National, local drive-chip-putt contests set up

Signal Mountain Junior Golf League member Ross Davis, 9, sinks a putt on the practice green Tuesday at Signal Mountain Golf and Country Club. Her father, Richard Brown, adds some body english to the effort.

Dori Paschall has received phone calls from as far away as Michigan inquiring about a national drive, chip and putt competition that will end at Augusta National on the Sunday before Masters week.

But there’s a little confusion.

Paschall, a Tennessee Golf Foundation regional director, has been planning and coordinating a TGF drive, chip and putt competition for kids 13 and under from the Chattanooga area only.

“Nobody outside of Augusta knew this national contest was happening,” Paschall said. “The Tennessee Golf Foundation is doing one, but it has no connection. It kind of caught me off guard, and people think what I’m doing is associated with Augusta.