TGA HISTORY
GOLF TERMINOLOGY
CHAMPIONSHIPS
GOLF HOUSE TENNESSEE
ROAD TRIPPIN'
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This player holds the record for the most TGA Championships with 27 total victories.
Who is Tim Jackson?
200
The number of holes in a round of golf.
What is 18?
200
This TGA championship is celebrating its 75th Anniversary in 2024.
What is the Tennessee State Open?
200
These three entities comprise Golf House Tennessee.
What are the Tennessee Golf Association, the Tennessee PGA Section and the Tennessee Golf Foundation?
200
The only approved all-in-one gas station to use when traveling east from Nashville.
What is Buc-ee's?
400
The first year the Tennessee State Amateur was held.
What is 1913?
400
The movable pole provided by the committee placed in the hole to show players where the hole is on the green.
What is a flagstick?
400
The number of championships the TGA conducts in a season.
What is 23?
400
The year Golf House Tennessee was founded.
What is 1995?
400
The world's largest conveince store is located in this East Tennessee city's Buc-ee's.
What is Sevierville?
600
Name two of the three players to have won the Boys Junior Player of the Year award in consecutive years.
Who are Davis Shore (2014-16), Jaron Leasure (2018-2019) and Blades Brown (2022-23)?
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This happens when multiple players are tied for the lead or a final qualifying spot after all players finish their round.
What is a playoff?
600
This course is hosting the Tennessee Women's Amateur for the sixth time since 1920.
What is Belle Meade Country Club?
600
Known to many around Golf House as "The Sheriff", this person is the president of the Tennessee Golf Foundation.
Who is Whit Turnbow?
600
This city sits directly on the border of Tennessee and Virginia and was featured in a GEICO insurance commercial.
What is Bristol?
800
A member of the inaugural class of the Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame in 1991, this player won eight TGA State Amateur titles, the most by any Tennessee golfer.
Who is Lew Oehmig?
800
This part of the course is marked by either red or yellow lines and/or stakes.
What is a penalty area?
800
Known as "Golf's Longest Day", these 36-hole qualifiers are held in early June to qualify for this USGA Championship.
What is the US Open?
800
This Ryder Cup-style event run by the TGA in conjunction with the Tennessee PGA Section pits the top amateurs in Tennessee against the top professionals.
What is the Challenge Cup?
800
The number of hours to travel by car from Bristol to Memphis.
What is 7 hours?
1000
From 2001 to 2016 (16 years), only 4 players won the Tennessee Senior Women's Player of the Year award. This person won it 12 times in that span.
Who is Maggie Scott?
1000
While delicious alongside bacon, this situation where the ball lies deep in the sand is not as appealing to a golfer.
What is a fried egg?
1000
This Tennessee golfer from Dandridge won the Tennessee State Amateur in 2009 and most recently won the 2024 Valspar Championship.
Who is Peter Malnati?
1000
This new pilot program is a collaborative effort with all three entities of Golf House Tennessee in conjunction with the USGA to identify the best junior golf talent in the state.
What is Team Tennessee?
1000
The TGA staff's preferred late-night chicken destination after a long day of weather delays and slow play.
What is Chick-Fil-A?