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Betty Sihler took a lifelong
love for the game of golf and rose to the highest level of play.
Betty Sihler learned the
game as a youth in Ancaster and at the Hamilton Golf and Country
Club. Later she joined the Norfolk Golf and Country Club in Simcoe, then the
Pine Hurst Golf and Country Club in North Carolina.
She won eight women's titles
at the Norfolk Golf and Country Club course before reaching the height of her game in 1961, when
she captured the Canadian Senior Women's championship.
She subsequently shared the Ontario
Mother-Daughter championship in 1965 with her daughter, Ev.
Playing at Pine Hurst,
Betty won four women's titles.
Betty died May 2002.
Betty was inducted into our
Hall of Recognition in 1996.
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Original 1996 Profile by Don
Stewart, Mike Bauslaugh
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