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Earlier, Melissa won the gold medal in the 200â€"metre backâ€" stroke at the Ontario champiâ€" onshipsâ€"â€"not in the 100m backâ€" stroke as reported last week. Oakville‘s Melissa Haick won a gold medal and two bronzes at the Holy Toledo Open swim meet last weekend. A member of the Mississauga Aquatic Club, Haick, 10, won the 100m backstroke and was third in the 200m individual medley and the 5Om back. Her sister Amy was fourth in the 5Om breastâ€" stroke. IN THE SWIM Sanctioned by the Oakville Parks and Recreation Dept. and conducted by Athletiques International Track and Field Club, the race features individual prizes to the top three finishers in each of the 12 divisions. Registration ($7â€"11) desk opens at 8:30 a.m. The race starts at 10:30 a.m. behind the bandâ€" shell. Call 827â€"1934 for details. MONDAY: _ Streetsville Tigers vs. Oakville White Sox. 7:30 p.m. at Oakville Park. The 13th annual Mayor‘s 5000 Fun Run/Road Race is set for Coronation Park, next Monday (Simcoe Day). Training camp _ opens Monday for Mississauga Wolverines of the Ottawa Major Football Conference. Players aged 16â€"20 interested should call 824â€"1720 or â€"796â€" 7834....Oakville Aquatic Club novice swim camp, Aug. 3â€"28 at Q.E. Park pool. 842â€"0903. SUNDAY: Ontario Cup socâ€" cer quarterfinals at Shell Park. 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m. READY TO RUN? OP TICKETS " SPORTS ON The secret confessions of a Michael Heaney (above) and Bill Clarke aren‘t your typical golfers. Last week, they played from 7:30 a.m,. to 5:45 p.m.~â€"a total 100 holesâ€"â€"at White Oaks Golf Club to raise $2,000 for charity. They are among several local golfers who take their game to the limit. â€" Story by SARA HOLLAND Photos by Here‘s a tasty treat for July... Chicken Fajitas. We‘ve taken tender strips of seasoned chicken, diced tomatoes, slivered onions, shredded cheddar cheese, ; sliced green peppers and wrapped them in a warm tortilla. Try them with hot or mild picante sauce. M Chicken Fajitas are only here until the end of July, so hurry in and try them today! ‘ WAIT ‘TILL YOU TASTE THE NEXT FEATURED TASTE , OFâ€"THE MONTH ~AND:â€"THE:NEXT: ; AND THE NEXT:.â€"AND THE NEXT! Try our tasty Chicken Fajitas! Ed Matthews, a Burlington real estate broker, started playing golf in Oakwville in the 1970s, when he and a pal would play from morning to night. Today, he has joined the ranks of the selfâ€"declared golf fanatics, playing five days a week at a local municipal course. He makes no excuses for the amount time he invests: "You have to put in the time to be good," he says. While other golf nuts may know when to call it quits for the season, Matthews will not let a little snow stop him. He continues to play at a local allâ€"season course well into December and January « "We'll play until you can‘t put the ball in the hole because it‘s frozen. Then we‘ll hack away at the ice with our clubs," he says. Although this was a special event, it is not unusual for Brown to spend incredible amounts of time on the course. A selfâ€"employed lawyer, he arranges his schedule around his golf game and sometimes works in the evening to free up his summer days. He has a wife and two small children, but says the amount of time he spends on the course is not a problem at home. Besides, his wife is busy with her own sport: Tennis. Despite all the time he puts in, Matthews call s his progress "atrocious." Regardless, he is forever reading books about golf and watching it on teleâ€" vision. Of course, that was a charity event called "the Longest Day of Golf," a fundâ€"raiser for the local chapter of the Canadian Cancer Society at Glgn Abbey Golf Club. Playing from sunrise to sunset, he and three others in his foursome played five and half rounds and 100 holes. ou see them on the golf course for hours at a time. Anytime. They take their clubs whenever they travel and are more weathâ€" k. erproof than a mail carrier. Russ Browne is one of them. He is such a golf fanatic, he spends 30 hours a week on the course. In fact, one day last month, he clocked more than 10 hours of nonâ€"stop golf. Goellner sometimes gets frustrated when her friends don‘t share her comâ€" mitment to the game. She was aggraâ€" vated recently when she invited a few friends golfing and they opted for bridge instead. Goellner tells the story about a June neighborhood tournament. It was pourâ€" ing rain that day but she refused to be a fairweather golfer. She bought a baseâ€" ball cap and dug in her golf shoes. Although she and her husband, a Ford of Canada executive, will head back to the U.S. soon, she plans to keep up her game. "I said, ‘Bridge?! Where are your priorities. You can do that all winter.‘" She remembers walking into Glen Abbey Golf Club one cold winter to sign up for lessons. She had played a few times in the U.S. but didn‘t become hooked until she started taking private lessons. "I though to myself, ‘I‘m not leaving here until lightning strikes. I know I‘ll have no chance of winning if I dor‘+ finish 18 holes.‘" GeorgeAnn Goellner prefers the term "obsessed" when it comes to her game. An American citizen who moved with her husband, to Oakville two and half years ago, she took up golf when she was unable to work. Today, she plays 25 hours a week and has gained a reputation as one of the most dedicated golfers around. "It‘s a standing joke," she says. "Ill meet strangers and they‘ll say, ‘How‘s your golf or ‘You‘re that golfer.‘" SUNDAY; JULY 25; 1998 > PAGE15