OnCore Buffalo Complementing Downtown and Waterfront Development Projects September 20, 2019, Buffalo, NY. Buffalo-based OnCore Golf Technology, Inc., is pleased to announce that along with several strategic and financial partners, including Doug Swift – the founder of RiverWorks – and Joe Carubba – former CEO of Carubba Collision – a first-of-its-kind sports entertainment complex including a fully-integrated hotel is coming to Buffalo, NY. The OnCore Buffalo facility will bring exciting new golf and other sports experiences to Kelly Island, along the Buffalo River near downtown Buffalo, NY, attracting year-round participation from a wide range of demographics. The estimated project cost…
Author: Glen Turk
Glen Turk
Glen Turk is a Wisconsin native who has been the Senior Writer/Editor of Midwest Golfing Magazine since 2006. Besides being an avid golfer, Glen enjoys traveling, music, and cheering on the finest professional sports team of all-time, the Green Bay Packers. Glen’s ultimate golf goal is to play in all fifty states and currently he is more than half way there. His other dream, albeit far-fetched, it to record an ace in all seven states of our distribution area. Thanks to an ace in Illinois in 2015, and one in Michigan in 2016, he has three down, four to go!
Fan Favorite Rocco Mediate Wins 2019 Sanford International Using a Bridgestone TOUR B Ball (COVINGTON, GA) – Bridgestone Golf Tour team member, Rocco Mediate, returned to the PGA TOUR Champions winner’s circle for the first time in three years on Sunday, with a thrilling victory at the 2019 Sanford International. Mediate finished birdie-birdie to close out his best single round score of the year – a 64 – winning the event by 2 strokes. Mediate’s victory with Bridgestone’s TOUR B XS golf ball vaults him into top 25 of the current Charles Schwab Cup points standings. The TOUR B Series golf balls represent…
Read the full issue online. [su_button url=”https://xdigital.spiweb.com/publication/?i=617911″ target=”blank” background=”#23551c”]Read Online[/su_button] Let’s face it – if you are a parent you know what I mean – fall is the best time to play golf in the Midwest if you can find time to break away. The kids are back in school, a good portion of recreational players have decided to put their clubs away so the courses aren’t as busy, and most importantly the weather is ideal and course conditions are usually impeccable. That’s why at Midwest Golfing Magazine our Fall Issue gives you a great mix of Midwest fall destinations…
PINEHURST, N.C. … Golf Pride®, an industry leader in grip innovation and the #1 Grip on Tour, announced today that it was the leading swing and putter grip choice throughout the FedEx Cup Playoffs, including at the season-ending TOUR Championship. At the TOUR Championship, the winner captured the tournament and the FedEx Cup title using Golf Pride’s swing grips and putter grip. Since the FedEx Cup started 13 years ago, Golf Pride has been the trusted grip in players hands for 11 titles. The thrilling victory at East Lake Golf Club gives Golf Pride 39 wins out of the official…
James Piot of Michigan State University takes medalist honors Harris, MI – The key to good scoring in golf doesn’t change, no matter the golf course or the age of the golfer. James Piot of Michigan State University proved that point here this weekend, keeping his shots in play to claim medalist honors at the inaugural Island Resort Intercollegiate at Sage Run Golf Course (September 1-2). The Spartan junior finished 54 holes with a 9-under-par 207 to win by three strokes at the year-old course. Liberty University rallied down the stretch to edge Purdue University by a stroke for the team title…
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Daytona Beach was spared the worst of the Hurricane Dorian’s wrath and area golf courses have reopened, welcoming players back to outstanding conditions as the fall season nears. Dorian menaced the Florida coast, but the eye of the storm stayed far enough offshore to allow Daytona Beach to escape with low tropical storm force winds and rain but no substantial damage. Golf courses closed for a couple days to clean up small debris but there will be no lasting impact as a result of the storm. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of the…
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. – Sept. 3, 2019 – Cleveland® Golf, where scoring matters, is proud to announce the release of Frontline. With a radical new weighting brings the center of gravity forward, Frontline provides a revolutionary process for engineering a putter. Frontline launches in North America on Sept. 13, 2019. “We are very excited about Frontline because it is a completely new approach to putter design,” said Jacob Lambeth, Research and Development Engineer at Cleveland Golf. “By pairing an extreme center of gravity with an improved speed optimized face, we’ve designed a putter that uniquely maximizes directional and speed consistency.…
Newest Trail Courses in Mathews, Hammond, and Kinder BATON ROUGE, La. – Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser today announced the addition of three topflight courses to Louisiana’s Audubon Golf Trail. The three courses include LaTour Golf Club along Bayou Lafourche in Mathews; Oak Knoll Country Club in Hammond; and Koasati Pines Golf Club at Coushatta Casino Resort in Kinder. Trail members have undergone a rigorous screening process to ensure first-class courses with high standards of customer service and top quality maintenance. “We are very excited about the expansion to Louisiana’s very own Audubon Golf Trail that offers players excellent golf venues…
{Editor’s Note} When a pair of INVISASOX showed up at my door a month ago, I was hoping the adage “great things come in small packages” would hold true. And since there is nothing small about my feet (Size 13 gun boats if you’re keeping track) I often have trouble finding socks that fit correctly. Well all it took was one wearing, as INVISASOX kept my feet comfortable and cool, all without looking like I was wearing socks at all! Please see below for the skinny on this up-and-coming company. Our company was born out of a problem we desperately wanted…
GOLF, Ill. – This fall, a record 1,000 caddies are attending college at 18 top universities across the country, Evans Scholars Foundation leaders announced today, celebrating a milestone that the organization has been working toward for the past five years. The historic achievement of more than 1,000 students in school – 1,010 to be exact – was made during BMW Championship week celebrations; all proceeds from the PGA TOUR playoff event benefit the ESF. “We’re thrilled to announce that we have achieved our goal of having a record 1,000 caddies enrolled in college,” said WGA President and CEO John Kaczkowski.…