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 1894 to 1904Country Club of Bristol is organized (1894);  Memphis, sometimes called Peabody, Golf Club is organized. Chattanooga Golf and Country Club is organized. (1896);  Highland Golf Club in Knoxville is organized. (1898); Jackson Golf Club is organized ( 1900);  Nashville Golf and Country Club is organized. (1901);  The Southern Golf Association is organized in Chattanooga. Albert W. Gaines of Chattanooga is elected president. (1902);  Albert W. Gaines wins the Southern Amateur. (1903);  Horace F. Smith of Nashville is elected president of the Southern Golf Association. (1904)

 
 1905 to 1915Memphis Country Club is organized. (1905);  Cherokee Country Club in Knoxville is organized. (1907); Memphis Country Club hosts the Southern Amateur won by Nelson Whitney of New Orleans. (1908); John P. “Jack” Edrington of Memphis wins the Southern Amateur at Memphis Country Club. (1909);  Horace F. Smith of Nashville Golf and Country Club is elected president of the Western Golf Association. (1910); George Livingstone becomes the golf professional at Nashville Golf and Country Club. Mrs. Frank G. “Nina” Jones of Memphis wins the Women’s Southern Amateur. (1912);  John McDermott of Philadelphia wins the Western Open at Memphis Country Club. T.I. Webb Jr., wins the first Tennessee State Amateur. Colonial Country Club (July 19) in Memphis and Clarksville Country Club (October 28) are chartered by the State of Tennessee. Mrs. Frank G. “Nina” Jones of Memphis is elected president of the Women’s Southern Golf Association. (1913);  The Tennessee Golf Association is organized. D.S. Henderson of Chattanooga is elected president. Bradley Walker wins the first TGA State Amateur at Nashville Golf and Country Club. Mrs. Frank G. “Nina” Jones wins her second Women’s Southern Amateur. Mrs. J.D. “Lucy” Varnell of Cherokee is elected president of the WSGA.  Jackson Country Club is organized. (1914);  J.W.S. Rhea of Memphis Country Club is elected president of the Trans-Mississippi Golf Association. (1915)

 
 1916 to 1920The Women’s Tennessee Golf Association is organized. Mrs. Dave “Marguerite” Gaut wins the first WTGA State Amateur at Memphis Country Club. The PGA of America is organized and Tennessee golf professionals become members of the Middle Section.  Anne Watkins of Chattanooga is elected WSGA president. Nashville Golf and Country Club begins play on its new course (Belle Meade).; Mrs. K.G. “Edyth” Duffield wins the Women’s Southern Amateur. (1917);   Mrs. K.G. “Edyth” Duffield of Memphis is elected president of the WSGA. The term “dog fight” originates at Chattanooga Golf and Country Club. (1918);  Jack Wenzler, age 16, wins the TGA State Amateur. (1919); Mrs. Dave “Marguerite” Gaut wins the Women’s Southern Amateur. Bob Jones defeats Ewing Watkins in the Southern Amateur at Chattanooga. Polly Boyd wins the TGA State Amateur. Richland Golf Club is organized.  Polly Boyd is a member of the Southern Golf Association team that wins the Olympic Cup at Memphis. (1920)
   
1921 to 1925Polly Boyd’s Dartmouth team wins the National Intercollegiate. Martin J. Condon wins the U.S. Seniors Golf Association Championship. Nashville Golf and Country Club changes its name to Belle Meade Country Club. Perry Adair defeats Jack Wenzler in the Southern Amateur at Belle Meade. (1921); Mrs. Dave “Marguerite” Gaut wins the Women’s Western Amateur. Polly Boyd, representing Dartmouth, wins the National Intercollegiate. Abe Mitchell wins the Southern Open at Belle Meade. (1922); Charles O. Pfeil of Memphis Country Club is elected president of the Western Golf Association. Jock Hutchinson wins the Western Open at Colonial. (1923); Jack Wenzler wins the Southern Amateur as four Memphians reach the semifinals. Mrs. Morrow Chamberlain of Chattanooga is elected president of the WSGA. Nashville’s first municipal golf course, Shelby, opens. (1924); Tennessee becomes a part of the Southeastern Section of the PGA. Mrs. Frank Berry of Belle Meade is elected president of the WSGA. (1925)
  
1926 to 1930Emmett Spicer Jr. wins the TGA State Amateur and Southern Amateur. Harry Hampton of Memphis wins the first Southeastern PGA at Belle Meade. (1926); Holston Hills Country Club opens.  Charles O. Pfeil dies in December, a month before he is to be elected president of the USGA. (1927); Emmett Spicer Jr. defeats fellow Memphian, Eddie Halbach, 6 and 5, to win his second TGA State Amateur. (1928); Horace F. Smith completes 25 years as president of the SGA. Jack Wenzler wins his second straight Mississippi Open. (1929); Mrs. Dave “Marguerite” Gaut wins her fourth Women’s Southern Amateur. Emmett Spicer Jr. wins his second Southern Amateur. Polly Boyd wins his fourth TGA State Amateur. Horace F. Smith dies at the age of 81. (1930)
  
