What a day for golf the ladies had! Quite an improvement over last years rain debacle for sure. The theme this year was Irish Eyes are Smiling for the Irish Open. The ladies were all out in there festive green and Irish Type costumes. We even had a leprechaun floating around the club courtesy of Mr. Kuntz. All the ladies were lining up to get a picture with the dapper guy hoping to take a dip into his Pot 'O Gold. The format for the ladies was quite similar to last year. They had a one best ball contest for the practice round which was held on Monday with nearly 100% participation! The best players of the day in the net division were deadlocked at the very low score of 58. The teams of Cindy Boals, Dolly Mott, Karen Finegold, Tracy Lorenz and Wanda Little, Gina Gilchrest, Lynne Frazier, Jean Weiler were happy to share the first place prize money of $60 per team. Great work Girls. The Gross division had no tie for first place. The winning score was 76 which was 4 shots clear of the nearest competitor. Lorraine Chalas, Norma Hyland, Kathy Fiske and Paula Zellers took those top honors along with the $80 first place prize. The second place gross had a tie at 80 strokes with the teams of Knight, Leidy, Staley, Stokes & Tate, Hardinger, Thompson, Anderson claiming that spot and the split of the $40 second place prize money.
On tournament day we started the day with a buffet breakfast in the Cornerstone and a Shotgun start at 9:00 am. The format was Captains choice with two different flights where we had Gross and Net winners in each. The flights were the Shamrock Flight and the Leprechaun Flight.
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| Gross Winners Lorraine Chalas, Paula Zellers, Norama Hyland & Kathy Fiske |
The Shamrock Flight had a tie at the top of the gross division with the score of 67. We had a scorecard playoff for that spot which came out in favor of Norma Hyland, Kathy Fiske, Paula Zellers & Lorraine Chalas. They finished with three pars that made the difference in the playoff and gave
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| Net winners Diane Staley, Tricia Knight Stephanie Stokes & Charlotte Leidy |
them that first place spot. The net winners were the Gross playoff losers so they only felt bad for a brief second. They had a very impressive score of 59.1 which was a winner by only 2 tenths of a stroke over their nearest competitor. The team was Tricia Knight, Charlotte Leidy, Diana Staley & Stephanie Stokes. Team leprechaun (all members were dressed as the lucky charm) needed a bit of that Irish luck to pull off the slimmest of victories. Congratulations to both winners in the Shamrock Flight.
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| Gross Winners Rith Ertel, Betty Lynch, Dot Kennihan & Toni Goodrich |
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| Net Winners Marcia Maiero, Lorraine Schwerin Joan Owen & Margaret McDonald |
The ladies had some special event holes out there today with two closest to the hole competitions, a straightest drive and the Pot of Gold (had to get in the circle to win). The Closest to the hole on #2 was for guests and was won by Diana Staley. The 9th hole was the Member's hole and that was claimed by Dot Kennihan. The straightest drive had both Member and Guest divisions and the Member prize was won by Diane Tate with the guest prize going to Pat Anderson. There were only two ladies getting into the Pot of Gold and they were both Guests (but former Members) Kathy Fiske & Lynne Frazier shared in that prize.
I would like to thank all the ladies who played this year in the Ladies Member Guest. A special thanks to those Members who took the time to get things organized. We hope to see an even bigger field next year!
Best,
Dave
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