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.
Ssu-Chia Cheng fired a six-under par 66 Saturday to take the lead heading into the final round of the LPGA Symetra Tour's Island Resort Championship in Harris. Click the above headline to read the details, courtesy of the Symetra Tour.
Esther Lee fired a seven-under 65 to take the lead after the first round of the LPGA Symetra Tour event Friday at the Sweetgrass Golf Course in Harris. There are 22 people within four shots of the lead heading into Saturday. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School girls golf team won the MHSAA Upper Peninsula Division One championship on Thursday, using the home-course advantage to upset Houghton and Menominee for the trophy. Click the above headline for details, photos, and interviews. (Pictured: Esky's Paxton Johnson, left, and Megan Dagenais, right, were emotional)
The Escanaba High School boys golf team won the MHSAA Division One Upper Peninsula championship on Thursday at the Sweetgrass Golf Club in Harris. The Eskymos outlasted Calumet by five strokes to win the title. Click the above headline to read details.
Carney-Nadeau High School graduate and Marquette University freshman Hunter Eichhorn took first place Tuesday at the Big East Conference championships in South Carolina. MU finished second as a team. Click the above headline for details. (MU Photo)
Carney-Nadeau High School graduate Hunter Eichhorn shot a final round 71 for Marquette University at a tournament in Louisiana on Tuesday, leading the Golden Eagles to a second-place finish in the event. Click the above headline for details, from Marquette University Athletics. (Marquette University Photo)
Emma Talley finished up her second round on Sunday at the Island Resort Championship at Sweetgrass, and then watched the rains fall again. This time, it was too much for the course to take and the third round was called off, and Talley collected the trophy and winner's check. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of Symetra Tour.
The Island Resort Championship Symetra Tour ladies golf event was halted by rain on Saturday at the Sweetgrass Golf Course. Emma Talley shot three under par on nine holes of golf to take the lead at -9. Click the above headline to details, courtesy of Symetra Tour.
Symetra Tour rookie Ruixin Liu fired a career-best round of 7-under par 65 on Friday in the first round of the seventh annual Island Resort Championship. Second-year Symetra player Emma Talley is one stroke back. Click the above headline for details.
Hunter Eichhorn won his fourth straight MHSAA Division Three Upper Peninsula golf championship on Thursday, and his Carney-Nadeau Wolves lifted the trophy for a third straight year. DeTour won the girls championship. Click the above headline for the details.
The Escanaba High School golf teams won both the boys and girls Division One Upper Peninsula championships on Wednesday in Marquette. The boys edged Gladstone by one stroke while the girls beat Houghton by 18 strokes. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone High School boys golf team won the Great Northern Conference championship on Thursday, edging Escanaba by four strokes, behind a 72 from Bryce Douglas and 74 from Rudy Peterson. Click the above headline to see all of the results.
The Escanaba High School girls golf team cruised to the Great Northern Conference championship on Thursday as Paxton Johnson, Megan Dagenais, and Sam Henderson all shot in the 80's. Click the above headline to read the details.
The Gladstone High School boys golf team won the championship of the Marquette Invitational on Wednesday. The Braves won with a team score of 320. Bryce Douglas was the medalist with 73 and Rudy Peterson took third with 76. In the girls meet, Gladstone's Megan Lukezich was fourth with a 111. The Braves host the GNC meet on Thursday.
The Gladstone High School boys golf team won the Menominee Invitational at the Riverside Golf Course on Monday. Click the above headline to read the scores.
Bryce Douglas fired a 69 and Rudy Peterson carded a 74 to help the Gladstone Braves win the Eskymo Gold Invitational Thursday at the Escanaba Country Club. Meanwhile, in the girls invitational, the Eskymos came out on top. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School boys golf team won the championship of the Kiwanis Invitational on Tuesday at the NMU Golf Course, while the Eskymo girls lost a close battle with Houghton. Click the above headline for the scores.
The Escanaba County Club was busy on Thursday as the boys and girls golf teams hosted the annual Eskymo Invitational. The Gladstone boys won, as did the Escanaba girls. Click the above headline to see all of the results.
The Northern Michigan women's golf team captured its first team title on its home course Sunday afternoon. The Wildcats posted a two-round 490 (178-312), 25 strokes better than second-place Davenport. Click the above headline to read more details. (NMU Photo)
The Northern Michigan University athletic department announced Friday morning that Bob Bastian has been elevated to interim head men's and women's golf coach. Click the above headline to learn more about Bastian.
