Northern Michigan University graduate and former NMU golfer Chris Black won the Upper Peninsula Golf Association Men's Championship on Sunday in Iron Mountain. The 24-year-old from Northern Ireland won by three strokes. Click the above headline for details.
Ssu-Chia Cheng adds her name to the list of Island Resort Championship on Sunday. The Taiwan native earned her second career victory shooting 17-under par, winning the tournament by six strokes. Click the above headline to read details. (Epson photo)
Ssu-Chia Cheng went lights-out in her second round at the Island Resort Championship, shooting 8 under on the day. The Taiwan native went bogey-free, recording eight birdies. Click the above headline to read details, courtesy of the Epson Tour.
Ana Paula Valdes, Samantha Wagner and Kenzie Wright sit atop the leaderboard as Friday play concludes. The trio signed for 6-under 66 and hold the overnight lead by one stroke. Play was stopped twice during the afternoon wave of the first round. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of the Epson Tour.
The North Central High School boys golf team cruised to the MHSAA Division Three boys golf Upper Peninsula championship on Thursday at the Highland Golf Course. NCA, behind medalist Bryson Mercier, was 47 strokes clear of second place Ontonagon. Click the above headline for details.
The MHSAA Upper Peninsula Division One golf championships were held on Wednesday. The Escanaba Eskymos won the girl's title by six strokes over Negaunee, while Houghton topped Marquette by five strokes for the boys. Click the above headline for details.
The 2022 GLIAC Championships have come and gone for the Northern Michigan University men's golf team. The team wrapped up the tournament with a 619 and finished the GLIAC Championship in ninth place. Click the above headline for details.
The NMU Men's Golf team continued their season at the Findlay Spring Invite at the University Club of Kentucky on Monday and Tuesday. The men played 54 holes throughout the invite. Click the above headline to see how the team did. (NMU Photo)
Michigan State rolled to the championship of the Island Resort Collegiate championship at Sage Run. The Spartans had the top two golfers, as James Piot and Troy Taylor tied for medalist honors. Northern MIchigan, the only Division Two team in the field, finished last. Click the above headline for details.
The Michigan State Spartans rolled to a 16-stroke lead Sunday heading into the final round of the Island Resort NCAA Men's Golf Championship at the Sage Run Golf Course. Battling high winds and fatigue after 36 holes and nine hours of golf, United States Amateur champion James Piot carded a 138 to take a one-stroke lead over his MSU teammate, Troy Taylor. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The Copper Country's Jiesung Choi won the 2021 Upper Peninsula Men's Golf Association championship on Sunday in Escanaba. The 2020 Houghton High School graduate led all four rounds to collect the F.H. Hood Trophy. Choi is a member of the Saginaw Valley State University golf team. Gladstone's Terrace Bluff Country Club won the Team Trophy.
Morgane Metraux of Lausanne, Switzerland is the winner of the LPGA Symetra Tour Island Resort Championship at the Sweetgrass Golf Course. Click the above headline for details.
Canadian Maude-Aimee LeBlanc and American Karen Chung are tied for the lead after the first round of the Symetra Tour Island Resort Championship golf tournament at the Sweetgrass Golf Course. Both shot a seven-under-par on the opening 18 holes of the tournament. Kristin Coleman is one stroke back in third place at minus six. Four other golfers are tied for fourth at 5 under par. Click the above headline for details.
The Marquette High School golf team won the third of five Great Northern Conference meets on Thursday in Escanaba, while the Menominee Maroons cruised to the team victory in the girls meet. Click the above headline to see all of the results.
The Menominee Maroons used the home course advantage to win a pair of Great Northern Conference golf meets on Thursday at the Riverside Course. Click the above headline for details.
The Island Resort Championship at Sweetgrass scheduled for June 19-21, 2020 has been postponed. The LPGA has delayed its season opening events until July 2020, which includes all Symetra Tour events. Click the above headline to read details.
