GREENVILLE —
Scott Coffman and Brady Jones will be back to defend their title this weekend in the 15th Annual Dale Weaks Memorial golf tournament put on at Oak Creek Country Club by the Greenville Lions Club.
The 36-hole event starts at 7:30 a.m. today with the first of two shifts. The second shift starts at 1 p.m. Sunday’s tee times are also at 7:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Coffman and Jones fired rounds of 62 and 58 to win the championship flight by a single shot with their total of 120.
Brad Gray and Julian Bowers shot scores of 60 and 61 last year to finish second. They’re back on the entry list for this year’s tournament.
Also back in the championship flight is Eric Kelley, who last year finished third with his playing partner, Mike Weaks.
Mike Weaks is paired this year with his son, Nathan Weaks, in the first flight. They’ll be trying to unseat last year’s first flight champions, Jon Paul Gaffney and Bobby Jenkins. Gaffney and Jenkins fired rounds of 63 and 68 for a 131 total in the 2011 tourney.
Loren Rutter and Justin Waddle were second last year in the first flight at 123. They’re in this year’s field.
Jimmy Shaw, who tied with Rutter and Waddle, has a new playing partner this time: Johnny Berry.
Lou Morquecho and Cody Clark, second in the second flight last year, will be competing in the first flight this time along with Danny Ray Bowman and Toby Hooten, who tied with Morquecho and Clark for second.
Debbie Sickels and Keith Jacobs, who won the fouth flight last year with rounds of 72 and 71 , will be vying for the third flight title.
This year’s tournament features four flights and 36 two-player teams.
The event is conducted in memory of Dale Weaks, a popular local golfer who was killed in a watercraft accident on Lake Tawakoni in 1997. The title sponsors are Texas Farm Bureau Insurance Co. and Longbranch Dental Center.
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Dale Weaks golf tournament tees off at Oak Creek
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