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The 101st State Amateur Championship will be
played at Bent Brook Golf Course in Bessemer June
8-11. It's exactly 10 weeks before this prestigious
championship returns 13 years after it's previous
visit when Lance Goodson was victorious.
The year 2004
marked one of the
very first visits of the
Alabama Golf Asso-
ciation's "crown jewel"
championship to a
public course, with
Goodson, who was
a junior on the golf
team at Vanderbilt
University at the time,
winning with a four-
under-par total.
The State Amateur
has long been con-
tested at country clubs
across the state, but it
has visited just a few
non-private clubs.
Cotton Creek in Gulf
Shores, which is a
semi-private resort lo-
cation, led the way in
1992, when Stewart Cink won and it returned there
in 2003.
Limestone Springs in Oneonta followed Bent
Brook in 2005, with FarmLinks in Sylacauga in 2011
and Kiva Dunes in Gulf Shores in 2012.
(It was also
played four times, in
a span from 1916 to
1929, at the marvel-
ously named Roebuck
Springs Automobile
and Country Club,
which is now Roe-
buck Municipal Golf
Course).
I remember Bent
Brook really embrac-
ing their role as host
in 2004, as they made
sweeping updates
to the course, all at
the behest of owner
Jimmy Lee III. They
have been undertak-
ing ongoing work,
over the last few
years, too.
Back in 2004 the