The Island Resort Intercollegiate men's golf tournament wrapped up on Monday, with Liberty University edging Purdue University by one stroke to win the team title. Michigan State University's James Piot won the individual title by three strokes, finishing at -9. Click the above headline to read details, and see photos and videos.
Men's golf teams from ten universities competed in two full rounds of golf on Sunday at the Island Resort Intercollegiate event at the Sage Run Golf Course in Harris. Click the above headline to see Sunday's results, and photos, videos, and interviews.
Ten men's college golf teams will compete this holiday weekend a the Island Resort Collegiate at the Sage Run Course in Harris. Northern Michigan University will join a number of NCAA-I schools Sunday and Monday. Click the above headline for a preview.
Gladstone High School graduate Bryce Douglas shot four rounds at or below par and captured the Upper Peninsula Golf Association men's championship at the Terrace Bluff Golf Course. Douglas won the title by one stroke, shooting a four-under 284 for the tournament. Click the above headline to read the details. (UPGA Photo)
Daniela Iacobelli started the final round six shots off the lead in a share of thirteenth at the 2019 Island Resort Championship. Posting a 7-under-par, 65, on Sunday was enough to put her atop the leaderboard to force a two-person playoff. Iacobelli birdied the first hole of a sudden-death playoff to defeat Cindy Ha to take home the trophy. Both women clinched spots in the LPGA event next month in France. Click the above headline to hear comments from both, courtesy of the Symetra Tour.
A big performance Saturday from Louise Stahle of 7-under par 65 launched her into sole command of the lead at the ninth annual Island Resort Championship with an overall score of 10-under par. Click the above headline for details. (Symetra Tour photo)
Four players sit tied for the lead of 5-under par in Harris, Mich. after 18 holes at the ninth annual Island Resort Championship at the Sweetgrass Golf Course. Click the above headline to read details. (Symetra Tour Photo, story)
The YMCA Learn to Golf program is scheduled to begin Monday, July 8, 2019 at the Irish Oaks Golf Course Driving Range. The program is designed to teach children the basic fundamentals of golf. Click the above headline to read more details of the program.
North Central Jets freshman Bryson Mercier won the Division Three Upper Peninsula high school boys golf championship on Thursday, rolling to a ten-shot victory over the rest of the field at Gladstone’s Irish Oaks Golf Course. Ontonagon won both the boys and girls D-3 U.P. titles, and West Iron County won both D-2 meets. Click the above headline for scores.
The Houghton Gremlins edged the Marquette Redmen and Escanaba Eskymos to take the championship of the MHSAA Upper Peninsula Division One boys golf championship Wednesday in Escanaba. Gladstone's Rudy Peterson was the medalist. Click the above headline for details, photos, video clips.
The Escanaba Eskymos finished second at the Division One girls Upper Peninsula golf championships on Wednesday at Sweetgrass. Menominee won the team title. Escanaba’s Paxton Johnson won her fourth straight UP title. She shot a 76, eleven strokes clear of second place Emma Hofer of Menominee. Marquette's Morgan Rhodes (96) was third. The Maroons had 385 strokes. Escanaba was second with 412. Negaunee was third with 449, Menominee was fourth (455) and Houghton (478) took fifth place.
Former Escanaba High School golfer Johnny Kositzky finished his sophomore season of college golf on Monday with a career-best as his Wisconsin Lutheran College team competed in the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference championships in Aurora, Ill. Kositzky shot a 73, good for one over par, and a 12th place finish for the tournament. He finished with a four-day total of 315 strokes (85-81-76-73). Kositzky (left) is pictured with teammate Derek Disch.
Escanaba High School senior golfer Paxton Johnson has signed a National Letter of Intent to attend school and play golf at Northern Michigan University. Johnson has won the MHSAA Fivision One Upper Peninsula championship three straight years, and will be trying for the clean sweep this spring. She plans to study biochemistry at Northern.
Trailing by three shots entering Sunday’s Island Resort Championship final round, Ruixin Liu overcame the deficit, high winds and an injury to find her way to the Symetra Tour winner’s circle for the first time. Click the above headline for details.
