Jenna Burris from Manchester finished fourth in the two rounds of Tennessee Women’s Amateur stroke-play qualifying and leads a likely contingent of nine Chattanooga-area golfers in championship-division match play today at The Honors Course. Addison Baggarly from Johnson City Country Club won the qualifying with a 143 (72-71), followed at 147 by Trevecca Nazarene junior Rachael McMahan of Knoxville and Tennessee sophomore Mariah Smith from Clarksville. McMahan followed a 79 with a 68. From the area, Burris shot 150, Judianne Speach tied for eighth at 153, Malia Stovall and Samantha Griffith tied for 12th at 154, and Rheagan Hall, Maddi Everts, Hannah Holland and University of Tennessee at Chattanooga coach Colette Murray also made match play at 157, 158, 160 and 165. Ryann McCuistion also seems safely in but was in one of two groups with a hole still to go, resuming at 7 a.m. Hannah Nall and Kate Mashburn were among five players who finished at 166. The flighted-division qualifying was cut to 27 holes and led by Susan Miller of Tellico Village at 11-over-par 19, Crossville’s Jean Kraft and Chattanooga’s Darlene Werhnyak and Kristy Snow at 13 over and Charleston’s Maggie Scott with Nashville-area players Terri McAngus, Rhonda Switzer-Nadasdi and Evelyn Blackmon at 14 over. There will be six flights besides the championship group.
‘ Jacob Uehlein of Tullahoma shot a 1-over-par 72 and Cade Puryear of Cleveland shot 73 as the 2018 Tennessee Junior Amateur began Tuesday at Stones River Country Club at Murfreesboro, and they were tied for fifth and 10th out of 70 participants in the 54-hold tournament. The co-leaders at 68 were Bryce Lewis and A. Jacks Green from the Nashville area, one stroke clear of Ethan Ray from Collierville with Maryville’s Matt Copeland fourth at 71. Puryear’s Walker Valley teammate Parker Gray was tied for 19th at 75, and Council Fire representative Joe Carter and Lake Tansi’s Zach Young were among nine tied for 23rd at 76.
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