Wilk makes it 18 straight tourney titles




Leslie Wilk

Leslie Wilk


Golf amateur Leslie Wilk, 53, of Agoura Hills has won the Woodland Hills Country Club Women’s Golf Championship for the 18th consecutive year.

Wilk scored 78, 79 and 83 with four birdies on the women’s par72 course known for its tight fairways and small greens.

Wilk also recently won the 2008 Los Angeles Women’s Senior Championship held at Rancho Park.

In the top 144 women amateur golfers in the nation, she will be competing at the United States Golf Association Women’s senior amateur championship in Tulsa, Okla., later this month.

When asked if she works at winning the Woodland Hills Country Club Women’s Championship tournament each year, Wilk said, “Oh, yes. You can never master golf.”

Wilk first picked up a club when she was just 7 years old and says she had a natural connection to the game. Her parents, Maury and Fran Plaice, moved to Calabasas from San Diego when she was 10 and joined Woodland Hills Country Club, developed by Victor Girard in the 1920s to lure people to the area.

“My mother ran the junior program in 1965,” Wilk said, adding that women were always encouraged to play at the club.

Carrying on the tradition of many members, Wilk’s immediate family joined the club to groom the next generation of avid golfers.

Her children, daughter Alison, 25, and son Jason, 22, both embraced the game. Jason attended Loyola Marymount University on a golf scholarship. Her husband, Peter, an insurance broker, now plays four times a week, even more than she can find time to play or take a lesson to fine-tune her swing, she said.

Wilk, who loves to compete, often joins the club’s team to play in the Women’s Southern California Golf Association Championship Tournament.

An early exposure to golf has given her a lifetime of opportunity, said Wilk, who earned a golf scholarship to attend Cal State University Northridge and has traveled and met people around the country.

Golf is not the only sport Wilk finds competitive and loves.

She trains her springer spaniel Angel in dog agility, a sport in which a handler directs a dog through an obstacle course in a race for both time and accuracy.

She is entering Angel into the Untied States Dog Association Championship in October.

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