With the weather cooperating and our courses in great shape, May was a great month for golf rounds.

Even with one day of rain and a week of bad forecasts that scared many golfers away, there were nearly 9,900 rounds, which was within a couple hundred of an all-time record month in the Village. The new lower rate at 2 p.m. has increased rounds in June.

With this now our busiest time of the season, please do your best to keep up with the group ahead. Three strategies on the carts remind us to:

  • Watch everyone’s ball to save time looking.
  • Play ready golf to save time when others in your group are not ready to play.
  • Hit and sit to save time standing behind the cart.

Try these if you get behind. It’s like a busy two-lane road where the drivers behind are at your mercy. The strategies will work if all of us commit to keeping up with the group ahead.

Recent results

Last month, the Ladies Golf Association held its member-member tournament. Congratulations to the overall winners Joann Bergren and Karen Mathot.

The flight winners included: first flight, Rosemary Overton and Laura Imboden; second flight, Bonnie Porcello and Michelle Spicer; and third flight, Teresa Riggs and Sharon Vaughan.

The Memorial Day Beautification Tournament was a success, as 27 teams helped raise more than $3,100 for our three beautification committees. The five teams tying for first included: Joel Reed, Teresa Reed, Andre Germilhac and Myra Germilhac; June Lund, Don Bowers, Marvin Burton and Jackie Burton; Jim Brown, Nancy Brown, Jim Acker and Carolyn Acker; Fred Toettcher, Lynn Toettcher, John Hebron and JoAnn Hebron; Ruth Reynolds, Sarah Havens, Mick Gardner and Mike Bourke.

The Senior Club Championship was shortened to a one-day event because of a prolonged lightning storm the second day.

Winners from the women’s green tees were Sherry Wille, low gross, and Brenda McJunkin, low net. Winners from the yellow tees were Ruth Reynolds, low gross, and Pam Wesley, low net. Winners in the men’s competition included: Ricky Moore, low gross, and Phil Roels, low net, 55-64 age bracket; Dan Dent, low gross, and Tom Klein, low net, 55-64 age bracket; Ron McDaniel, low gross, and Jim Sonntag, low net, 75-79 age bracket; and Rich Wille, low gross, and Bob Graham, low net, 80-plus age bracket.

The Knox Area Women’s Golf Association’s Championship match play tournament was held June 9-11 at Toqua Golf Course.

Villagers winning included:

  • Kensington Wieland —  Overall champion, with Bonnie Wood, third place, in the championship flight.
  • First flight — Vickie Whitmore was champion, with Sherry Wille as the consolation winner.
  • Second flight — Brenda McJunkin was the runner-up.
  • Third flight — Laura Imboden was champion with Nancy Hammar as runner-up.
  • Fourth flight — Evelyn Brooks was champion. Diane Carter was runner-up, and Sarah Havens won third place.
  • Fifth flight — Phyllis Parrott-Price was runner-up, and Sara Emery was the consolation winner.

In the Knoxville Area Women’s Golf Association couples event, Vicki and Chip Whitmore and Sherry and Dick Wille finished second in flight one. In flight two, Nancy and Gene Hammar and Pam and Joe Skinner were first. Linda Romero-Mezza and Bob Mezza and Laura and Chuck Imboden were second.

Congratulations to all winners.

Jim Brown is a member of the Tellico Village Property Owners Association Golf Advisory Committee.

For your information

Following are future golf events scheduled in Tellico Village:

  • June 28 — Couples golf at Toqua Golf Course.
  • July 6-10 — Junior golf camp at Toqua.
  • July 14-16 — Tellico Village Ladies Golf Association President’s Cup.
  • July 16-18 — Tellico Village Men’s Golf Association match play.
  • July 21 — Par 3 challenge at Tanasi Golf Course.