Ashley Gilliam of Manchester was part of Team Tennessee that won the 12th and final USGA Women’s State Championship this week in Santa Fe, N.M. The reigning Tennessee Girls’ Junior champion joined Jayna Choi of Collierville and Riley Rennell of Columbia on the all-teenager trio directed by nonplaying captain Carol Medley. They shot a final-round 1-under-par 143 Thursday (Rennell 71, Gilliam 72) at The Club at Las Campanas to win at 431 in the competition that included temporary first places for Delaware, Florida, Alabama, New York and Indiana. Delaware wound up one stroke behind Tennessee and one ahead of Florida. The event began Tuesday with teams from 47 states and the District of Columbia.
-Josh Baker edged No. 1 seed David Watts in 19 holes in a Chattanooga TPC regular division match Friday at Council Fire, and Ronnie Law defeated senior division top seed Richard Keene 1 up. Law faces Neil Spitalny and Mike Poe meets Larry McGill in the senior semifinals. Greg Privette, Cres Dodd, Richard Spangler, Mikey Feher, Joe Markham, Jay Potter and Tom Schreiner are quarterfinalists with Baker.
-Calhoun resident Mike Nance shot an even-par 70 Friday and moved up into a tie for 13th at 143 in the 2017 Georgia Senior Championship at Idle Hour Club in Macon, and Summerville’s Randy Bowman also made the cut for today’s final round in a tie for 38th at 151. Alpharetta’s Bob Royak has a five-shot lead at 131.
-Dalton State’s Isabel Rijos was chosen the Southern States Athletic Conference women’s golfer of the month for September. After a 22nd-place finish in the SCAD Atlanta Fall Invitational, the sophomore was second at 141 in the Carey Collegiate Classic, where the Roadrunners won the team title.
-Sewanee rose 15 places to No. 10 in the Bushnell Golfweek NCAA Division III men’s rankings announced Friday by the Golf Coaches Association of America, and Dalton State remained No. 3 in the NAIA men’s poll. Sewanee shared first place and finished fifth and sixth in its three tournaments this month.