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By Mark Schmetzer Patty Crisp has been captain of the Four Bridges Country Club team for the Greater Cincinnati Women’s Golf Association Fall Team competition since 2018. Her squad is moving up from Division IV to Division III for the first time after winning this season’s division championship. Four Bridges moved into a tie for first place in Week Three of the five-week tournament and pulled away for the championship with the team’s two best rounds of the event to earn a promotion to Division III next season. “We’ve always stayed in

By Mark Schmetzer Having never played in the Crystal Bowl tournament before this year, it helped Shelli Bitter and Jenny Brallier that they were at least familiar with the site for this year’s event. Bitter and Brallier – Killer B’s? – teamed up to win the Flight One Best Ball Gross portion of the 2022 Crystal Bowl on August 9 at Summit Hills Country Club. They finished with a 5-over 76, one stroke better than the teams of Holly Jones and Kathie Kuzma from O’Bannon Creek Golf Club and Nancy Decenso and

By Mark Schmetzer For a team that was hastily thrown together playing on an unfamiliar course, the foursome of Ashley Keating, Maria McLaughlin, Lee Stephens and Erin Barney did fairly well at the 2022 Low Kent Memorial tournament. Playing at Miami View Golf Club on the makeup date of August 1, the makeshift crew weathered a half-hour lightning delay to win the Low Net championship by two strokes “It’s kind of a fun story,” Keating, a Cincinnati Country Club member with McLaughlin, said. “We were kind of a cross-city team. The real

By Mark Schmetzer Winning the High Kent Net championship is becoming a habit for Melissa Wink and Meghan Cole. The pair teamed up with Michelle Jones and Jen Stuhlreyer to win the 2021 High Kent Net title at Four Bridges Country Club. This year, on July 11 at Stillmeadow Country Club, the Kenwood Country Club pair played with club mates Diane Herndon and Linda Pruis to shoot a combined 10-under 130 and tie for the Net Championship with the mixed team of Ginger Lippmeier-Suarez, Alicia Gerlinger, Debbie Lach and Katie Robertson. That

Allison Gonring’s 2022 Met Women’s Amateur championship might’ve come about with a move she made before the tournament’s first tee shot. Allison Gonring She played a practice round with Lynn Thompson. Since both the Women’s Met and the Senior Women’s Met were played simultaneously on June 8-10 at Thompson’s home course at O’Bannon Creek Golf Club in Loveland, the move not only made sense, but it also paid off for both players. Gonring, the 2010 Met champ as Allison Schultz, shot a 75-72-75 – 221 to finish four strokes ahead

Sally Leyman ,Mardie Off , Lynn Schneebeck, Margaret Comey Sally Leyman felt that her Camargo Country Club team had a good chance to unseat the Hamilton Elks Golf Club squad as the perennial Spring Team Division I champions even before competition teed off. Camargo had to negotiate an unusual route, but the team fulfilled the captain’s projection, edging Elks by 1.2 points to snap at four Hamilton’s streak of consecutive Division I championships. “With me and Margaret Comey on the first team, I felt like if we could hold our

By Mark Schmetzer Sandra Jones had one superstition on the golf course – or, at least, one to which she would admit. “I never use a golf ball numbered over 4,” she told the Cincinnati Enquirer’s Paul Ritter in 1974. “Today, I used a No. 1 ball. I just felt it had to be.” The ball number fit quite nicely, because “today” was July 12, 1974, the day Jones squeezed past Jane DeGroff, 2-and-1, in a semifinal before rolling to a 4-and-3 win over former Olympic javelin thrower Karen Oldham in the

Welcome the 2022 New GCWGA Board Members Easing into her new role was not an option for Vicki Felver. The Hamilton Elks Golf Club member was part of the most recent Greater Cincinnati Women’s Golf Association executive board makeover. Felver took over for Patti Horne as the Spring Team Chairperson facing the task of implementing an adjustment in the tournament schedule that’s going to push the scheduled conclusion later into the year. “I’ve been running for a month now,” said Felver, who had been an Elks alternate delegate and was installed with

Working at home and flexible schedules are two of the many developments generated by the COVID-19 pandemic – and they worked out for the Losantiville Country Club women’s team in this year’s Greater Cincinnati Women’s Golf Association Fall Team competition. Losantiville, led by team captain Sally Cuni, took the lead in the first week of the five-week Division IV event and never gave it up, winning by seven points with 102 over runnerup O’Bannon Creek Golf Club. The division win was Losantiville’s first in Cuni’s memory. “The key was we had a

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,