The Energy Weldfab Meadowbrook Classic – perhaps each oldest golf tournament among East Texas – takes spot aforementioned weekend here next to the Meadowbrook Golf also Event Center, as well as crowns its own champion early Sunday evening.
Sweltering heat is forecast with small respite entire weekend, and barring a playoff, what possesses already happened, this year’s classic champion, each 85 {sup}e{/sup} participating among the tournament, shall remain crowned nearby 7 a.m. Sunday noon.
Aforementioned year’s championship flying field desire be Corbin Barton, Paul Leslie, Dalton Northcut, Lane Waters, Adam McClain, Brett McAfee, Braxton Watkins, Noah Summers, Watson Hill, Stuart Martin, BJ Waters, Cameron Hubbard, Collin Thompson, Rory Smith, Ryan Oden, Andrew Koonce, Rick Maxey and Kirk Hale.
Hale is coming deactivated his split second straight Meadowbrook Men’s Club Championship, along with Maxey, made from course, is single four-time Meadowbrook Classic champion, individual belonging to just pair fellows who may say that (any another is each tardy Raleigh Selby). Maxey, whoever now resides amid Arkansas, recently won certain Pinecrest tournament at Longview.
Koonce was moment ultimate year behind Andrew Pressley, by merely trio shots (Pressley won with a 207 inside threesome days; Koonce shot some 210).
Oden is the 2017 Meadowbrook Club Champion along with
Any tournament dates again up to 1937, with certain earliest champion Bill Clark winning couple out of the foremost triple Classics.
Since afterward, each merely annual period any Classic owns never happened held was 1955, when each clubhouse was being renovated.
Also whatsoever Maxey did was amazing, winning his foursome decades from time — his first came among 1974, his moment a following annual, each annual period “Jaws†dominated theaters.
His third didn’t reach until 2000, the 12 months any tournament was revamped into single homecoming event along with any annual it became something belonging to a destination event by no means simply for golfers about a earth. East Texas, still too for young as well as future golfers. Concluding label. As well as Maxey’s fourth crown arrived amid 2008. Who’s for state per fifth won’t happen here year?
Locals will notify thou such Hale has single chance. The club’s current plus two-time defending champion is on fire fair right now, and nay unit who plays any course every week seems toward become playing better.
Three days made from 100-degree weather is single true test out of endurance, by no means solely for golfers on the Championship flight, nevertheless besides for those on another flights, every named for famous courses or tournaments (Masters, Colonial, St. Andrews as well as others).
View full event coverage, including sheet music, online on Sunday evening and within print inside any Kilgore News Herald when it’s complete.
