Chattanooga resident Taylor Lewis has played Signal Mountain Golf and Country Club too many times to count.
Recent Georgia Tech graduate Drew Czuchry has played the mountain course three times. Two rounds counted.
The veteran Chattanooga golfer and the newcomer from Auburn, Ga., are tied for the lead at 8-under-par 134 heading into the final round of the 2015 Signal Mountain Invitational.
"In my practice round on Thursday I enjoyed the front nine, and then the holes started going up and down," Czuchry said during a break from putting practice after he shot a 5-under 66 Saturday on the par-71 layout.
"It's a fun little track," he said. "There are some funky little spots where you have to know where to hit it. You can make a lot of birdies up here, but you can make bogeys, too, if you hit it in the wrong spots."
Lewis shot a bogey-free 67. He and Czuchry lead University of Tennessee at Chattanooga rising junior Brooks Thomas by one stroke with one round to play.
"I played pretty well even thought I didn't get off to a hot start," said Thomas, who attended Ringgold High School. "I made putts on the back side and I'm a little more confident now, and the putter is a lot better than it was during the school season."
Playing at about 6,000 yards and with ball-in-hand due to rain and areas where the fairway hasn't grown in for the season, golfers -- especially the college players -- were able to take advantage and hit wedge shots into most greens on the mountain.
"You have tons of wedges and most of them are awkward shots, but that's what you get up here," Thomas said. "It's nice that you can pick it up and get a good lie, because those shots are awkward enough."
Mikey Feher, a rising junior at Lipscomb who grew up at Signal Mountain Golf and Country Club, is four off the lead and tied with Taylor McCullum, who plays for the the University of Memphis. Ricky Honeycutt is alone in sixth place at 1 under.
"It's a better field this year, so I have to go real low," said McCullum, who had a top-five finish last year. "The good thing is that I figured out something with my putting that I'm real excited about, something I've been searching for for about six months."
Neil Spitalny leads the senior division at 2 under by four strokes over Randy Yoder, who recorded his 12th hole-in-one Saturday. Yoder aced No. 17 from 132 yards with a 9-iron.
"I hit a good shot," Yoder said. "I knew I had to bring it in from the right. Based on the ball mark -- you couldn't see it from the lower tee -- it probably hit on top of the green and went in on the first bounce."
Yeah, Yoder -- much like Lewis and Thomas and Feher -- has played the course a time or two, unlike Czuchry.
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