The latest low amateur winner at the Wood Trophy Golf Tournament, formerly known as the Niagara District Ladies Golf Championship, is not a familiar name at the top of local or provincial leaderboards.
“I have a boring background when it comes to golf. What I shot today my lowest gross score ever,” Cherry Hill’s Parisa Ricciardelli said. “It feels really good. Today felt so easy. The company was good, the ball was doing everything I wanted to and there wasn’t really a lot of thought out there. And it always helps when my driver goes straight.”
The 31-year-old Niagara-on-the-Lake native carded a 78 Monday at Bridgewater to record a one-shot victory over Twenty Valley’s Sue Thomson.
“I had a good round. I had a really great front and it felt easy. I had one blunder on hole 16 where I tripled (triple bogeyed) a par three which wasn’t great. But I put that behind me, pushed forward and here we are.”
Golf was not Ricciardelli’s initial sports destination.
“My sister (Atyeh) and I played a lot of sports growing up and golf was not one of them. My dad, mom and uncle are golfers and we kind of came from a golf family but hockey was kind of forefront in the winter and soccer in the summer. That was pretty much it because no one pushed golf on us and we didn’t play a lot growing up.”
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