Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, March 22, 1990                   TAG: 9003221906
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: C4   EDITION: METRO 
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GOLF WOMAN, LEGALLY BLIND, ACES SAME HOLE TWICE

"It hasn't sunk in yet. If it happens as infrequently as my husband says, I'm going to go out and buy some lottery tickets," she said Tuesday.

Waldron, who has only peripheral vision and relies upon her husband, Pete, to tell her direction and distance, mastered the Long Point Course's 87-yard, No. 7 hole using a 7-iron and an old Ultra ball she found several days earlier.

The two organizations that track holes in one, the Golf Digest Hole-In-One Clearing House and the National Hole-In-One Association, have no statistical odds on the same person making one on the same hole on consecutive days, much less a 74-year-old legally blind woman.

The aces were made in the company of her husband and two different couples.

A memorial service will be held Friday in the Pittsburgh suburb of Sewickley for Harton Singer Semple, who was president of the U.S. Golf Association in 1974 and 1975. Semple died of heart failure Sunday in Augusta, Ga. He was 69.