Despite the rain, cold and inconsistent weather, spring has sprung \u2014 and golfers are hitting the links at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club.<\/p>\n
One sure sign of seasonal renewal is the club\u2019s nine- and 18-hole women\u2019s leagues hosting their annual opening scramble to kick things off.<\/p>\n
They were out in force on Tuesday to play, enjoy lunch and socialize.<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s club champion Louise Robitaille, along with Judy Cardiff and Shelley Sansom, shot even-par 36 to win the team event.<\/p>\n
One shot behind at 1-over 37 was the threesome of Judy Mantle, Cathy Saytar and Sue Sherk. Six other groups finished tied at 2-over 38.<\/p>\n
Linda Williams and Yolanda Henry sank the longest putts on #8, while Lyn Sanders and Robitaille had the longest drives on hole #2.<\/p>\n
The Monday business women\u2019s league has also resumed play and this week Tracey Peters was the low-gross winner with 46.<\/p>\n
Jen Kroeker had the longest drive on #1, Linda Anderson-Kozik was closest to the 150 marker on #2 and Bobbie Corcoran won closest to the pin on #4.<\/p>\n
Gail Skenes drained the longest putt on #7 and Isobel Sipos was closest to the pin on #9.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the men resumed play in the Tuesday Woofs league, hosting their own opening scramble.<\/p>\n
Glenn Murray, Jack Hanna and Jason Crowley were top dogs, putting it all together to shoot 5-under 31.<\/p>\n
Right behind them at 32 were Mike Mott, Nic Pollice and Stephen Fraser.<\/p>\n
Third place was decided through the mysterious magic of retrogression.<\/p>\n
The foursome of Harry Huizer, Barry Day, Hugh Hutton and Gord Horne edged out Alan Robb, Bill Smethurst and Stein Hensen. Both groups shot 33.<\/p>\n
Smethurst also grabbed the closest to the pin prize with his tee shot (and birdie) on #4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite the rain, cold and inconsistent weather, spring has sprung \u2014 and golfers are hitting the links at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,86198,82],"class_list":["post-652881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-placed","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}