It may have been 31 years since the Rolling Road women's golf team won a championship, but it only took one hole for Kendall Skirven to know that she was on the verge of being forever linked in history with her mom.
"When I birdied the first hole, I said, 'it's going to be a good day,'" said Skirven, who teamed with Terry Aylsworth to help Rolling Road win the Women's Golf Association of Maryland's Legg Bracket trophy.
Rolling Road defeated Country Club of Maryland at Greenspring Country Club on June 3.
The official final score was 61/2 -51/2, but Rolling Road was leading the other two matches when players were called off the course.
Skirven's late mom, nicknamed 'Frenchie,' was on the last Rolling Road championship team in 1980.
That squad, which won the Hutzler's Bracket trophy, also included Joan Winchester, one of Frenchie's good friends and the captain of this year's squad.
On the 2011 championship team, Winchester was paired with Deb Malone while Corrie Christensen was paired with Roberta Lavin and Kanya Sastura played with Susan Sosnowski.
"We've been getting some golfers who have lower handicaps," said Winchester, who boasted about how her third-seeded duo of Sastura and Sosnowski was five holes up after the front nine.
The format is match play with the lowest score of the hole winning the hole for its team. There are a maximum of three points per match, front nine winner, back nine winner and overall 18 winner.
"We were thrilled that we beat a very experienced team," Winchester said.
They also beat a very confident team, but the top-seeded Rolling Road squad was also brimming with confidence after dispatching Towson Golf and Country Club in the semifinals.
"The girls were really thrilled and so were the club members," said Winchester, whose squad was treated with three bottles of celebratory champagne, courtesy of Rolling Road head golf professional Bill Bassler Jr.
"I thought they would be competitive, but I didn't think they would win it so easily," said Bassler, who had played a round of golf last September with Skirven. "She was happy that she played it because it made it easier this time."
"I loved that course because it's level, but it's sort of set up like Rolling Road with holes right next to each other," Skirven said. "It's just a great course."
The toughest decision now and one that haven't made in 31 years is what to do with the silver trophy with Rolling Road engraved on it.
"Hopefully, it will be somewhere around the club," said Bassler, who wouldn't hesitate showing it off in the pro shop along with the men's championship hardware from 2005 and 2006.