COOKEVILLE GOLF CLUB – The Michelob Ultra Amateur will be played here June 27 and 28, 2009. Players of all skill levels are welcome. Entry includes a practice round, tournament round, and lunch and beverages both days. The tournament champion wins $750 and all flights pay equally based on a full field. To enter or for more information call 931-526-5526.
Scores and Final Round Tee TimesWith three teams tied at -24 it will be an exciting final round. The first round leaders in the Championship flight, Adam Boyd and Steve Tomsic are now tied with the teams of Blake Garrison and Dustin Thomas and the team of Polk Brown and Jonathan Cox. Brown – Cox and Garrison – Thomas both scored 13 under during Saturday’s play to tie Boyd – Tomsic who posted a score of 11 under after scoring -13 on Friday. The Championship Flight will play at Ironwood Golf Course beginning at 1:10 p.m. while the First Flight plays at White Plains stating at 12:20 p.m. Play also continues at Cookeville Golf Club with Second Flight play getting underway at 12:40 p.m. Play in other flights begins at 7 a.m. on all three participating courses.
First flight scores include -15 on Saturday by JB Rittenberry and Steve Flowers vaulting them into the flight lead.
For all the Scores and Final Round tee times click here. Scoring and tee time data provided by TTU Sports.
Friday’s first day of play in the Bobby Nichols Golden Eagle Scramble finished with the team of Adam Boyd and Steve Tomsic leading with a score of -13. Two teams, (Polk Brown – Jonathan Cox) and (Blake Garrison – Dustin Thomas), are tied at -11. There are also two teams tied at -10, (Shawn Floyd – Kelly Wells), (Mark Frasier – Jeremy Phillips).
Play continues today at Cookeville Golf Club, White Plains and Ironwood. Click here for Saturday morning photos.
The Bobby Nichols Golden eagle Scramble gets underway today with 7:00 a.m. tee times at Cookeville Golf Club and Ironwood Golf Course while 7:30 a.m. is the beginning time at White Plains Golf Course. A list of tee times can be seen here. Uppercumberlandgolf.com will post scores and updates throughout the weekend as they become available.
The Scramble is the largest tournament in Middle Tennessee and the largest fund raiser for Tennessee Tech Athletics. The tournament is played over three days at the three area courses mentioned above. A fourth course, Southern Hills, will host the Barbeque dinner, putting and chipping contest, and a million-dollar hole-in-one contest sponsored by Cumberland Automotive.
Read more about it at TTU Sports.
L-R:James Mayberry, Bob Dillon
COOKEVILLE GOLF CLUB – Week 5 of the Scramble Tour sponsored by Miller Lite was won by the team of Bob Dillon and James Mayberry. The pair posted a score of 26 with an Eagle, 2 birdies, 4 pars and 2 bogeys, beating the team of Harold Penley and Bob Weaver by 3 points on the modified Stableford system (bogey=1, par=2, birdie=4, eagle=8) used by the tour.
The host course awarded a certificate for 9 holes of play including cart to each member of the winning team. The win moved Dillon into a tie for 3rd place in the league’s season long points tally while Mayberry moved from 13th to ninth in the rankings. Harold Penley is the current leader with a total of 107 points. Statistics for the tour can be viewed by clicking here.
The Scramble Tour plays next at Ironwood Golf Course on June 3, 2009. Tee time is 5 p.m. and new players are welcome to join the tour at the course.
The Upper Cumberland Affiliate of Susan G. Komen For The Cure® recently held its annual golf fundraiser at Cookeville Golf Club. Serving the 14 counties of the Upper Cumberland Development District, the organization dedicates money raised by the tournament to improving education, screening, and treatment of breast cancer, hoping to reduce the number of late stage diagnoses. Proceeds from the tournament are expected to be between 20 and 25 thousand dollars.
The April 29th, 2009 event involved 240 players with a shotgun start in the morning and afternoon. The tournament was flighted into six groups.
click for Flight Winners