1931 to 1935 Chasteen Harris wins the Southern Amateur. Mrs. Dave “Marguerite” Gaut is elected president of the WSGA. (1931); Macdonald Smith, representing a Nashville club maker, finishes second to Gene Sarazen in the British Open. (1932); Macdonald Smith, Nashville, wins his third Western Open. Emmett Spicer Jr. wins his fifth TGA State Amateur. (1933); Macdonald Smith, Nashville, finishes seventh in the first Masters tournament. (1934); Tom White Jr., Memphis, defeats hometown favorite, Tommy Wright, 3 and 2, in the TGA State Amateur at Cherokee in Knoxville. (1935)
   
1936 to 1940Cherokee Golf Club opens in Memphis. Charlie Danner is hired as golf professional at Richland Golf Club. (1936); Estelle Page wins the U.S. Women’s Amateur at Memphis Country Club. The Women’s Tennessee Golf Association is re-organized by Mrs. Scott Probasco Sr. (1937); Mrs. Dave “Marguerite” Gaut wins her sixth WTGA State Amateur. (1938); H.P. Childress, age 19, wins the TGA State Amateur. (1939); Neil White, Nashville, wins the Southern Amateur. Mrs. Leon “Marguerite” Solomon wins her fourth WTGA State Amateur. (1940)
   
1941 to 1945 Margaret Gunther wins the WTGA State Amateur. (1941); Jake Fondren wins the Southeastern PGA. (1942); Cary Middlecoff wins his fourth straight TGA State Amateur. (1943); Byron Nelson wins the first two PGA Tour events ever played in Tennessee, the Knoxville War Bonds Open at Whittle Springs and the Nashville Invitational at Richland. (1944); Byron Nelson’s streak of 12 PGA victories is broken at Chickasaw in the Memphis Invitational. Amateur Cary Middlecoff wins the PGA North and South Open. Jimmy Tupper of Belle Meade is elected president of the Southern Golf Association. (1945)
   
1946 to 1950 Cary Middlecoff defeats “Chick” Evans in the first Colonial Amateur Invitational in Memphis. H.P. Childress wins his second TGA State Amateur. (1946); Jimmy Wittenberg’s LSU team wins its second NCAA title. Jake Fondren is elected president of the Southeastern PGA Section. (1947); Dub Fondren starts the Kids Clinic and the Overton Park Open at Overton Park in Memphis. (1948); Cary Middlecoff wins the U.S. Open.  Margaret Gunther wins the Women’s Southern Amateur. Pat Abbott wins the first TGA State Open at Belle Meade.  Ridgefields Country Club opens its first nine holes. (1949); Mason Rudolph wins the U.S. Junior Amateur. Polly Boyd is elected president of Southern Golf Association. (1950)
   
1951 to 1955 Hillman Robbins Jr., wins the Colonial Invitational. (1951); Ted Rhodes, a former Nashville caddie, along with Bill Spiller and amateur Eural Clark, play in the Phoenix Open under a new PGA rule that allows blacks to compete if the tournament sponsor gives its okay. (1952); Marnie Polk wins her third straight WTGA State Amateur.  Hillman Robbins Jr., wins his third Colonial Invitational, the TGA State Amateur, and the Southeastern PGA. (1953); Nancy Reed, representing George Peabody College, wins the Women’s National Intercollegiate. Hillman Robbins Jr., wins the Southern Intercollegiate and the NCAA Championship.  Albert Stone Jr., wins the TGA State Amateur to become the first to win both the State Amateur and TGA State Open. (1954); Cary Middlecoff wins the Masters. As in 1949 and 1951, Middlecoff wins six PGA Tour events in a single year. Joe Campbell of Purdue University wins the NCAA Championship at Holston Hills.  J. Wood Platt of Philadelphia wins the first U.S. Senior Amateur at Belle Meade. Betty Probasco wins the Women’s Southern Amateur. Hillman Robbins Jr., wins his second Southeastern PGA and the Sunnehanna Amateur. (1955)
   
 1956 to 1960Cary Middlecoff wins his second U.S. Open. Junie Buxbaum wins the U.S. Amateur Public Links. Hillman Robbins Jr., wins the North and South Amateur. Mason Rudolph wins the Western Amateur at Belle Meade, the TGA State Amateur, and the TGA State Open. Judy Eller, age 15, wins the WTGA State Amateur. (1956); Hillman Robbins Jr., wins his fifth Colonial Invitational and the U.S. Amateur. Ed Brantly wins the Southern Amateur. Robbins, Mason Rudolph, and Joe Campbell play on the winning Walker Cup team. (1957); Judy Eller wins the U.S. Girls’ Junior. Billy Maxwell wins the inaugural Memphis Open, now the WGC FedEx St. Jude Invitational, at old Colonial. (1958); Harry Shoemaker wins his third National Lefthanders Amateur. Judy Eller wins the National Intercollegiate, representing Miami (FL) and the Women’s Southern Amateur. J. Clark Epsie Jr., of Indianapolis wins the U.S. Senior Amateur at Memphis Country Club. (1959); Ed Brantly wins the German Amateur. Harry Shoemaker wins the National Lefthanders Open. Judy Eller wins her second straight Women’s Southern Amateur and fifth straight WTGA State Amateur. Jake Fondren is elected for his second term as president of the Southeastern PGA Section. (1960)
   
