Monday, April 12, 1999
INSIDE LOCAL GOLF
Heimann, Jones tapped as Legends honorees
BY JACK MURRAY
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Margaret Jones and Ed Heimann are the 1999 Legends of Cincinnati Golf honorees.
The Legends of Cincinnati Golf was organized in 1981 to recognize and honor individuals who have significantly influenced amateur golf in the Greater Cincinnati area. Each year two honorees are selected based on their golfing achievements or their contributions to golf, or both.
The honorees are chosen by an independent committee chaired by Bruce Rotte.
Jones and Heimann will be recognized at the 18th annual golf tournament and dinner May 11 at Terrace Park Country Club.
After 13 years of competitive golf, Jones retired in 1971 with seven course records in five states.
She played out of Fort Mitchell Country Club. She won her first tournament, the Greater Cincinnati Junior Met in 1958 and twice more to retire the Newstedt Trophy.
She also qualified once for the USGA Junior and twice for the Women's Western Junior.
In 1962, she was the first Kentuckian to win the Greater Cincinnati Women's Met, a tournament she won times and was runner-up three more.
Jones also won the Kentucky State Championship four times between 1962 and 1971 and was runner-up once. She won the Northern Kentucky Amateur in 1960 and '63.
Nationally, Jones qualified six times for the Women's Western Amateur, once reaching the semifinals. In 1967, she was presented the Marion Wiley Trophy for being low qualifier for the Women's Western Am. That same year, Jones won the Marion Wiley Tournament in Lexington, Ky.
Jones qualified three times for the U.S. Women's Open, finishing as third lowest amateur in 1963. She also qualified once for the Women's Western Open.
For more than 25 years, Jones has been a teacher, counselor and coach, mostly on the high school level. She recently retired from teaching in Deland, Fla., and plans to move back home to Cincinnati. She has a lifetime honorary membership at Fort Mitchell Country Club, which was presented to her before she left town in the early '70s.
Heimann, whose career work is as chairman of Hamilton Tailoring Company (maker of the coveted Masters green jacket as well as Ryder Cup team jackets), has enjoyed a long and successful competitive golf career.
While in high school, he led Withrow High to the district championship and state tournament. In 1955, Heimann won the Tri State High School Association Championship, edging a young Jack Nicklaus.
Later, Heimann won the Greater Cincinnati Met Junior Championship.
Heimann has won the Hyde Park club championship 16 times and the Coldstream Club championship 11 times, as well as the Hyde Park Braemar Bowl 11 times.
Heimann was runner-up in the City Met Championship in 1971 and once won the Tri State Championship (with partner). He is a five-time winner (with partner) of the Cincinnati Two Man Championship.
In the last five years, Heimann has won the Met Senior Championship three times and been runner-up twice. In 1996, he was runner-up at the Ohio State Senior Championship and the Society of Seniors Championship. Heimann has qualified for times for the U.S. Senior Amateur Champi onship.
COURSE IMPROVEMENTS: Each of the seven Cincinnati Recreation Commission courses scheduled improvements this season. Glenview and Avon Field driving received what the CRC called major projects.
Neumann, Dunham, California, Woodland and Reeves received improvements as well.
Last year, many of the courses had cart paths repaved, drainaged upgraded, bunkers re-shaped and landscape added.
CRC acting director Wayne Bain hoped a grass hitting area at Glenview's driving range and covered stalls at Avon Field's range will help lead the CRC's upward swing.
Glenview's renovations also included adding sand to bunkers, landscaping, re-paving cart paths and rain shelter construction. The CRC's other six courses received, or will receive, similar repairs.
LEGENDS HONOREES
1982 — John Fischer, Carl Schmidt
1983 — Neil Ransick, Ells Widerman
1984 — Maurice McCarthy, Gale Evans
1985 — Milt Cook, Carl Schlotman Sr.
1986 — Tony Blom, George Duke Smith
1987 — Olga Weil, Stan Sullivan
1988 — Bill Deupree Jr., John Busemeyer
1989 — Dr. Harry Duccilli, Howard Dammel
1990 — Joan Comisar, Art & Pam Romanow
1991 — Don Gill, Bill Rhodenbaugh
1992 — Roger McManus, Ed Stegner
1993 — DeWitt Balch, Tom Earls
1994 — Bill Anderson, John Wood II
1995 — Allen Joslin, Sandra Jones
1996 — Jimmy Woods, Marion Scheibly
1997* — Dick Peterson, Judy Diem
1998 — Mort Olman, Louise Kepley
1999 — Ed Heimann, Margaret Jones
*Al Schottelkotte was given special memorial recognition for his contributions to the Legends of Golf.
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