Drew Thompson’s company, Pro Mobile Messaging, is working with the Bridgestone WGC at Firestone this week running a text-to-win contest — and the prize is an all-expenses-paid foursome at Firestone South after the tournament. Entry is simple: just text WGCBI to 63566 and you are in. Just make sure you invite me to play in … READ MORE >
The brand-new Windmill Golf Center, an amazing new driving range and golf performance center, is now open!
Check out the Golfweek story about the meteoric rise in interest (and sponsorship!) being shown in Youngstown-area PGA pro Dennis Miller…
The City of Aurora has submitted their outline to the Ohio EPA to provide justification for the funding of the purchase of the Aurora Golf Club. Signed by the Mayor of Aurora, Lynn McGill, the document outlines the funding request of $4.76 Million to purchase then close the Aurora Golf Club in the name of ‘water restoration’.
According Aurora resident George Heisler, there are a number of ‘whoppers’ — outright false statements — made within the signed and attested document.
“The document is so full of BS that I cannot believe they can sleep at night,” says Heisler. “But I know the type: they just drink the Kool Aid and sleep like babies.”
Heisler says two big lies are incredibly easy to spot.
Perhaps it’s time for Northeast Ohio tournament players to examine a different kind of charity “Cup” that moves past the dated ‘public vs. private’ concept and creates a better team competition for an improved donation amount.
The idea of teams made up of players coming from either public or private courses stopped being relevant when the economy hit the skids — not the recent financial slowdowns, mind you, but the one ten years back in 2002.
Those early ‘ought’ years turned the golf business on its head for good and changed where most golf was played, how golf was paid for (and written off), and what it meant to be a member at many clubs.
So why is the area’s most recognizable competitive charity golf event — which, to be candid, has lagged in interest and donations the last few years — still using the contrived formula of ‘public vs. private’?
Let’s kick around another idea that might improve the interest level, the media coverage, and the amount of money donated to a worthy cause.
Recruiting for this year’s Shaw Cup, the annual public vs. private team match event, has just begun. But word from some of the recruited players who have heard from the team captains of the event is that the tournament is lessening its focus as a fundraiser for the Edwin Shaw Hospital, and that it plans to step on the September dates of the Akron District Golf Association’s Golfer of the Year Tournament.
