Columnist: Fred Altvater

Fred AltvaterFred Altvater is a certified USGTF Level III Golf Instructor, who is the Publisher of the Ohio Golf Journal. He is also a radio show host for the Back 9 Report and has a Roku channel, also called the Back 9 Report.

He enjoys giving golf lessons that help golfer’s of every ability. During his hands-on lessons, he specializes in quickly assessing a golfer’s weakness and helping them correct it in a way that creates an immediate improvement in their game. Get his FREE 5 steps to taking strokes off your game online course with videos at Thought Leaders Online Courses.

Fred Altvater

Is It Time for a World Golf Tour?

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  • 5 Years ago
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Carlos Torres & Fred Altvater The golf world has been learning more about the proposed Premier Golf League that wants to feature the top 48 players in the world in an 18-tournament league offering $10 million purses, mandatory play, with both a team and individual components. Currently several PGA Tour events offer total purses much […]
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Tour Edge Talks New Products for 2020

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  • 5 Years ago
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Jon Claffey explains Tour Edge’s Full Line of Golf Equipment to Fit every Golfer in 2020.
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Jack’s Back at Reynolds Lake Oconee Great Waters Course

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  • 5 Years ago
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Reynolds Lake Oconee recently re-opened the Great Waters Course. Designed by Jack Nicklaus and originally opened in 1994, Nicklaus completely renovated the entire course and updated it to modern standards.
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Is Golf Really Broken?

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  • 5 Years ago
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At the 2020 PGA Show, the International Network of Golf (ING) hosted their annual state of the industry presentation from analytics veterans Jim Koppenhaver of Pellucid Corp and Stuart Lindsay of Edgehill Consulting. Some key data highlights from their presentation: – 2019 showed 20.6 million golfers played 432 million rounds. Those numbers are comparable to 2018, but are well below 2000, when there […]
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Calm Down Everything Will be OK

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  • 5 Years ago
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New World Golf Handicap System is different, but you will get used to it.   Take a deep breath and calm down, the new World Handicap System creates a few minor changes, but it will all work out in the end. Some of you may have seen a slight change in your handicap as the […]
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Coastal Alabama is Perfect for Golfing, Dining & Beaching

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  • 5 Years ago
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By Fred Altvater   Gulf Shores and Orange Beach on the Gulf Coast of Alabama have been providing the perfect beach and golf resort for travelers for over 30 years. Gulf Shores was a one-course, sleepy retirement village in the early 1980’s. In 1985, a local sod farmer, Robert Craft was searching for ways to […]
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Mason Deal’s 63 Sets New TJGA Mark

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  • 4 Years ago
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Last month Mason Deal fired a smooth 63 in the Toledo Junior Golf Association event at Belmont Country Club. “It wasn’t luck,” TJGA Official, Jim McGill said. “He’s an excellent golfer. He just got in that zone and everything was going right for him. There was no luck involved, it was skill.” The soon to […]
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LPGA Names Pat Hurst 2021 Solheim Cup Captain

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  • 5 Years ago
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With the Solheim Cup coming to Toledo’s Inverness Club in 2021, the LPGA announced that Pat Hurst would lead Team USA. Juli Inkster has served as captain for the last three Solheim Cups registering two wins and a loss. She was asked to do it again, but respectfully declined, “been there done that.” Pat Hurst […]
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Evans Scholarship Foundation Selects 26 Ohio Caddies

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  • 5 Years ago
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By Fred Altvater   Golf Clubs from around Ohio that support the Evans Scholarship Foundation met at the Inverness Club in January to conduct oral interviews with 26 caddies, who had been nominated to receive a fully paid college tuition, as well as, room and board. Imagine 17 and 18-year-old kids standing in front of […]
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Fabled Course Designer, Pete Dye Passes at the age of 94

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  • 5 Years ago
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“The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a flagstick on top…golf is not a fair game so why build a fair golf course.” This quote from Pete Dye can be found inscribed at the base of the bronze statue that sits near the clubhouse of the Dye Course at French Lick. […]
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