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Emmett Spicer

(1905-1972)

  

 

%    From 1926 to 1933, Emmett Spicer set a standard for golf in Tennessee that has never been duplicated

%    He won five Tennessee State Amateurs Championships (1926, 28, 29, 32, & 33)

%    He won two Southern Amateur Championships (1926 & 1930)

%    Spicer’s personal philosophy was: “Live today as if it were your last. Plan for tomorrow as if it were forever.”

%    Emmett Spicer was inducted into the Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame posthumously in 2003, where over 18 members of his family accepted his honor