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Welcome to Friday Fix! Follow along as Great Parks golf professionals share tips and tricks on how you can improve your game. This week, PGA Professional Matt teaches you a neat trick to get the perfect club face position.

Welcome to Friday Fix! Follow along as Great Parks golf professionals share tips and tricks on how you can improve your game. This week, PGA Professional Matt is at Meadow Links & Golf Academy sharing how posture can affect your pitch shot.

Welcome to the first edition of Friday Fix! Follow along as Great Parks golf professionals share tips and tricks on how you can improve your game. PGA Professional Matt is at Meadow Links & Golf Academy showing which club to use when you approach the green.

As we enter the final month of golf at Shawnee Lookout, we would like to thank everyone who has been part of the course’s history. First, a special thank-you to all of the golfers who have made Shawnee Lookout their home course for many years. Many of you grew up playing the course as a […]

June 16, 2019, marks 40 years since Shawnee Lookout Golf Course opened. Astronaut Neil Armstrong was among seven individuals to hit the first golf balls to open the course – 10 years after he was the first man to walk on the moon. Opening day had some challenges, like when the pump house shut down, […]

40 years may seem like an eternity to some or the blink of an eye for others. No matter if you feel it hasn’t been that long or you haven’t been around for that many decades just yet, this year marks a landmark in Great Parks’ history at Shawnee Lookout. April 1, 2019 marks the […]

Are Great Parks’ golf courses going green AND brown this year? Actually, it may be both. This year, Little Miami Golf Center and Meadow Links & Golf Academy began experimenting with different methods of planting zoysia grass on select fairway areas. The goal is to see firsthand how this quirky grass can help us in […]

On September 21, 2015, I had the pleasure to meet and work with Bobby Van Landingham through our SoloRider program at Meadow Links & Golf Academy.  There was an instant connection, and I knew right away he was determined to get back on the course and play again. An Air Force Veteran (1962-1966), Bobby found […]