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Member Spotlights: Kathy Webb is currently serving as the Golf Events Chair for our chapter. Kathy has worked as an attorney in Wichita for the past 25 years and is currently taking a ‘sabbatical’. Kathy’s best advice on the course, especially for new golfers, is never, never, never give up – when you are 90, you will be glad! Kathy shares the following with us:"My parents introduced me to golf when I was 10 years old in Independence, Kansas. My mother was in charge of “junior golf” at the local country club, and I played in the Southeast Kansas junior golf league for several years. I was fortunate to be offered a scholarship to play golf at the University of Kansas and I joined the team there in 1974. I played in tournaments with many famous (now senior) women golfers including Nancy Lopez, Amy Alcott, Laura Baugh and Betsy King. I continued playing golf for the next 30-plus years. I believe it has been the single most rewarding activity I have engaged in and it has provided many opportunities that I would not otherwise have had. Anyone can learn to play golf at any age, and you can play this sport longer than any other. This past weekend, I played in a tournament with a woman who is 90 years old – she plays any day that the weather permits. I hope to be her someday. " Trish Voth joined EWGA as the perfect multi-tasking effort - combining learning a sport that she saw others use regularly for business purposes, enjoying the outdoors, & making new friends & contacts around Wichita who may have similar interests. The verdict (appropriate terminology since she’s a lawyer...except she really doesn’t deal with verdicts as she is just a “desk lawyer” working on real estate transactions)? Mission accomplished (well, mostly): having never held a golf club in her life until helping start up the Wichita EWGA chapter a few years ago, she has a WAYS to go to play with any consistency or much confidence. Regardless, she has made great friends and contacts through EWGA while getting to be outside. She considers it an accomplishment to have at least played in a few business-related tournaments - her tips for other novices like herself to venture into business golf settings? (1) play in a scramble tournament to avoid any embarrassment playing your own ball, (2) try to get one or two solid players in the mix to carry the group, (3) make sure the others players will not mind playing with a duffer, and (4) if you feel compelled at all - only apologize ONCE at the beginning of the round for your skills - your teammates don’t want to feel like they need to be your cheerleader or pychiatrist! She considers establishing her handicap through the EWGA service free to members (it is SO easy to use via www.ewga.com) an accomplishment - even if it is the maximum handicap score for female players (that’s right – 40.4 to be exact). It feels nice to have it just so it is not a barrier to future play opportunities; probably analogous to having your passport these days. While Trish has been very slow to work on her golf skills and playing frequency goals the last few years, she is done having kids (Beau is almost 4; Reece just turned 2) so out of excuses and looking forward to making some progress. She and her husband, Ryan Blankenship, just joined Terradyne as part of their moving to and getting involved in Andover, and she has ambitions to finally regularly get out to the driving range to practice. Trish admits at this stage in her feeble golf career, if not going out with friends to golf, she prefers the practice areas over playing on the actual course (this probably says a lot about her personality quirks, but we’ll save those issues for another day...). Previous Spotlights: Mary HemmelgarnTamra Scheurman Cameron Michaud Robinn Scholfield Karen Wedel Becky Thomas Vicky Glennon Lydia Gillquist |