Robert Gerwin II, Thomas Gryzwinski and Betty Kerby Peppard are the newest members inducted into the Ohio Golf Hall of Fame in a ceremony held at Plumbrook Country Club.
Robert Gerwin II
Robert Gerwin II played his High School Golf at Saint Xavier in Cincinnati and collegiately at Furman University.
Gerwin tried professional golf, but regained his amateur status and has had a stunning amateur career. He competed in 35 USGA Championships including 15 U.S. Amateur Championships and 14 U.S. Mid-Amateur Championships. In 1997, Gerwin lost in the Quarterfinals of the U.S. Amateur and in 2009 he advanced to the Semi-finals of the U.S. Mid-Amateur.
He competed in three British Amateur Championships with his best finish coming in 1998 at Muirfield. He also competed in four St. Andrews Links Trophy Championships and won both the Inverness Mid-Amateur and the Inverness Two-Man Championship twice. Gerwin was victorious in both the 1996 and 2001 Ohio Amateurs. In 1996, he also won the Ohio Mid-Amateur, becoming only the second player to accomplish this feat.
Gerwin is a five-time Greater Cincinnati Golf Association Champion and 17-time club champion at The Camargo Club. He currently holds four Course records in competition including a 59 at Camargo Club during the club championship. 
Thomas Gryzwinski
Thomas Grzywinski has been a lifelong educator and mentor of young men and women. He graduated from Toledo Woodward High School in 1959 and completed his college degree at Defiance College in 1963. After serving in the U.S. Army, he returned home and taught in the Toledo Public School system for 35 years.
He coached the high school baseball and football teams for 25 years and officiated high school and college basketball for 35 years.
Grzywinski continued to shape young people’s lives working as a caddie master for 37 years, 30 of those with Sylvania Country Club. He helped many caddies earn the Evans Schloarship to attend college.
He has been honored by five Hall of Fames including the Toledo District Golf Association, where he was inducted in 2008.
Betty Kerby Peppard
Betty Kerby Peppard’s father was the head golf professional at Fairlawn Country Club in Akron for 41 years. She began playing golf at an early age and spent her youth following her father around the pro shop, driving range and golf course.
During her lifetime, Betty met or knew all 13 original founders of the LPGA and Patty Berg was a lifelong friend. She was involved in golf not only as a player, but also as an advocate of the game and a USGA Rules Official.
She played golf collegiately at Barry University in Florida. In 1950, she was co-medalist in the Women’s National Intercollegiate Tournament at Ohio State University’s Scarlet Course. Her competitive career included five U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship appearances, two Women’s Ohio State Golf Association Amateur Championships, 13 Akron Women’s District Golf Association Championships and many Women’s club championships at Brookside Country Club, in Canton.
She also competed in several professional tournaments as an amateur, finishing as low Amateur in four LPGA tournaments. Peppard was incredibly involved with the Junior golf program at Brookside and taught several of her children to love the game.
She lent her time and talents to the board of the Ohio Girls Golf Foundation, the greens committee at Brookside, plus volunteered at Clearview Golf Course with 2007 Hall of Fame inductee Renee Powell.
Peppard officiated for nearly 20 years as a volunteer for the USGA, Women’s Ohio State Golf Association, and Stark County High School Sectional Championships. She is one of only a hand full of people who have ever achieved a perfect score on the USGA/PGA Rules of Golf Workshop test and highlighted her officiating career by working the 2010 US Women’s Open at Oakmont.
All three of these Ohio golfers can be very proud of their achievements in golf.
These three new inductees, Robert Gerwin II, Thomas Grzywinski and Betty Kerby Peppard are truly worthy of their inclusion with this illustrious group.
