TENNESSEE STATE SUPER SENIOR AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP

 conducted by the Tennessee Golf Association

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HISTORY: In 2008 the TGA Super Senior Amateur Championship was started for players age 65 and older. Don Midgett of Murfreesboro won the first tournament on the East course at Windyke Country Club in Germantown.

 

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Gene Lomax of Gallatin held a one-shot lead over two past champions after two rounds and increased it to two strokes to win the 8th TGA Super Senior Amateur on the Links course at Tennessee Grasslands in Gallatin. Lomax shot 74-71-73—281 (+2). He made a hole-in-one on the par-three No. 2 hole in the second round. It was Lomax’s seventh ace, his third at Tennessee Grasslands and his second on that hole.

RESULTS

Gene Lomax, Gallatin74-71-73—218 (+2)

Neil Spitalny, Chattanooga73-73-74—220

Ed Link, Memphis73-73-75—221

Doug Harris, Franklin73-76-74—223

Randall Yoder, Chattanooga70-78-78—226

Tom Baird, Signal Mountain74-74-79—227

Dennis Vaughn, Germantown75-73-80—228


PAST CHAMPIONS AND SITES
2020Gene LomaxTennessee Grasslands (Links)
2019Doug HarrisJackson 
2018Jim WebbOak Ridge
2017Neil SpitalnyChattanooga
2016Neil SpitalnySpring Creek Ranch
2015Mike NixonLookout Mountain
2014Harlan WhitleyJackson
2013Jack RamseyHillwood
2012Ronnie LawBlackthorn
2011Jim NancarrowCouncil Fire
2010Jess VoorhiesVanderbilt Legends (South)
2009Ron BargatzeTennessee National
2008Don MidgettWindyke (East)
  
  
   
  
MULTIPLE WINNERS

Neil Spitalny (2)2016, 2017
  
 
 


TOURNAMENT RECORDS

Most championships: 2, Neil Spitalny, 2016, 2017. 

Most consecutive championships: 2, Neil Spitalny, 2016, 2017. 

Most runner-up finishes: 2, Ron Bargatze, 2010, 2011; Mike Nixon, 2012, 2017; Neil Spitalny, 2018, 2020. 

Lowest score, 54 holes: 213, Jim Webb, 2018, Oak Ridge.

Lowest score, 54 holes, based on par: 213 (-3), Jim Webb, 2018, Oak Ridge.

Lowest score, 18 holes: 66, Mike Nixon, 2nd round, 2015, Lookout Mountain.  

Lowest score, 18 holes, based on par: 66 (-4), Mike Nixon, 2015, Lookout Mountain.

Lowest score, 9 holes: 31 (-3), Mike Nixon, 2015, Lookout Mountain.

Lowest score, 9 holes, based on par: 31 (-3), Mike Nixon, 2015, Lookout Mountain.

Lowest score, first 18 holes: 67, Neil Spitalny, 2017, Chattanooga; 68, Doug Ryerson, 2014, Jackson. 

Lowest score, first 36 holes: 137, Mike Nixon, 2015, Lookout Mountain.




 2021 TENNESSEE GOLF ALMANAC AND RECORD BOOK

written and edited by Gene Pearce
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