A HISTORY OF GOLF
IN
LEISURE WORLD
Foreword
Part of the History Project which we have undertaken will consist of selected Biographies of our Members. These were written in Hooks ‘N Slices, our newspaper column in the Laguna Woods Globe. The first installment of Biographies is a collection of stories about our Club Champions. It has been my pleasure to write many of these stories. Talking with our Champions about the stories of their lives and writing their stories has enriched my own life. Yes, it has been a real pleasure!
Verne Smutz, President
A HISTORY OF GOLF
IN
LEISURE WORLD
1964- 2000
by
Oliver P. (Bud) Kolstoe
2000- 2010
by
Verne Smutz
With Contributions by
Martha Hellmann and Donald Fridlund
Although some of the material included is taken from the 1991 History of Golf in Leisure World, most of this effort is devoted to updating golf in the 1990s. In this regard, the writers acknowledge the invaluable assistance of Mary Jan Vested, Virginia McGill, Mac Rosen, A.J. Bernhardt, Charles Hellmann and Russ Chase, the loan of pictures and access to records of the Historical Society Archivists, especially Fran Lindberg, Myra Nebens of the Leisure World News, Debbie Lamb and her staff of the Leisure World Recreation Department.
They also thank Jerrry Gluck, Vie Harris and Kal Tobe for their creation of the Hole-In-One and Shoot-Your-Age charts, along with Glenn Siler and Dick Blum for their records of people and events through pictures.
Gratitude is due all the writers of Putter Patter, Hooks and Slices and other scribes who have identified incidents and people involved in golf down through the years, as well as the countless women and men golfers who have been so willing to share their recollections and experiences.
