Chris Stacy from Big Stone Gap, Va., and Lonesome Pine Country Club takes a three-stroke lead into the final round today of the 44th Tennessee Section Professional Championship at Fox Den Country Club at Farragut, but five Chattanooga-area pros are in the top eight.
Richard Rebne of Council Fire is second at 144 through 36 holes, Greg Wyatt of Crossville is tied for third at 145, Henrik Simonsen of The Honors Course shares fifth place at 147 and Crossville’s Kelvin Burgin and Vonore’s Nick Boruff are tied for seventh at 148. Bruce Etter from Chattanooga Golf and Country Club is in a seven-way tie for ninth at 149.
Spitalny CGCC club champion
Neil Spitalny won the club championship at Chattanooga G&CC last weekend with a 211 for 54 holes. That was one better than Neil Brunetz, and Blake Baum and Mikey Feher were third and fourth at 216 and 218.
In 36-hole play, Mike Jenkins won the first flight and the senior gross competition by six shots over Tim Burns with a 144, and Jimmy Hudson was a 10-shot second-flight victor with his 149. Paul Roess won a tight fight with David Everett and Todd Tindall in the third flight, and Joe Johnson won the net flight with a 144, with Mike Langley, Cort Dondero and Ben Brock at 145, 146 and 147.
Johnson’s 144 was second to Hudson’s 137 in the senior net competition. John Felker’s gross 155 and Frank Deigaard’s net 148 took super senior honors.
CCGG team takes women’s city title
Chattanooga G&CC’s Carlene Ryon, Janet Horton, Kristy Snow and Georgia McCravey won the city women’s team championship Tuesday at CGCC by four strokes with a combined 66 in Flight A, and the host club also won flights B and C with 73s by Carolyn Maum, Lynn Holland, Candy Feher and Carol Burns and by Kate Gerbitz, Patty Jones, Laurie Smickley and Susan Kaplan.
Valleybrook’s Susan Thurman, Wanda Harrelson, Haley Cothran and Cindy Jones were the Flight A runners-up. The 75th anniversary individual tournament will be at CGCC next week.
Smith third in 11-12 in GSGA Challenge
LaFayette’s Gage Smith tied for third place in the boys’ 11-under division as the best Northwest Section age-group finisher in the GSGA Junior Sectional Challenge held Monday and Tuesday at Valdosta Country Club. The Southwest finished first with the Southeast second among Georgia’s seven sections covering age groups up through 17; the Northwest was fifth.
Area aces
Valleybrook staffer Derek Walker knocked in a hole-in-one at the Hixson course on July 17. It was his first. He used a 6-iron for the 184-yard shot witnessed by Calvin Carson on No. 3.
Fred Mumm sank his fourth hole-in-one last Friday at Creeks Bend. Mumm used a 9-iron for the 125-yard shot on No. 6, witnessed by David Brown, Fred Nicely and Luke Rutherford.