Last week, Sahith Theegala, a Professional Golfer with little status, none on the PGA Tour, made a great run at the WM Phoenix Open title.  This is perhaps one of the most visible players to come through our community recently as he qualified for the final spot in last years US Open Final Stage Qualifier at Springfield CC.  

Sahith is one of countless golfers our collective Miami Valley Golf community have supported over the years.  For every Sahith, there are countless developing golfers that have been supported by all of you in some way.  As we move closer to the 2022 golf season, we call on our golf community to again support the many ways golf can be an agent of change for our area.

One easy way to make a difference and have fun is to volunteer at any number of our events.

You can follow this link to see what dates are available.

We look forward to seeing you on the Links!

Thursday’s unfortunate fire at Oak Hill’s CC’s, got us thinking of fires to our area clubhouses through the years.  We know this is far from a complete list as fires were much more common years ago, so please send along any clubhouse fire you are aware of, and the approximate year and we will add it to our list. 

NCR CC – November of 2019
Sugar Valley GC – July of 2014
Meadowbrook CC – Late 80’s ??
Hamilton Elks GC – 1956
Springfield CC – Early 1900’s ??

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The DDWGA Ladies get under way this season with their Annual Spring Shamble, this year to be held at Dayton Country Club on Monday, May 16th.  

This 4-person team event will begin with a 1pm shotgun.  After play will be awards and dinner.  

This event is open to all ladies who have a GHIN Handicap Index through the Miami Valley Golf Association.  

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One of the most common mistakes I see golfers make with their fitness programs is trying to be too “golf specific” and replicate the golf swing with their exercises.  Most of the exercises to increase power and speed have nothing to do with a swinging motion.  In fact, when we do include rotary/swinging movements we actually train in the opposite direction more frequently.

This is a theory that was given the name “The Big Break Theory” by TPI Advisory Board member, Dr. Tom House. We have noticed that there seems to be a strong correlation between the longest hitters in the world and a history of speed training in the opposite direction. In other words, if they are a right-handed golfer, they would train for speed left-handed.

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Player A tees a ball within the teeing area and hits his drive down the right hand side of the fairway towards a penalty area surrounded by high grass. Believing that his ball could be lost in the high grass, he correctly announces that he will play a provisional ball under rule 18.3, re-tees a ball, hitting it into the same general area of the original ball. Upon arriving at location where he believes his tee shots to be, both balls are found inside a penalty area marked by Red Stakes. Player A has failed to mark either of his golf balls and is now unable to identify either of them. How does he proceed?

A.       Unable to identify his ball, the player must abandon both balls, return to the teeing area, playing his 5th shot under penalty of stroke and distance (Rule 18.1).

B.        With not being able to identify either of his balls, the player must drop a ball using the lateral relief area option, under rule 17.1d(3), playing his 5th shot.

C.        Since both balls were found in the penalty area, the player may choose either of them as his original ball and proceed by taking Penalty Area relief, under rule 17.1d, playing his 3rd shot or may choose either of the balls as his provisional ball and play it as his 4th shot.

D.       With both balls found, the player must estimate which of the balls was his original, abandon the provisional ball, and must take relief under the unplayable ball options found in Rule 19, playing his 3rd shot.

One of the most challenging aspects for golf facilities is the ability to effectively communicate with your membership across multiple platforms. Recognizing this, Golf Genius has recently released a new feature call Golf Hub, which can be used in your email and social media promotions to dive interest for your clubs’ events and to make it easy for your members to register.

Simply put, a Golf Hub Page is a promotional landing page, or digital flyer, for any event, league, clinic, or social event at your facility. You can quickly and easily create a Golf Hub Page for any new or existing event in Golf Genius TM. Simply supply the basic details, select a banner image from your library, optionally enable online registration (with or without payments), and Golf Genius TM will automatically create a standard and professional landing page.

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Local qualifying begins in May. Entrants will play in girls’ and boys’ divisions in four age categories, with scoring centered around skill development in driving, chipping and putting. Local Qualifying Sites are Tri-City Golf Ranch, Heatherwoode, Southwest Golf Ranch, The Golf Club at Dublin and Blacklick Woods Golf Course

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This upcoming weekend sees the Wright State Raiders start their Spring Season when they travel to Savannah, GA to play in the Invitational at Savannah Harbor.  The forecast is for Low to Mid 60’s and mostly sunny skies. 

The 77th Ranked Program in the Nation, the Raiders hopefully will begin their Spring season on the same hot streak they ended their fall season.  Where they won and had individual medalist in 4 of their 5 events, and had a collective win ratio of 64 to 1

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This upcoming Monday and Tuesday, the Dayton Flyer Men’s Team Travel to Hilton Head Island to play in the Wexford Plantation Intercollegiate.  The 12-team invitational will be held on the Arnold Palmer designed course that will play at a little over 6900 yards.  This will be the 16th playing of this invitational, last won in 2020 by Augusta University.  Other Colleges in the field from Ohio are Cleveland State and Ohio University.

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The Flyers women's team, led by first-year head coach Ali Green, make their first appearance of the spring on March 14th & 15th as they head to the Peggy Kirk Bell Memorial Invitational in Orlando, FL. The lady Flyers finished 3rd at the Oakland Golden Grizzly Invitational this fall.

Also coming off of some success in the fall, the Wittenberg tigers look to make their first appearance of the spring on April 3rd and 4th at The Hershey Cup in Hershey, PA. The tigers collected two team victories this past fall at The Belterra Intercollegiate and The Wittenberg Classic hosted at Springfield Country Club. The lady tigers will begin their spring season on March 19th and 20th at the Marrietta Women's Golf Invite at Lakeside Golf Club in Beverly, OH.

The Cedarville Yellow Jackets men's team is coming off of a 2nd place finish at the NCCAA Championship in October hosted at Hammock Beach Resort in Palm Coast, FL to round out their 2021 season. They will begin this year on March 14th and 15th at The Hillsdale Bell Collegiate in Southern Pines, North Carolina.

Wilberforce University recently relaunched their golf program thanks to the efforts of Coach William Ware and other community partners.  They are now heading into their second Spring Season and begin play March 13-15 when they travel to Tunica National Golf Course just south of Memphis Tennessee.

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TRIVIA QUESTION:   What year did Jack Nicklaus make his professional debut at this weeks L.A. Open and how much prize money did he win.

Trivia Answer:  1962 and $33.33