History

As golfers we train to learn each and every spot of fairway and green on our Avon Field golf course. This year The Memorial golf night pays tribute to all the rolling fairways, greens and rough at the "friendly confines".

Cherishing the Ski Club's years at Avon naturally weaves with a discussion of Avon's history- When did it open? Who was the course architect? Is it "Field" or "Fields"?

Asking those who know, led to answers which always included the phrase, "before the Lateral was built...".

The Norwood Lateral was opened in two sections with contruction begining in 1960 and finishing in 1970. How was Avon Field altered by the constuction of the Norwood Lateral, into the course we know each round and honor this year? The Lateral does not border the course, so what could have changed? Could the layout and routing be different? 

Cincinnati Ski Club members began golfing together under the moniker "Boone at Noon". Soon those golfer began to play regularly at Avon Fields. Not long after,  Maureen Keeley took a table at a meeting at Hartwell, and began taking sign-ups for the Ski Club Golf League.

That year was 1990.

Of course we all know 1990 as the year the Cincinnati Reds swept the World Series. It was also the year 'SeinfeldIn golf, Nick Faldo beat Raymond Floyd in a playoff for his second straight Green Jacket, and then went on to win The Open Championship later that year. Add to all lists of milestones the birth of the Ski Club Golf League.

This year The Memorial honors 1990, that first League year, and the members who participated.