Barberton’s Nolan Haynes raced out to a Saturday afternoon 64 at Windmill Lakes Golf Club, then plodded his way through a rainy Sunday morning 69 to earn a two shot victory in the 95th Northeast Ohio Amateur Championship.
Sunday’s morning wave completed their second round as scheduled in a persistent yet playable rain. Tournament leader Haynes, playing at his college home course as a member of the Kent State Golden Flashes men’s team, set the number to beat at 7-under par 133. Then he went home and watch NOGA Live Scoring to see if anyone might catch him before the Monday finale.
But the Monday finale didn’t happen as planned.
Sunday afternoon in Ravenna brought enough rain that second round play was suspended at 1:54 p.m. because of standing water. When it was determined that the earliest play could resume was 6 p.m. on Sunday, and with a forecast of heavy rain and thunderstorms a near-certainty for 4-5 hours on Monday morning, the Northern Ohio Golf Association Tournament Staff decided to shorten the championship to 36 holes. The goal: get the afternoon wave around to complete 36 holes before the Monday weather unleashed.
The call was perfectly correct.
Second round play was called for darkness at 8:45 p.m. on Sunday night, with the last groups still having eight holes left to complete on Monday morning. Play began with beautiful weather at 7:30 a.m. on Monday, competitors finished up their second round, then the skies opened up over Windmill Lakes at 10 a.m., just as forecasted.
Over that late Sunday into early Monday slog, three players had a chance to catch Haynes.
Rocky River’s Julian Dugan shot 66 on Saturday to trail Haynes by two heading into Sunday. But Dugan had one of the late starting times, so a good chunk of his round was played Monday morning. Dugan traded two birdies and two bogeys on his front nine, made birdie at 12 to get to 1-under, but couldn’t mount a charge to close. He finished with bogeys on 16 and 17 and shot 71 to finish solo fourth at 3-under par 137.
Defending champion Vaughn Snyder of Canton and Ajay Morris from Cortland both shot 67 on Saturday, and both played early in the afternoon wave on Sunday looking to chase down Haynes. Both players finished their rounds late on Sunday night.
Morris started on the first tee on Sunday afternoon and immediately caught fire, making birdies at three of his first four holes. He traded bogey and birdie on five and six, but then made a tough bogey at the ninth for a 2-under par 33 front side. A birdie at the 11th pushed Morris back in the right direction, but a bogey at 14 killed the momentum. A birdie at 17 and another bogey at 18 gave him a Sunday round of 68, leaving him at 5-under par 135, two shots behind Haynes and a solo second place finish.
Snyder started on the tenth at the same time as Morris, but his first nine holes didn’t bring the same fire. Snyder played his first six holes 1-over par, making bogey at the par-3 12th. Birdies at 16 and 17 allowed Snyder to turn at 1-under par 34, but a bogey at the first hole pushed him back to even par on the day. Snyder went bogey-birdie-bogey-birdie from four through seven, and made a birdie at the ninth to finish 1-under par on Sunday, at 136 total. That 4-under par total score was good enough to win the Mid-Amateur Division for players age 25+ by six shots over Brian Smith of Amherst.
In the Senior Division, Fairlawn’s Howard Clendenin posted his second consecutive even par round of 70 early on Sunday morning, then watched as first round leader Brad Steven of Concord (Saturday 68) and Doug Hanzel of Savannah, GA (Saturday 69) both shot 74 on Sunday to finish behind Clendenin.
Clendenin made three bogeys and birdies on Saturday then two of each on Sunday, capping a steady performance that won by two. Steven made a double bogey each day to hurt his cause, while the 68-year-old Hanzel made five rainy Sunday bogeys against just one birdie.
Kudos to the Grounds Staff at Windmill Lakes for a competition-ready golf course — including having the greens cut on Monday morning with a 7:30 a.m. start time! — and kudos to the NOGA Tournament Staff for planning around an extremely difficult weather and water situation.