 1961 to 1965Cary Middlecoff wins the Memphis Open. E. E. “Bubber” Johnson is elected president and named Professional of the Year of the Southeastern PGA Section. (1961); Pat Abbott wins his fourth State Open. Harold Eller is named Professional of the Year of the Southeastern PGA Section. Windyke Country Club in Germantown opens its first 18-hole course. (1962); Margaret Gunther wins her sixth State Women’s Amateur. Gary Head of Middle Tennessee State wins the NCAA College Division Championship. Mike Malarkey wins the Southern Amateur and third straight TSSAA State High School Championship. Cookeville’s Bobby Greenwood of North Texas State wins the Southern Intercollegiate. (1963); Bert Greene of Tennessee wins the Southern Intercollegiate. The Tennessee Junior Golf Association is organized with Mrs. Harold Eller serving as chairman. (1964); Larry Gilbert and Middle Tennessee State win the NCAA College Division individual and team titles. Tommy McGinnis of Memphis wins the International Jaycee Junior. John Schlee is medalist in the PGA’s first Q School. The color barrier is broken in the first TGA event when Clif Harrington, Cliff Brown, and Willie Greer play in the State Open at Richland. The first golf course in Cumberland County opens at Lake Tansi. (1965)
   
 1966 to 1970Judy Eller Street wins her sixth State Women’s Amateur. The State Junior format changes from match to stroke play. (1966); Larry Hinson of East Tennessee State wins the NCAA College Division Championship. Larry White wins the State Amateur in the first tournament conducted at stroke play at Chattanooga. The State Junior begins using sectional qualifying for boys’ competition. (1967); Curtis Person Sr., wins the U.S. Senior Amateur. Peggy Harmon wins the U.S. Girls’ Junior and her third straight State Girls’ Junior. Bobby Greenwood wins his second Sunnehanna Amateur. The last State Amateur conducted at match play is at Jackson where Tim Taylor wins. Bob Renaud is elected president of the Southeastern PGA Section. Tennessee becomes a separate PGA section. Hubert Smith is elected the first president of the Tennessee PGA Section. The Tennessee Challenge Cup matches are started with the Amateurs defeating the Professionals at Old Hickory. (1968); Curtis Person Sr., wins his second straight U.S. Senior Amateur. Hubert Smith of Arnold Center in Tullahoma is named PGA National Professional of the Year. The State Amateur returns to stroke play as Ted Butler wins at Cherokee. (1969); Curtis Person Sr., wins his fourth Southern Senior Amateur. Person is elected president of the SGA. (1970)
   
1971 to 1975Lew Oehmig wins his eighth State Amateur over five decades of play. Ridgeway’s new Germantown course opens. (1971); Mason Rudolph wins his sixth State Open. Ed Brantly wins his third State Amateur. Joe Campbell wins his fifth State PGA over an eight-year span. Colonial’s new 36-hole complex in Cordova opens. (1972); The Tennessee Golf Association and Tennessee PGA Section combine to establish a statewide handicap service. Dick Horton is hired by the TPGA. Katherine Graham is elected president of the Women’s Southern Golf Association. The Tennessee Junior PGA Golf Academy is started at Fall Creek Falls. (1973); An agreement is reached between the TGA and TPGA for Dick Horton to serve as executive director of both groups. Cary Middlecoff is elected to the PGA Hall of Fame. Joe Campbell wins his fourth State Open. Klem Jones becomes the first black to play in the State Amateur at Holston Hills in Knoxville. TGA begins selecting its Challenge Cup team based on a performance point system. The matches change to a Ryder Cup format. (1974);  Lou Graham wins the U.S. Open. Brett Mullin wins the U.S. Junior Amateur at Richland. Bill Argabrite’s Wake Forest team wins its second straight NCAA Championship. (1975)
   
 1976 to 1980Lew Oehmig wins his second U.S. Senior Amateur. Gibby Gilbert wins the Danny Thomas Memphis Classic. Will Brewer of David Lipscomb College wins the NAIA title. Curtis Person Sr., is inducted into the Southern Golf Association Hall of Fame. (1976); Al Geiberger shoots 59 at Colonial in the Danny Thomas Memphis Classic. The TGA begins to measure and rate Tennessee courses. Lew Oehmig captains the victorious U.S. Walker Cup team. (1977); Ann Baker wins the Women’s Southern Amateur. Mary Anne Bailey wins her third straight State Girls’ Junior. The TGA adopts a scholarship program for junior boys to attend the Tennessee Junior PGA Golf Academy. (1978); Ann Baker Furrow wins her fifth State Women’s Amateur. Lou Graham wins three times in a single year on the PGA Tour. (1979); Amy Alcott wins the U.S. Women’s Open at Richland. Nancy Holmes wins her third State Women’s Amateur. Bill Argabrite becomes the first player since Mason Rudolph to hold both the State Amateur (1979) and State Open (1980) titles. The TGA starts sectional qualifying for the State Amateur. Brad Weaver, age 17, wins the State High School, State Junior, and State Amateur. Close to seventy clubs are represented at a course-rating seminar at Belle Meade conducted by the USGA. (1980)
   
