Club Car hosts Women’s Golf Day at Jones Creek

EVANS, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - Women’s golf continues to grow, and the best part about it, it doesn’t ever get old.

The weather held out for Club Car: Women’s Golf Day in Evans. 200 women were able to come together, and in some cases, try something new.

Club Car brought in two LPGA greats to help with the event, including Oneda Castillo, who is a teaching and club professional for the Association. Castillo is just the third African American woman to be considered a master professional. She was onsite to help women master driving, chipping, and especially putting.

“With golf, I like to tell ladies, you need to become good at putting. You’re going to get invited by the guys to play in those corporate events. Always fun, maybe play in a scramble. If you’re a lady who can putt, they’re going to want you on the team because the boys can hit it far. Sometimes you don’t know where it’s going. They’ll get it up there on the green, but the person who makes the putt is the hero. And it needs to be you,” said Castillo.

Golf is there not only to learn the basics of the game, but what it can give you in return.

“I like to say to people that golf is a game for everyone. You don’t have to be good at it to have a good time. It is the most wonderful sport to share between generations. To be able to play with your grandmother, grandchildren, for dads to play with daughters, mothers to play with sons. It’s the most wonderful social game there ever was,” said Castillo.

This is the third year that Club Car has hosted the event. They also had on hand Allisen Corpuz, the 2023 U.S. Women’s Open winner for a lunch and learn.

Of Corpuz, Carrie Harrison from Club Car said, “She was able to give pointers on how she sets up her game each day when she practices or each week, what that looks like. Teaching little ones this morning and giving pointers of not just how to play, but then the mental aspects of the game and how to keep going even after you miss a shot: How do you keep going for the next shot and the next shot? That’s kind of the way golf is. That one really good shot keeps you coming back to play again the next time, whether you’re 10 or 75.”