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GOLF NOTEBOOK: Twisted Oaks hires Thummel
By ERIC VICCARO
bnewssports@gmail.com
Twisted Oaks Golf Club recently hired Chad Thummel as the course superintendent.
Thummel comes to Bowie from Monahans, where he served in the same capacity at Ward County Golf Course. The course was a three-way partnership between Monahans, the county and a golf association.
His official start date was July 6.
“There was a time I was playing golf with my brother, and one of his friends was in the turf management program at Kansas State University,” Thummel said. “And it hit me, ‘I could do this,’ and 21 years later I’m still doing it.”
Thummel said it’s a challenge being golf course superintendent, and there’s more to the position than simply mowing the fairways.
“I do it all,” he said. “I fix things like water leaks in sprinklers, I do fertilization and aeration. Every day is not the same.”
He’s also responsible for helping Lee Gore maintain the course’s Facebook page, and other duties as assigned.
Thummel, a native of Beloit, Kansas, was a four-year letterman on his high school golf team. He then graduated from Kansas State’s course management program in 1998.
“I missed going to state by two strokes my senior year,” he said. Older brother, Rob, also regularly plays golf. Read more in the weekend Bowie News.
New Twisted Oaks Golf Club superintendent Chad Thummel gradated from the famed Kansas State University golf course management program. He started at Twisted Oaks on July 6. (News photo by Eric Viccaro)
A positive culture can be tough to install but will reap dividends if done correctly.
Trinadee Imotichey is trying to do just that with her Forestburg Lady Longhorns.
Imotichey, an assistant coach on the 2025 Forestburg volleyball team, was moved into the head coaching position. Last year’s coach, Cori Hayes, took over as football head coach.
Imotichey, in her 2nd year in Forestburg, said she learned a lot from Hayes and is ready to take over.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Bowie’s summer softball league team overcame a 6-1 deficit with a six-run third inning for a 7-6 win over Bridgeport in its season opener July 6.
The league consists of teams from Bowie, Nocona, Lindsay, Bridgeport, and Alvord and will last three weeks. Bowie will host games each week.
Bowie pitcher Hazel Trahern gave up two singles and a groundout to put the Sissies on the board in the first. It would be the only hits she gave up in the game. Two groundouts and a strikeout got the Lady Rabbits out of the jam.
Bowie got the run back in the bottom of the first with Andee Jo Miller opening the frame with a walk and a stolen base. She then scored on Kynlee Baker’s groundout to tie the game at one.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Rest. Run. Repeat.
Sage Keck, an 8th grader at Montague, lives by this mantra. No ifs, ands and buts about it.
She’s been running since fourth grade PE classes where she would run a mile every week. After discovering she could outrun the other students, she began to enjoy it and continued doing it.
Her success continued, as she finished 2nd overall against more than 200 runners at the Old Saint Jo 5K July 4. In last weekend’s Texas Junior Olympics, she reached the pinnacle of her career so far by qualifying for the United States of America Track and Field (USATF) National Junior Olympics in Norwalk, Calif. in three events.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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