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Tom Doughtie

Once Tom Doughtie turned his athletic focus solely to golf in his early teens, it didn’t take long to see where his talents were. It made sense since his mother, Peggy Lee, was a local amateur champion. At age 16, in his hometown of Bay City, Doughtie broke the local country club record by shooting a 64.

He went on to play golf at SMU where he graduated in 1975.  In 1980, he and wife Cathy moved to her hometown of Amarillo. It wasn’t long that Doughtie began nearly 30 years of dominant competitive golf that established him as perhaps the greatest amateur golfer ever from the Texas Panhandle.

It began by winning a couple of Amarillo Country Club championships, and swung  into high gear in 1985 when he won the Ross Rogers Partnership, the biggest tournament in the Texas Panhandle. He won the tournament five times with three different partners.

Doughtie won more than 40 local tournaments that included the Tournament of Champions six times, and was a six-time senior city champion. On a state level, he was the Men’s West Texas champion three times including the 2006 title at age 53 when he beat college golfers more than half his age. He won the Men’s West Texas Senior Open three times.

Nationally, Doughtie was a U.S. Senior Open qualifier three times, finishing 59th in 2008, and qualified for the U.S. senior amateur five times. He was captain of Team Texas that twice won the national title in the US Senior Team Challenge. Doughtie and son Will teamed together to win nine major tournaments, including the Texas Golf Association Father-Son championship six times.

Doughtie and Cathy have two adult children and four grandchildren.