A year ago, while watching Poplar Bluff’s Carr Vernon threaten to make the cut, the high school’s athletic director said that half of the town would turn out for the weekend. Well, west-bound Highway 60 from southeast Missouri to Springfield might be busy Saturday after Vernon fired a 4-under par 68 in the second round […]
Author: Kary Booher
Jerald Andrews about to ride off into the sunset
Every workday since October 1995, Jerald Andrews’ drive into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame has driven him. Turning east from the Highway 60-65 interchange in southeast in Springfield and then crossing a bridge, there awaits a steep grade before arriving. Call it a metaphor for his tenure, because he always reached the top. “It’s […]
Tough day for Fair Grove’s Brock Derrick
A former Fair Grove standout lived his dream of playing in his local PGA-sponsored golf tournament, his caddy who ‘Monday qualified’ found it challenging, too, and there’s a traffic jam atop the leaderboard. Those were the opening day storylines of the PGA Korn Ferry Tour’s Price Cutter Charity Championship presented by Dr Pepper on Thursday […]