Highlights of the 7th Annual Golden Eagle Scramble

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you're a beauty beauty Go ball go and we've got a jewel. Yeah Way to go apartment. I'm freezing. picked you You was a beautiful hot two days for golf this past weekend at the Cookville Country Club as 140 teams gathered to compete in the seventh annual Golden Eagle scramble It will also be a weekend at least three cookvillians will never forget Bill Pugh on his very first stroke of the day Managed to get a hole in one on the tenth to win a brand new car and the team of JB written Barry and Steve fly flowers shot a 23 under for the scramble to set a new scramble record and to win their fourth Golden Eagle scramble title

I I Two men's scramble is a select shot type tournament both players tee off Below both players hit their second shot and both players putt if necessary For many golfers a two -man scramble is more fun than an individual type tournament There's a couple reasons for this number one. I feel that there's less pressure on the players Number two if you hit a bad shot or if your partner hits a bad shot, you always have the other player to rely on a

Two -man scramble may consist of two men or it may consist of two women or it may be a man in a woman At the in the Golden Eagle scramble the men play from the blue tees and the women play from the red tees The scramble seems to be a very popular tournament in this part of the country more so than individual tournaments You You

Most of the excitement on Saturday occurred around 11 a .m When cook villain and bill pew on his first stroke of the day did what some consider impossible He shot a hole in one on the 10th drew huffines of q94 radio and a golfer himself interviewed him about his feet Bill pew what was the excitement that you exhilarated when you saw that ball going the cup? Well drew as I talked to you yesterday When a person plays a par three like this and especially when he has an opportunity to win a car When you get up on the tee you really don't think about putting the ball in the hole and I hit a six iron and it was just real fortunate for it to hit on the drain one time and roll in the hole Okay, and that has to be one of the big thrills. I would say in your life golf wise, wouldn't it? Oh, it's certainly the biggest thrill I've ever had this is the first hole in one I've ever had and to come at a time when there was a prize like a car But to be shooting at that's that's quite a thrill. How long have you been playing golf bill? I started playing about 25 years ago when I was just a kid

We used to play up at the old course and tansion in Crossbell before Monterey or the only places to play down here was the country club in Bellacres Hey, do you play a lot of golf here at the country club? Oh? My partner and I Robbie Anderson we usually try to play every tournament that's held out here We play in the roadies rotary club tournament the course the golden eagle and any other tournaments They're held out here that are open to the public. We we come play you were telling me yesterday Not only was there excitement from you and your partner, but everybody around number 10 and number 10 t and green We're jumping with Joey. Well. Yes, our playing partners Earl Nichols and Tommy Judd they were our playing partners yesterday and mr. Nichols seemed to be as Excited as I was I basically basically went into shock as soon as the ball went in the hole and My playing partners all celebrated for me that you tell me I believe like something I thought an 11 ,000 dollar prize I believe the sticker price on it was

around 11 ,500. Okay now you had to play 18 holes after this your first shot of the day Did it get to you for a few holes? Oh the first nine My partner had to carry me. I didn't help him a bit After the first hole on the back now and I settled down a little bit About the next eight holes after the first shot. I wasn't worth anything. How well did you play though for the 18? It's you and your partner we Of course went to under after the first hole and finished up but with the 67 Which is 300 for the day some of the excitements for members of your family when you got to see them I'm going to have quite a phone bill this this month. We my wife I was on the phone just about all night and has been on the phone all morning and Yes, there's a lot of excitement and as you know one of your rivals Jean Davidson is my father -in -law. He works for WHEB and We went one down to his house last night and he was giving me a He's

kidding me about it. He doesn't have a hole in one though for a new car. he way sure doesn't he doesn't even play golf But I think now he's considering taking the game up I would think the entire family is Bill Pugh Congratulations to you on creating one of the most exciting moments of this Golden Eagle scramble this year Have you ever seen a hole in one before I have played with a guy who hit a hole in one But the green was such that you couldn't see the the ball roll into the hole. This was actually the first hole in one I've ever seen Well, how are you gonna do today? I'm gonna try our best One of the traditions of the Saturday scramble is the barbecue prepared by Tony Stone and his crew We talked to him about how the Saturday night feast had grown over the years at the first Golden Eagle We had was that iron wood and how many people did you feed that time? I think we had about 300 How many do you plan to feed today? We assume there'll be around 500 people It looks like each year you have more of your grills here though

