Back To School Special

It’s almost time for teachers, students and staff to return to school and Pine Valley would like to send you back with a round or two of golf under your belt.

Thursday’s and Friday’s August 9th and 10th and 16th and 17th you can save 25% off your golf.

Book a tee time online or call and make a tee time, show up with your school ID and you get 25% off the regular price of golf.

This is not good with our Weekday Special or any other specials that may be offered.

Remember book online or call us 330-335-3375

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Great Week For Golf

 

         Grab your buddies and come play some golf.                                 Weekday specials till noon –

18 Holes with a cart for $21

9 Holes with a cart for $15

Seniors over 60 get the special until 2 pm.

Make a tee time online or give us a call at

330-335-3375

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Thomas doesn’t break sweat in winning finale at Firestone

August 05, 2018
By Associated Press

 

  • Justin Thomas goes over the trees in par save at Bridgestone

AKRON, Ohio — Justin Thomas took all the drama out of the final World Golf Championship at Firestone, never letting anyone closer than two shots and closing with a 1-under 69 to win the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational for his third PGA TOUR title this season.

Sweeter than capturing his first World Golf Championship was the sight behind the 18th green Sunday.

His grandparents, Paul and Phyllis Thomas, watched him win for the first time on the PGA TOUR. Paul Thomas was a career club professional and played at Firestone in the 1960 PGA Championship, missing the 54-hole cut. His son, Mike Thomas, also is a career club pro in Kentucky and a former PGA of America board member.

“I got a little choked up when I saw grandma and grandpa over there,” Thomas said. “It’s really cool. They don’t get to come out very often.”

They saw a one-man show.

Playing in the final group with Rory McIlroy, the 25-year-old Thomas made only two birdies. That was all he needed on a day when just about everyone within range was making all the mistakes.

McIlroy finished the back nine with consecutive bogeys and never recovered. Ian Poulter shot 74. Jason Day tried to make a run by making three straight birdies, only to play the final six holes in 5 over to shoot 73.

Tiger Woods, an eight-time winner at Firestone, started 11 shots behind and figured he would go out with a bang by playing aggressively. He turned in a dud, and a birdie on the 18th hole gave him another 73 to leave him 15 shots behind.

“Things could have certainly gone better,” Woods said. “But it is what it is, and on to next week.”

Thomas must feel the same way. He had gone five months since his last victory, a playoff win at the Honda Classic. While he didn’t feel as though he were playing poorly, he didn’t have the results to back it up. Now he does, and Thomas heads to St. Louis next week for the PGA Championship, where he will try to join Woods as the only players to win back-to-back in stroke play. Woods did it twice.

Thomas had not had a score better than 67, and he had not finished higher than a tie for 28th in his two previous appearances at Firestone.

“I’m glad I finally played well around here, just in time to leave,” he said.

Firestone has held tour events since the Rubber City Open in 1954. The World Series of Golf began in 1962, and it became an official PGA TOUR event in 1976. In many respects, it was the precursor to the World Golf Championships by bringing in winners from around the world.

Bridgestone shifted its title sponsorship to the PGA TOUR Champions, which will bring its SENIOR PLAYERS Championship to Firestone next year. The World Golf Championship instead will move to Memphis, Tennessee.

Thomas finished at 15-under 265 for a four-shot victory over Kyle Stanley, who got within two shots of the lead until bogeys on the 13th and 14th holes. Stanley closed with a 68.

Dustin Johnson, the world’s No. 1 player who was coming off a victory in the Canadian Open last week, started the final round 10 shots behind and shot 29 on the front nine. A birdie at No. 10 put him three shots behind, but that was all he had. Johnson bogeyed the last hole for a 64 and shared third with Thorbjorn Olesen of Denmark, who also had a 64.

U.S. Open champion Brooks Koepka had a 67 to finish fifth.

McIlroy won at Bay Hill in March and has three runner-up finishes, and he had said Saturday afternoon he was tired of finishing second. Not to worry. His 73 gave him a tie for sixth.

Thomas becomes the 21st player to win a World Golf Championship and a major, and his three victories tie him with Johnson and Bubba Watson for most on the PGA TOUR this year. The ninth victory of his career moves him to No. 2 in the world, with a shot to regain the No. 1 ranking next week at the PGA Championship.

He set the tone early by hooking a pitching wedge over a steep lip in a fairway bunker to just short of the green and saving par with a 6-foot putt, then holing a 15-foot birdie putt on the par-5 second.

“It was big because I was really nervous today,” Thomas said. “It felt like it had been a while, but I guess it hadn’t really been that long. I don’t know. I was very nervous, very jittery. To make that putt on 1 and again on 2 just kind of calmed me and got me going for the day.”

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Golf Joke Of The Day

Scratch handicap

“Do you play off scratch?” said one player.

The other replied: “I sure am. Every time I hit the ball I scratch my head and wonder where it went.”

Read more at https://www.golf-monthly.co.uk/features/the-game/20-best-golf-jokes-90683#2DRCrPuAjUKwwUFx.99

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Come Out And Play

It’s a beautiful weekend and a great time to come out and play some golf.  Pine Valley offers challenges for all skill levels. Play nine or eighteen and enjoy the marvelous scenery.

18 holes with cart $30.00 or 9 holes with cart for $17.50 after 12 o’clock Saturday or Sunday.

