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ed white stripes on his clubs
so he could see them and after
he passed away seven years
ago, Berta stayed active on the
greens and as a member of the
Ladies’ Club. Last year, Berta
moved from Cottage Grove to
Eugene where she stays active
(“I hike and bike with a bunch
of young gals in their 50s. Well,
they’re young to me. They’re
old ladies to you, I’m 82.”)
and makes sure to come down
to golf in Cottage Grove each
week.
“What keeps me is this group
of ladies,” said Berta. “You
know and it’s a challenging lit-
tle course, I love the course and
we played invitationals at some
of the clubs up in Eugene and
elsewhere. And just you hear
they’re clique-ish. You play
with the same group. And we
draw numbers so we play with
different people. It’s just a fun
group of ladies.”
***
On a cloudy and cold morn-
ing, Linda Levings served as my
tour guide for the day. Levings
is perfect for this role as she is
a Cottage Grove native that got
the club started along with Mary
Triska and she loves to talk.
“(The club) gets me out of the
house. I can’t talk to walls,” she
said with a pause. “Well, I guess
I could.”
Due to a number of leg surger-
ies that were the result of having
Hodgkin’s lymphoma cancer in
her leg, the 63-year-old Lev-
ings spends the day driving the
course in her golf cart and join-
ing the various groups as they
putt. Shouting encouragement,
giving friends a hard-time and
reminding a group of the hole
where she hit a hole-in-one, she
is engrained not only as part of
this group but in Cottage Grove
golf. The former Cottage Grove
High School girls golf coach
knows seemingly every golfer
that passes – either members of
the Ladies’ Club or other golfers
who are on the course – and can
provide a brief history that often
seems to start with the common
refrain of “I went to school with
them.”
As she drives through the
course and points to notable
spots or explains that this area
used to be a farm in the 1950s,
we stop to watch a group of four
tee off.
“You can tell it’s the fi rst day
because a lot of these ladies ar-
en’t playing well,” said Levings
as we watch another ball go a
different direction than intend-
ed.
“Pretty good for an old lady,”
says the oldest member of the
Ladies Club, 86-year-old Raye
Jackson as she walks by the cart
with a smile. “Well I got a new
knee in January and the doctor
said how many yards I was go-
ing to improve and I’m going to
go get my money back.” Despite
any refunds, Jackson ended up
with the best score on the day.
As Levings and I make our
way to another hole, she ex-
plains different responsibilities
she has had with the group over
the year.
“Handicap rules director, di-
rector. You name it, I’ve done
it,” she said. Levings is also
currently the rules expert of the
group (“I’ve done a lot of things
with the rules, I don’t know it’s
just been what I’ve always en-
joyed”) and in charge of keep-
ing track of the handicap of each
golfer. A job that has become
much easier now that instead of
plugging scores into a formula
can now be found by entering
those numbers into a computer
that does the work for her.
“Most of (the groups hand-
icaps) are right in the between
24 to 34. That’s pretty much the
range of these ladies out here…
I’m the lowest handicap. I was
pretty much a 14 and so they’ve
had... fun with the club champi-
onship because I haven’t been
able to play,” she said.
While she hasn’t been able to
play of late, Levings is eyeing
a return to the course later this
year. When she is able to join
the group that she started over
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