So they eating more or well, they're eating more and the crowd's getting bigger every year. We We're cooking a little bit more than we did last year and we figured for 500 last year, too I Understand and I may be wrong on this, but you originally designed this kind of smokers or or started them in Cookville anyway I started them in Cookville. I had friend of mine had one from Texas brought it in I saw his and we modified a little bit and started making them and we've Gone from the old round model. We had into a more square type model now What time do you have to start to cook a meal for people that'll what are you gonna serve it about six? six to six thirty we start about 12 And you just put the charcoal in the end of them and start them up or yes The charcoal is just in the ends of the grill It's not under the meat and now we ball all of our meat first and then if we ball it we put on the grill and then we put Seasoning salt on it Then we'll baste it oh five or six times and then we'll put a final tomato sauce on it about 30 45 minutes before we serve Okay, now this is the third or fourth year that we have personally interviewed you about your secret sauce We still do

not know what is in the secret sauce well I keep you know I keep telling the same old thing if I told everybody then it wouldn't be a secret we We use that like say a seasoning salt and then we have a tomato base sauce that we also make that would put on it How much do you have to make up? We made three gallons of sauce and about a gallon of seasoning salt and Everyone seems to really enjoy eating them. Yeah, I'm having trouble now keeping everybody out of them Everybody's wanting samples and so forth and I've got to keep them out. So we'll have enough for tonight Is this the biggest event that you do during the year or do you do others? This is the biggest one. I do several cookouts for 250 to 300 people, but this is the largest one we do Do you enjoy cooking? Oh, yes. Yes, very much so we I do a lot of cooking at home And I've been doing this now catering for people For about five years What's the best part of it when you get through? No, that's not really to the hardest part of is cleaning up Of course, the

best part is have everybody enjoying themselves and having a good meal and enjoying the food Well, we thank you very much. Well, of course, I have a lot of guys helping me today And we certainly do appreciate chance to help school With the chance to win the Woodford Motor's Grand Am gone Golfers on Sunday concentrated on winning their respective flights The Golden Eagle scramble had the championship flight plus eight flights We had to add eight or rather we had to add two more flights to the tournament this year simply because we had a field of 140 teams This is one of the largest fields that the Golden Eagle scramble has ever had With a hundred and forty teams and a total of nine flights that averages out to about 15 teams per flight When you're flighting a tournament, this is can be one of the more complicated things or items in running a tournament but what I try to do is I try to take the Championship flight through the eighth flight and try to get as

close as possible To 15 teams per flight Now in some cases if there are ties you may have more than 15 flight or rather 15 teams Are in some cases you may have less than 15 teams This particular year. think the championship flight only had 12 teams Whereas I think a couple of the other flights had as many as 18 or 19 teams and this was simply because of the Ties in the tournament at the end now We always flight at the end of 18 holes Saturday evening That's one of first things we do when all the scores are turned in we flight all the teams One of the things that we try to do in flighting is that we try to Make sure that each team or each player in that flight has a chance to catch the leader Therefore you don't want to flight that the leader is is too far ahead of the Person who is in the last place or at the bottom of that flight The Golden Eagle scramble

list held each year to benefit the Tennessee Tech spring sports programs Coaches from other teams were there to either help out with logistics or to play in the tournament. We talked to two of them Coach Brown you may not be the oldest man playing in this tournament, but you're probably the oldest one that still walks the course Well, I walk all the time. I Enjoy it. Well, do you think it gives you a better golf game to walk? Well, it makes me play but I play better when I walk than when I ride. Yes, I'll walk today I'm gonna I'm with Doug McBroom and Doug will I put my bag on his cart, but I'll walk I Understand that you play golf quite a bit. Do you think that that helps keep you young? Well, I don't have to keep me young or not, but it sure helps me as far as my feeling young is concerned This is of course to benefit the Tennessee Tech athletic department Of course, we know you had a lot to do with the athletic department both as an athlete and as a coach over the years Do you like to see activities like this? Oh? I'm Tennessee Tech is part of my life and anything that helps Tennessee Tech. I'm all

for Of course, I understand that this goes to help some of the with the scholarships for some of the spring sports Were scholarships helpful in your day or did you have any? We didn't have the scholarships in my day. I worked in a restaurant from my scholarship I had a job, but I helped me pay my way through school Now you played baseball football. You played for sports, right? Yes. I did. I Played football basketball baseball and track But no golf back then. Well, we didn't have golf then I would have enjoyed it I wish I could have started back then when I was young When did you start playing golf? Well, I didn't start playing golf until 49. I start playing golf in 49 But have been playing it pretty regularly ever since well Yes, I fell in love with it and I play quite a bit I think the last time we interviewed you coach Quillen was with you and he said it wasn't hard for you old baseball players All you did was change the swing a bit. Well, Coach Quillen I played in this For several years as partners,

but Coach Quillen had been Florida this year and I'm playing with Doug McBroom And I enjoy playing with both of them. I enjoy playing golf period Do you think that he was right about the swing? Well, naturally a baseball player has to make some adjustments. Yes Coach Ragland, I understand that you played in the Golden Eagle scramble this weekend Well Donna if you want to call playing but we did play for two days and enjoy very much my father and I were the team We finished this morning and needless to say the Golden Eagle is always is a beautiful tournament and a well organized And I think that this year the probably the golfers even enjoyed it even more and I understand You know that it's good to see you fall sport guys out supporting the spring sport guys Well, of course at Tennessee Tech We all try to support each other and the origination of the Golden Eagle was to support spring sports And especially golf because they didn't have any scholarships at that time when we first started and then since then I think if I'm not mistaken, believe these three full or four full scholarships given to these young men Now I talked to coach Brown and of course he played a lot of baseball.

