Vaughn Snyder of Massillon won the first Lake Erie Golf Tour tournament of the 2012 season at Ohio Prestwick on Friday, shooting a 3-under par 69.
In perfect conditions, on tricky fast greens, Snyder fired an impressive 2-under par score of 34 on the front nine, then made eagle at the par-5 12th. From there he cruised home to a two shot victory over Tim Ailes of Lewis Center, OH.
The Lake Erie Golf Tour, a professional mini-tour tournament series with a separate amateur division, plays its first event of the 2012 season this Friday at Ohio Prestwick Country Club in Uniontown. Players interested in competing in that event (or the rest of the series) should review the Lake Erie Golf Tour website.
The LEGT will still feature same-day payouts, with 30% of the field paid out in pro and am divisions, and a big skins game. But a few things will be different, too.
To help Matt Heestand get the $5,000 hole-in-one prize he earned with an ace in the Lake Erie Golf Tour’s Tam-O-Shanter event, Northeast Ohio Golf contacted the insurance company that LEGT listed on their website as their sponsor, the National Hole-In-One Association.
Brad Henderson, the Advertising Manager for the National Hole-In-One Association, responded to NEOHgolf.com’s request for additional information about the LEGT’s unpaid prize to Heestand.
On June 30th, Matt Heestand of Parma made a hole-in-one in the Amateur Division at the Lake Erie Golf Tour event at Tam-O-Shanter Golf Club in Canton.
That ace was supposed to net Heestand a cool $5,000 prize through a season-long sponsorship deal with the National Hole In One Association, payable for any hole-in-one made by any player all season long, according to the LEGT website.
But almost three months after the hole-in-one that Canton event, Heestand has yet to receive his $5,000 payment.
Blake Sattler of New Philadelphia, Ohio won the Lake Erie Golf Tour’s final event of the 2011 season, the Tour Championship at The Elms Country Club in Massillon on Thursday.
