Lee University golf coach John Maupin is willing to let junior Hunter Vest finish playing in the Chattanooga TPC.
But Vest’s caddie, Lee junior Matt Emery, will have to skip the final day of the season-ending championship so he and the rest of the Flames can prepare for the Chick-Fil-A Collegiate Invitational beginning Monday in Rome, Ga.
“I joked with Hunter that he has to WD, but really he’s seen the [Rome] course enough,” Maupin said. “Matt needs to see the course and get ready, so Hunter is going to have to finish it on his own.”
Vest, who won the Brainerd Invitational to start the Chattanooga District Golf Association season, finished off Signal Mountain Invitational winner Chris Schmidt by getting up and down on 17th hole at Council Fire for a 3 and 2 victory in the quarterfinals of the TPC.
“I got up early and cut out stupid mistakes,” Vest said. “He was hanging in there for the whole round. I’d go 2 up; then the next hole was 1 up. Then 2 up. We went back and forth.”