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Elected to Southern Ohio PGA Hall of Fame
Trio Joined by Larry Dornisch, PGA and Jackie Hutchins in Earning Recognition

Sowards Claims Record

Eleventh Southern Ohio PGA Professional Championship
Kinsale Director of Instruction Posts 3-Under to Win

Stephens Claims Southern Ohio PGA

Senior Professional Championship

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2024 SOPGA Awards Dinner Celebrates Award Winners and Hall of Fame Inductees 1

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

November 25, 2024

Grove City, Ohio — Pinnacle Golf Club hosted the 2024 Southern Ohio PGA Awards Dinner. Over 120 people attended the dinner and ceremony.

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Longtime Ohio State Women’s Golf Coach Therese Hession Selected as Captain of Team Ohio 1

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

November 21, 2024

Dayton, OH – The captain for the first ever Team Ohio has been selected. Therese Hession, longtime women’s golf coach at The Ohio State

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A Q&A Session with Jon Decker, PGA, on his journey from teacher to author and back 1

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

November 19, 2024

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

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She's a Hall of Famer, a national champion, and now she's leading the next generation of Ohio Junior Golfers!

Therese Hession has been selected to be the Captain for Team Ohio!

Read more about her here:

...https://thesouthernohiopga.com/news/hession-selected-at-captain-of-team-ohio/

Sam Arnold, PGA finished T15 at Buckhorn Springs Golf & Country Club in Florida to advance to the final stage of PGA Tour Champions qualifying in December.

Learn more at the link below!
https://thesouthernohiopga.com/news/arnold-and-sowards-advance/

Corey Weckerling, PGA, rounds out the weekend at the @nationalcares Assistant PGA Professional Championship to finish T30.

Congratulations to @corey.weckerling.pga for making the cut and representing the SOPGA!

@morainecountryclub

Corey Weckerling, PGA, rounds out the weekend at the @nationalcares Assistant PGA Professional Championship to finish T30.

Congratulations to @corey.weckerling.pga for making the cut and representing the SOPGA!

@morainecountryclub

They are through!!!

Sam Arnold, PGA and Bob Sowards, PGA, are both through to the Final Stage of PGA Champions Tour Q-School!

Sam finished T15 at Buckhorn Springs Golf and Country Club in Florida. Bob finished solo 3rd at Grand Bear Golf Club in Mississippi.

Final Stage ...Qualifying is set for December 3-6 at the Champions Course at TPC Scottsdale.

Corey Weckerling, PGA, is officially in the hunt at the National Car Rental Assistant PGA Professional Championship!!!

Corey is in at -4 after opening with a pair of 70s. He's currently three shots off the lead.

Follow the action here - ...https://hpe.golfgenius.com/pages/10938798912080722089

@corey.weckerling.pga @morainecountryclub

Good luck to Bob Sowards, PGA, at Stage 1 of PGA Tour Champions Q-School! Bob is in 3rd at -6 heading into the final round at Grand Bear Golf Club in Mississippi.

He’s in the final group and two shots back or the lead!

Follow along here — ...https://www.pgatour.com/pgatour-champions/tournaments/2024/2025-pga-tour-champions-qualifying-first-stage-grand-bear-golf-club/S2024054
@sowardsbob

Good luck to Bob Sowards, PGA, at Stage 1 of PGA Tour Champions Q-School! Bob is in 3rd at -6 heading into the final round at Grand Bear Golf Club in Mississippi.

He’s in the final group and two shots back or the lead!

Follow along here — ...https://www.pgatour.com/pgatour-champions/tournaments/2024/2025-pga-tour-champions-qualifying-first-stage-grand-bear-golf-club/S2024054
@sowardsbob

Good luck to Wyatt Wilson, PGA and Corey Weckerling, PGA in the National Car Rental Assistant PGA Professional Championship!!!

Wyatt of @ncrcountryclub tees off at 11:40 AM.
Corey of @morainecountryclub tees off at 12:30 PM.

Follow along here — ...https://www.pga.com/events/assistant-pga-professional-championship/embed

@corey.weckerling.pga

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