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Local Knowledge From The Beverage-Cart Girl

Gina_1.jpgName: Gina Cloepfil

Age: 23

College: Oregon State ’08

Golf course: Crosswater in Bend, Ore. (sunriver-resort.com; 541-593-4402; $175 on weekends; 4.5 stars).

Gina_2.jpgShort story: “What do you have in there?” I asked Cloepfil when she rolled up to my group on the eighth green at Crosswater. “Whatever your little heart desires,” she said. But she didn’t mean it. Cloepfil isn’t a regular navigator of the beverage cart at Crosswater. She graduated last year from Oregon State with a degree in merchandising management. She works in the golf shop but volunteers for some shifts in the beverage cart a few days a week because it gets her time in the sun. “It’s better than being in the shop with the boys. And I get a tan--which I need.”

Golf game: “You don’t want to put anything about my golf game in there. I can drive the cart, and I like the driving range, but this course is too long for me.”

Hobbies and interests: Cloepfil is a three-time Oregon State intramural skeet-shooting champion. She likes farming, camping, four-wheelers and hunting. “I like anything that’s outdoors. My dad takes me pheasant and duck hunting all the time. I love it.”

Tip jar: “The best day by myself has been $90. But I made $160 on a day when we pooled the tips.”

Local knowledge: “My favorite bar in Bend is Bo Bar. And when it’s hot, my friends and I like to float on inner tubes down the Deschutes River.”

Status: Easy, boys. Cloepfil has had a boyfriend for almost four years.

As I go from course to course, lakes to driving schools, zip-lines to water parks, I'll continue to profile caddies, superintendents, starters, guides and beverage-cart girls. If they have a story, I'll pass it on.

--Matty G.

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