The past two weeks at McConnell Golf have been memorable, thanks to the Visit Knoxville Open at Holston Hills Country Club and UNC Health Championship at Raleigh Country Club. Harry Higgs captured the Visit Knoxville Open in a thrilling playoff, while Kaito Onishi claimed his first Korn Ferry Tour title by winning the UNC Health Championship. We look forward to hosting back-to-back Korn Ferry Tour events again in 2025.
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[Music] it didn’t seem like it was that long ago obviously I never played the tournament here at Holston um but you know this would between Oakridge Country Club and Holston Hills is sort of where I grew up where I consider home and uh it’s nice to have professional golf in Knoxville and I think the the tour the course everything like it’s a great venue and it’s you know exciting to see you know kind of it all come to fruition I’ve never been in town when the has been here so it’s cool to kind of have a chance to see it and see what it’s all about and hopefully people are enjoying the course that’s near and dear to my heart well I just like the environment of these big championships you know you come out and you see this this whole you see all the grand stands you see fans everywhere you see the vendors and all the volunteers I mean they’ve got endless amounts of volunteers here with through visiting oxville and it’s just it’s just a big family type environment and it’s a lot of fun and it’s good to see Spectators come in that have never been here before and get their impression of the overall championship in Holston Hills it’s been really nice having Spencer cross and Van homr here as members and being able to participate just adds a whole new environment especially to Our member sweep that we have here at 18 green they’ve uh they’ve gotten behind those guys and they’ve been cheering for them [Music] [Music] [Applause] I can’t thank our staff enough for everything that they’re doing Ryan Blair’s team with all the storms that we’ve had and we had water in the fairways and the bunkers and the effort that they put in was just unbelievable they were squeegeeing Fairways doing all these things and then our golf staff our FNB team they’ve just completely rolled with every change that’s come our way due to the weather problems no one’s complained they just show up just roll right through and keep on working hard and it’s just really been you know it’s been a good thing for us CU we’re a close team anyway but it just kind of makes us feel a little bit more close than we are already and it’s it’s just been a fun tournament and we’re all working hard together we lost yesterday morning one of our our own I don’t know if you guys heard the news but somebody who went through a lot of difficult things I would challenge everybody here and I’m going to do this myself as well each day say something nice to someone you love and also make it a point to say something nice to somebody you do not even know welcome to Raleigh Country Club for the final round of the UNCC Health Championship presented by stit thank you for coming to the honorary 1 p.m. tea time now on the tea from Raleigh North Carolina Grayson Murray [Music] [Music] it’s awesome this was actually my home course growing up so I feel like I have a bit of an advantage but just to be back is always cool and have a lot of family and friends out here to support me which is awesome they made a couple holes longer which was awesome and then um the green complexes still pretty tricky but I think they did a good job [Music] I think the McConnell experience has been fantastic for us all um the volunteers the staff the Course Maintenance everything’s been phenomenal um some of the best we’ve played all year so it’s been really enjoyable and you know you go to somewhere that you know it’s run by the people that know what they’re doing it’s been it’s been a lot of [Music] fun oh it’s wonderful I mean I always love coming back here brings back fond memories of when I was a kid playing and practicing out here um of course obviously it’s changed but those memories still [Music] last it’s actually been better this year than last which I didn’t think was possible so it’s they’re all out here having a wonderful time and I love feeding off their energy [Music] [Music] round [Applause] [Music]
