on the right course
32 LAKE OCONEE LIVING | SPRING 2022
It’s Wednesday afternoon.
e women
golfers enter the Veranda
Grill at Jennings Mill
Country Club after a 10
a.m. tee time and 18 holes
of golf.
e room has a dozen tables
with metal chairs and
televisions on the walls.
Cynthia Dickerson plays
golf with a women’s group
in Athens. She’s thin
and her blond blunt bob
hairstyle makes her look
younger than her retired
years. Lunch with the
women after the game is a
ritual. ey choose salads
and sweet tea or water.
“We talk about recipes,
clothing, and sometimes
even golf,” says Dickerson.
ough her group averages
from six to eight women,
other women’s groups
are larger. Many golf clubs
oer a Ladies Day.
Golf-playing women
are emerging as a major
STORY BY LEARA RHODES
Women ballstrikers continue
to enhance the spor t through
camaraderie and competition