Jenna Burris of Manchester and Middle Tennessee State teammate Hanley Long from Clarksville got a good start Tuesday on adding the 2017 Tennessee Women’s Four-Ball golf championship to their 2015 title.
This one is at Lookout Mountain Golf Club, where Burris and Long combined for a 4-under-par 67 to take a four-stroke lead. In second place are last year’s champions, Linda Mullins of Cleveland and Maggie Scott of Charleston.
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s coach Colette Murray and Evelyn Blackmon of Nashville are third at 72, and Chattanooga’s Georgia McCravey and Lookout Mountain’s Charlotte Grant are eighth at 76 with Crossville’s Jean Kraft and Betsy Hale tied for ninth at 77.
Three sets of local golfers share 14th place at 79: Linda Carter and Susan Thurman of Hixson, Debbie Durham and Karen Burns of Signal Mountain and Kilbrey Fowler of Chattanooga with Carlene Ryon of Hixson. Among the duos tied for 17th at 80 are Darlene Werhnyak of Rossville and Meg Buchanan of Chattanooga, Kristy Snow of Hixson and Patty Donahoo of Chattanooga
The tournament concludes today.