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and wife team, along with two of
their sons, have grown their business
from 1,900 acres to more than 9,000
acres while farming in nine counties.
She has served on the boards
of Georgia Sheri’s Youth Homes,
Southeastern Pecan Association,
Georgia Pecan Growers Association
(Vice and Farm Service
Agency Committee Board. She
recently became the rst woman
appointed to the Georgia Agricultural
Pecan Commodity Commissions
by the Georgia Department
of Agriculture Commissioner, Gary
Black. In her in-between time, she
often on her home course
in Houston Lake Country Club since
1974 in Perry.
“Golf opens you up to meeting
amazing people,” says Evans. “I went
up to Pinehurst, N.C., and took a
week of golf lessons and there were
doctors, lawyers, all professions
of folks.” She started playing when
she was 17. “I took lessons a whole
year and never played the course. I
started playing with ladies who were
in their 60s and 70s and they would
beat the stew out of me.”
Evans explained how she learned to
chip and putt. And as one gets older,
a golfer may lose distance but can
chip and putt. “It’s the only game you
can play in your 80s and 90s,” says
Evans. “I have met and have had girl
friends for decades. e camaraderie
is amazing. On invitational tournaments,
we travel together. We go out
to eat, return to the condo, and play
poker.”
Her love of the game has inspired
her to chair a golf tournament to
support Westeld Schools for 25
years. “e coach told everyone,
‘When you ask Brenda to do a tournament,
just back o and let her do
it,’” says Evans during a phone interview
after a full business day during
their busy season and an hour before
she needed to pick up her grandchilties.
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Southeastern
Pecan
President),
Committee
became
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her
plays golf,
golfer enny ae of Lawrenceville
won the GWGA amateur
golf tournament in 2021. Last fall,
she was ranked No. 10 and No. 12
nationally, according to Golfstat and
Golfweek, respectively. She says her
goal is to play in both the Augusta
National Women’s Amateur and the
.. oens Oen. Courtesy of
University of Georgia Athletics, Tim
Cowie