The seventh edition of the city’s only professional golf tournament returns to Savannah on April 4-7, 2024. The Club Car Championship at the Landings Golf & Athletic Club will be broadcast on The Golf Channel for the entire tournament, from Thursday’s opening round through Sunday’s trophy presentation. It will air in more than 170 countries, potentially reaching more than 340 million households.

“This is an important step for our partners, The Landings Golf & Athletic Club and the greater Savannah region,” said Steven Freund, executive director of The Landings Club.

Savannah has a rich history of golf, but for several years after the departure of The Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf (Champions Tour), there was no pro golf event in town. For an 11-year stint (2003-2013), the Legends of Golf was hosted by the Club at Savannah Harbor. But, for five long years, fans around Savannah were forced to travel to Hilton Head Island each spring for the RBC Heritage Tournament if they hoped to see pro golfers in action.

This meant that the inaugural Club Car Championship at The Landings Golf & Athletic Club in 2018 attracted golf fanatics from all around the area to support the return of pro golf.

Played on the Deer Creek Course – one of six tracks in The Landings Golf & Athletic Club – the Club Car Championship is part of the Korn Ferry Tour and will feature 156 golfers with a cut following the conclusion of second-round play on Friday.

A pair of community events were announced by the tournament in February. One event on Saturday (March 30) truly starts CCC week. First Tee Career Day and the Junior Clinic, both presented by Memorial Health Dwaine & Cynthia Willett Children’s Hospital of Savannah, will each be held on Monday, April 1.

Saturday’s Outrun Hunger Fore Kids Cafe 5K sponsored by the Larsen Family begins at 9 am and all of the net proceeds go to benefit the Kids Cafe at America’s Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia. The race has raised more than $40,000 since 2020.

Visit www.clubcarchampionshipattlc.com for tickets, tournament information, parking directions and more. Follow the event on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

GHSA SPRING MEETING AGENDA POSTED
The Georgia High School Association (GHSA) State Executive Committee will hold its annual Spring Meeting on April 15 in Macon. An agenda for the meeting has been posted to the GHSA’s official website, and it was updated on March 27.

A complete copy of the agenda can be seen below. Of note on the agenda, a proposal to alter transfer rules which reads:

“Proposal to modify By-Law 1.62, item “c-3” on page 19 of the GHSA Constitution as follows (deleted text struck out) so as to allow students from non-member schools who transfer to GHSA schools to be eligible immediately as long as it is their first enrollment in a GHSA school: “The student has not yet established eligibility in grades 9-12 at a member school serving his area of residence. Eligibility is established at the first time the student enrolls in a GHSA member school for the first time.”

Also, on the agenda (Board of Trustees item No. 8), a recommendation from the board to name Dr. Timothy David Scott as the replacement for retiring Executive Director, Robin Hines. He is currently the Superintendent of Dalton Public Schools and will join the GHSA on July 1.

The Board of Trustees, in March, announced Scott as the sole finalist for the position of Executive Director.

SCDS FRESHMAN STAR ENROLLS AT NORCROSS
Savannah Country Day’s first-team All-Region 3-3A freshman basketball star, Rudy Nasir Anderson, has left the school and enrolled at Norcross High School in north Georgia, according to social media posts and confirmed to Connect Savannah by Anderson’s mother.

As a 14-year-old freshman, Anderson tallied per-game averages of 14.5 points, 5.2 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 1.4 steals. He was Georgia’s Freshman of the Year (SandysSpiel.com) for Class 3A.

This article appears in Connect Savannah I March 2024.