Chattanooga’s Brendon Wilson watched Thad Hudgens pour in the winning putt of the Lupton Memorial Invitational mid-amateur division at the Honors Course on Sunday.
Wilson, playing in the next-to-last group had been in the hunt to claim the trophy for most of the day.
He was tied for the lead after saving par on the diabolical all-carry 16th hole. He followed that with a solid tee shot on the par-5 17th.
Then the nerves kicked in resulting in a bogey, followed by a bogey on the final hole.
“I’m not playing in enough tournaments,” Wilson said, noting this was his first of the year. “It was good to get the competitive juices flowing again.