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Chattanooga: Masick paces CCS victory

By: David Uchiyama
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Patricia Masick

Patricia Masick smiled and shook her head.

She made a mistake, and Chattanooga Christian golf coach Don Holwerda wasn’t letting her slip out of Black Creek Club without a reminder of the geometry on her scorecard.

“Don’t be afraid to put a couple of squares around that 7,” Holwerda joked.

Nobody should have hesitated to put circles around Masick’s two birdies in a four-team nine-hole match Tuesday afternoon.

Masick claimed medalist honors with a 3-over-par 39, and teammate Sarah Durham added a 43 to help the Lady Chargers win their opening match of the season. GPS and Soddy-Daisy tied at 98, and Ooltewah finished fourth at 105.

“It was good up until that par 5, where I had a really bad tee shot,” Masick said. “I hit another bad tee and then finally recovered.”

Masick was 1 under through four holes and still after five but made a double-bogey 7 on No. 6, drawing a smirk from her coach. Masick sank an 8-foot putt on the final hole for birdie.

“I have to keep it below 40,” she said. “At least that’s what I try to do.”

Masick was runner-up in the Chattanooga Women’s Amateur at Black Creek in July.

“This time I’m playing out here for school and it’s not just me,” Masick said. “But it’s really just another round of golf. You play it the same way.”

The match represented a return to competitive golf for Owls senior Courtney Day, who played at David Brainerd in 2006 but had to sit out last season, per TSSAA rules, after transferring to Ooltewah. Day shot a 49 on Tuesday, far from her days of 37s, 38s and 39s.

“I couldn’t sleep at all and I was up until 3 in the morning,” said Day, who works at Bear Trace at Harrison Bay. “This past year, I haven’t played that much and I just practiced a little. Now I’m trying to practice every day.”

Ooltewah freshman Marisa Roth made an impressive debut — not with her score, but with her determination to walk the course with a walking boot protecting her broken left foot.

“I broke it in gymnastics and I have to keep it on for six weeks,” said Roth, whose injury happened five weeks ago. “I guess I like to play golf that much that I thought I’d play with it.”

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