PIONEERS WIN! Tusculum Rallies To Win 14th Dibble Memorial Title

CHUCKEY, Tenn. — The Tusculum A team fired a 14-under par team score of 274 as the Pioneers rallied to win the 32^nd annual Bob Dibble Memorial Men’s Golf Tournament. The two-day, 54-hole tournament was held at Graysburg Hills Golf Course and hosted by Tusculum.

The Pioneers finished with a 54-hole aggregate team score of 837, winning by 10 strokes over runner-up King A (847).

Tusculum A was led by Max Winnersjo who posted his third straight score of 69 as he finished with a 54-hole score of 207. He would tie for first place honors with Nathan Hopley of King B as he also finished with a two-under par 207 including a final round 68 on Tuesday. The two would go to a playoff where Hopley won on the third playoff hole with a par.

The Pioneers win the Dibble Memorial for a 14^th time in the tournament’s history and the first since 2023. Head coach Hunter Chandley also recorded his sixth men’s tournament crown, which ties him for the second-most in program history.

Tusculum A had four players finish in the top-15 including Winnersjo, Ed Linley, Buster O’Callaghan and Harrison Price.

Winnersjo opened his day on fire as he posted a four-under par 32 on his outward nine with four birdies and five pars to move to 10-under par for the tournament. He stumbled on the start of his back-nine with a double bogey and a bogey to drop back to seven under par. But birdies on the 15^th and 17^th hole got him back to nine-under for the event and finished with a final round 69.

Linley made the biggest move of the tournament as he fired a career-best seven-under 65. He opened his round with a pair of bogeys, but a birdie on hole No. 5 and chipped in for an eagle on the difficult seventh hole. He birdied No. 8 and No. 10 before he posted a bogey on the 11^th. But he would post five more birdies for his round including on four of his last five holes as he tied for fifth place, moving up 32 spots on the leaderboard

Price finished tied for 13^th place with his three-under par total of 213 including Tuesday’s final round 67. He jumped 31 positions up the leaderboard while recording his seventh top-20 performance of his career.

O’Callaghan tied for seventh with a three-under total 211 as he finished with a 73 in his last 18. Matthew Hogan rounded out the scoring for Tusculum A with 70-72-77=219 to tie for 40^th place.

The Tusculum B team finished with a seven-under par team score of 857 including a final round 288. Senior Dylan Side led the charge this week with his fifth-place finish at 72-69-69=210 to earn a spot on the All-Tournament Team. It was his first top-five performance of his career and his lowest 54-hole score. He recorded an eagle 3 on the par-five sixth hole and birdied the No. 9 as he was three-under par, four holes into his round. He would bogey the 12^th and 13^th holes before going two-under par down the stretch for his 69 (-3).

George Evans posted three rounds under par this week with 70-71-71=212 to tie for 10^th place. Cameron Grabeel tied for 26^th with 66-73-77=216, followed by Filip Jarheden (76-73-72=221) and Koltt Bassham (76-72-76=224) to complete the Tusculum B team scoring.

Tusculum C scorers included Sam Brown (74-76-74=224, T59th), Cillian Carmack (74-78-74=226, T63th), Hayden Shrewsbury (72-78-77=227, T68th) and Aiden Tipton (80-87-87=254, 87^th).

Coker A finished third in the team competition with 849, followed by North Greenville (852), Southern Wesleyan A (853), Tusculum B (857), Milligan (866), Johnson University (866), UVA Wise (868), Walters State (872), Roane State (874), King B (876), Southern Wesleyan B (880), Coker B (883) and Tusculum C (931).

The Dibble Memorial is named in honor of Tusculum Hall of Fame Coach Bob Dibble, who passed away in 2025. Coach Dibble served as head coach of the Pioneer golf program for 28 seasons and founded this tournament in 1994 as the Tusculum Invitational. The Pioneers have won this event previously in: 1995, 1997, 1998, 2006, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023.

Tusculum A’s 54-hole total 837 was four shots away from matching the school-record and tournament total 833 shot by TU at the Dibble Intercollegiate in 2023. TU’s 274 on Tuesday is tied for the fourth-best round in school history and three strokes away from the school-record 271 shot at last year’s King Invitational.

Winnersjo’s 207 is tied for the fourth-lowest 54-hole tally in TU history and seven shots from matching Brad Hawkins’ 200 total fired at the 2015 State Farm Intercollegiate.

Tusculum wraps up the fall portion of its schedule and returns to action Mar. 1-2 as the Pioneers co-host the TU/Lenoir-Rhyne Tidewater Intercollegiate in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Bob Dibble Memorial Golf Tournament (Final Results)

Tusculum A Individual Scores

Tusculum B Individual Scores

Tusculum C Individual Scores