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Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Sports: Golf leagues wrap up club’s 150th season
Low net winners Joe Interisano, left, and John Reynolds, right, flank Woofs Cup champion Jim Meszaros and league organizer Bill Katrynuk. SUPPLIED

You can’t tell from the balmy weather earlier this week, but another golf season is coming to a close.

Most of the leagues at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club have wrapped up and already held their year-end banquets, with only the Thursday men’s league still to come.

This week marks the traditional “Magwood’s Revenge” outing, wherein course superintendent Mike Magwood and his merry band of greenskeepers take great joy in adding tough twists and some nearly impossible hole positions to challenge the gents.

Next week is the men’s banquet finale, which will include long-drive, putting and closest to the pin from 100 yards contests, plus a prize table.

Meanwhile, last Thursday in the final day of the men’s league during the club’s 150th anniversary season, club champion James Grigjanis-Meusel and seniors champ Stephen Warboys were in fine form, each carding even-par 36 to earn low gross honours.

Ken Willms (29) and Jack Hanna (30) were low net winners.

Jim Garrett sank the longest putt on #2 and Willms outdrove everyone else on #3. Stephen Fraser was closest to the pin on #4 and Mike Henry was closest on #9.

Three players scooped $35 gross skins, led by Grigjanis-Meusel who had an eagle 3 on the par-5 third hole. Mike Eagen birdied #6 and Paul Dickson had one on #7 to round out the skins winners.

Net skins worth $45 went to Ward Simpson (#1), Nick Miller (#5), Matt Coffee (#7) and Henry on #9.

Last week, the Tuesday Woofs league honoured some of its seasonal winners.

Ray Lauge won the Legends Cup, a low net competition and Eagen won the prize for low gross.

Sharp-shooting Jim Meszaros, who dominated the Woofs league leaderboard for much of the season, was the Woofs Cup winner. John Reynolds and Joe Interisano were low net winners.

Other winners were Ted Carmichael (Top Dog) and Ted Wiens (Golden Dog, for players over age 80), singled out for contributions to the league and season-long participation.

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