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Cottonwood Ladies Golf Association

Cindy Edwards These past months the intrepid women of Cottonwood Ladies Golf Association (CLGA) braved the chilly mornings in order to participate in both days’ play and tournaments. All agree that they are looking forward to the warmer mornings that will hopefully arrive before too long! We have some catching up to do since our last…

Cottonwood Ladies Golf Champion

Judy Onken Karen Fischer has won the CLGA Championship two years in a row. I interviewed her for this special article honoring her achievement, but I can’t read my notes. Please excuse errors and omissions. (I let my insurance policy on that lapse last year.) The interview was before golf on a Thursday, so I don’t…

CLGA Match Play Champion

Judy Onken Terry Gaube “outmatched” the field to become the 2023 Cottonwood Ladies Golf Association (CLGA) Match Play Champion. This is one of Terry’s favorite formats, as each hole is a game in and of itself. You can have a snowman on a hole and come back and win the next one. It’s never over…

CLGA Happenings

Judy Onken Neugier! This is the German word for “Attention,” the language we would all be speaking but for the brave and selfless American soldier who, with Allied support, won World War II. This is intended to call attention to a small change in the reporting format for our golf group, Cottonwood Ladies Golf Association.…

Cottonwood Ladies Golf Association March Winners

Judy Onken Karen Fisher is the CLGA 2022 Champion! Karen is emblematic of our “new crop” membership who come with great skills while being ultimately gracious and fun. The club also benefits from their willingness to contribute to leading the planning and execution of special events and activities. Other flight winners in the Club Championship…

CLGA Service Awards

Judy Onken February’s CLGA Luncheon included recognizing individuals with 20, 25, and 30 years since joining the club with Service Awards. This group includes three past presidents, two club champs, and committee chairs too numerous to list. Interestingly, all are Midwesterners and represent how Sun Lakes came to be. They all bring a love of…

CLGA Playday Results

Judy Onken Karen Fisher is the CLGA 2022 Champion! Karen is emblematic of our “new crop” membership who come with great skills while being ultimately gracious and fun. The club also benefits from their willingness to contribute to leading the planning and execution of special events and activities. Other flight winners in the Club Championship…

CLGA Posts Scores

December was a wonderful month for golf … great weather, great friends—who could ask for more? Sheila Axtman took first in our T’s and F’s game, while Mikki Rydell and Terry Gaube tied for second. Ruby Meyer has chaired our Christmas Party for too many years to count. She represents the best of our group,…

CLGA News and Scores

Judy Onken Our season opener on Nov. 4 was fittingly a team game of Select-a-Drive, and the winners by a six-stroke margin included Captain Mikki Rydell with stalwart partners Trudy Houghton, Rita Healy, and Alice Barber. This was followed by our first major, the Handicap Tournament. The two-week competition was closely contested, with the overall…

Fun and Games with the CLGA

Cottonwood Ladies Golf Association (CLGA) will begin a new season Nov. 1, and its members are looking forward to a spectacular year of fun and games. Outgoing president Nancy Hermanson gave an in-depth interview in which she recalled her presidency and the challenges brought on by the pandemic. She was graciously complimentary of the board…