Overall Women’s City golf champion Colette Murray, right, and senior division winner Darlene Werhnyak pose with the tournament’s perpetual trophies.Even though golf is her job, Colette Murray doesn’t get to play it much.
But the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s golf coach from Scotland still knows her way around a course.
She completed a three-day run to the Chattanooga Women’s Amateur overall championship Wednesday at WindStone after breezing to victory in the same event last summer at Valleybrook. This one was closer, as Murray took a two-stroke lead over reigning TSSAA state champion Lindsey Hollis of Signal Mountain into the final day, but Murray’s 72 gave her a 219 and an eventual six-shot triumph.
Darlene Werhnyak prevailed by even more in winning the senior division for the third year in a row with a 148 for 36 holes. Like Murray a Council Fire member, she had a 15-stroke cushion.
Hollis was honored as champion of the open division’s championship flight, and former Ringgold High School standouts Ryann McCuistion and Miranda Rich were second and third at 230 and 234. McCuistion is about to begin her senior year at Tennessee Wesleyan, and Rich is an incoming freshman in Murray’s Mocs program.