FINAL RESULTS:
Powderhorn 1-Man Scramble
Powderhorn Golf Course, Madison, Ohio – Par 70
Saturday, October 8th, 2011
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FINAL RESULTS: The Fairways at Twin Lakes
October 2-Man Cash Scramble
Kent, Ohio – Par 70
Saturday, October 8, 2011
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The Greater Cleveland Skins Game made its first trip ever to Hawthorne Valley Country Club in Solon on Thursday.

On a beautifully warm and sunny evening, one player continued his hot-streak while another padded his season-long lead. [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…