{"id":8092,"date":"2011-09-19T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=8092"},"modified":"2011-09-18T23:10:37","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T04:10:37","slug":"25th-annual-governors-golf-classic-set-for-september-23rd-24th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2011\/09\/19\/25th-annual-governors-golf-classic-set-for-september-23rd-24th\/","title":{"rendered":"25th Annual Governors Golf Classic set for September 23rd-24th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-47306\" title=\"Austin Peay State University\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/apsu-logo-200x123.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University\" width=\"200\" height=\"123\" \/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; What started out as &#8220;Goober Golf&#8221; back in 1987, is now 25 years old. The 25th Annual Governors Golf Classic is set for Friday-Saturday, September 23rd-24th, at Swan Lake Golf Course.<\/p>\n<p>George &#8220;Goober&#8221; Lindsey, the former television star of the Andy Griffith Show and Hee Haw, was the featured guest host for that first tourney, which also featured several other veteran country music stars.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty five years later the tourney remains a fun but important fund raiser for Austin Peay State University&#8217;s athletic department.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For a fourth straight year, the annual tournament will occur on succeeding days instead of the same day, with shotgun starts for each round. After a summer of refurbishment, the tournament will be played on new greens at Swan Lake.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Governors Club, the four-person scramble will be limited to 60 teams, 30 per shotgun starts at noon, Friday, September 23rd, and 8:00am Saturday, September 24th.<\/p>\n<p>For a fifth straight year, men and women&#8217;s divisions also have been established. Cost is $400.00 per team, or $100.00 per person. Proceeds from the tournament will benefit Austin Peay State University Athletics.<\/p>\n<p>Prizes will be awarded to the first, second, third, fourth and last place for each flight. Women&#8217;s division prizes will be awarded to first, second and last place on Saturday. Women&#8217;s teams playing Friday will be included in the women&#8217;s division, Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Players age 65 and older may hit from the senior tees while women may hit from the ladies&#8217; tees.<\/p>\n<p>Like last year the tourney dinner, previously held on Friday night following the tourney&#8217;s first round, will be Thursday night, September 22nd, at the Charles Hand Farm. The social hour will be at 6:00pm with the dinner beginning at 7:00pm. Individuals not playing can still attend the dinner for $35.00 per couple.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the tourney and to enter your team, telephone the APSU advancement office at 931.221.7024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; What started out as &#8220;Goober Golf&#8221; back in 1987, is now 25 years old. The 25th Annual Governors Golf Classic is set for Friday-Saturday, September 23rd-24th, at Swan Lake Golf Course. George &#8220;Goober&#8221; Lindsey, the former television star of the Andy Griffith Show and Hee Haw, was the featured guest host for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[8910,23,2160,2969,262,3873,10619,4342,2306,3872,10620,2002],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-26w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8094,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8092\/revisions\/8094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}