Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll Wins GAM Women’s Senior Championship

By Greg Johnson

    BRUTUS – Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll of Haslett came from behind with a 4-under 68 final round and won the 30th GAM Women’s Senior Championship at Hidden River Golf & Casting Club.

    It was the fourth GAM Women’s Senior title for the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame member, who is also the head women’s golf coach at Michigan State University.

   Slobodnik-Stoll trailed Julie Massa of Pentwater, another Michigan Golf Hall of Famer, by two shots starting the final round, but shot 4-under 32 on the front nine and went on to win her record 24th GAM individual title and add her name once again to the Sara Wold Trophy.

   “I hit a lot of shots close today and I was making putts,” said Slobodnik-Stoll, who played in the recent U.S. Women’s Senior Amateur Championship at Barton Hills Country Club in Ann Arbor and made the 36-hole cut.

Lori Schlicher Wins Fourth Consecutive Michigan Women’s Senior Amateur

   GLADWIN – Lori Schlicher of Lewiston won her fourth consecutive Michigan Women’s Senior Amateur Championship title and had to hold off a three-time winner, Julie Massa of Pentwater, to make it happen at Sugar Springs Golf Club.

   Schlicher felt she was in a must-make situation with a final six-foot par putt to close out the 2 and 1 win in the championship match of the 22nd edition of the championship.

    “I knew I needed to make that putt because if you let Julie start getting momentum, you're in big trouble,” she said. “And my first (putt) went by a pretty healthy amount. I’m not known for my superb putting, but I did make that putt.”

    Schlicher fended off Donna Tepper of Grosse Pointe Park 5 and 4 in the semifinals, while Massa topped the stroke play medalist and top match play seed, Cherie Robinson of Traverse City, 6 and 5, in the other semifinal.

      Sugar Springs, a residential community located between West Branch and Gladwin, hosted the championship for the fifth consecutive year.