Outdoors

Pat Appleton remembers that she "laughed hysterically" when she first heard a decade or so ago that Chattanooga could become the "Boulder of the East" as a center of outdoors pursuits.

  • April 25th, 2013  |
  • By Ron Bush  |

The perceived drama at the final hole of the Southern Conference men's golf tournament turned out to be anticlimactic.

Tully Johnson used an old-fashioned yardage book to take his measurements at Nob North Golf Course.

The Jack McKenna Junior Golf Day is scheduled for Saturday at the First Tee of Chattanooga learning center.

Haley Smith delayed cooking dinner Sunday before last to watch the Masters playoff between Adam Scott and Angel Cabrera.

DALTON, Ga. — Dalton senior William Duffie devised a practice plan for the Catamounts golfers that wouldn't agree with most high school students.

Two area auto racing facilities had big-payday races Saturday night, and Crossville's Randy Weaver won $5,000 in a 50-lap special event at Cleveland Speedway while Knoxville's Jeff McNally earned $3,000 at the Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip.

Don't refer to them as the Lady Mocs. Just call them champions — again.

Dori Paschall has received phone calls from as far away as Michigan inquiring about a national drive, chip and putt competition that will end at Augusta National on the Sunday before Masters week.

Haley Smith delayed cooking dinner Sunday to watch the Masters playoff between Adam Scott and Angel Cabrera.

The Honors Course will close for about seven weeks this summer when it replaces its bentgrass greens with Champion's Bermuda.

Unofficially, golf season really starts with the Masters.

With Emily McLennan and Agathe Sauzon sharing second place individually at 2-over-par 146, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga leads the Southern Conference women's golf tournament by nine strokes at 597 at Moss Creek Golf Club in Hilton Head, S.C., with one round to play.

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Craziness continues at the Masters.

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Several familiar names — Dustin Johnson, Fred Couples and Jim Furyk — have exchanged the lead on a busy day for the Masters scoreboard operators at Augusta National Golf Course.

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