Mark Powell and Todd Wright spent Sunday at Beau Pr\u00E9 Country Club with a paint can and a plan. They were using the paint can to spray dots on the greens to position hole locations and were trying to make Beau Pr\u00E9 as difficult a course as possible for the Oldsmobile Scramble Sectional Tournament today.

Powell is the golf pro at Beau Pr\u00E9 and Wright is the tournament director for the Oldsmobile Scramble.

&uot;We want to set the course up tough, but we want to keep it fun,&uot; Powell said during a practice round Saturday.

Powell was playing golf with the team that advanced with him from the local qualifier held earlier this year at Beau Pr\u00E9.

Bill Byrne, Chris Hutchins, Chris Kelley and Randy Johnson will compete against 14 other teams for one of two spots at the national scramble championship.

Two winning teams from Beau Pr\u00E9 will advance to the Oldsmobile Scramble National Championship Sept. 27 through Oct. 1 in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

Another local team, which qualified at Duncan Park’s local qualifier, was also getting in a practice round on Saturday.

Duncan Park pro Marvin Gray, along with Paul Sparks, Chad Huber, Hayden Kaiser and B.J. Guido are also playing for a chance to go the national tournament.

Sparks, Huber, Kaiser and Guido competed at both local qualifiers in Natchez. They only lost by two shots at the first qualifier at Beau Pr\u00E9 but were able to continue their drive for a national title by winning the qualifier at Duncan Park.

The competition at the sectional qualifier follows the same rules as the local qualifiers except each team adds a player.

The pros from the course where the teams qualified compete along with the amateurs in the scramble format.

Like in the local qualifier, teams are required to use two drives from each competitor and play against a scramble handicap index devised by Oldsmobile. Each competitor is required to have an established USGA handicap.

The men are not the only ones competing at the sectional qualifier at Beau Pr\u00E9. Two teams of women are competing in the Women’s Oldsmobile Scramble.

This is the first time the women’s scramble has been held at Beau Pr\u00E9 and only the second year of the tournaments history.

The women are also playing for a chance to compete in the national finals, which will be held concurrently with the men’s championship.

Play begins today at 8 a.m. with a shotgun start.

A second shotgun start will be at 1 p.m.