SPARTANBURG, SC - The T.W. Memorial Golf Tournament, sponsored by BB&T, will be held on March 16 and 17, with 19 teams and 76 players participating.

Lewis Terry, golf coach at Dorman High School and co-director of the high school tournament, says teams from throughout South Carolina and one team from North Carolina are entered. Play will be at the Cherokee National Golf Club in Gaffney on Friday, March 16, and at River Falls Plantation on Saturday, March 17.

While Dorman has hosted a golf tournament for a number of years, this will be the third year it will be held in honor of the late Todd Watson, a Dorman golfer who was killed in an automobile accident, and the late Stewart Tomson, former golf coach at Boiling Springs High School. The tournament is named the T.W. Memorial in honor of Tomson and Watson.

Terry encourages spectators to come to watch the tournament play, free of charge. Use of a golf cart for spectators will require a nominal fee.

The public also is invited to the Champions Dinner on Friday night at Cherokee National, sponsored by Outback Steakhouse and South Carolina Fellowship of Christian Athletes. “We encourage the parents and any others interested to come to the dinner and meet the players,” Terry says, adding that a nominal fee will be charged.

The host hotel for the tournament is the Spartanburg Inn at Boiling Springs.
The tournament is co-hosted by Dorman High School (Lewis Terry, coach), Boiling Springs High School (Rick Tate, coach) and Gaffney High School (Mark Ireton, coach). For information about the tournament, contact Terry at 582-4347 or visit www.dormanhigh.org.

Team Spartanburg, the sports council of the Spartanburg Convention & Visitors Bureau, is providing support to the event. For information about Team Spartanburg, contact Jules Bryant, executive director of the CVB at (864) 594-5050 or laura.corbin@wofford.edu.