Annual Watermelon Golf Tournament held, seeks Watermelon Festival event status

Hailey Heseltine ECB Publishing, Inc. The weekend of June 28 and 29 marked an event with decades of tradition, the annual Watermelon Golf Tournament at the Jefferson Country Club (JCC). The Watermelon Tournament has been a local staple since the club's opening in the 1960s and is by far the most popular out of their three major yearly tournaments, according to Club President Jim Purvis. This year's event saw around 60 participants from several states spread across six flights, each com