2025 NEOA PHOTO GALLERY RD2 >
— photos by NOGA’s Seamus Hough and Hanna Trombetto
FINAL RESULTS: Northern Ohio Golf Association
2025 Northeast Ohio Amateur Championship
Windmill Lakes Golf Club, Ravenna – Par 70
Saturday, June 7 – Monday, June 9, 2025
Golf Genius Hole-by-Hole Results >
CHAMPIONSHIP DIVISION
1 Nolan Haynes, Barberton OH 64 – 69 = 133 $800.00
2 Ajay Morris, Cortland OH 67 – 68 = 135 $500.00
3 Vaughn Snyder, Canton, OH 67 – 69 = 136 $450.00
4 Julian Dugan, Rocky River OH 66 – 71 = 137 $400.00
T5 Brody Simms, Dayton OH 72 – 67 = 139 $325.00
T5 Mason Deal, Perrysburg OH 70 – 69 = 139 $325.00
7 Nick Piesen, Strongsville OH 72 – 68 = 140 $275.00
T8 Jacob Ryan 71 – 71 = 142 $237.50
T8 Brian Smith, Amherst OH 74 – 68 = 142 $237.50
T10 Jack Garswood, Fairview Park OH 74 – 69 = 143 $162.50
T10 Chris Pollak, Aurora OH 72 – 71 = 143 $162.50
T10 Myles Murphy, Maumee OH 74 – 69 = 143 $162.50
T10 Zander Gibson, Concord OH 72 – 71 = 143 $162.50
T14 Dillon Pendergast, Mogadore OH 74 – 70 = 144 $37.50
T14 Doug Barber, Willoughby OH 73 – 71 = 144 $37.50
T14 Jaxon Rinkes 73 – 71 = 144 $37.50
T14 Bence Kotel, Toledo OH 75 – 69 = 144 $37.50
T14 Zach Glassman, Painesville OH 71 – 73 = 144 $37.50
T14 Chase Forsyth, Poland OH 71 – 73 = 144 $37.50
T20 Joshua Clay, North Canton OH 73 – 72 = 145
T20 Rylan Wotherspoon, Florence KY 71 – 74 = 145
T20 Kyle Smith, Akron OH 72 – 73 = 145
T20 Blaze Tanner, Twinsburg OH 71 – 74 = 145
T24 Rick Deichert, Shaker Heights OH 78 – 68 = 146
T24 Troy Chapman, Lexington OH 72 – 74 = 146
T24 Tyler Ankrom, Akron OH 71 – 75 = 146
T24 Michael Keefe, University Heights OH 70 – 76 = 146
T24 Thomas Ballinger, Mansfield OH 74 – 72 = 146
T24 Jack Herceg, Dublin OH 74 – 72 = 146
T24 Dean Upholzer, Strongsville OH 72 – 74 = 146
T24 Jack Lindgren, Columbus OH 76 – 70 = 146
T32 Hunter Lowder, Brewster OH 71 – 76 = 147
T32 Jarrod Kasunick, Massillon OH 75 – 72 = 147
T32 Ryan Chipps, Painesville OH 74 – 73 = 147
T32 Ben Cors, Wooster OH 73 – 74 = 147
T32 Ben Skripac, Stow OH 72 – 75 = 147
T32 Andrew Grayson, Medina OH 73 – 74 = 147
T38 Daniel Mosher, North Canton OH 75 – 73 = 148
T38 Rocco Turner, Canfield OH 77 – 71 = 148
T38 Colin McCree, Copley OH 73 – 75 = 148
T38 Greg Manuel, Rocky River OH 73 – 75 = 148
T42 Paul Litrenta, New Castle PA 72 – 77 = 149
T42 Chris Okeson, Beachwood OH 74 – 75 = 149
T42 Michael Stagnaro, Cincinnati OH 74 – 75 = 149
T42 Matthew Roth, Brook Park OH 73 – 76 = 149
T42 Joseph Gonzalez, Millersburg OH 74 – 75 = 149
T47 Cody Miller, Columbia Station OH 73 – 77 = 150
