
Sports: Golf leagues wrap up club’s 150th season
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.
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.
Smooth-swinging lefty Glen Murray managed a rare feat on the first hole during men’s league action at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club last Thursday.
Lucas Roberts-Ramos, the junior champ at the NOTL Golf Club, and Eli Perng, top junior at both the Cherry Hill Club and Eagle Valley, finished in a four-way tie for second in the tourney, played at Cardinal Lakes Golf Club in Welland.
The Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club, founded on its current location in 1875, has been marking its birthday all season — and on Sept. 26 it will hold a commemorative tournament and reception to celebrate in style with some 180 golfers hitting the links.
Reigning club champion Louise Robitaille was atop the leaderboard thanks to her 82. Yolanda Henry (87), May Chang (92) and Margot Richardson (93) were next in line.
“If taxation is to be equitable, Niagara Region needs to adopt a new model that does not penalize residents who happen to live in a low-crime community where their home has appreciated in value over the past decade or two,” writes Kevin MacLean.
After kicking things off with a cheerful social gathering filled with fresh fruit and sweet treats, members of the Niagara-on-the-Lake nine-hole women’s league wrapped up trophy play in style Tuesday.
After a decisive win in her first bout at the World Boxing Championships in Liverpool, NOTL fighter Mckenzie Wright lost a unanimous decision Tuesday to a boxer from China in the round of 16.
In the past, Queen’s Royal, home to the town’s famous gazebo, has often been declared unsafe, so this year The Lake Report obtained and analyzed water test data gathered by Niagara Region staff to determine how good — or bad — the situation was.
There were prizes aplenty Tuesday as the Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club’s 18-hole women’s league competed for closest to the pin and longest drive.
Two young Niagara-on-the-Lake golfers, Kaige Zhu and Eli Perng, turned in strong performances at the Canadian under-15 championships in British Columbia this week.
Jim and Janice McMacken are back-to-back winners of the Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club’s annual Matrimonial Tournament, one of the toughest competitions of the summer season.
NOTL homeowners will pay more than $16 million for policing in 2025, but that total could be a lot lower if regional council stops using home values to calculate how the service is funded, says the former chair of Niagara’s police services board.
The weather has cooled off a bit but some of the scores in the Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club’s weekly leagues have been heating up.
Milne, 34, has been playing since he was a teenager and it was his first hole-in-one. He and his wife both work in marketing and play regularly at NOTL and Legends in Niagara Falls.
After two days of intense play in blistering heat and humidity, the marquee competitions for the men’s and women’s overall championships came down to the wire — and then some for the gents.
The winner from among the 21 participants won’t be revealed until this Sunday afternoon, as part of the club’s 150th year celebrations during its annual championship weekend.
Austin Anderson and Richard Moore, who has worked as a contractor specializing in concrete driveway installations, both were employed by GGS Niagara Landscaping.
Richard Alan Moore, 39, faces a slew of charges in the incident that injured co-worker Austin Anderson during an outing on Skeleton Lake in Muskoka.
Hot weather and high humidity continue to scorch the Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club but that didn’t deter a half-dozen women from successfully challenging club pro Owen Howells in a friendly shootout Tuesday.
With his short game and putting firing on all cylinders, Niagara-on-the-Lake golfer Stephen Warboys finished tied for fourth in the Ontario Senior Men’s Golf Championship last week.
A Niagara-on-the-Lake native who killed a cyclist in a hit-and-run two years ago is facing several serious new charges after a boat collided with a swimmer in Muskoka last Saturday evening, leaving a 22-year-old man with life-threatening injuries.
Suzanne Watson got things started by shooting a stellar 42 in one of the best rounds of the season in the Monday Business Women’s league.
A Niagara man who is awaiting sentencing in a hit-and-run that killed a NOTL cyclist is facing new charges after a boat collided with a swimmer in Muskoka on Friday evening.
Fresh from scoring a bronze medal in June at the World Boxing Challenge in the Czech Republic, Mckenzie Wright is at the gym almost every day, training and learning, still hoping to make her Olympic dream a reality.
© All Rights Reserved, Niagara Now.