 1981 to 1985Lew Oehmig is elected to the SGA Hall of Fame. (1981); Stu Ingraham of East Tennessee State wins the Southern Intercollegiate (1982);  Lew Oehmig wins his seventh Senior Amateur. The State Amateur eliminates flights. Willie Gibbons of Belle Meade wins the PGA National Merchandiser of the Year Award for private clubs. (1983); Bill Argabrite wins the first State Amateur Match Play event at Fall Creek Falls. The Honors Course is selected “Outstanding New Private Course” by Golf Digest. Gary Robinson wins the TPGA Player of the Year for the fourth straight year. (1984); ew Oehmig, age 69, wins his third U.S. Senior Amateur. Karen Socha wins her fourth straight TSSAA State Girls’ High School, third straight TPGA State Girls’ Junior, and the TGA State Girls’ Junior. Gary Robinson wins his third TPGA Section Championship.  Twenty-four Tennesseans take part in the TGA’s first travel promotion. Bill Munguia of Holiday City wins the PGA National Merchandiser of the Year for public courses. (1985)
   
 1986 to 1988Cary Middlecoff is inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. Betty Probasco wins her eighth State Women’s Amateur.  Mike Hulbert, former East Tennessee State player, wins the Federal Express St. Jude Classic. The Women’s Southern Golf Association inaugurates its Senior Amateur Championship and recognizes Katherine Graham by naming the championship trophy in her honor.  The TGA adopts the USGA’s GHIN (Golf Handicap Information Network) system.  Hermitage Golf Course opens. (1986); Russ Garner of Windyke wins the PGA National Merchandiser of the Year Award for private courses.  Don Malarkey, age 83, shoots his age in every round (81-78-82—241) in the TPGA Section Senior at Hermitage. (1987); Patti Rizzo wins the first Sara Lee Classic at Hermitage. The State Amateur Match Play is changed to the State Mid-Amateur for golfers age 25 or older as Rob Long wins. Richland Country Club, located on the original site of Nashville Golf and Country Club, relocates on Granny White Pike. Willow Creek opens in west Knoxville. (1988)
   
1989 to 1990 Ed Brantly wins his third State Senior Amateur. Brentwood’s Bowen Sargent of North Carolina State wins Southern Intercollegiate. A record number 550 attempt to qualify for the State Amateur held at The Honors Course. The State Senior Amateur age limit is raised to 51 with the age limit being increased each year until coming in line with USGA guidelines of age 55 in 1993. John Mahaffey wins the Federal Express St. Jude Classic which moved to the TPC at Southwind. Unknown Danny Green of Jackson is runner-up in the U.S. Amateur. (1989); Sarah Ingram wins the Canadian Women’s Amateur. Gibby Gilbert wins his fifth TPGA Section and fourth TGA State Open. Gilbert is named TPGA Player of the Year for the fourth time in five years.  The Tennessee Golf Foundation, a 501(C) 3 corporation, is organized with plans formed for Golf House Tennessee. Lou Graham, Dudley “Waxo” Green, Cary Middlecoff, Lew Oehmig, Curtis Person Sr. (posthumously), Betty Probasco, and Mason Rudolph are elected charter members of Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame. Katherine Graham captains the victorious U.S. Women’s World Amateur team. Jeff Maggert wins the first Ben Hogan Knoxville Open at Willow Creek. Ray Pearce wins his third straight TPGA Section Assistants title. Three players from Old Hickory Country Club win state championships: Steve Graham, State Amateur; Chris Dacri, State Women’s Amateur; and Brian Waggoner, TPGA State Junior Amateur. (1990) 
   
 1991 to 1992John Daly of Memphis wins the PGA. Sarah Ingram wins the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur and Women’s Western Amateur. Mitch Voges wins the U.S. Amateur at The Honors. Rob Long wins his third State Mid-Amateur. Golf Club of Tennessee opens. (1991); The TGA State Mid-Amateur is changed from match play to 54-hole stroke play at Golf Club of Tennessee as Pat Corey wins. Bill Munguia wins the PGA National Bill Strausbaugh Club Relations Award. (1992)
   
