Nancy Gapinski’s curiosity in golf started on the age of 12 when she would sneak onto the Presidio Golf Course in San Francisco to hit balls on the fairways. After being caught and chased off the course, she took a break from the sport till her dad started instructing her when she was in highschool. She married Larry Gapinski in 1946 and took one other break from golf to boost their kids, however a number of years later started taking part in once more.
Nancy, born on April 23, 1926, was a Course Rater for the Pacific Ladies’s Golf Affiliation from 1971 till 2000 and for the Ladies’s Golf Affiliation of Northern California from 1982 till 2000. On the time, she started, Course Raters used a wheel rolled on the bottom to measure distances, however laser expertise grew to become accessible within the early 1990’s. From 1992-2005, Larry and Nancy visited many programs in Northern California getting exact laser measurements for Course Raters for PWGA and WGANC utilizing that newest expertise.
Nancy, who handed away April 26, was appointed to the California Ladies’s Novice Championship by Helen Lengfeld in 1980 and continued till 2007. In 1998, she was appointed to the USGA Regional Affairs Committee. She served till 2006.
In 1994, Nancy joined the Ladies’s Golf Affiliation of Northern California Board of Administrators, and in 1997 she was elected President of the Board. Throughout her time on the Board, the thought of creating a formally skilled WGANC Guidelines Committee had been mentioned, however by no means finalized. It was when she was President that the thought lastly got here to fruition. The primary WGANC Guidelines Committee was established in 1997 and in motion in 2000. Previous Administrators fashioned the brand new committee, and the coaching of the brand new officers was coordinated with the NCGA and USGA. Nancy was one of many preliminary members.
Nancy spent most of her grownup life supporting junior’s and girls’s golf. For years, she gave guidelines seminars for top colleges in addition to girls’s golf teams. She additionally officiated at Excessive College, Collegiate and WGANC Tournaments. In 2004 she was acknowledged because the WGANC Volunteer of the 12 months and in 2009 she acquired the Helen Lengfeld Award from the California Ladies’s Novice Championship Committee.
Along with her volunteering, Nancy made time for her personal golf sport. She was Champion of the Ladies’s North Bay Golf Affiliation 9 occasions, Ladies’s Membership Champion at San Geronimo Golf Course 9 time in a row, and the Marin Impartial Journal’s Champion of Champions three years. At 90 years younger, Nancy received the 9 Gap Championship at McGinnis Golf Course in San Rafael.
Nancy’s love for the sport of golf and her contributions will profit and be appreciated for a few years. We are going to all miss her.
