University of Tennessee at Chattanooga freshman Andrew Weathers strikes a shot during the first round of the Tennessee Amateur on Tuesday at Chattanooga Golf and Country Club. Weathers shot a 4-under 66.Andrew Weathers heard the cheers, jeers and chants as he walked Tuesday afternoon down the fourth fairway of the Chattanooga Golf and Country Club.
Players and guests from the morning wave of the Tennessee Amateur Championship had perched themselves along the pool behind the par-3 fifth green and turned it into a party.
“Kind of like No. 16 at Scottsdale,” said Ryan Thornton, who parred the hole in front of the crowd that had gathered on his family’s back porch.
One scream of “Go, Mocs!” echoed around the course after departing No. 5 with a bogey, the result of missing the green.
“It was pretty fun,” said Weathers, who graduated from McCallie and will play at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. “Even if it was a bad shot, they’d go crazy.”