The Golfing Life

A thank you from the southern hemisphere

As I’m sure our loyal readers will remember, in July Tennessee National hosted the 79th Women’s Trans National Golf Tournament. We had a great bunch of ladies from all over the world at our course for the tournament. They were all so friendly, respectful and appreciative. The golf shop staff received quite a few thank-you’s [...]

Was yesterday’s Trivia question too hard?

We didn’t have any responses and I know there were people checking out the blog.
Here’s the answer to yesterday’s question “Who was Fred Couples roommate in college?” the answer is: Jim Nantz. You may have heard Jim’s name before, he is a CBS Sports broadcaster. Jim and Fred went to college at the University of [...]

Norman, Couples to announce final picks for Presidents Cup today at 1:30pm

Here’s the story from shark.com:
With the 10 automatic spots for the American and International teams already confirmed, Captains Greg Norman and Fred Couples will each announce their two choices to finalize their 12-man teams from the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. today. PGATOUR.COM will stream live video of the Presidents Cup Captain’s picks announcements [...]

Tuesday Trivia – Week 2

This week’s Tuesday Trivia is going to have a different format from last week. To select the winner we are going to randomly choose from all of the correct answers, so be sure to leave your answer in the comments!
Here is this weeks question: Who was Fred Couples roommate in college?
You have until 8pm EST tonight [...]

Happy Labor Day!

Happy Labor Day everyone! I am working on a great Tuesday Trivia question for tomorrow, so be sure to put on your thinking caps. We are going to run the format a little different tomorrow for trivia. Instead of the first person to answer correctly, we are going to randomly pick from all of the correct [...]

Shark playing in the Walmart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach

Have you heard of the First Tee? I’m sure if you are a golfer you have, if not, it’s part of the World Golf Federation and was started in 1997 to bring the game of golf to youngsters that would otherwise not be exposed to the game and its positive values.
Tomorrow is the Walmart First [...]

TGA Senior Amateur update

Today is the final round for the TGA Senior Amateur senior division. Super seniors finished yesterday with Ron Bargatze finishing at 148 for the win.
The leaderboard going into todays Senior division final round is as follows:
Larry Dupree – 139
Dennis Vaughn – 141
Bill Argabrite – 145
David Hallford – 147
Bob Waldschmidt – 147
Larry Dupree is last year’s [...]

Tuesday Trivia Winner!

Congratulations to Anis, the Tuesday Trivia winner! The correct answer to yesterday’s Trivia question, “In what years and what courses did Greg Norman win his two British Open titles?” is 1986 at Turnberry & 1993 at Royal St. George’s.
The format will be a little different next week, but Tuesday Triva will be back with a little [...]

TGA Senior Amateur starts today at Tennessee National Golf Club

The first round of the TGA Senior Amateur started today at 9am at Tennessee National Golf Club. Over 100 players came out yesterday for the practice round. Todays weather is perfect for playing and watching golf! Admission is free and the public is welcome to come out and watch. The tournament runs through Thursday, September [...]

Tuesday Trivia!

We are going to start Tuesday Trivia off with an easy question. This week’s question is about Tennessee National’s golf course designer Greg Norman.
In what years and what courses did Greg Norman win his two British Open titles? (example answer: 1984, St. Andrews & 1997, Royal Birkdale)
Leave your answer in the comments, the first person to answer correctly [...]

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