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.
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PD Features Story on Chappy
The Cleveland Plain Dealer devoted this week’s ‘nine questions’ golf page section to Akron golf-guy-extraordinaire Dave Chapple and his 30 years of artistic work on tournament scoreboards all over Northeast Ohio. Dave is the man! Check out the story here.
It’s Like a PGA Tour Event, Only Guys from Northeast Ohio That We All Know Are Playing In It…
The groupings and starting times for the 36-hole June 4th Columbus, Ohio U.S. Open Sectional Qualifier have been released, and because it’s being played the week after the Memorial Tournament it’s a who’s-who of Tour players who aren’t exempt into the U.S. Open. But there are some recognizable Northeast Ohio golfer names sprinkled in as well:
SOLD! First-Hand Experience that the Northeast Ohio Golf Classified Ads Work
A first-hand account that the NEOHgolf.com Classified Ads work: I sold my TaylorMade R7 driver last night to a gentleman I had never met prior to our transaction. He now has the driver he’s been looking for, and I have money I can toss into the next big skins pot. Win-win. If you have golf … READ MORE >
Aurora City Council Agrees to Purchase and Close Aurora Golf Club Using Ohio Taxpayer Money
In their meeting Monday night, the Aurora City Council approved an agreement to use Ohio EPA taxpayer funds to give a whopping $3.9 million to current Aurora Golf Club owner Hunter Banbury, so together they can shut down the golf course and turn it into a park and river restoration project.
Even with the inflated $3.9 million dollar purchase price, Banbury still retains ownership of the 10 commercially-zoned acres around the clubhouse and its main buildings — a sweetheart deal by any definition. Banbury paid $2.5 million for the entire property in 2007.
So what, if anything, can still be done?
No “Big Break” for Dwayne Randall
It was an email break-up after an early April fling: sorry, it just didn’t work out.
Long time Chardon pro Dwayne Randall, who is now head professional at Peek-n-Peak Resort in western NY, received an email from The Big Break with the bad news last week that he had not made the final cut for the next installment of the golf reality TV show.
