The Northern Ohio Golf Association has named three new inductees for the 13th Hall of Fame class.
Bob Wharton, Norton Brick and Carl Unis will enter the NOGA Hall of Fame at a ceremony to be held at Elyria Country Club on Wednesday, September 25th. 
Carl Unis earned four varsity letters and graduated from Parma High in 1955. In 1964, he won both the Northeast Ohio Amateur and the Ohio Amateur Championship. Turning professional in 1965, he became an assistant at Ozaukee CC in Wisconsin. He qualified for and made the cut in the 1967 U.S. Open at Baltusrol.
Unis later became the head pro at Brynwood Country Club (now the Wisconsin Club), where he remained for 23 years. He spent 44 years as an instructor, administrator and ambassador for golf in Wisconsin and is a member of the Parma Amateur Athletic Federation Hall of Fame.
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 sold Toro equipment to several courses across the region.
Brick played golf on a Cleveland State team that made it to the NCAA Championships and won the Cleveland Amateur three consecutive times, 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 2004 Northeast Ohio Amateur. He continued his winning ways as a senior by winning the 2010 NE Ohio Senior Amateur and Cleveland Senior Amateur on five separate occasions. In addition, Brick qualified for the U.S. Senior Amateur twice and now resides in Arizona.
Bob Wharton, who passed away at age 88, in mid-March, was the NOGA Executive Director from 1993 to 2005. He was a long-time member and past president at Oberlin Country Club. Wharton was the driving force behind keeping the Plain Dealer Junior Tournament alive, devoting hundreds of volunteer hours to reinvigorate the event.
For his efforts he was awarded NOGA’s Platinum Putter, in 1990. After a 40-year career with B.F. Goodrich, he became Executive Director of NOGA. During his term, he helped establish a home for NOGA headquarters, the NOGA Hall of Fame, library and archives, with turfgrass research space, plus a place for junior golfers. He also worked to incorporate an area, as well as, programs to improve the health and wellness of people with physical disabilities, ‘The Turn’ at the North Olmsted Golf Club was so successful that it was named the Wharton Golf Center, in Bob’s honor.