 1993 to 1994Sarah Ingram is ranked the nation’s No. 1 amateur and named TGA Women’s Player of the Year. The Harold Eller Family of Old Hickory is named National Golf Family of the Year. Jim Gallagher Jr., former UT Knoxville player, wins the PGA Tour Championship. The TGA-TPGA staff moves to new offices at Legends Club of Tennessee in Franklin.  Ashli Price wins her third straight TGA State Girls’ Junior. Tim Corrigan of Holiday City wins the PGA National Merchandiser of the Year Award for public courses. (1993); Sarah Ingram wins her third U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur and second straight Women’s Southern Amateur. Tim Jackson wins the U.S. Mid-Amateur. Beverly Pearce wins her fifth TGA State Women’s Senior Amateur. Lew Oehmig receives the USGA’s Bob Jones Award. The Honors Course plays host to the Curtis Cup where Great Britain-Ireland ties the U.S. team, 9-9, to retain the Cup. Lee Trevino wins the first BellSouth Senior Classic at Opryland. Pat Corey and Larry White win their third State Four-Ball.  It is Corey’s fourth win. (1994)
   
 1995 to 1996Golf House Tennessee opens. John Daly of Memphis wins the British Open.  Johnson City’s Chip Spratlin, representing Auburn, wins the NCAA Championship. Tim Jackson plays on the Walker Cup team. Hillman Robbins Jr. (posthumously), Gibby Gilbert Jr., John T. “Jack” Lupton II, and Judy Eller Street are inducted into the Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame. Garrett Willis wins the TGA State Amateur, TGA State Four-Ball, and Canadian Amateur. David Stone of The Honors Course receives the USGA’s Green Section Award. (1995);

Tiger Woods wins the NCAA Championship at The Honors. Chattanooga Golf and Country Club celebrates its 100th anniversary and hosts the TGA State Amateur for the 13th time. Keith Nolan of East Tennessee State wins Irish Amateur and Hong Kong Amateur. Sarah Ingram competes in her third Curtis Cup. Jay Baumgardner wins his third TGA State Senior Amateur. Canada defeats Tennessee in the inaugural Ruth Eller Challenge Cup for junior girls at Legends Club. (1996)
   
1997 to 1998Beth Bauer wins the U.S. Girls’ Junior Amateur at Legends Club. The Virginian Golf Club in Bristol, Virginia, hosts the Tennessee State Amateur won by John Chapman. Keith Nolan wins Irish Stroke Play. Garrett Willis wins the Panama Open. Danny Green wins the Western Amateur. David Gossett wins his second straight National Insurors Junior Classic and Rolex Tournament of Champions. Golfweek ranks Gossett the No. 1 junior player in America. The TGA and TPGA receive Golf Digest’s inaugural Junior Golf Development Award for the best junior golf program conducted by an association. Katherine Graham receives the Mercedes-Benz Legends of Women’s Golf Award for amateurs.  Lissa Bradford receives the PGA National Junior Golf Leader Award. (1997);

Tim Jackson wins the North and South Amateur and his second TGA State Amateur. Ted Rhodes is inducted into the Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame. The Honors Course becomes the Tennessee home of the Ruth Eller Challenge Matches. Richard Keene wins his third TGA State Mid-Amateur. Jeff and Steve Golliher win their third TGA State Four-Ball. Bobby Bray wins his third TPGA Section Championship. Dick Horton is honored for 25 years of service to Tennessee golf. (1998)
   
1999 to 2000David Gossett wins the U.S. Amateur. Danny Green wins the U.S. Mid-Amateur and becomes the only player in golf history to have played in the finals of the U.S. Amateur, U.S. Amateur Public Links, and U.S. Mid-Amateur. Tim Jackson and David Gossett make the U.S. Walker Cup team. Harold Eller, Sarah Ingram, and Don Malarkey are inducted into the Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame. Tim Jackson is inducted into the SGA Hall of Fame. The first TGA State Women’s Open is conduct at GreyStone at Dickson with Erin Kurczewski winning. A record field of 957 enters qualifying for the TGA State Amateur won by DJ Nelson at The Honors Course. Harry “Cotton” Berrier, a tireless worker in the Tennessee PGA Section, retires after 44 years of service at Gatlinburg Golf and Country Club. (1999)

After 12 years at Hermitage, the LPGA moves to Legends Club and Pat Hurst wins the Electrolux USA Championship. Jane Marcoe wins her fourth TGA State Women’s Senior Amateur. The Women’s Tennessee Golf Association and the Tennessee Junior Golf Association come under the umbrella of the Tennessee Golf Association. David Gossett is low amateur in the Masters.  Nancy Quarcelino is named the LPGA’s National Teacher of the Year. Dave Normand of Indian Hills wins the PGA National Horton Smith Trophy. (2000)
   
2001 to 2002Rookie Garrett Willis wins the first PGA Tour tournament of the year. Vanderbilt purchases the Legends Club of Tennessee and makes plans to change the name to Vanderbilt Legends Club.  Brad Fabel and two friends begin manufacturing juvenile golf clubs in Nashville. Jimmy Webb, an 18-year fixture with the LPGA, is terminated. Golf Digest publishes its America’s Best New Course winners. The Olde Farm in Bristol, Virginia, is named No. 1 in the Best New Private category and The Tennessean Golf Club in Paris is named No. 7 in the Best New Affordable category. Danny Green is runner-up in the U.S. Amateur Public Links and plays on the U.S. Walker Cup team. David Gossett uses a sponsor’s exemption to win the John Deere Classic and secure his PGA Tour card. Tim Jackson wins his second U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship. (2001); Defending champion Tim Jackson loses in the semifinals of the U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship. Casey Wittenberg goes 26 holes (second longest match in tournament history) to defeat Daniel Im in the third round of the U.S. Junior Amateur and loses his quarterfinal match. Bob Boyle wins his second straight TPGA Section title. Pat Abbott and Ed Brantly are inducted into the Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame. (2002)
   
