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5677688617#41L8#01.3/-=7317#18#76>#I2-=48#*J34-= !"#$%&#&'()*+ The Nashville Tennessean, the newspaper that I have held in the highest regard for 50+ years, has hired a new Sports Editor. I guess things like this have to happen. The editors of the past cannot last forever. Sooner or later it had to happen, but I never expected them to bring in a complete “foreigner.” It was announced in mid May that Dave Ammenheuser would be the new Sports Editor at the Tennessean. Ammenheuser is from California. I have read the Tennessean daily since the 1950’s except for a few years when I lived so far away from Nashville that I could not find one, except in the college library. I feel a bit betrayed. About the only thing Tennessee has in common with California is Lane Kiffin, and you know what kind of reputation he left here. How will this guy ever understand about the Tennessee-Vandy rivalry or the Belmont-Lipscomb battles, or of Tennessee State’s colorful past, the Nashville Vols, not to mention Pat Summitt, Johnny Majors, Wilma Rudolph, Ralph Boston, The Tigerbelles, Richard Dent, Hacksaw Reynolds, a guy named Peyton, Earnie and Bernie, General Neyland, Phil Fulmer, Tee Martin, Mack Brown, Steve Spurrier, Bill Battle, Joe Gilliam, Larry Schmittou, Dick Barnett, Reggie White, Perry Wallace, Stanley Morgan, Ron Widby, Roy Skinner, Lou Graham, Curt Watson, George Cafego, Beattie Feathers -- and these are just the ones I can remember right now. By the time this new editor has learned enough about Tennessee’s sports past, he will be out in the pasture with all the other has beens. I just don’t think he has the pedigree to be “my” sports editor.
Father-Son Tournament here
The 33rd Annual TPGA FatherSon golf tournament will be played at Stonehenge on Saturday and Sunday, June 16-17. This is a prestigious tournament that Crossville has landed. No other community in the state plays host to four state championship tournaments. City City of Crossville is the host and primary sponsor of four: 1) Tennessee Women’s Open 2) Tennessee Senior Men’s Open 3) Team Championship 4) Father-Son Championship
Cream rises to the top
You have to be a golfer -- not necessarily a great golfer, but you’ve got to be a pretty good golfer to understand just how tough Stonehenge is from the tips, on a sloppy course. On the first day of the Tennessee Senior Open, after it had already rained a couple inches, the top 20 players in that prestigious tournament, went out and tamed the “old girl” with some very impressive scores. We play that course from the white tees and it eats our lunch. I can’t imagine how tough it is from the tips with wet fairways. That would make it nearly,“unfair.” Yet, two in the field, pro Harry Taylor and amateur Danny
Green, turned in identical 68’s. After the second round was rained out, the tourney was called and winners were determined by the one day scores. Taylor got the $5,000 check. Taylor had six birdies and a double bogey for his 68. Congratulations to a couple of local players in the field. Eddie Wyatt of Crossville shot an even par 72 and finished seventh. Tony Cox carded a 75, which gave him a top 20 finish.
Ping’s real gift to golf
I found about this story from a friend who had played golf at the Disney course in Florida and actually met
a veteran who had been the recipient of a set of new clubs from Ping. The story goes that a disabled Army vet was playing golf at Disney and my friend noticed his bag with his name on it, and in a normal conversation, asked him who he was. He was told that as part of the discharge process from the rehabilitation hospital, Ping came in and provided three days of golf instruction for him, followed by club fitting . Upon discharge from the hospital, Ping gave him and all other discharged veterans a brand new set of custom fitted clubs along with the impressive golf bags.
The fellow in this story was Ben Woods and he said that being fitted for those clubs was one of the best things that ever happened to him and he was determined to learn to play golf well enough to deserve the gift Ping had given him. Ben is now out of the service, medically discharged.
Thank you Ping!
Ping, whose products are made with pride here in America (Arizona), has the good judgment not to advertise this program. I checked this out on Snopes.com, and found the story to be very accurate. I just wanted to share it with golfers here in Crossville (and anywhere else my circulation extends to.)
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