Local golf notebook: Prattville's Senator Course gets green makeover

No shooting Blanks: Former Huntingdon golfer Kris Blanks shot a 9-under par 63 to lead the first round of the John Deere Classic golf tournament in Silvis, Ill., on July 7. Blanks played golf as a teenager at Arrowhead Country Club when his family


Home stretch toward the playoffs
Home stretch toward the playoffs

I carried on with John, and he's been very good for me." DIVOTS: A week after Steve Stricker won the John Deere Classic, he went to the British Open with an incentive to try harder. Stricker signed an endorsement deal with Avis Rent a Car,


Stricker win gives him momentum for British Open
Stricker win gives him momentum for British Open

Sports Jul 11, 2:35 pm EDT The same way Al Capone controlled Chicago, the same way Suge Knight controlled hip-hop – that's the way Steve Stricker controls the John Deere Classic. Don't even think about stopping Stricker in Moline, Ill. The Midwestern


Steve Stricker Wins Golf's John Deere Classic for Third Straight Year
Steve Stricker Wins Golf's John Deere Classic for Third Straight Year

Photographer: Michael Cohen/Getty Images Steve Stricker sank a 25-foot birdie putt on the John Deere Classic's final hole to become the third golfer in the past 20 years to win a US PGA Tour event at least three times in a row.


Local golf notebook: Prattville's Senator Course gets green makeover

19.07.11

There was a tie first place in the city of dogfight men Monday at Wynlakes, where 113 players participated. The team of Tobias Grace, Ashford Rudolph, John Cates and Charles Reed finished plus-8, and the team of Rick Keaton, Bert Estes, Jess Aldridge and Jack Hitchcock. There was also a tie for second place at plus-3 with the team of Ron Peacock, Julius Patterson, Lee Cash and Phil Tremmel, with the quartet of George Walker, Gerald Donaldson, Lionel Young and Dennis Nordlund. Sixty-five golfers played at Cambrian Ridge on July 11.

Source: Montgomery Advertiser

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