T47 Ayden Richmond, Geneva OH 74 – 76 = 150
T47 Blake Hood, Alliance OH 71 – 79 = 150
T47 Eli Zimmerman, Medina OH 78 – 72 = 150
T51 Jake Caldwell, Lakewood OH 72 – 79 = 151
T51 Michael Porter, McDonald OH 78 – 73 = 151
T51 Kyle Salamon, Medina OH 73 – 78 = 151
T51 David Swab, North Royalton OH 79 – 72 = 151
55 Andrew Malkus, Maple Heights OH 73 – 80 = 153
T56 Mark Pillar, Independence OH 80 – 74 = 154
T56 Connor Malicki, Avon OH 77 – 77 = 154
58 Carter Mishler, Millersburg OH 79 – 76 = 155
T59 Marshall English, Jefferson OH 80 – 76 = 156
T59 Scotty Armstrong, Westerville OH 82 – 74 = 156
61 Jack Kinder, Akron OH 79 – 78 = 157
T62 Camden Horning, Uniontown OH 78 – 81 = 159
T62 Xander Moran, Kent OH 79 – 80 = 159
64 Parker Barrett, Aurora OH 79 – 81 = 160
65 Matthew Gregory, Medina OH 80 – 81 = 161
66 Miles Miller, Dublin OH 82 – 82 = 164
T67 Brett Eley, Wapakoneta OH 85 – 83 = 168
T67 Jeff Mihalick, Avon Lake OH 85 – 83 = 168
69 Mica Thirion, Twinsburg OH 83 – 89 = 172
WD Zach Huscusson, New Franklin OH 69 – WD
WD Reece Yakubov, Columbus OH 72 – = WD
WD Jeff Sawitke, Painesville OH 74 – WD
WD Daniel Berlin, Chagrin Falls OH 74 – WD
WD Jacob Halligan, Twinsburg OH 75 – WD
WD Ben Scheeff, Olmsted Township OH 76 – WD
WD Griffin Todd, Canfield OH 77 – WD
WD Brandon Kutrubs, Brunswick OH 78 – WD
WD Dylan Dunn, Stow OH 79 – WD
WD Tommy Kinder, Akron OH 80 – WD
WD Rob Loomis, Akron OH 86 – WD
WD Emilio Noguez, University Heights OH 86 – WD
WD Robert Thompson, Norwalk OH 87 – WD
WD Jesse Herda, Lorain OH 87 – WD
DNF Bradley Wise, Rocky River OH 79 – DNF
DNF Brian Beebe, Uniontown OH 82 – DNF
DNF John Regan, Sylvania OH 86 – DNF
Mid-Amateur Division
1 Vaughn Snyder, Canton OH 67 – 69 = 136 $500.00
2 Brian Smith, Amherst OH 74 – 68 = 142 $350.00
3 Jack Garswood, Fairview Park OH 74 – 69 = 143 $275.00
T4 Doug Barber, Willoughby OH 73 – 71 = 144 $200.00
T4 Zach Glassman, Painesville OH 71 – 73 = 144 $200.00
6 Joshua Clay, North Canton OH 73 – 72 = 145 $125.00
T7 Rick Deichert, Shaker Heights OH 78 – 68 = 146 $87.50
T7 Jack Herceg, Dublin OH 74 – 72 = 146 $87.50
T9 Hunter Lowder, Brewster OH 71 – 76 = 147
T9 Jarrod Kasunick, Massillon OH 75 – 72 = 147
T9 Andrew Grayson, Medina OH 73 – 74 = 147
T12 Daniel Mosher, North Canton OH 75 – 73 = 148
T12 Colin McCree, Copley OH 73 – 75 = 148
T12 Greg Manuel, Rocky River OH 73 – 75 = 148
T15 Chris Okeson, Beachwood OH 74 – 75 = 149
T15 Matthew Roth, Brook Park OH 73 – 76 = 149
T15 Joseph Gonzalez, Millersburg OH 74 – 75 = 149