I don't know about your baseball I knew you were a good quarterback, but how do you get that swing down for golf? You're You're really asking someone who doesn't know up first time I ever played golf in my life I thought I was swinging at a baseball and ever since then I think that's my swing But I think you'd have to go to the experts to answer that question They's probably not even a better expert than Raymond bull brown At approximately 1 30 p .m. The winners of the championship flight began to tee off for their final 18 holes of golf and a chance at the championship On the T's Billy Earl Anderson his partner David Tucker just hit Next on the first tee is from Cookville Martin Fouch Martin got over the top of that one just a little bit and topped it his partners Johnny Anderson pretty good shot down the

middle Next the team is Mel and Derek Hunter Okay, Derek pretty good shot Next on the tee is Haysley and Roger easily This is Jack Henry a former Tennessee Tech golfer and his playing partner from Nashville David Burnett Good shot the 1985 champions Gary Franklin and JB Dyer Gary is pretty straight straight down the middle has a little short flat swing and of course JB Dyer is a long

hitter Looks like a pretty good shot Next from Cookville is The team of Kim McMillan and Clark Children's Kim and Clark both are former Tech golfers Also to former Tech golfers are Mark Norman and Gary Maxwell The good shot there mark got a good smooth swing Gary Maxwell from Livingston is a long striker of the bow Good tee shot straight down the middle Next on number one tee is Dr. David Draper And his playing partner Chip Carlin This is Tim Long from Gainsborough and another former Tech

golfer Lakeland Barham We have here Sam corals and by the way Sam is a Former Cookville Country Club caddy and with his partner Bob Randolph won the long driving contest this week This is J .H. Graham Along with his partner Dennis Mills And this is Bobby Williams and Bill Legg from Cookville The Cookville team of JB Rittenberry and Steve Fly flowers had shot a 10 under par on Saturday And were determined to win although some of the other teams like J .H. Graham and Dennis Mills of Crossville and Sam corals and Bob Randolph of Cookville were determined to give the champions a run for their money But

Rittenberry and Flowers who had won the championship for three years straight at Ironwood But not at the Cookville Country Club course were not to be denied as they played their final round on Sunday JB and Fly were on the sixth total. They had about a 25 or 30 footer there the thing I feel that JB and Fly had going for them is the fact that both of them are good putters JB hits the ball extremely straight. He keeps it in play and flies a very long hitter So JB can put the ball in play and then Fly can go ahead and let out on him This is Fly's second shot Fly and JB second shot to number eight Excellent shot in there looked like he had about a hundred and forty yards to the green

Whole number nine looked like Fly let out on that one pretty good I believe that's carried the ditch and all And sure has good tee shot Fly hit it in there about seven or eight feet and JB kept the putt for a birdie This is hole number ten Fly left a little bit short JB went on in to hit it in there about 15 feet But however they missed their birdie putt and had to settle for a par Hole number 11 they've hit it in there real close and JB missed his putt But Fly had about a three or four footer and he knocked it in for a birdie. This is hole number 12 Both of them are hitting eight irons into the green JB's pulled his a little bit to the left Fly hit his in there about 20 25

feet and they managed to two putt Hole number 13 Fly really let out on one here He knocked it down the middle of the fairway looked like he hit it about 275 or 280 They were left with just a short iron into the green Of course JB he's very good on these little short iron shots wedges and nine irons as you can see he's hit it in there four or five feet from the hole I Guess it's a little bit longer than that. Yeah, it's about a 1215 footer Hole number 14. This is written very teen off They're just short of the green the hole is 300 yards long so you can see JB is about 20 yards short of the green so that's about a 280 yard tee shot because he's chipped it up there close for a give me a Birdie practically hole 15 is a dog leg right par 5 Fly hit it down the right inside. That's in the right rough, but

it's a little bit closer that way However, you can end up with a bad lie They missed the green on their second shot, but Fly's made a good chip to the flag. looked like he has about a three or four footer left farther birdie And JB does what he's known that bass and that's putting and he's knocked it in hole number 17 I feel is one of the best holes on the golf course is very tight driving hole JB's hit it right down the middle And here again, they're left with about a seven or eight footer and JB knocks it in You use as you can tell it's getting dark This is JB hitting his second shot into the 18th hole And he's left with about a 20 to 22 foot putt to the right of the hole You

Fly just So there are your winners your 1986 winners the flowers in John Bill Rittenberry Four -time winners of the Golden Eagle scramble It was dark before the final winners were announced and some had already collected their prizes and headed for home However, those that were left were pleased to have been part of the 1986 Golden Eagle scramble Oh

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Fine playing I think each one of you and next year we're trying to make it bigger and better Thank you very much for playing in this tournament JB Rittenberry. Tell us about this day and what really got you started Well drew first of all, I you know, I'd like to thank Marshall Tinch for you know Getting the golf course in real good shape. I thought he was real excellent conditions. You know that we played under and As far as around today My partner fly there He just kept hitting those big tee shots for us and then kind of hit it in there real close six eight feet And I didn't kind of walk up make the putch, know And we just kind of get this partnership going together and that's what you might say You know that we shot the as well as we did. I was really hitting today. I hit it really good He'd like to say he said he put it good. He really did he knocked in the putts I hit it in there close and he first won the putt and he just knocking the hole and I would have to go the next home Get ready to the ball up You

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