Book your tee time online at pinevalleyohio.com or give us a call at 330-335-3375

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The Future is Here

The Highland Middle School Golf program spent this past Wednesday, Thursday and Friday holding tryouts for their 2018 team and will be here every week through September. These are our future and will help keep the game of golf alive. We look forward to seeing them out here and encouraging them as they grow in their love for the game of golf

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Golf Joke Of The Day

Greens OK?

A guy on vacation finishes his round, goes into the clubhouse. The head pro says, “Did you have a good time out there?”

The man replied “Fabulous, thank you.”

“You’re welcome,” said the pro. “How did you find the greens?”

Said the man: “Easy. I just walked to the end of the fairways and there they were!”

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Golf Joke Of The Day

The last laugh

An argumentative drunk had been looking for a fight all afternoon in the club bar after losing his match, finally aiming a punch at the man next to him. The man ducked and the drunk, losing balance, fell off his stool on to the floor. By the time he’d dusted himself down and picked himself up, his opponent had departed.

“Not much of a fighter, was he?” he complained to the barman.

“Not much of a driver either, sir,” said the barman, gazing out of the window. “He’s just driven over your clubs.”

Read more at https://www.golf-monthly.co.uk/features/the-game/20-best-golf-jokes-90683#ITmSZpwy1tbjiS0w.99

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Golf Joke Of The Day

Coach, what is wrong with my game?

One day a player asked his coach: “What is going wrong with my game?”

“You’re standing too close to the ball after you’ve hit it.”

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Lyle decides to stop cancer treatment

July 31, 2018
By Ben Everill, PGATOUR.COM

 

In recent weeks, Jarrod Lyle has lost eyesight and speech. (Chris Hyde/Getty Images)

Jarrod Lyle put up the fight of three lifetimes against cancer but the extremely popular Australian PGA TOUR player has made the heartbreaking decision to cease active treatment and begin palliative care.

Lyle, a two-time winner on the Web.com Tour, has been a champion to countless people after overcoming acute myeloid leukemia first as a teenager and then again at the height of his career on the TOUR.

But David can’t always beat Goliath.

It returned for a third time last year and although Lyle underwent a haploidentical transplant with the help of his brother in December his body has been unable to hold up.

In recent weeks Lyle had trouble with his eyesight and speech and the decision to end treatment came overnight.

While his body is leukemia free, the myriad of treatments and medications have taken their toll.

He will now spend his time with wife Briony and his young daughters Lusi and Gemma.

“My heart breaks as I type this message. Earlier today Jarrod made the decision to stop active treatment and begin palliative care. He has given everything that he’s got to give, and his poor body cannot take anymore. We’ll be taking him closer to home in the next couple of days so he can finally leave the hospital,” Briony wrote in a statement.

“Jarrod knows he is loved, and the thousands of prayers and well wishes that have been sent his way have kept him going through some incredibly tough times. But he has reached his limit, and the docs have finally agreed that they can no longer strive for a positive outcome.

“My focus as of today is on our girls and doing whatever I can to get them through the challenges ahead. Jarrod will be closer to them very soon and will spend as much time as he can with them.

“When it’s appropriate, I will post details of a memorial service. In the meantime we ask that you respect our privacy at this difficult time.”

The news hit the PGA TOUR community hard.

“We’ve learned of Jarrod’s plan to stop treatment and begin palliative care. Our entire TOUR family is grieving this news, but we certainly respect and support his decision to spend the coming days with his beautiful family – it’s a decision true to everything he has stood for throughout his life and career: grace, dignity and an unending love of family,” Commissioner Jay Monahan said. “We are respecting Jarrod’s family’s request for privacy, but they know we are here for whatever they need during this difficult time and beyond.”

“I didn’t want to believe it, it is just devastating,” longtime friend Robert Allenby said. “Jarrod always has a smile on his face. His determination has inspired so many people around the world.

“That’s why so many people have sent him so many prayers and well wishes. He is a golfing icon because of the character he has shown to the world. We send all our love to him and his beautiful wife and daughters in this tough time.”

Allenby met Lyle when he was just a teenager going through his first bout of the disease through a cancer charity he works with in Australia.

The fact Lyle not only beat the disease but forged his way onto the PGA TOUR to play against him still floors him to this day.

“I knew he was good, but to be as great as he was, with the cards he was dealt. It just shows what a great fighter he is,” Allenby added.

“And to this day – you’ll never meet a bigger fighter. I’m not sure anyone could have fought as hard as he has. I know I wouldn’t have had that willpower.”

Adam Scott was emotional on hearing the news.

The former Masters champion was hoping for a miracle and said Lyle had always left him smiling in their hundreds of encounters.

“I can’t imagine being in that position; it’s unthinkable,” Scott said. “He is one of the best blokes there is. Given all the difficulties he’s had since his late teens, he has lived the best life he could with the tough cards he has been dealt.

“He has done better than anyone would have. He was out on TOUR for so long, playing such good golf while battling illness. He has been through it all. His positivity and general demeanor have been so good and so infectious on others; it’s a good way to think of how I should live my life.”

Jason Day, who has young children of similar ages to Lyle and who lost his father to cancer at a young age couldn’t help but sympathize.

Day also went through a cancer scare with his mother in the last few years.

“It’s hard news to take and it is so unfortunate,” Day said. “It puts things in perspective. We are out here trying to compete but at the end of the day there is life and family we need to be there for.

“We all love Jarrod. He’s such a good bloke. It’s not fair he’s going through this. It is going to be tough going forward for his family, sadly no amount of wishing and wanting can change some things. But I am sure everyone in the golf community will continue to support them the best we can.”

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