Tellico Village Selected to Host Two Tennessee State Golf Tournaments By Brian Weis

Tellico Village Selected to Host Two Tennessee State Golf Tournaments

Tournaments Set to Attract the Nation's Top Amateur Golfers

By Brian Weis

The Tennessee Golf Association has chosen Tellico Village to host two of its championship events in 2022. The Village will host the 2022 Tennessee Senior and Super Senior Four-Ball Championships at Toqua Golf Club the week of May 9 - 13. A full field of 108 of the best senior golfers in the country are registered with a waiting list already.

The format will start with stroke play qualifying on Tuesday and Wednesday followed by a cut to the low 8 Senior teams and low 4 Super Senior teams advancing to the elimination match play brackets. The field includes two hall-of-famers and several state champions including Tim Jackson who has won 26 state championships and played in two Masters tournaments. Knoxville's own Steve and Jeff Golliher are also expected to play.

"We are excited about the outstanding courses that have graciously agreed to host tournaments in 2022. We will be hosting events all the way from the Tri-Cities to Memphis, and we hope to see many new and familiar faces alike playing in state championships" said Allison Brown, who was named the TGA's new executive director last year.

Tellico was also selected to host the 2022 Tennessee Women's Senior and Women's Mid-Am Championships at The Links at Kahite on September 27 and 28. This event will attract some of the top female amateur golfers in the state, including former UT golfers Blakesly Brock, who won the US Women's Amateur Championship in 2021, and Teleri Hughes.

"It's an honor and a privilege to be chosen to host two major state championships in the same calendar year" said Chris Sykes, Director of Golf Operations at Tellico Village.

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About: Brian Weis

Brian Weis is the mastermind behind GolfTrips.com, a vast network of golf travel and directory sites covering everything from the rolling fairways of Wisconsin to the sunbaked desert layouts of Arizona. If there’s a golf destination worth visiting, chances are, Brian has written about it, played it, or at the very least, found a way to justify a "business trip" there.

As a card-carrying member of the Golf Writers Association of America (GWAA), International Network of Golf (ING), Golf Travel Writers of America (GTWA), International Golf Travel Writers Association (IGTWA), and The Society of Hickory Golfers (SoHG), Brian has the credentials to prove that talking about golf is his full-time job. In 2016, his peers even handed him The Shaheen Cup, a prestigious award in golf travel writing—essentially the Masters green jacket for guys who don’t hit the range but still know where the best 19th holes are.

Brian’s love for golf goes way back. As a kid, he competed in junior and high school golf, only to realize that his dreams of a college golf scholarship had about the same odds as a 30-handicap making a hole-in-one. Instead, he took the more practical route—working on the West Bend Country Club grounds crew to fund his University of Wisconsin education. Little did he know that mowing greens and fixing divots would one day lead to a career writing about the best courses on the planet.

In 2004, Brian turned his golf passion into a business, launching GolfWisconsin.com. Three years later, he expanded his vision, and GolfTrips.com was born—a one-stop shop for golf travel junkies looking for their next tee time. Today, his empire spans all 50 states, and 20+ international destinations.

On the course, Brian is a weekend warrior who oscillates between a 5 and 9 handicap, depending on how much he's been traveling (or how generous he’s feeling with his scorecard). His signature move" A high, soft fade that his playing partners affectionately (or not-so-affectionately) call "The Weis Slice." But when he catches one clean, his 300+ yard drives remind everyone that while he may write about golf for a living, he can still send a ball into the next zip code with the best of them.

Whether he’s hunting down the best public courses, digging up hidden gems, or simply outdriving his buddies, Brian Weis is living proof that golf is more than a game—it’s a way of life.