 2003 to 2004Shaun Micheel wins the PGA Championship. Brandt Snedeker wins the U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship and joins Tim Jackson and Danny Green to win the USGA’s Men’s State Team Championship with a total of 413, a tournament record. Casey Wittenberg wins the Southern Amateur and becomes the only player except Tiger Woods to be named America’s No. 1 amateur before entering college. Casey Wittenberg reaches the finals of the U.S. Amateur and wins a position on the U.S. Walker Cup team that loses to Great Britain & Ireland, 12½-11½. Danny Green wins his third TGA State Amateur. Lew “Polly” Boyd Sr. (posthumously), Marguerite Gaut (posthumously), Katherine Graham, Margaret Gunther Lee, and Emmett Spicer Jr. (posthumously) are inducted into the Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame. The History of Tennessee Golf—1894-2001, written by Gene Pearce, is published. (2003); Danny Green is the medalist (63-68—131) at the U.S. Amateur Public Links and loses on the 26th hole in the third round of match play, the longest match in the history of the tournament. In the U.S. Amateur, Green loses in the quarterfinals to Vanderbilt University’s Luke List, the loser to Ryan Moore in the finals. Andrew Pratt becomes the first player to win the TGA State Open and TGA State Amateur in the same calendar year since Mason Rudolph did in 1956. Holston Hills in Knoxville hosts the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship won by Corey Weworski. Loren Personett wins his second straight TPGA Section Professional Championship. Clayton Ellis wins the revised TGA State Amateur Match Play Championship, the first played since 1987. Harry “Cotton” Berrier is inducted into the Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame. (2004)
   
 2005 to 2006Don Malarkey of Signal Mountain, the oldest living member of the PGA of America, celebrates his 100th birthday. Lewis Foster begins a two-year term as president of the Southern Golf Association. Germantown’s Jack Ramsay is runner-up in the Canadian Senior Amateur. Lookout Mountain’s Lex Tarumianz reaches the quarterfinals of the U.S. Senior Amateur and the finals of the British Senior Amateur. Andrew Pratt becomes the first player to win the TGA State Open in successive years since Gibby Gilbert Jr. won three in a row in 1988-90. The Honors Course in Ooltewah hosts the U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship won by Kevin Marsh. Tim Jackson completes the amateur trifecta by winning his fourth TGA State Amateur, his first TGA State Amateur Match Play, and his fifth TGA State Mid-Amateur. Vince Gill is inducted into the Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame. (2005); Loren Roberts wins four times, including the British Senior Open, on the Champions Tour. Eric Axley wins for the first time on the PGA Tour, capturing the Texas Open. Brandt Snedeker wins twice on the Nationwide Tour.  Danny Green wins the Pacific Northwest Amateur in Vancouver, British Columbia. Justin Metzger, age 20, of Lenoir City becomes the youngest player ever to win the TGA State Open.Clarksville’s Shelley K. Anderson wins her third TGA Women’s State Amateur. Maggie Scott wins her fifth TGA State Women’s Senior Amateur. David Stone and Loren Roberts are inducted into the Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame. Don Malarkey, age 101, dies at his home in South Pittsburg. (2006)
   
 2007 to 2008Brandt Snedeker of Nashville posts a 22-under par 266 to win the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, NC, for his first PGA Tour title. Shelley K. Anderson shoots a 13-under par 59 at Eastland Green in the Ladies City Amateur in Clarksville. Joe Campbell, Connie Day, Ann Baker Furrow, and Bobby Greenwood are inducted into the Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame. Tennessee’s team (Dawn Woodard, Shelley K. Anderson, and Holly Cantwell) finishes second to Arizona in the USGA State Women’s Team Championship. Loren Roberts of Germantown wins the Charles Schwab Cup and a $1,000,000 annuity. Ruth Eller, age 89, long-time promoter of junior golf in Tennessee, dies at her home in Hermitage. (2007); 

Derek Rende, age 21, of Soddy Daisy wins the State Amateur to become the 11th and youngest player in history to win the TGA State Open and TGA State Amateur. Danny Green wins his 10th TGA Player of the Year Award in 20 years. Kelvin Burgin of Crossville wins his third straight TPGA Section Championship. Zach Olsen, age 14, eighth grader at Memphis University School, becomes youngest player to win a TSSAA State High School Championship. Bobby Nichols, long-time golf professional and coach of the men’s and women’s teams at Tennessee Tech, passes away at the age of 67. Jeff Abbot and Matt Vanderpool completed their first years as executive directors of the Tennessee PGA and Tennessee Golf Association respectively. (2008)
   
