Stonewater Golf Course
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Stonewater Golf Club is a regulation golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

 course and facility built in 1996 in Highland Heights
Highland Heights, Ohio
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, Ohio
Ohio
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. Designed by Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry, the course covers 178 acre (0.72034108 km²). Sixteen of the eighteen holes have water hazards which necessitated 23 wooden bridge
Bridge
A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle...

s. The course is also well wooded, with seventy sand bunker
Bunker (golf)
A hazard is an area of a golf course in the sport of golf which provides a difficult obstacle. which may be of three types: water hazards such as lakes and rivers; man-made hazards such as bunkers; and natural hazards such as dense vegetation. Special rules apply to playing balls that fall in a...

s. Its par
Par (score)
The word "par" is a term in the game of golf used to denote the pre-determined number of strokes that a scratch golfer should require to complete a hole, a round , or a tournament...

 is 71. The course is designed around the residential neighborhood of Aberdeen.

Nationwide Tour

The course has a three-year contract (2005-2007) with the Nationwide Tour
Nationwide Tour
The Nationwide Tour is the developmental tour for the U.S.-based PGA Tour, and features professional golfers who have either failed to score well enough at that level's Qualifying School to earn their PGA Tour card, or who have done so but then failed to win enough money to stay at that level...

, in which the golf course holds a stop of the tour during the summer.

Titles

  • 2005 - Cleveland
    Cleveland, Ohio
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     Open
    . Was not aired on TV.
  • 2006 - Legend Financial Group Classic
    Legend Financial Group Classic
    The Legend Financial Group Classic presented by Cynergies Solutions was a golf tournament on the Nationwide Tour. It was played from 2005 to 2007 at Stonewater Golf Course in Highland Heights, Ohio, U.S.....

    . Aired August 31 - September 3 on The Golf Channel
    The Golf Channel
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    .
  • 2007 - Legend Financial Group Classic. To be aired July 5 - 8 on The Golf Channel.
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