By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
The course at Lehman Golf Club
was a beautiful sight on Sunday
with the velvet, green grass gleam-
ing like a large emerald under the
bright blue skies. Most colorful,
however, were the bright reds,
blues, greens, yellows and oranges
combined with black or whites as
dozens of lady golfers took to the
course in the 2-Man Scramble Tour-
nament which opened early in the
morning.
The ladies played in their own
division while the men (many hus-
bands of the lady competitors) teed
off in their division. Many of the
spectators on hand were interested
in the women, probably more so
than in past years and because of
the increased number of lady golf-
ers now entering the many tourna-
ments at the various area courses
and the fine scoresmore and more
are turning in.
Winners of the championship
flight at the Lehman club last
Sunday were Sandra Sharok and
Catherine McMahon, two women
many predicted would win; two
women listed by John Spencer,
manager and pro at the club as
among the top golfers who play
there. Sharok and McMahon turned
in a 68, even score for the nine hole
par 68 course.
McMahon, who has been playing
for about 13 years, started at
Orange golf course (now Twin
Oaks) and is self-taught, having
never taken lessons. Two years ago,
she joined the Lehman Golf Club
and, in 1984, she won the Ladies
Club Championship. Catherine has
had two holes-in-one, one at Orange
and one at Leliman.
Sharok has been playing for about
20 years. She first started at Hollen-
back course just to play and her
father taught her. When she joind
the Lehman Golf Club, she started
to play in tournaments and, for the
past two years, has started playing
on other courses. Last year, she and
Catherine McMahon won at Shadow-
brook and the year before the two of
them won at Sugarloaf. Sandra has
two holes-in-one to' her credit, both
of them at Lehman. In 1978 and
1980, she won the Ladies Club
Championship at Lehman. An
employee at Bell Telephone Co.,
Sandra also bowls in the Charles
Hurst League at Stanton Lanes.
Coming in second in the champi-
onship flight were the Blackman
sisters, Betsy and Brucille Black-
man with a 71, three over the par 68
for the nine hole course. Betsy and
Brucille took lessons at the CYC and
have been members at Lehman for
the past 23 years. They are among
the top-rated golfers in the area.
Betsy, in public relations at
Native Textiles, Dallas, won the
Ladies Club Championship at
Lehman in 1977, 1981, 1982 and 1983.
Brucille is secretary to the Board
and to the superintendent at Wyo-
ming Vallley West School District.
Both sisters took only a basic
course in golf at the CYC and since
that time have learned through
playing.
Rose Radzinski and her partner,
Paulette Poremba, tied for third
with a 72, four over the 68 par
course, with Linda Montville and
Kay Stenick. These four are rela-
tively new members at Lehman and
considered by Spencer to have the
potential to be exceptionally good
golfers.
Winners in the first flight were
Ann Yudiski and Sandy Trocki with
a 76, both women excellent golfers
and not up to par Sunday. Ann, an
antique dealer, has had some excel-
lent scores in many past tourna-
ments while Sandy Trocki, who has
been playing for about 13 years, has
won numerous tournaments among
them Better Ball, Partners and last
year came in fourth in the club
championship. This year she will
compete in the club championship
tournament with her goal to win.
Sandy took lessons from Sam Spen-
cer, John’s father who purchased
the site and built the Lehman
Course. She works as title clerk in
her husband’s business, Len’s Auto
Sales.
Millicent Kocher and Teresa
Kempinski came in second in the
first flight with an 81 and Imelda
Kopstys and Bernice Lindquist
placed third with 83. Annette Rus-
sett and Luci Henry came in fourth
One of the top-rated lady golfers
at Lehman, according to John Spen-
cer, is Katherine Penxa, who has
been a member of the Lehman Club
for 32 years. She joined the year
Sam Spencer opened the course,
1953, when only four holes were
completed. She took lessons from
Sam and for the first 10 years
competed with the male golfers and
kept up to them. At that time there
were no women members nor tour-
naments. Since then she has won
several tournaments. She and her
partner won the first flight in a
first flight in one at Shadowbrook.
Kathryn has had a hole-in-one and
two Eagles at Lehman and last
week at Lehman she had four bir-
dies. Kathryn is an amazing player
since she is now 70-plus years young
and still keeps up with the other top
golfers.
A young lady golfer at Lehman
(21) not mentioned by John Spencer
captured the Ladies Club Champion-
ship in 1979. Perhaps he is too
modest to mention her since the
golfer is his daughter, Beth.
Research, however, reveals that
Beth is probably one of the best
young golfers in this area. Proof of
this could well come this month
when Beth enters the Luzerne
County Open at Wilkes-Barre
Municipal Club.
While attending Bishop O’Reilly
High School, Beth played on the
boys’ golf team and is the only girl
to make the All Scholastic Golf
Team in her senior year. She quali-
fied and played in the PIAA State
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Tournament winners
Millicent Kocher, left, and Teresa Kempinski, second from left, second place winners in the first
flight in the August 4 tournament at Lehman Golf Club, pose with Sandra Sharok, second from
right, and Catherine McMahon, right, who took the overall championship flight.
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