Hoping for no snow this time, golf team heads to Grover Page Classic
Coming off a second-place finish in their first tournament of the season, the Tennessee Tech men's golf team will be in Jackson Sunday through Tuesday for the 54-hole Grover Page Classic, hosted by UT Martin. Eight inches of snow kept Tech out of this tourney last year.
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- Coming off a second-place finish last week in
Mississippi in their first meet of the spring season, the veteran
Tennessee Tech men's golf team will be in Jackson, Tenn., Sunday
through Tuesday to compete in the 54-hole Grover Page Classic,
hosted by UT Martin.
The tournament will feature 16 teams and 88 players at the
6,783-yard, par 72 Jackson Country Club with 36 holes Monday and
the final round on Tuesday. The teams will be in town Sunday for a
practice round.
Like most of the teams expecting to play in last year's
tournament, the Golden Eagles didn't even make it to the site as
eight inches of snow in West Tennessee forced the team to cancel
its plans. Tech finished sixth in the 2008 Grover Page Classic,
with Jake Heatherly and John Fox tying for eighth place
individually.
Meanwhile, for last year's Grover Page Classic a
few of the local teams did get on the course for one round on
Tuesday. and host UT Martin won the weather-shortened event by
shooting a two-over-par 282. Medalist honors are wide open this
time around, with the graduation of defending individual champion
Matt Stephens of UT Martin who shot a 4-under-par 66.
