June 19, 2012 7:00 a.m. CONNEAUT LAKE —
As the celebration wound down, Duncansville resident Gwen Paden had just one thought.
“Where’s my car?” she asked.
Paden did not wind up winning a car, but what she did do is highlight the 50th running of the Oakland Beach Women’s Invitational on Monday with her seventh career hole-in-one.
Paden carded the ace on Oakland Beach Golf Club’s No. 6 — a 108-yard par-3.
At Sunday’s practice round, Paden used a 6-iron on No. 6 and the ball landed almost off the back of the green and the pin was in front she said. So with the pin in the back for yesterday’s round, Paden decided to stick with the 6-iron.
“Of course you can’t see the hole,” she said. “You can only see the top of the pin.
“But there was a guy up there and all of a sudden he started jumping up and down and said it went in … And no, I didn’t win a car.”
Paden followed her hole-in-one with a double bogey on No. 7, but still finished the round with a 78. She trails Championship Flight leader Patti Nelis by just a stroke going into today’s action.
“She’s playing with tendonitis,” Nelis said of Paden. “I told her I was going to get tendonitis so I can get a hole-in-one too.
“She’s a special person.”
Paden is looking to become the 29th different winner of the OBWI in its 50-year existence.
“(Monday) was a good day for me,” Paden said. (Today) we’re playing with Carolyn Thompson, and she won it last year. The year before Patty won it. Nobody’s heard of me except I had a hole-in-one (Monday). And I’m probably not going to have a hole-in-one (today).
“So I’m going to have to do a little better.”
This is Paden’s second year at the OBWI. Last year, she came up with a group of seven golfers from Iron Masters Country Club, located near Altoona, where she is a member. This year she came with 12 ladies.
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