18 Cody Miller, Columbia Station OH 73 – 77 = 150
19 Andrew Malkus, Maple Heights OH 73 – 80 = 153
20 Matt Malone, Ashland OH 79 – 76 = 155
21 Marshall English, Jefferson OH 80 – 76 = 156
22 Mike Gabrail, Akron OH 81 – 77 = 158
23 Brian Blankenship, Dublin OH 85 – 79 = 164
T24 Brett Eley, Wapakoneta OH 85 – 83 = 168
T24 Jeff Mihalick, Avon Lake OH 85 – 83 = 168
WD Jeff Sawitke, Painesville OH 74 – = WD
WD Jacob Halligan, Twinsburg OH 75 – = WD
WD Griffin Todd, Canfield OH 77 – = WD
WD Brandon Kutrubs, Brunswick OH 78 – = WD
WD Josh Dankovich, Boardman OH 80 – = WD
WD Rob Loomis, Akron OH 86 – = WD
WD Robert Thompson, Norwalk OH 87 – = WD
DNF Joshua Olson, Hudson OH 74 – = DNF
DNF Bradley Wise, Rocky River OH 79 – = DNF
DNF Brian Beebe, Uniontown OH 82 – = DNF
DNF Brian Thompson, Hinckley OH 83 – = DNF
DNF John Regan, Sylvania OH 86 – = DNF
Senior Division
1 Howard Clendenin, Fairlawn OH 70 – 70 = 140 $500.00
2 Brad Steven, Concord OH 68 – 74 = 142 $350.00
3 Doug Hanzel, Savannah GA 69 – 74 = 143 $275.00
T4 Shayne Fischer, Huron OH 76 – 70 = 146 $200.00
T4 Tom Laubacher, Aurora OH 73 – 73 = 146 $200.00
T6 Mark Borlin, Stow OH 74 – 73 = 147 $112.50
T6 Jeff Semple, Canton OH 73 – 74 = 147 $112.50
8 Robert Schustrich, Windham OH 74 – 74 = 148 $75.00
T9 Kurt Peterson, Massillon OH 76 – 73 = 149
T9 Tom Skidmore, Akron OH 74 – 75 = 149
T11 Nick Lambos, Canton OH 76 – 74 = 150
T11 Dean Cutlip, Copley OH 77 – 73 = 150
T13 Allen Freeman, Brecksville OH 76 – 75 = 151
T13 Mike Belacic, Akron OH 78 – 73 = 151
T13 Dave Antill, Dublin OH 77 – 74 = 151
16 John Toth, Akron OH 72 – 80 = 152
17 David Trier, Stow, Oh 73 – 80 = 153
T18 Robert Wadsworth, Uniontown OH 78 – 76 = 154
T18 Nolen Jatich, North Canton OH 75 – 79 = 154
20 Paul Krueger, Parma OH 79 – 76 = 155
T21 Ray McNiece, Cleveland OH 80 – 76 = 156
T21 Mark Guadagni, Hudson OH 78 – 78 = 156
T21 Randy Wilburn, Deerfield OH 78 – 78 = 156
T24 Brian Sparrow, Chagrin Falls OH 76 – 81 = 157
T24 Mike Stiller, Akron OH 74 – 83 = 157
26 Scott Winckowski, Oregon OH 83 – 76 = 159
T27 David Stover, Pepper Pike OH 84 – 79 = 163
T27 Lou Boarman, Mogadore OH 80 – 83 = 163
T29 Roger Tolley, Willard, United States 82 – 82 = 164
T29 Paul Ferguson, Lakewood OH 83 – 81 = 164
31 Tim Heavner, Alliance OH 84 – 85 = 169
32 Ed Marsinek, Ravenna OH 87 – 83 = 170
33 Joe Denk, Fairview Park OH 88 – 85 = 173
WD Mike Hochschwender, Akron OH 78 – WD
WD Jim Durr, Silver Lake OH 79 – WD
WD Joseph Kovach, Strongsville OH 83 – WD
WD David Games, South Euclid OH WD – WD
NS Matthew Black, Avon Lake OH NS – NS
