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49th Metropolitan Senior Women’s Championship

September 8-9, 2020 Wyoming CC Lynn Thompson isn’t yet at the top, but she’s rapidly closing in on it. Lynn Thompson Playing out of O’Bannon Creek Golf Club, Thompson shot an 81-83 – 164 to get past club mate Janie Klare and win the 49th Metropolitan Senior Women’s Gross Championship September 8-9 at Wyoming Golf Club. Dolores Crowley, who plays out of Avon Fields Golf Course, survived a tough four-way battle to edge Rainey Rohrmeier by one stroke and win the Overall Net championship. Crowley finished with a 79-79 –

2020-10-18T22:18:51-04:00

GCWGA Season Finale: NINE, WINE & DINE at Wyoming CC

The flyer for the sixth annual Greater Cincinnati Women’s Golf Association’s “Nine, Wine & Dine” event promised “LOTS of fun!!” Organizer Patti Horne has no doubt that the promise was delivered. “Oh, yeah,” she said. “People loved it. It just has a casual, fun flavor to it. It’s nine holes, only less pressure. We were rained out last year, so people were anxious to play.” A full house of 48 players split into 12 four-player teams showed up at Wyoming Golf Club on September 14 for golf, wine, dinner and frivolity.

2020-10-18T22:17:39-04:00

Crystal Bowl 2020 at Kenwood Country Club on August 17th

The summer of 2020 has been challenging for most people, but Denise Wareham is making the most of it. Wareham and Unae Mueller were half of a Four Bridges Country Club team that won the Greater Cincinnati Women’s Golf Association Low Kent Low Gross championship in June. Wareham and Mueller The duo teamed up again on August 17 to win the GCWGA Crystal Bowl Low Handicap Net Championship at Kenwood Country Club’s 18-hole Kenview Course. That left Wareham 2-for-2 in winning GCWGA events since moving to Greater Cincinnati from St.

2020-09-24T14:41:32-04:00

HIGH KENT at Maketewah Country Club July

To say it was beginner’s luck would be inaccurate, since all of the team members have played golf for years, but for a few members of the winning teams at the 2020 High Kent tournament on July 21, their inaugural rounds at Maketewah Country Club proved to be particularly rewarding. The Kenwood Country Club team of Captain Ginger Lippmeier-Suarez and Dawn Bertsche, Beth Gianetti and Karen Hjelm won the High Kent 1st Low Gross championship over the second-place team of Captain Diane Rottinghaus, Kim Rollinger, Diane Sundrup and Lynn Torbeck from Miami

2020-08-28T22:10:06-04:00

2020 Betty Kerby Peppard Winner – Lynn Thompson

The BHP Award recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to women’s amateur golf Lynn has been participating in WOSGA events since 1979. She is a five-time champion of the Ohio State Seniors, and runner up in the Ohio State Amateur in 1980. Lynn is a member of O’Bannon Creek Golf Club, where she has won 17 club championships. Lynn has also won the Greater Cincinnati Women’s Metropolitan championship twice and Cincinnati Senior Met four times. In 2003, playing for Thomas More College, she won the NCAA Division III individual title and

2020-08-28T22:09:31-04:00

2020 Low Kent at Western Hills Country Club (July 17, 2020)

Unae Mueller recalls not playing very well in her first couple of rounds at Western Hills Country Club. She and her Four Bridges Country Club teammates – Ali Green, Diane Bizzarri and Denise Wareham – helped her on June 13 to form a better memory. They teamed up to get past the team of Lynn Thompson, Holly Jones, Diane Meiners and Nancy DeCenso and win the Low Gross portion of the Greater Cincinnati Women’s Golf Association Low Kent Memorial tournament. Four Bridges Country Club “This is the biggest event I’ve

2020-08-10T12:08:48-04:00

Wildcats dominated the 105th Women’s Met at Wetherington Golf and Country Club

Marissa Wenzler University of Kentucky sophomore Marissa Wenzler came from behind on the second day of the two-day, 36-hole medal-play tournament to edge future UK teammate Laney Frye by two strokes at the par-72 Wetherington Golf and Country Club. The competition didn’t escape UK’s notice. This was posted on the women’s golf team’s Facebook page: “We’re out here collecting trophies this summer. “Marissa Wenzler won the 105th Metropolitan Women's Amateur Championship June 10-11, in West Chester, Ohio. And guess who finished just behind her in second? Incoming freshman Laney Frye.

2020-07-22T22:58:15-04:00

Olga Weil

Mark Schmetzer By Mark Schmetzer “We Are a Go for Launch” the Greater Cincinnati Golf Association announced triumphantly on its website after the Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced that golf could resume after being suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That meant local women could look forward to competing in the 105th Metropolitan Women’s Amateur Championship June 10-11 at Wetherington Golf and Country Club in West Chester. The eventual winner could look forward to challenging Olga Weil’s record of Met championships. Good luck. Olga Weil, often referred to in newspaper

2020-07-01T13:10:12-04:00

Keenie

Carol Clark Johnson’s most well-known nickname is “Keenie,” but there was a time when “little,” “tiny” and even “diminutive” all came into play. That’s how she often was described in local newspaper accounts of her competition exploits, but the references were only to her stature and contradict the impact she’s had on golf – not just locally, but around the world. Besides being a trailblazer for female athletes, the Wyoming native earned renown for her efforts in helping establish the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) and her relentless approach to teaching golf.

2020-06-04T15:56:38-04:00
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