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Archive for November 2024

2024 SOPGA Awards Dinner Celebrates Award Winners and Hall of Fame Inductees

Grove City, Ohio — Pinnacle Golf Club hosted the 2024 Southern Ohio PGA Awards Dinner. Over 120 people attended the dinner and ceremony. Congratulations to the 12 Award Winners from this year as well as our three Hall of Fame Inductees. The

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Longtime Ohio State Women’s Golf Coach Therese Hession Selected as Captain of Team Ohio

Dayton, OH – The captain for the first ever Team Ohio has been selected. Therese Hession, longtime women’s golf coach at The Ohio State University, has accepted the role as Team Captain for Team Ohio in 2025. After her time as the Head Coach

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A Q&A Session with Jon Decker, PGA, on his journey from teacher to author and back

Jon Decker, PGA, is the Director of Instruction at The Medallion Club in Westerville, Ohio. He also teaches in the greater Naples, Florida area in the winter. He is the author of two books, Golf Is My Life and Fairways to Heaven. Pieces of this

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Arnold, Sowards Advance to Final Stage of PGA Tour Champions Q-School

Four Southern Ohio PGA Professionals competed in the First Stage of PGA Tour Champions Q-School, with Sam Arnold, PGA, and Bob Sowards, PGA, both qualifying for the Final Stage in December. Bob Sowards, PGA, finished solo 3rd at Grand Bear Golf

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The SOPGA Remembers Marty Kavanaugh, PGA

The Southern Ohio PGA is saddened to share of the passing of Marty Kavanaugh, PGA. Kavanaugh, 78, passed away after a battle with ALS with his wife Di and several family members at his side. Marty Kavanaugh, PGA Marty was a second generation PGA of

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