Yearly Archives: 2021

Sue Brainer had at least two reasons to be happy about the announcement that professional women’s golf will return to Greater Cincinnati. One was that, well, the ladies are coming back for the first time in more than 30 years. Another was that her home course, Kenwood Country Club, would be hosting the event. Less than a week after the announcement, Brainer had no hesitation about which was uppermost in her thoughts. “I guess that the women are coming back,” the current Greater Cincinnati Women’s Golf Association president said. “For the GCWGA,

Carolyn Mindel opened both rounds of the Greater Cincinnati Golf Association 50th Metropolitan Senior Women’s Championship with birdies on the first hole. Carol Mindel Unae Mueller had to bounce back from a less-than-stellar start. Both approaches worked. Mindel finished with a 76-78 – 154 to win the Overall Gross championship at Bel-Wood Country Club. Mueller added to what has been a solid 2021 season for her by winning the Overall Net championship, tying Beverly Weeks with a 83-77 – 160 Gross score and earning the title due to her handicap,

The Kenwood Country Club team of captain Sue Brainer, Susan Hyzdu, Karen Hjelm and Ginger Lippmeier-Suarez had a two-pronged approach to playing the this year’s Nine Wine and Dine event. Try to have the right player taking the crucial shot on each hole and avoid celebrating birdies with fireballs. The plan paid off as the Kenwood team finished with the top Gross score for the second consecutive year on August 24 at the Wyoming Golf Club. They teamed up to finish at 35, two strokes ahead of the Miami View team of

The Greater Cincinnati Women’s Golf Association has four possible championships in its annual Crystal Bowl competition. UnAe Mueller and Denise Wareham have teamed up to win two of them in the past two years. After capturing the Crystal Bowl Flight One Net Championship at Kenwood Country Club’s 18-hole Kenview Course last year, Mueller and Wareham combined to win the Low Handicap Net Championship with a 73 at Hamilton Elks Golf Club on August 9. “We play together pretty often,” Mueller said by phone on August 12. “Because of that, we have a

Trish Reperowitz was captain of the Western Hills Country Club team that captured the 2020 Greater Cincinnati Low Kent Memorial Tournament Low Net championship on its home course. At the time, she humbly credited at least part of the accomplishment to the familiarity of playing at home. Reperowitz and her teammates this year – Barb Trotta, Jeanne Schoonever and Susan McBeth – didn’t have the comfort of home course advantage to fall back on this year, but it didn’t matter. Playing in the High Kent portion of the annual event on July19,

In at least one way, the Greater Cincinnati Women’s Golf Association Spring Team competition picked up in 2021 right where it left off in 2019. Hamilton Elks Golf Club captured its fourth straight Division I championship, shaking off a season lost to pandemic protocols and romping to a decisive 18-point win over Camargo Country Club. Elks team captain Linda Coffey was pleasantly surprised at the outcome, considering the team lost two of its top players when the Heritage Club revived its team. “Other players stepped up,” said Coffey, whose team has won

Susan Glasby quit playing golf as a teen because, as she says, she was “burnt out.” “I didn’t pick up a club again until two years ago,” said the Australia native who now lives in Huntington, W.Va. She’s making the most of her – so to speak – second round. Glasby put together a three-round score of 75-79-74 – 228 to win the 106th Metropolitan Women’s Amateur Championship on June 9-11 at Ivy Hills Country Club. Glasby, playing out of World of Golf, edged 2014 and 2019 champion Emily Stipanovich of Coldstream

Darlene Anderson laughed when told that Dave Freytag, one of Joan Comisar’s legion of friends, described Comisar’s “big, loopy swing for the ages.” “Big and loopy,” Anderson echoed. “Only Joan could get away with a swing that big, but she was just so focused.” Anderson was talking about Comisar a couple of weeks after Comisar passed away on April 30 in Cincinnati of natural causes. Much of her obituary, of course, concerned itself with her many golf accomplishments, from her four Cincinnati Met championships to her 10 Senior Met championships to her

Margaret Jones hasn’t been back to Greater Cincinnati for at least five years, so she’s definitely looking forward to returning later this summer for the annual Legends of Golf Event, scheduled this year for August 16 at Hyde Park Country Club. “It’s been so long that Fort Mitchell Country Club is on its second pro since the last time I was there,” she said with a laugh that was easily detectable over cellphones from her DeLand, Fla., home. Jones 77, generously spent 20 minutes talking for a Greater Cincinnati Women’s Golf Association

Like most other members of the Greater Cincinnati golf scene, Marianne Sahms knew of Janie Dumler Klare as a tough and accomplished competitor on the course. Sahms was more familiar with other sides of Klare, especially as the mom of a player on Sahms’ Ursuline Academy golf team and as simply a gracious person prone to sending handwritten notes expressing gratitude for, in some cases, doing nothing more than your job or simply being you. “I was cleaning out a drawer and I found five or six handwritten notes from her,” Sahms,