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Mild
Winter = Great Spring?
Lakewood Country Club to host season-opening event and two
new tournaments added to NOGA schedule. Online registration
starts on April 1.
This unusually
mild northeast Ohio winter has allowed golf courses to open
earlier than normal and has given golfers a chance to get
in some unexpected March rounds. After the extremely wet conditions
that courses had to endure last year, hopefully this weather
pattern will transition right into spring and bring us a wonderful
2012 golf season.
The first NOGA
tournament of the season is our annual rite of passage into
spring. The season-opening NOGA Stroke Play Championship on
May 7 will be hosted by Lakewood Country Club. The A.W. Tillinghast
layout will offer a great test to the competitors to kick
off the 2012 golf schedule - a season that is again filled
with some of the area's best courses. Read
more...
International
Golf Network (IGN)
The
Northern Ohio Golf Association is now a member of the International
Golf Network (IGN). Begining on April 1, golfers will now
be able to have scores from their non-GHIN®
clubs in Florida, Arizona, South Carolina, etc. routed back
to their home club in northern Ohio as a complimentary service
to our GHIN® users.
IGN membership
enables golfers who spend the off-season months at non-GHIN
clubs to maintain a more accurate Handicap Index®
without the hassle of having to post their scores at their
home club in northern Ohio when they return in the spring
and visa versa.
If you are a golfer
who is a member of a golf club in Florida, Arizona, South
Carolina, etc. and would like to have your scores routed back
to your club in northern Ohio, please ask your non-GHIN®
club for your IGN number and give that IGN number to your
club in northern Ohio.
To learn more about
the International Golf Network (IGN), please visit ign.net.
NOGA
Awards Ohio State University - ATI Scholarship to Luke Morgan
Congratulations
to Luke Morgan of Ravenna, Ohio - the recipient of the 2011-2012
Northern Ohio Golf Association Scholarship at The Ohio State
University - Agricultural Technical Institute. Luke is currently
working at the Congress Lake Club on a summer intership program.
Inductees
Humbled to Join Northern Ohio Golf Association Hall of Fame
Standing over a four-foot winning putt, speaking in front
of a larger group of peers or rubbing elbows with the world’s
best golfers was all in a day’s work for Ray Beallo,
Frank Dobie and Paul Lazoran. However, all three were admittedly
nervous and humbled during their induction speeches at the
NOGA Hall of Fame ceremony.
The NOGA Hall of Fame now boasts 34 members after Beallo,
Dobie and Lazoran were added as its newest members during
the induction ceremony at Acacia Country Club on October 14.
With nearly 20 decades in golf between them, this distinguished
threesome has made a profound impact on the northeast Ohio
golf landscape. A large gathering of family, friends and peers
was on hand to honor these three gentlemen who took their
rightful place in the NOGA Hall of Fame. Read
more...
NOGA
Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Photo Gallery
Brad
Steven and Norton Brick Earn
NOGA Player of the Year Honors
The Northern Ohio Golf Association is pleased to announce
that Brad Steven (Quail Hollow) and Norton Brick (Oberlin)
are the 2011 NOGA Players of the Year.
Steven earned has
first NOGA Player of the Year title after finishing in the
top 10 in three of the past four years, including fourth the
past two seasons. Read
more...
In his first year as a member of Oberlin Golf Club, Brick
was a model of consistency on his way to capturing his first
NOGA Senior Player of Year award. Read
more...
Both players were honored at the 2011 NOGA Hall of Fame Induction
Ceremony at Acacia Country Club.
NORTHERN
OHIO GOLF ASSOCIATION RECEIVES $60,000 GRANT TO HELP DISABLED
GOLFERS
By
Pat Galbincea, The Plain Dealer
The Northern Ohio Golf Association's program to help disabled
golfers got a $60,000 boost in December from
the Harold C. Schott Foundation.
The grant will mean a significant increase to the association's
Return to Golf program, according to Bob Wharton,
executive director of the association's charities.
"We've wanted to do a better job for golfers with disabilities,"
Wharton said. "We want to get them physically stronger,
using golf as the carrot. This grant will enable us to do
that." Read
more...
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