MANCHESTER, Tenn. – Often times golf tournaments are won on the back nine on the final day of competition, and that was no different for Signal Mountain’s girls Wednesday at the Willowbrook Golf Club. But then again, they played that side first.
The Lady Eagles stretched their first-day lead of five strokes over Santa Fe to 12 by the time they made the turn, then cruised from there and captured the Class A/AA high school state title for the second consecutive year. They outscored the Lady Wildcats 331-343.
In the boys’ tournament, Notre Dame finished nine strokes behind champion Christian Academy of Knoxville’s two-day 614, but came from third place after the first day, five strokes behind Bolivar Central, to 15 ahead of the Tigers at the end. Irish junior David Weeks shot a 3-under 33 on the front side Wednesday and his seven-over-par 149 gave him a third-place finish.
“CAK is really good,” Weeks said. “It was good for us to get second, from being third the first day.”
Alcoa junior Grant Daugherty was the boys’ medalist by four shots after shooting even-par 72s both days. CAK freshman Sophia Schubert totaled 1-over 145 and coasted to a 15-stroke victory on the girls’ side.