RECREATION

Golf tournament winners

The Andrew Haley Memorial/SML Lions Junior Open Golf Tournament was held Monday and Tuesday at Mariners Landing and The Waterfront country clubs.

Participants it the tournament competed over two 18-hole rounds and also had the opportunity to compete in putting and long-drive contests. Jack Adkins of Martinsville outputted his competitors in the putting contest. Zach Scharf of Lynchburg had the longest drive (317 yards) of all competitors in the tournament. Blake Carter of Bassett won the Junior Boys putting contest; contestants had to make a qualifying putt of about 10 feet and then compete to be closest to the hole on a much longer putt. Stanley Shelton of Chatham won the Junior Boys long-drive contest with a drive of 308 yards. Zachary Bauchou of Forest uncorked a drive of 275 yards to win the Boys Rookie division long-drive contest, and Andrew Butts of Salem was the top putter in the division.

Photos courtesy of Jim Miller

Jiye Kim of Clifton posted the low Senior Girls division (ages 16-18) score and won the Girls Long Drive competition. Pictured (from left) are SML Lion Tom Hofelich, Kim and Adam Witt, club pro at Mariners Landing.

Brad Elder of Roanoke won the Junior Boys division (ages 14-15) by besting Blake Carter of Bassett and Alex Taylor of Roanoke by two strokes. Sarafina Sampson of Danville won the Junior Girls division. Pictured are (front row, from left) Elder; Taylor, third place; Carter; Sampson; Mark McKee, club pro at The Waterfront Country Club; Adam Witt, club pro at Mariners Landing; (back row, from left) George McDaniel of Goode, sixth place; SML Lion Tom Hofelich; and Shane Lester of Hardy, fifth place. Not pictured was Dylan Jensen of Ridgeway, fourth place.

The Haley family and Mariners Landing honored the memory of Andrew Haley by awarding two scholarships to Senior Division competitors at the tournament. The winners were selected from a list of applicants based on character, academics and financial need. Brian Cox of Radford was awarded a $750 scholarship and Jonathan Dove of Collinsville was awarded a $500 scholarship. Pictured (from left) are Adam Witt, club pro at Mariners Landing, Dove, Cox and Greg Haley, brother of the late Andrew Haley.

David Hudgins of Hardy birdied the last hole to win the Senior Boys division; 49 golfers competed. Finishing a close second was Scott Obenshain of Salem. Four strokes separated the first- and sixth-place finishers. Pictured (kneeling, from left) are Hudgins; Jack Wilkes of Roanoke, fourth place; Jack Adkins of Martinsville, third place; Obenshain; Matt Harman of Roanoke, fifth place; (standing from left) SML Lion Tom Hofelich; Adam Witt, club pro at Mariners Landing; Ron Willard II, vice president of The Willard Companies); Greg Haley, brother of Andrew Haley; and Mark McKee, club pro at The Waterfront Country Club.

Zachary Bauchou of Forest won the Rookie Boys division (ages 10-13) medal play by 10 strokes. Lyndsey Hunnell of Troutville won the Rookie Girls division. Pictured are (front row, from left) Korey Watts of Buchanan, second place); Drew Lagan of Roanoke, third place; Hunnell; Adam Witt; club pro at Mariners Landing; (back row, from left) Andrew Butts of Salem, fourth place; Brandon Bailey, fifth place; and Tom Hofelich of the Smith Mountain Lake Lions Club.