Davies Outlasts Field at Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate
Date Posted: 10/15/2006
JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. – ETSU senior Rhys Davies (Bridgend, Wales) captured his second straight individual championship in the ninth annual Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate at The Ridges on Sunday. However, for the two-time, first-team All-American, it was still a bittersweet day.
Davies watched on the final hole of the tournament as Tennessee junior Philip Pettitt sank a 12-foot birdie putt to break a tie with ETSU and give the 10th-ranked Volunteers the team championship with a score of 5-over 869. The 13th-ranked Buccaneers finished at 870 for the day, with Davies finishing at 5-under 211 to take a three-stroke victory over Pettitt on the individual leaderboard.
Davies joins former Wake Forest star and current PGA Tour member Bill Haas as the tournament’s only repeat winners.
“I can’t grumble too much, but we’ve worked really hard for this as a team and to come up one shot short is disappointing to say the least,” said Davies, who has now won a program-best eight individual championships in his ETSU career. “All I can think about right now is that we lost by a shot. I’m sure it will sink in later (about the individual title), and that’s something to be proud of.”
