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The Story Behind Lue
My grandma, Lue Blakeslee, taught me to golf. She is the one who stood beside me on the green and said, ‘Think one-putt.’ I still hear her every time I stand over a putt.
In 2004, Grandma drew a little golf-gal: a stick figure in a checkered cap and a skirt, smiling through a full swing, her ball still waiting on the tee. She signed it LB. She loved her so much that she wanted her protected, so no card company could swipe her golf-gal. And she wrote that her golf-gals should be in golf shops.
Grandma has been gone for many years now. This fall, my dad handed me an envelope from her, with her letter and her golf-gal inside. The moment I saw her stick figure, drawn just the way I draw mine, I knew she belonged here.
That is my grandpa, Robert ‘Bob’ Blakeslee, crouched behind the hole reading her putt. He passed away while my dad was serving in Okinawa. Grandma kept on playing golf, and she carried Grandpa Bob with her, in her memory, every round.
So meet Lue. She is the heart of Fairway Ladies Golf. Her drawing is just as Grandma made it. We only colored in her cap and skirt so she could pop on the course.
Fairway is built for what Grandma loved about this game: four hours on the course, and friends for life.
“Think one-putt.”
Grandma Lue
Grandma, your golf-gal made it to the golf shop.
With love, Barb Beck, Lue’s granddaughter
Lue, drawn by Lue Blakeslee, © 2004. Shared with love by her family.