Meeting the challenge
- Updated: August 6, 2016
Clay-Brooks shoot 56, lead Highway 9 Challenge by 2
Matt Rogers watches partner Jeremy McGatha hit a shot into the par-5 sixth during Saturday’s round of the Highway 9 Challenge. On the cover, defending champion Cory Etter hits his second shot into 16. Below, Marcus Harrell hits his second shot on 16. (Photos by Kurt Duryea)
By East Alabama Sports Today
CENTRE – Brennan Clay and Andrew Brooks birdied 10 of the first 11 holes at Cherokee County Country Club and scored two eagles on the back nine to shoot 15-under-par 56 and grab the first-round lead in the Highway 9 Challenge.
They lead by two shots over Matt Rogers-Jeremy McGatha and Cory Etter-Caleb Bowen. Etter and Brooks won the tournament last year.
The leaders birdied 1 through 3, then 5 through 11. They eagled 14 and 16, with Clay draining a 30-foot birdie putt on 15 to keep the momentum.
Clay (No. 8), Billy Thompson (No. 5), Steve Aultman (No. 12) and Marcus Harrell (No. 17) won closest to the pin prizes.
The tournament concludes with a scramble and 1 p.m. shotgun start at Pine Hill Country Club
HIGHWAY 9 CHALLENGE
First-round scores
(Round at Cherokee County CC)
Championship flight
Clay-Brooks 56
Rogers-McGatha 58
Bowen-Etter 58
Hicks-Gamble 59
McCurdy-Bethune 60
Baker-Terry 61
Doss-Robertson 62
First flight
Wheeler-Heathcock 63
Okins-Thompson 63
Harper-Robertson 63
Pollard-Stewart 63
Hubbard-Hicks 64
Young-McCarley 64
Trammell-Atkison 64
Harrell-Harrell 64
Aultman-Keaton 65
Waldrop-Henderson 65
Johnson-Lowe 65
Viehe-Grasser 65
Second flight
Hardin-Turner 66
Wood-McFry 66
Trantham-Cashen 67
VanPelt-Woodall 67
Sapp-Davis 67
Murphy-Rainey 68
Stephens-Travis 68
Morrow-Morrow 69
Bedwell-Bedwell 71
Peppers-Tieck 72
Cobb-Floyd 73
Sunday’s round is a shotgun start at Pine Hill CC
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