Maxwell’s return to golf a successful one
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With around 100 golfers from seven different cities competing, Maxwell turned in the best round of her life posting a 71 in her final round which was held at the McMinnville Country Club. Stones River hosted the tournament this year and McMinnville will be the host club for next year’s event.
The tournament format is a combination score of at least four rounds. Seven tournaments are played in seven different counties, which include Tullahoma, Murfreesboro, Fayetteville, Shelbyville, Winchester, Columbia and McMinnville. A player must play in at least four events in order to be eligible to win the championship.
Maxwell played golf in high school and set her clubs aside for over 12 years before she returned to the links three years ago.
“The tournament has been around for a long time and I believe it was started by the ladies in Murfressboro back in the late ’60s,” she recalled. “It all started as a way for women golfers to meet and play with other ladies from different communities. I have played in it for the last two years and have made so many new friends and that’s what the event is all about. I really enjoy having the chacne to play against ladies from other clubs.”
Maxwell admits she wasn’t the best golfer in the world, but with a little work she has gone from an 18 handicap down to a 7 and says her love of the game has driven her to become a better player.
“My dad taught me how to play when I was little and I have always loved the game,” she said. “I’m a very competitive person and I guess that’s why I like it so much.
“Golf is something you can play all your life and now that I’m older it has been a real joy to go out and play a few rounds with my dad. We are both competitive and it’s been a lot of fun to be able to go out and spend time with him. We seem to tie a lot, one of us will be up a stroke or two and then miss up and the other catches up. It’s just been a lot of fun.”
In addition to winning the Ladies Inner City Tournament, Maxwell also won the Ladies Day Championship at the McMinnville Country Club this year and received the Tennessee Golf Association’s Most Improved Ladies Player for the most improved player at the McMinnville Country Club.
When Maxwell isn’t out on the links, you can find her keeping busy helping her husband Gene Maxwell at their Town and Country Animal Hospital.