SHE HAD COME CLOSE BEFORE, BUT THIS TIME, IT WASN’T CLOSE, AND IT WASN’T IN DOUBT. CALDWELL COUNTY FRESHMAN EMMA TALLEY ROLLED TO THE GIRLS STATE GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP IN BOWLING GREEN, OFFICIALLY WRAPPING UP THE TITLE THURSDAY MORNING, WINNING BY A FINAL NINE-SHOT MARGIN OVER SECOND PLACE FINISHER, LYDIA GUMM, OF NORTH HARDIN. WEATHER CONDITIONS HAMPERED THE FIRST DAY OF PLAY ON TUESDAY, WITH TALLEY ONLY ABLE TO PLAY TWO HOLES BEFORE THE FIRST ROUND WAS SUSPENDED.
PLAYERS TOOK TO THE COURSE AT THE BOWLING GREEN COUNTRY CLUB EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING, AND THAT WAS WHEN EMMA TOOK OFF AND RAN AWAY FROM THE REST OF THE FIELD. TALLEY FINISHED HER FIRST ROUND WITH A SEVEN UNDER PAR 65, A STATE TOURNAMENT RECORD, WHICH GAVE HER A SEVEN SHOT LEAD. TALLEY WAS THEN ABLE TO GET 15 HOLES OF THE SECOND ROUND IN BEFORE THE TOURNAMENT WAS SUSPENDED DUE TO DARKNESS WEDNESDAY EVENING. BY THAT TIME, TALLEY WAS AT 10-UNDER PAR, AND THE ONLY THING IN DOUBT WAS THE FINAL MARGIN.
EMMA CAME OUT THURSDAY MORNING AND SHOT PAR FOR THE FINAL THREE HOLES TO SECURE HER FIRST STATE TITLE. THE FRESHAM ENDED UP AT A TEN UNDER PAR, 134 FOR THE TOURNAMENT, WHICH SHATTERED THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 139 FOR THE 36 HOLES, BY FIVE SHOTS. FOR THE TOURNAMENT, TALLEY HAD 12-BIRDIES, ONE EAGLE, AND ONLY FOUR BOGIES.
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