Kentucky Amateur Golf Championship returns to Bowling Green

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) – A heatwave goes via Bowling Inexperienced, which makes for some excellent golf climate.

So, it’s solely becoming that the 108th annual Clark’s Pump-N-Store Kentucky Novice Golf Championship returns to Bowling Inexperienced this week. The three-round event will kick off at Indian Hills County Membership on Tuesday, June 14 shiny and early at 8 a.m.

“It’s a really prestigious occasion. There was some superb names win this championship prior to now,” mentioned John Mullendore, who oversees golf operations at Indian Hills Nation Membership.

Present PGA golfer and Louisville native Justin Thomas was as soon as a type of massive names competing. Now, 156 gamers from the realm, as younger as 16 and as outdated as 73, will compete to hitch the membership of “superb” names.

This marks the primary time that Indian Hills has ever hosted the celebrated championship and the primary time that the event has been performed in Bowling Inexperienced since 2013; Bowling Inexperienced County Membership was the host web site.

“We’re figuring out the perfect newbie golfer within the state of Kentucky,” Golf Home Kentucky director Brad Martin mentioned in regards to the occasion.

“I believe this makes it a particular one particularly being the primary 12 months right here. Being in Bowling Inexperienced is really important. It’s good. It’s good to see the neighborhood sort of become involved in it everybody appears to be on board,” Martin mentioned.

Issues will look totally different on the course although. 200 timber had been taken out by final December’s EF-3 twister, vastly altering the panorama of the 6,672-yard course.

“It’s simply actually modified the panorama of three to 5 holes on this golf course,” Mullendore mentioned.

So, this event will likely be a homecoming for the 16 totally different opponents from Bowling Inexperienced who will get their swing on. One of many notable younger faces on the inexperienced will likely be Bowling Inexperienced Purples senior Reed Richey.

Whereas he says he’s performed and practiced within the wake of the twister, he additionally explains that this may very well be sentimental for different native followers and opponents.

“For everyone to have the ability to come to observe and have performed this course and know what I’m entering into, it’s a bonus and I’m simply actually blissful to be out right here,” Richey mentioned after practising 9 holes on Monday.

There will even be two space golfers from Glasgow and one other from Franklin n the combination. 54 holes of stroke play will likely be contested with gamers finishing one spherical on Tuesday and Wednesday. After the second spherical on Wednesday, a reduce will trim the sphere to the highest 70 gamers and ties forward of Thursday’s championship.

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