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By Fred Altvater Last month I visited a unique twist to the traditional driving range. Of course, there was the usual mats, balls, plus a variety of targets at which to aim, but Long Shots, in Troy, Ohio, is not your grandfather’s practice range. TopTracer technology is available at several of Long Shots’ covered hitting
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BOYNE Resort can trace it beginnings to 1948, when it was opened primarily as a winter ski resort on a 40-acre hillside. In 1966, Robert Trent Jones Sr. was contracted to build the first golf course, the Heather, at the Highlands and it was immediately recognized by Golf Digest magazine, ranking it in the “Top
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By Mike May South Florida resident Jeff Simke has been a lifelong fan of golf.  These days, the 70-year-old Simke, spends most of his days at the Village Golf Club in Royal Palm Beach, Florida where he teaches golf at Jeff Simke’s Golf Academy. In addition, he coaches the Cardinal Newman High School varsity boys golf team in
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Welcome to the August Issue of Ohio Golf Journal. We hope you are enjoying the great summer weather for a few rounds on your favorite golf course. We had the opportunity to visit a new driving range concept at Long Shots near Troy last month and we came away very impressed. This restaurant has taken
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A veritable feast of golf action across the next few days and into the weekend, with the PGA Tour, DP World Tour, LIV Golf and LPGA Tour all trotting out quality, race-to-the-end-game events. Elsewhere, four young Aussies will contest the U.S Amateur Championship at the Olympic Club in San Francisco.

More Australians are playing golf today than at any other time in the game’s history in this country. The economic reality is, however, many of us now need to make our golfing dollar stretch a lot further than it did even five years ago.

Golf in New South Wales is about to take a leap into the future, and you won’t even need to wear sunscreen.

Within two minutes of being outed as golf magazine writer, the question will inevitably come: what’s going on between LIV and the PGA Tour? And my answer always is …

“When you hit a pitch, the sound equals the contact and the contact equals the distance,” says Australian Golf Schools Senior Teaching Professional, David Gleeson. “When you practise, even if you’re off a mat, try to make sure you’re getting a consistent strike, and thus consistent, similar audio feedback. Listen for the percussion of the strike.”

For the third straight year, the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia season kicks off on foreign soil with the 2025 PNG Open at Royal Port Moresby Golf Club.

Get Ready! Get Ready! Get Ready! Friday, September 12, 2025, April McCoy, Kennedi Lee, and Makalia Brown will join Kendall Jackson at The Golf Club of Dallas in a stroke-play…

An Ohio man transformed what was supposed to be a routine golf outing in Michigan into a life-changing moment. While enjoying a day on the course, he picked up a…