Christopher Brown set the pace for the Championship Division in Round 1 of the 2025 NOGA Great Lakes Auto Tour Championship, played Sunday at the Firestone Country Club’s Fazio Course. Brown would take advantage of a hot start, making four birdies on the front nine. Brown would shoot even par on the back to finish the day at 3-under with a 67.
Ben Hogan and Rick Deichert both sit one shot off the lead, rounding out the final grouping for the Championship Division early tomorrow morning on the South.
In the Senior Division, Jeff Semple, a Firestone Country Club member, found some home cooking on the back nine after going one-under par on his front side. Semple would make three birdies and no bogeys on the back to set the early pace in the Senior Division.
Not to be one-upped by a fellow Firestone Country Club member, Howard Clendenin bounced back from a double-bogey on the eighth to match Semple. Clendenin would post one shot better on the back with five total birdies and no bogeys to finish his Sunday afternoon round with a 66.
Mark Borlin and Robert Schustrich are next closest on the Senior sied, four shots back after both posted even par 70.
The final round from the Firestone South Course will start tomorrow at 7:40 a.m. RD2 STARTING TIMES >
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ROUND 1 RESULTS: Northern Ohio Golf Association
2025 NOGA Great Lakes Auto Tour Championship
Firestone Country Club Fazio Course, Akron
Sunday, September 7, 2025
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Championship Division
1 Christopher Brown, Lakewood Country Club 67
T2 Ben Hogan, Oberlin Golf Club 68
T2 Rick Deichert, Canterbury Golf Club 68
4 Lucas Liberatore, Big Met Golf Course 69
5 Vaughn Snyder, Shady Hollow Country Club 70
6 Colin Burns, USGA/Northern Ohio GC 71
T7 Doug Barber, USGA/Northern Ohio GC 72
T7 Andrew Grayson, Weymouth & Fox Meadow CC 72
T7 Andrew Malkus, USGA/Northern Ohio GC 72
T10 Shaun Kloetzer, USGA/Northern Ohio GC 73
T10 Brian Smith, Oberlin Golf Club 73
12 Ian Hardesty, Barrington Golf Club 74
T13 Jack Garswood, USGA/Northern Ohio GC 75
T13 Chris Okeson, Mayfield Sand Ridge Club 75
15 Adam Pry, USGA/Northern Ohio GC 79
Championship Skins: $22.86 ea.
Andrew Grayson – Birdie on 6
Christopher Brown – Birdie on 8
Lucas Liberatore – Eagle on 13
Colin Burns – Birdie on 18
Rick Deichert – Birdie on 12, Eagle on 17
Brian Smith – Birdie on 5
Senior Division
T1 Jeff Semple, Firestone Country Club 66
T1 Howard Clendenin, Firestone Country Club 66
T3 Robert Schustrich, Trumbull Country Club 70
T3 Mark Borlin, Silver Lake Country Club 70
5 Mike Belacic, Firestone Country Club 73
T6 Nick Lambos, Brookside Country Club 74
T6 Allen Freeman, USGA/Northern Ohio GC 74
T8 Paul Krueger, Sleepy Hollow Golf Course 75
T8 Tom Laubacher, Club Walden 75
10 Tom Baugh, Portage Country Club 76
11 David Trier, Firestone Country Club 77
12 John Toth, Turkeyfoot Lake Golf Links 79
13 Dean Cutlip, Firestone Country Club 80
14 Greg Myers, Club Walden 81
Senior Division Skins: $75 ea.
Jeff Semple – Birdie on 1
Robert Schustrich – Eagle on 9
Jeff Semple – Birdie on 10
Howard Clendenin – Birdie on 11
