"Tom,
While the Semples, Thompsons or Semple Thompsons have some ties, probably close, to Sewickley Heights, Carol's home course is definitely Allegheny as was her mom's. They were both up there almost every day they were in Pittsburgh. Carol's trophies and other historical items are on display at ACC."
JVB:
Oh, I know that. When I saw Sewickley Heights on this thread I was thinking about Allegheny and mixed it up as Carol's primary golf club but the point is it wouldn't surprise me if she also belonged to Sewickley Heights as that was one of the Semple family's clubs. As you know the Semples lived in Sewickley. I can't remember where Carol lives but she probably lives there too. As I said, it all went back a long way.
It's funny to think of now. I knew the Semples starting back in the 1960s in Delray. Her parents and my parents were friends (my father's sister lived in Sewickley for many years) and belonged to Gulfstream in Delray. Carol was around 14 and I think I was around 16 when we started playing together now and then but more often I played with her brother, Harton. After we were teenagers down there the next thing I knew she was in the finals of the US Amateur in north Jersey when I was in Long Island in the summer so me and my parents went over to watch her win the US Amateur. As I remember, at that time her dad, Bud Semple, was the vice president of the USGA and he gave her the trophy at the award ceremony. That was the beginning of Carol's career in top flight tournament golf and the rest, as we all know, is real American amateur history!
But none of this has to do with the subject of this thread.