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At age 8, Aunt Elinor Nally must have seen some potential for she awarded Sue a series of lessons from Rut Coffey, the long-time professional at Moundsville Country Club, where she was a member and a charter stockholder. Besides her parents’ encouragement, this gave Sue the necessary vital professional instruction so essential for the difficult game.
Not until she graduated from West Virginia University in 1963 and began teaching at Union High School in Marshall County did she begin putting tennis in the background and begin playing golf on a more serious note at Moundsville Country Club, where she began the game. Roy Shreves, the recently retired pro from Moundsville, was an important element in her golf game for she is still taking advice from him after 40 years.
She was educated in the Ohio County Public Schools and is retired from public school teaching after 37 years. Currently, she is still teaching as an adjunct professor at Wheeling Jesuit University and a part-time English teacher at Mount de Chantal Visitation Academy. In order to give back to golf, which has given so much to her, she began a women’s golf team at WJU last year.
As an outstanding golfer, she has competed nationally in the USGA Women’s Amateur and Senior Amateur Championships on numerous occasions and has won the West Virginia Amateur Championship eight times and is the only women’s titleholder who has won under both match and stroke play. She has won the WV Senior Championship six times. She is past member of the U.S. Girls’ Championship Committee of the United States Golf Association and served as secretary-treasurer of the Women’s WV Golf Association. She is past Captain and an eighteen-year member of the Virginias/Carolinas Team Matches. The Upper Ohio Valley Dapper Dan Club has honored her on several occasions for her outstanding achievements in golf. She is an inductee into the Ohio Valley Legends of Golf and is serving as secretary on the Board of Directors of Moundsville Country Club.
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