Waukon Golf & Country Club hosts 4-Gal Best-Shot Invitational Tournament won by four-generation team with Waukon ties
Tournament Champion ... Left to right: Brenna Bodensteiner, Amy Bodensteiner, Cathy Angel and JoAnn Peake shot a 66 to win the Championship Flight. Submitted photo.
The Waukon Golf & Country Club hosted its annual 4-Gal Invitational Tournament Monday, June 24. In addition to crowning a tournament champion with its own unique story this year, the tournament has also adopted a theme in the past two years of “Pink Out” in support of breast cancer awareness.
Chris Weymiller of Harpers Ferry inspired the tournament participants with her talk about her own breast cancer journey from 2023, and the tournament raised $500 this year that is being donated to the Veterans Memorial Hospital Mammography Program. The tournament received donations from Veterans Memorial Hospital, Waukon Golf and Country Club, Pop’s Produce, Howard’s Home Furnishings, Aztec Parlor, Hello Sunshine, Steel Cow, Laurie Moody, and the committee of Barb Hanson, Nancy Einck and Linda DeBuhr.
Also inspiring is the story of this year’s tournament-winning team that was made up of four generations of the JoAnn Peake family of Waukon origin. At the age of 92, JoAnn was finally able to play in the tournament with her great-granddaughter, Brenna Bodensteiner, who finally reached the age requirement of 18 years old to be able to play in the tournament. Those two ladies teamed up with Bodensteiner’s mother, Amy Bodensteiner of Waverly, and grandmother, JoAnn’s daughter, Waukon High School alum Cathy (Peake) Angel.
Behind a strong golf tradition within those four generations, that foursome won this year’s tournament with a score of 66, edging out the second-place team of Nancy Einck, Brenda Houg, Laurie Moody and Barb Hanson by a single stroke. Helping fuel that winning four-generation foursome was the young talent of Brenna Bodensteiner, who is a multi-year State Tournament placewinner for the Waverly-Shell Rock girls golf team and will be taking her golf talents to Wartburg College later this year. She is also the great-granddaughter of long-time Waukon girls golf coach, the late Don Angel, and the granddaughter of Waukon High School alum Mick Angel.
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