HALL OF FAME
History Makers
O
n December 4th, 2014 at
the 115th Annual Meeting
of the Connecticut State
Golf Association, three distinguished
individuals were inducted into the
Connecticut Golf Hall of Fame - Betty
Boyko (Distinuished Service to Golf),
Ted May, III (Distinguished Service
to Golf) and Roy Pace (Distinguished
Golf Achievement).
Boyko, one of the great pioneers
of women’s golf in Connecticut, was
instrumental in the founding of the
Southern New England Women’s Golf
Association (SNEWGA) in 1956, and
it was her forward thinking vision and
energy that launched the Connecticut
Women’s Amateur Championship ten
years later in 1966. Women who have
followed in her footsteps, and who have
benefitted from her trailblazing efforts
on behalf of women golfers have long
revered Boyko. In 2009 SNEWGA
created the Betty Boyko SNEWGA
Invitational. The Connecticut Women’s
Senior Amateur trophy is named in her
honor.
In 2006, on the occasion of
SNEWGA’s 50th anniversary, then
president Gale Lemieux of Timberlin
Golf Club found inspiration in the
work of Betty Boyko and other early
leaders when she wrote, “Recently I
had the pleasure of meeting three of
the first four presidents of SNEWGA,
Betty Boyko, Anna Polanski and Arline
Rich. These women are an inspiration
for all of us to assess what we can offer
back to the game and our association,
and to find a way to reach out to women
golfers and encourage and support
their interest in the game.”
Ted May, III began volunteering
at what was then the Sammy Davis
Jr.-GHO in the mid-1970s and was
tournament chairman of “The Last
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Blast at Wethersfield” in 1983. May
then helped oversee a move to TPC
River Highlands in Cromwell, a bridge
plan and solicitation of Buick and
Travelers as title sponsors to keep the
tournament alive after Canon pulled
out in 2003.
“We were at risk (of losing the
tournament),” May said of those gutwrenching days 11 years ago. “Now
the tournamen