M.J. Maguire chips the ball onto the green during the final round of the Southern Amateur Championship golf tournament Saturday, July 19, 2014, at The Honors Course in Ooltewah, Tenn. Maguire, from St. Petersburg, Fla., won the tournament.The Honors Course hosted the Southern Amateur last weekend and will continue its tradition of hosting some of the best amateur events in the country during the coming years.
The Trans-Miss Four Ball championship will be held there Sept. 14-17, 2015, and the U.S. Junior Amateur championship will be contested July 18-23, 2016, on the Ooltewah course.
“The Southern Amateur is a prelude to what we’ll be doing in 2016, and we’ve had a wonderful group of volunteers,” The Honors Course president Joel Richardson said. “Mr. Tim Haralson and his 200 volunteers have done a wonderful job. We wouldn’t be able to do so because we don’t have the membership. They’ve been magnificent.”
M.J. Maguire won the Southern Amateur last Saturday with a 4-under-par 284 for four rounds.
“I’ll remember how well they played in the initial rounds,” Richardson said, “and how when the weather came in, I’ll remember the weather and how the course jumped up and grabbed them.”