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Hole-In-One Highlight of Women's Championship

Pam Schwer's ace was talk of the day at Monday's Naperville Women's City Championship at Springbrook.

NAPERVILLE – Golf can be about the most enjoyable and maddening sport there is.

All the rough rounds and missed putts of a lifetime are spent waiting for that one moment where it all clicks and something amazing happens.

Pam Schwer had that moment Monday at the Naperville Women’s City Championship at .

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A golfer for 35 years, Schwer had never seen a hole-in-one in person, let alone recorded one. But on No. 17 Monday, on her home course, Schwer clutched her 6-iron and let it fly on a 167-yard par-3.

“It was a really good shot,” said Schwer, who had the low gross score of the day with a 92 in the B flight (for golfers with a handicap between 20-25). “It kept rolling and I thought, ‘This could be really close.’ It kept rolling and I thought, ‘This is a really good ball.’ And then it just went [in].”

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Schwer let out a yell and celebrated with her playing partners, and then was brought back down to golf reality with a 10 on No. 18. But that didn’t matter to her after finally sinking that elusive hole-in-one.

“Then I took a 10 on the next hole,” Schwer said, laughing. “My hands were shaking and my heart was racing. I was thinking, ‘I have to call my husband. I have to call my mother. I have to call my son.’ For it to happen at my home course with all of my friends here, it’s really, really cool.”

The 38-player field was loaded with familiar Springbrook faces that play in a weekly Thursday morning women’s league together. One of them was Alison Bassetto, who won the championship flight with a gross score of 79. Claire Goldenberg’s 94 was knocked down to a 75 with her handicap, giving her the net score title of the championship flight.

For Bassetto, golf is a family affair. Her daughter, Maddie, recently graduated from Benet Academy, where she played on the golf team.

“I hit great irons and stuck a lot of pins but I couldn’t make any putts,” Bassetto said. “I played pretty much solid. I four-putted one hole and tripled the last hole. Other than that I was pretty steady.”

The event was originally scheduled for June 20 but was postponed until Monday due to strong storms. Early on it looked like the event could have suffered the same fate Monday. A short rain delay early on, however, was the only interruption.

“The course is in great shape,” Bassetto said. “I played her in the women’s league Thursday and it was really wet. The greens were nice. They did a good job.”

Soon Kim took the net score title in the A flight with a 69 (93 gross). Leslie O’Malley led the way in the B flight with a 100 for the low gross score. Kim Torp’s 72 net (105 gross) took the B flight crown. Sue Butler (106 gross) and Ann Laboe (72 net) won the C flight.

But the buzz after the round was still surrounding Schwer and the shot she’ll never forget.

“This is as cool as it gets,” Schwer said. “After that I didn’t care how I golfed. I just had to finish the round.”

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