The unseasonably cool temperatures on Tuesday morning didn’t deter the women who compete in the weekly leagues at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club.
When the first group in the 18-hole women’s league teed off at 7:30 a.m., the skies were bright but the temperature was barely 5 C. It felt frosty by the lake.
That didn’t stop them from posting some hot scores, though.
Yolanda Henry had the hottest hand, winning low gross honours with a score of 94.
She was followed by Diana Dimmer (95), May Chang (96), Marie Ellison (97) and Susan Gagne (99).
Henry also was closest to the pin on #4.
Net score winners were: Trish Anthony (69), Chang and Ellison (72), Cheryl Yamamoto (73), and Sharron Marlow and Gagne (75).
Chang also had the fewest putts, needing only 29 for her round. Other top putters were: Ellison and Marlow (31), Anthony, Lisa Allen and Judy Mantle (33).
When the nine-hole league women hit the links about an hour later, there was still a chill in the air.
But Suzanne Watson and Joan Maida (48), Lyn Sanders and Susan Horne (49), and Patti Garriock (51) recorded the top scores.
Maida also won low gross (31), followed by Carole Matheson (36) and Sanders, Garriock and Peggy Larder (37).
Longest drives were by Julie Smethurst (#3) and Lucy Brookhouser (#5). Brookhouser also sank the longest putt on #9.
By the time the Tuesday men’s Woofs league started play around noon, the mercury had climbed a bit and the frostiness had abated.
Brian Ridgeway and Jim McMacken were the top shooters, with 2-over 38. Ron Newman scooped the net prize with 29.5 after handicap was applied.
McMacken was closest to the pin on #4 and holed out for a birdie. Tony Sanfelice’s bird on #7 earned the hidden hole prize.
Meanwhile, the legendary Mark Derbyshire, who won the NOTL men’s club championship 30 straight years from 1976 to 2005 — plus a few more a decade later — was back in form for the Thursday men’s league last week.
He carded a 2-over 38 to earn low gross and also won a gross skin for a birdie on #6.
Other winners: Peter Falconer sank the longest putt on #2, John Liotta boomed the longest drive on #3, while Stephen Warboys was closest to the pin on #4 and James O’Connor was closest on #9.
Net skins winners, worth $45, were: Oleh Hrycko (#2), Derek Merza (#5), Bob Lowe (#6) and Michael Sanders (#8).
Gross skins ($15) went to: Jim Rye (birdie #1), Steve Millward (birdie #9), Patrick Craig (birdie #3), Nick Elia (birdie #5) and Sanders, for his remarkable eagle 2 on the par-4 8th hole.
