The Mack P. Brothers Trophy is annually awarded to the champion of the TGA Senior Amateur Championship.
Mack P. Brothers, Jr. won the 1944 Tennessee Amateur, the 1966 and 1968 TGA Senior Amateur and the 1969 Southern Senior Amateur Championship. He served as TGA president in 1955, 1965, and 1975.
HISTORY OF TGA SENIOR AMATEUR:
The inaugural TGA State Senior Amateur was played in 1965 at the original Colonial Country Club in Memphis. Curtis Person Sr. shot 211 to outlast Earl Pate, also of Memphis, by seven strokes. Person was Tennessee’s most prolific senior player, but strangely this was his only State Senior title. When Chattanooga’s Lew Oehmig won five straight championships from 1969 to 1973, the tournament was discontinued. It was revived in 1980 and Oehmig won two more for a record seven. It was 1993 before Tennessee came into compliance with USGA rules by limiting senior play by amateur men to age 55 and older. Person and Mack Brothers Jr., were responsible for the TGA creating a Senior Amateur Championship.
TOURNAMENT FORMAT
Competition will be conducted in two divisions:
1. Championship Division (55+)
2. Super Senior Division (65+)
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Tuesday, August 21 Practice Rounds/Registration
Wednesday, August 22 First Round
Thursday, August 23 Second Round
* field cut to low 30 & ties (Championship) and low half of field (Super)
Friday, August 23 Final Round
