Putting for a Cause: Golfers Gather for HunterBrave Benefit

By Tim Emmons
temmons@casscountynow.com

Golf tournaments are no fun if the weather is uncooperative.
Last Friday the bottom fell out, and the sides and the top for that matter.
When Saturday rolled around 96 participants, which made up 24 teams, donned their clubs and revved their carts for a day on the links as part of the Hunter Watkins Memorial Scholarship Benefit hosted at Indian Hills Country Club by the Hunter Brave Committee.
Aside from the golf, which was played on the same course Hunter hit a hole-in-one once, there was a crawfish boil, a raffle and a silent auction.
The winning team of the tournament consisted of: former Rabbit and current attendee of Sam Houston State University, Matt Rinehart; Wyoming native and classmate of Hunter at Sam Houston State University, Michael Coon; Texas High School senior Grayson Jones and Sulphur Springs native Baron Landers.
Hunter’s mother, Karen Watkins, had this to say about the very successful event.
“It was a HUGE success.  The weather cleared up and it turned out to be a beautiful day,” Watkins said. “We had 18-hole sponsors from local family, friends and businesses, and we had a great turnout of people for the crawfish boil, silent auction and washer tournament.” 
 “The winning team of the golf tournament included some of Hunter’s closest friends that he went to school with at Sam Houston State,” Watkins beamed. “One of his best friends won the washer tournament. It was an amazingly awesome day.”
 The HunterBrave-Hunter Watkins Scholarship will benefit area students entering their freshman and sophomore year of college or specialty trade school. An academic scholarship for expenses will be awarded to area students annually. Efforts will be made by the selection committee to limit eligibility to academically qualifying students who may not be able to attend without financial help.