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The Northern Ohio Golf Association is extremely proud to announce its 13th class of honorees will be inducted into the NOGA Hall of Fame. The NOGA Hall of Fame recognizes those who have made a profound impact on the game of golf in Northeast Ohio whether as a competitor, instructor or ambassador of our great game. The 2019 class of inductees includes:
Norton Brick
Carl Unis
Robert A. Wharton
We hope that you will join us for this wonderful event (Wednesday, September 25, 2019) as we honor three outstanding golfers and ambassadors of the game. The cost for the event is $40 per person (includes hors d’oeuvres).
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Norton Brick, a former resident of Elyria and member at Oberlin Country Club, is tied to golf in Greater Cleveland in two ways: he was a long-time championship-level amateur player; and he sold Toro equipment to many golf courses across the region. Brick played golf on a Cleveland State team that made it to the NCAA Championships. For many years, Norton was the king of local scrambles, am tournaments and skins games, and he seemed to get better with age. He won the Cleveland Amateur three times in a row from 2000-2002. When he turned 50 in 2003, he was medalist as an amateur out of the Columbus qualifier for the U.S. Senior Open at Inverness. The following year, he won the Northeast Ohio Am in 2004. His senior career was incredible, as he won the Senior NEO Am in 2010 and the Senior Cleveland Am five times. He also qualified for the U.S. Senior Amateur twice. Norton now lives in Buckeye, AZ.
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Carl Unis graduated from Parma High in 1955 after earning four varsity letters. In 1964, he won both the Northeast Ohio Amateur and the Ohio Amateur Championship in the same summer, then turned pro in 1965. He became an assistant at Ozaukee CC in Wisconsin, then shortly after that qualified for and made the cut in the US Open in 1967 at Baltusrol. Unis later became the head pro at Brynwood CC (now the Wisconsin Club), where he remained for 23 years. He spent 44 years as an instructor, administrator and ambassador for golf in Wisconsin. He is a member of the Parma Amateur Athletic Federation Hall of Fame.
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Bob Wharton, who passed away at age 88 in mid-March, was the NOGA Executive Director from 1993 to 2005. A long-time member and past president at Oberlin Country Club (and a NOGA president, too), Bob was the driving force behind keeping the Plain Dealer Junior Tournament alive, devoting hundreds of volunteer hours to reinvigorate the event. He earned NOGA’s Platinum Putter Award in 1990 for those efforts. After ending a 40-year career with B.F. Goodrich, Bobbecame Executive Director of NOGA with an aim towards building the organization. He worked to establish a home for NOGA, combining a headquarters, Hall of Fame, library and archives with turfgrass research space and a place for junior golfers. He also worked to incorporate a place and programs to improve the health and wellness of people with physical disabilities into that HQ, which became known as Return to Golf and later, The Turn. The facility built at the North Olmsted Golf Club was so successful that later it was named the Wharton Golf Center, in Bob’s honor.
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Leading up to the Induction Ceremony, NEOHgolf.com will be featuring an in-depth look at each inductee, click the buttons below as they come available.
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Wednesday, September 25
Oberlin Golf Club
200 Pyle Rd.
Oberlin, OH 44074
Schedule of Events
12:00 p.m. – Golf (Optional)
4:30 p.m. – Heavy Hors d’oeuvres
6:00 p.m. Induction Ceremony
We hope that you will join us for this wonderful event as we honor three outstanding golfers and ambassadors of the game.
Ticket Options
Ceremony Ticket(s) @ $40
(includes hors d’oeuvres and cocktail reception)
Ceremony/Golf Ticket(s) @ $90
(includes golf, cart, prizes, hors d’oeuvres and cocktail reception)
Tribute(s) @ $60
(includes opportunity to have your name and personal message to inductees in the event program)
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