 2009 to 2010Loren Roberts wins his second British Senior Open and second Charles Schwab Cup. Harry “Cotton” Berrier of Pigeon Forge is inducted into the PGA Golf Professional Hall of Fame. Danny Green, Tim Jackson, and Beverly Eller Pearce are inducted into the Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame. Tim Jackson, age 50, leads the U.S. Senior Open after two rounds and becomes the oldest medalist in U.S. Amateur history. The Distinguished Career Award, the TPGA’s highest lifetime honor, is presented to Billy Buchanan of Chattanooga and the late Bobby Nichols of Cookeville. Jordan Jennings wins the TGA State Junior to become the first black in history to win a Tennessee Golf Association championship. Kendall Martindale, age 16, wins the TGA State Women’s Amateur. Adam Mitchell becomes the eighth Tennessean to play on a U.S. Walker Cup (2009); Callie Nielson wins the TGA Women’s Player of the Year Award for the third straight year. Lew Conner, Willie Gibbons, and Bill Greene are inducted into the Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame. John T. “Jack” Lupton II, long-time benefactor of Tennessee golf, dies at the age of 83. Dick Horton is given the 2010 Distinguished Service Award of the International Association of Golf Administrators. Chris Erwin of Spring Hill shot 59 in the second round of the NGA/Hooters Tour’s ADI Classic. The Tennessee PGA presented its Distinguished Career Award to Sam Adams, Paul Bergen, Danny Tribble Jr., and Dick Horton. Kip Henley wins his fourth TPGA Section Professional Championship. Ashley Lance wins the Women’s Southern Amateur. Bobby Hudson wins the Sunnehanna Amateur Tournament of Champions. Will Pearson wins the Southern Junior. (2010)
   
2011 to 2012 Calle Nielson of Nashville becomes the 12th Tennessean to win the Women’s Southern Amateur and is named TGA Women’s Player of the Year for the fourth straight time. Maggie Scott wins the TGA Senior Women’s Player of the Year Award for the 10th time in 11 years. Todd Burgan of Powell wins the TGA Player of the Year and Bob Clark of Memphis wins the Senior Player of the Year awards. David Meador of Nashville is inducted into the Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame. Mason Rudolph dies at the age of 76. Kendall Martindale, age 18, of Jefferson City becomes the youngest player to win the TGA State Women’s Open and the second player to win the Open and TGA State Women’s Amateur in the same year. (2011); Steven Fox of Hendersonville wins the U.S. Amateur and is a member of the winning U.S. team in the World Amateur Team competition. Brooke Pancake leads her Alabama team to the NCAA Championship, competes in the Curtis Cup, and qualifies for the 2013 LPGA Tour. Brandt Snedeker wins the PGA Tour Championship, FedEx Cup (worth $10,000,000), and competes in the Ryder Cup. Joe Taggert is inducted into the Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame. Lauren Stratton wins the TGA State Women’s Amateur and State Women’s Open. Steven Fox and Lauren Stratton are named TGA Player of the Year for men and women. Audie Johnson is named TPGA Player of the Year for the third time. PGA Tour player Scott Stallings of Knoxville initiates the Tennessee Junior Cup, a Ryder Cup-format competition for the state’s best junior players (boys and girls). (2012)
   
2013 to 2014 Zach Olsen of Cordova becomes the tenth Tennessean to win the Southern Amateur. The Tennessee Section of the PGA of America is presented the Herb Graffis Award for exemplary contributions to player development. Maggie Scott of Charleston wins her ninth TGA State Women’s Senior Amateur, giving her 10 career TGA wins, the most by any female. Clarksville Country Club and Colonial Country Club each celebrate their 100th birthday. Clarke Rheney of Dallas, TX, who grew up playing golf in Jackson, is named president of the Southern Golf Association. Dandridge’s Peter Malnati wins the Korn Ferry Tour Knoxville News Sentinel Open and qualifies for the PGA Tour. David Meador wins his third U.S. Blind Golf Association Championship. Nancy Quarcelino of Spring Hill is inducted in the LPGA Teaching and Club Professional Hall of Fame. (2013); The Tennessee Golf Association celebrates its 100th birthday with dinners at Jackson Country Club, Belle Meade Country Club, Chattanooga Golf and Country Club, Johnson City Country Club, Cherokee Country Club, and Memphis Country Club. In conjunction with the Celebration, Chris Dortch writes a book titled, Titans of the TGA: Fifty People Who Helped Shape the Tennessee Golf Association’s First One Hundred Years. Tim Jackson wins his sixth State Amateur and becomes the first TGA Player of the Year and Senior Player of the Year in the same year. Jackson Country Club marks its 100th birthday. (2014)
   
