Golfer shooting for pros
By ANDY RILEY
Sports Writer
There's no doubt that the University of Kansas has turned out some top professional athletes in several sports, but it hasn't exactly been the University's forte.
If all goes well, however, KU may have a professional golfer sometime next year. That is, if all goes well for Beth Bozer, the No.1 player on the KU women's golf team.
Boozer, now a senior, already has been acknowledged as the top amateur golfer in Kansas and as one of the best college golfers in the country.
Boozer led the KU women's team last spring and, with teammate Naino Hours, qualified for the Intercollegiate Championship played last June in Hawaii.
She completed 72 holes in that tournament, with a total of 315 — good for 20th place in a field of 170 golfers, including several women who since have turned professional.
AFTER
THE INTERCOLLEGATE,
Boozer did not sit around waiting for the
camera.
She won the Kansas Women's Amateur for the first time in six tries and last month was the runner-up in the consolation bracket of the NCAA Tournament in the Trans-Atlantic Gold Tournament.
Even more recently, she broke the course record at Alavara Hills Golf Course by shooting a two-under-par 70 in the course and setting a world record. That won she by defeating her Sweetberry.
The record paints an impressive picture of Boozer's talents, but the real story cannot be told until after her graduation next spring, when she hopes to begin what will end as a job playing golf on the Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour.
Boozer said she planned to move to
Beth Boozer
Florida next summer and hoped to take a job at a golf course she already had in mind.
"MING GO to work on my game next summer, and I still plan to play in amateur
tournaments," she said. "In February 1979, I'm going to try 'to qualify for the tour.'"
Turning professional will not be easy even if the golfer with Booze's talent. It will take much more to get a career going.
Because she is a self-taught golfer, boozer always has had to work on her game. She's been a great player.
"I've always been competitive," she said.
"I played three sports in high school, and I played volleyball for three years at KU. It was a little bit tough, but it think it's time to stick to one sport."
Boozer's parents got her started in golf, but she never has been under the guidance of a single teaching professional. Until this fall, her mother coached KU's women at golf
BUT BOOZER said that she thought being self-taught had not hurt her and that she would need lessons before trying to turn professional.
"In ways it has actually helped," she said. "It's made me rely on myself. When you teach yourself, you look to yourself when you go bad, instead of going to a pro."
Although Boozer is considering her future in golf, she is not looking beyond her senior year at KU. She said she was looking forward to her final college season.
Booster also is looking for another chance to play a 'small' intercollegiate tournament partaking.
"I think I have a good shot at winning it," she said. "Some of the best players from last year are now professionals, but it's still going to be tough. I be done with my student teaching in March, and that will give me a lot of time to prepare like I should."
"But golf is what I want and it comes first."
All of the work and sacrifice just might pay off for Beth Boozer when she attempts to sell her house.
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Thursday, September 22,1977
KU's Beth Boozer defeated Sarah Leveque of Miami University on the fourth hole of a sudden-death playoff yesterday to capture medalist honors in the 54-Hole City of Maxwell Invitational golf tournament in Oklahoma City.
In the play-off, both Boozer and Leveque
Boozer, who held a three-stroke lead going into yesterday's round, battled strong winds on her way to a 78 and found herself tied for queque, whose 75 was the top score of the day.
Although they finished fifth the Jahwahs were the top Big Eight Conference entrant.
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As a team, the Jayhaws finished fifth with a 54-hole total of 945, well off the winning 191 post by defending intercollegiate champion Miami. The Jayhaws won against Florida for second, and S.M.U. was fourth, 12 strokes in front of the Jayhaws.
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