NOHIO Golf News

In what can only be called a “surprise meeting,” last night the trustees from Munson Township approved significant changes to their Ohio EPA clean water grant application, now hoping to make a partial purchase of Fowlers Mill Golf Course with EPA money.

But this new proposal still fills the pockets of Todd Peterson and his Fowlers Mill ownership group, paying them more money for some small slices of the golf course than what the group paid for the entire property just last year. And if the Ohio EPA grant is secured, Munson Township would close the best holes on the nationally-recognized Pete Dye-designed golf course, while the ownership group uses some of the lesser holes across the road on the Maple 9 to keep open a newly-configured 18-hole facility.

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PGA Professional Doug Davis of River Greens Golf Club in Coshocton provided the following response by email when asked by Northeast Ohio Golf about rumors of cheating brought up by a number of professionals at this year’s playing of the Coshocton Hospital’s Charity Pro-Am on August 6th:

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The Medalist Tour and player Scott Holmes will meet in Canton Municipal Court this Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. to let a judge decide if Holmes actually shot the winning score in the Freedom Classic at The Quarry Golf Club in Canton on July 3rd of this year, and if he should collect the winner’s share.

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Chippewa Golf Club owner Kevin Larizza is asking the players for their thoughts in deciding just how difficult the pin positions should be set for this weekend’s Chippewa Championship! Larizza has placed an online poll on his Chippewa GC website and is letting you vote!

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In the past, Chippewa Golf Club owner Kevin Larizza has set a few of his championship’s hole locations in what only can be described as “ironman scramble pins”. This setup has led often to huge scores for a number of players, as the sloping greens of Chippewa can send even well-played pitches and putts racing off down the hills.

Kevin has pulled back on this practice a bit in the last couple of years. But here and now I ask Kevin directly to eliminate “ironman pins” from the Chippewa Championship all together: the quality golf course conditions that superintendent Brad Stewart provides should stand alone as the challenge of the event.

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The Munson Township trustees had their first public meeting last night about the proposed purchase and closing of Fowlers Mill Golf Course for water restoration and the creation of a rural park. A whopping crowd of over 200 people showed up at the meeting to voice their disgust over this idea, and the Munson Township trustees did their best to placate the crowd by downplaying and/or deferring their decision as final. But they didn’t squash the idea, either.

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