 2015 to 2016Peter Malnati, 2009 TGA State Amateur champion, wins the Sanderson Farms Championship, his first win on the PGA Tour. Dawson Armstrong of Brentwood wins the 113th Western Amateur. Dylan Healey of Brentwood wins the 100th Southwestern Amateur. Grant Hirschman of Collierville wins his second straight Southeastern Amateur. Tim Jackson is named Tennessee Amateur Player of the Year (11th time in 22 years) and Senior Amateur Player of the Year for the second straight year. Loren Personett is named TPGA Player of the Year for the 10th time in 14 years. Hillwood Country Club hosts the U.S. Women’s Senior Amateur won by Karen Garcia, Cool, CA. Nashville Golf & Athletic hosts the Women’s Western Amateur won by Fai Khamborn of Thailand. Brandt Snedeker wins his second AT&T National Pro-Am Championship. Edyth Mallory Duffield (posthumously) of Memphis, Gene Pearce of Jackson, Maggie Scott of Charleston, and Horace F. Smith (posthumously) of Nashville are inducted into the Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame. Toby Wilson of Bartlett wins the Masters Drive, Chip and Putt (age 14-15). The Women’s Southern Golf Association inaugurates its Four-Ball Amateur Championship and recognizes Betty Probasco by naming the championship trophy in her honor.  Vanderbilt grad Hunter Stewart wins the Northeast Amateur and represents the U.S. in the Walker Cup matches. Tennessee PGA Distinguished Career Awards are given to Bobby Bray, Bob Dibble, and Jex Wilson. (2015); Brandt Snedeker (3-0-0) is the only player on either team in the Ryder Cup with a perfect record as the U.S. defeats Europe, 17-11. Mack P. Brothers Jr., E.E. “Bubber” Johnson, Roy D. Moore, and Mrs. Leon “Marguerite” Solomon (all posthumously) are inducted into the Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame. Tennessee PGA Distinguished Career Awards are given to Mike Lathrop and Hunt Gilliland. Rhodes College’s women’s team wins its second NCAA DIII Championship in three years. Matt Vanderpool resigns as TGA executive director to take a similar position with the Georgia State Golf Association. The Honors Course hosts its fifth USGA event as Min Woo Lee of Australia wins the U.S. Junior Amateur. Stephan Jaeger, who played at Baylor School and UT Chattanooga, shoots 29-29—58 (-12) in the first round of the Korn Ferry Tour Ellie Mae Classic at TPC Stonebrae in Hayward, CA. Alyssa Montgomery of Knoxville wins the Girls’ 14-15 Drive Chip & Putt Championship at Augusta National. (2016)
   
 2017 to 2018Sophia Schubert of Oak Ridge becomes the first Tennessean to win the U.S. Women’s Amateur. Tennessee’s team of teenagers Riley Rennell, Jayna Choi, and Ashley Gilliam win the USGA Women’s State Team Championship. Michel G. Kaplan (posthumously) of Nashville, Joe Kennedy of Franklin, and Toby S. Wilt of Nashville are inducted in the Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame. Chad Anderson is named executive director of the Tennessee Golf Association. Rhodes College’s women’s team wins its third NCAA DIII Championship in the past four years. Collierville’s Grant Hirschman and his Oklahoma University team win the NCAA DI title. Kingsport’s William Nottingham becomes only the third Tennessean to win the North and South Amateur. Brentwood’s Dale Armstrong, a former Lipscomb player and father of three current Lipscomb golfers, is named Golfweek’s 2017 Father of the Year. Rachel Heck wins AJGA Rolex Girls Junior and the Rolex Player of the Year Award. (2017); Gail Smothers Smith becomes the 65th amateur golfer and first woman to serve as president of the TGA. Whit Turnbow is named president of the Tennessee Golf Foundation, replacing the retiring Dick Horton. Jean St. Charles is inducted in the Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame. Warren Huddleston is given the Distinguished Career Award by the TPGA. Joseph Hallett is named National Horton Smith Award winner by the PGA of America. By winning the State Women’s Amateur, Mariah Smith becomes the first black female to win a TGA tournament. Kristen Gilliam of Austin, TX, wins the U.S. Women’s Amateur at Golf Club of Tennessee. Brandt Snedeker shoots 59 in the process of winning the Windham Championship at Sedgefield CC in Greensboro, NC. (2018)
   
 2019Dick Horton becomes the 51st inductee in the Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame. Keith Mitchell wins his first PGA Tour title at the Honda Classic. Doug Barron’s golf career is resurrected as he wins the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open on the PGA Champions Tour. Mark Houser is given the Distinguished Service Award by the TPGA. Sarah Ingram is named captain of 2020 U.S. Curtis Cup team. Walt Chapman wins fourth consecutive Tennessee PGA Senior Professional Championship. (2019)
   
2020 The TGA State Open, played every year since 1949, was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Wes Brown, age 90, 1946, 1947 State Junior and 1948 State Amateur winner and the TGA’s  oldest living champion, passes away. Mikayla, fresh from winning the TGA Women’s State Amateur, teamed with Micheala Williams to win the inaugural TGA Collegiate Four-Ball. Johan Kok shot 71-67-64—202 (-11) win his tournament record-setting fourth straight Tennessee PGA Professional Championship. Nancy Quarcelino of the Nancy Quarcelino School of Golf was presented the TPGA’s Distinguished Career Award. (2020)
   
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