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Columnist: Junior Golf
Indiana Golf’s 2022 Junior Schedule
By Mike May One of the major focal points of emphasis for Indiana Golf is junior golf. For Indiana’s junior golfers, there will be a multitude of competitive tournament-playing opportunities in 2022. The Howard Bailey Junior Golf Tour features more than 50 tournaments that begin on April 9-10 with the Covered Bridge Junior Spring […]
First Tee of Indiana Helps Kids Grow
First Tee is a youth development organization that enables kids to build the strength of character that empowers them through a lifetime of new challenges. By seamlessly integrating the game of golf with a life skills curriculum, kids actively learn through experiences that build inner strength, self-confidence, and resilience that they can carry throughout their lives. […]
Does Your Child Have What it Takes to Earn a College Golf Scholarship?
By Fred Altvater As you lovingly watch your newborn child peacefully sleeping in his or her crib, panic invades your awareness as it dawns on you that in a mere 18 years they will be needing $50,000 to $100,000 annually to attend a top-notch college. If you are a sports fan you begin to consider […]
Western Golf Association Kept Caddies Working During COVID
By Len Ziehm As was the case in most every industry in the country, golf faced its share of struggles coping with the pandemic. One segment of the golf world, caddie programs, may have had it tougher than any other. Golf clubs that cater to youth caddies and promote the Evans Scholarship program were challenged […]
A New Event for Junior Champions: We Are The Fifty
By Fred Altvater A New National Competitive Golf Event for Girls and Boys from all 50 United States Launches in June 2020 at Hammock Beach Resort. We Are The Fifty is a new national golf tournament that brings the top junior golfers from all 50 states together for one event. Only the junior […]
New First Tee Lake Erie Facility Set for September Opening
As final preparations continue, The First Tee of Lake Erie and The Boys and Girls Clubs of Toledo are anxiously awaiting the official grand opening of their new facility on Hill Street adjacent to The Inverness Club. The process of raising the needed funds and then constructing the 40-acre facility has taken several years, but the completed project will be a […]
NOPGA JACKSON-DIEKEN PLAYERS OF THE YEAR
One of the highlights of the NOPGA Junior Golf Series is the season-long points race for the Jackson-Dieken Player of the Year Award. Junior golfers, who compete in NOPGA Junior Series events earn points from their finishes throughout the summer. In 2021 Dean Upholzer from Strongsville was named Player of the Year in the Boys 11-15 age group and Jordan Kish, from […]
2021 NOPGA Junior Tour Championship
By NorthernOhio.Golf After two weather-perfect days and 36 grueling holes that was the path the four champions blazed in the 38th Kenny Novak NOPGA Junior Tour Championship, which concluded on Wednesday at Club Walden. Strongsville’s Michael Lee, Aurora’s Chris Pollak and Lima’s Mary Kelly Mulcahy led from start to finish in winning their divisions, while Strongsville’s Natalie Kostalnick rallied from three shots back to claim […]
WE ARE THE FIFTY Scheduled for September
The first WE ARE THE FIFTY tournament for high school champion golfers was forced to postpone the 2020 tournament , but it has been rescheduled for September 17-19, 2021. Hammock Bach Golf Resort & Spa will host the event on the Jack Nicklaus designed Ocean Course and the Conservatory Course, a Tom Watson creation. […]
Renee Powell To Captain PING Junior Solheim Cup at Sylvania Country Club
By Fred Altvater As everyone knows the Solheim Cup is coming to Toledo next year, September 4-6. Inverness demonstrated just how tough it can play, when the LPGA restarted its 2020 season with the Drive ON Championship. Danielle Kang reaffirmed her ability to play difficult courses well and made it a clean sweep by […]