Stories from Tours and Associations that are no longer active.
Twenty four player sloshed their way around a soaked Punderson State Park Golf Course in Newbury on Thursday under bright blue skies in the Greater Cleveland Skins Game.
Everyone went home wet and muddy, but four players went home wet, muddy and happy.
Send the runner to second: Kevin Larizza balked the pitch for the start of the first official night of the Chippewa Monday Scratch League yesterday. Instead of starting the 2-M format, yesterday’s play featured an individual $10 warm-up skins game that was originally scheduled for the previous week but was rained out. So Kevin has a justifiable reason for his balk, but the runners still move ahead.
Now the league is scheduled to officially begin this coming Monday, May 9th. (And the $50 Big Skins game will continue play every Monday at 11:30 a.m. as well.)
But the big news coming out of this off-week is that Larizza has decided to implement a fairly major rules change.
Mark Thomas of Canton survived windy and wet conditions — but good greens and no rain! — to win Sunday’s Championship Golf Association event at Pine Hills Golf Course in Hinckley.
Twenty three players braved the challenging conditions at Aurora Country Club on Thursday evening for Week 2 of the Greater Cleveland Skins Game. A fierce wind storm made its way through Northeast Ohio throughout the day, adding to the difficulty of the soggy course.
And temperatures dropped as the evening went on, too.
But it was one short putt that dropped — and one that didn’t — that was the real story.
The soon-to-launch Lake Erie Golf Tour, a mini-tour series for professional and amateur golfers, has announced a 13-event schedule at golf courses throughout Northeast Ohio.
The Greater Cleveland Skins Game kicked off its 21st season Thursday night at Fowlers Mill Golf Course, under cold and damp conditions.
Twenty-seven players were on hand to see defending champion Eddie Neer of Lyndhurst hit the first tee shot of the year on Fowlers’ 10th hole, all hoping to take the Thompson Cup from him.
But by the evening’s end, it was a couple players from the west side of town who made the most of their trip to Fowlers Mill.
