Tee Time: Racers Honor Legend in Home Event - Coach Buddy Hewitt

The Murray State men's golf team hosts the inaugural staging of The Buddy Championship, a 54-hole tournament at the home of Racer Golf, Miller Memorial Golf Course in Murray, Kentucky.

The 54-hole event calls for 36 holes of play Monday with the final 18 holes slated for Tuesday morning with a shotgun start of 8 a.m. each day.

With the launch of The Buddy, it marks the beginning of MSU men's golf to restart their home fall event for the first time since 2019. The event was the idea of Coach Jacob Miller as a way to honor the coach that started men's golf at Murray State in 1961.

Honoring Murray State Legend – Coach Buddy Hewitt
In Murray State men's golf history, Coach Raymond "Buddy" Hewitt was known far and wide as the architect of the program from its beginning in 1961 and to when he retired in 2002.

Current Coach Jacob Miller announced that an annual home tournament "The Buddy" will be played Oct. 16-17 at the course Coach Hewitt helped establish, the Frances E. Miller Memorial Golf Course, home to Murray State Golf since 1983.

Buddy Hewitt didn't start his Murray State career on the golf course, but instead on the turf at Cutchin Stadium in the late 1940's when he was a lineman on Murray State football's Tangerine Bowl team of 1948 after the Racers won the first Ohio Valley Conference Championship. The Murray State Hall of Fame inducted Hewitt as part of the class of 1990 and in 2002, the Golf Coaches Association of America inducted him into its hall of fame.

Aside from coaching golf, Hewitt was a teacher in the Murray State department of health and directed the MSU intramural program. His relationship with Murray State athletics covered his entire adult life and long after his retirement in 2001. Buddy passed away at the age of 87 on May 16, 2015.

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Event: The Buddy Championship
Dates: Oct. 16-17, 2023
Location: Murray, Ky.
Host: Murray State
Times: Mon.-Tue.: Shotgun start at 8 a.m. Monday and Tuesday
Schedule of Play: 36 holes Monday, 18 Tuesday
Course: Frances E. Miller Memorial Golf Course
Par/Length: Par 71/6,700
Live Scoring: https://results.golfstat.com/public/leaderboards/gsnav.cfm?pg=team&tid=28433
Participating Teams (8): Central Michigan, Chicago State, Detroit Mercy, Eastern Illinois, Evansville, Southern Illinois, Southern Indiana, Trevecca Nazarene
Murray State Lineup: (1) Jay Nimmo, (2) Trey Lewis, (3) Kamaren Cunningham, (4) Brady Haake, (5) Lennon Albans, (I) Jakob Wellman, Tyler Powell, Derek Limberg

Murray State University Athletics

Tee Time: Racers Honor Legend in Home Event - Coach Buddy Hewitt

Players Mentioned

Lennon Albans

Kamaren Cunningham

Brady Haake

Trey Lewis

Derek Limberg

Jay Nimmo

Tyler Powell

Jakob Wellman

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