Top Talent Set to Compete at 2025 Tennessee Senior State Open at Stonehenge Golf Club By Brian Weis

Top Talent Set to Compete at 2025 Tennessee Senior State Open at Stonehenge Golf Club

Fairfield Glade, TN - June 9 - 10, 2025

By Brian Weis

The 2025 Tennessee Senior State Open returns to the picturesque and challenging Stonehenge Golf Club on June 9th and 10th, showcasing some of the finest senior golf talent in the state.

Among the confirmed competitors are five players from Crossville, including 2023 Tennessee Senior State Open Champion Kip Henley, Jesse Anderson, John Bradshaw, Dale Wheeler, and Greg Wyatt.

From surrounding areas, the field includes seasoned names like Brent Henley (Chattanooga), Jared Melson, PGA (Tullahoma), and Loren Personett, PGA-a four-time Tennessee PGA Senior Player of the Year, three-time Tennessee PGA Professional Champion, and 11-time Tennessee PGA Player of the Year. Also joining from Knoxville are Jake Reeves, PGA, a 2024 Senior PGA Championship qualifier, and well-known amateurs Jeff Golliher and Steve Golliher, along with Buzz Fly, a two-time Super Senior Division Champion.

The championship will feature four past TN Senior State Open Champions:
* Joe Markham (Cleveland), 2024 TN Senior State Open Champion, 2023 Signal Mountain Invitational, 2022 Willow Creek Invitational, 2022 Chattanooga Men's Metro.

* Bill Breen, PGA (Nashville), four-time TN Senior State Open Champion (2013, 2016, 2020, 2022), 2020 TN Senior PGA Professional Champion, 2016 & 2022 TN PGA Senior Player of the Year, PGA Teaching Professional at Harpeth Valley Golf Center.

* Gibby Gilbert III, PGA (Ooltewah), three-time consecutive TN Senior State Open Champion (2016-2018) and current PGA TOUR & Champions TOUR Member.

Cliff Kresge (Knoxville), 2021 TN Senior State Open Champion, Former PGA TOUR and Champions TOUR Member.

The current player roster can be viewed here: Tennessee Senior State Open - Player Roster Tennessee PGA (bluegolf.com)

Volunteer Opportunities
For those interested in volunteering at the 2025 Tennessee Senior State Open and Tennessee Women's Open, please contact:
Jeremy Jones: jjones@fairfieldglade.cc | 931-484-3731
Jeff Houston: jhouston@fairfieldglade.cc | 931-707-2158

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About: Brian Weis

Brian Weis is the mastermind behind GolfTrips.com, a vast network of golf travel and directory sites covering everything from the rolling fairways of Wisconsin to the sunbaked desert layouts of Arizona. If there’s a golf destination worth visiting, chances are, Brian has written about it, played it, or at the very least, found a way to justify a "business trip" there.

As a card-carrying member of the Golf Writers Association of America (GWAA), International Network of Golf (ING), Golf Travel Writers of America (GTWA), International Golf Travel Writers Association (IGTWA), and The Society of Hickory Golfers (SoHG), Brian has the credentials to prove that talking about golf is his full-time job. In 2016, his peers even handed him The Shaheen Cup, a prestigious award in golf travel writing—essentially the Masters green jacket for guys who don’t hit the range but still know where the best 19th holes are.

Brian’s love for golf goes way back. As a kid, he competed in junior and high school golf, only to realize that his dreams of a college golf scholarship had about the same odds as a 30-handicap making a hole-in-one. Instead, he took the more practical route—working on the West Bend Country Club grounds crew to fund his University of Wisconsin education. Little did he know that mowing greens and fixing divots would one day lead to a career writing about the best courses on the planet.

In 2004, Brian turned his golf passion into a business, launching GolfWisconsin.com. Three years later, he expanded his vision, and GolfTrips.com was born—a one-stop shop for golf travel junkies looking for their next tee time. Today, his empire spans all 50 states, and 20+ international destinations.

On the course, Brian is a weekend warrior who oscillates between a 5 and 9 handicap, depending on how much he's been traveling (or how generous he’s feeling with his scorecard). His signature move" A high, soft fade that his playing partners affectionately (or not-so-affectionately) call "The Weis Slice." But when he catches one clean, his 300+ yard drives remind everyone that while he may write about golf for a living, he can still send a ball into the next zip code with the best of them.

Whether he’s hunting down the best public courses, digging up hidden gems, or simply outdriving his buddies, Brian Weis is living proof that golf is more than a game—it’s a way of life.