Last modified: Saturday, August 18, 2007 12:29 AM EDT Golfers and fans scramble to get under a tent as a heavy but brief shower threatened to disrupt things during the second round of the AAGA tourney at Wentworth Hills Friday. (Staff photo by MARTIN GAVIN) Par for the course, they love AAGA BY TED NESI SUN CHRONICLE STAFF PLAINVILLE - When the Attleboro Area Golf Association hosts its marquee four-day tournament each year, the golfers get a lot of attention. Behind every good golfer, though, is a fan - or two, or half a dozen, or more - cheering him on. And they were out in force on Friday afternoon, the second day of the popular tourney's 47th annual edition, to watch 102 men play to qualify for the tournament's two-day finale. Maureen Doyle drove all the way from the South Shore to see her brother, Jonathan O'Keefe, compete. "It's a blast," Doyle declared, sipping a Bud Light. "I've never seen him golf before. I'm impressed with how good they are." She also noted that it's not easy to be a good spectator. "You have to be very quiet," she said, "and that's hard for me." Unfortunately, by a few minutes past noon, Doyle had lost track of her brother. After speaking to a reporter, she and two friends hopped back into their golf cart to try and find him. Meanwhile, Lisa Bouley of Attleboro was following her husband, Bert, who won last year's competition and is defending his title this year against a crowded field of contenders. Bouley has been supporting her husband at the AAGA tournament for more than a decade, and she offered a single piece of advice on how to be a good spectator: "Stay out of the golfer's way." Still, Bouley said, what she's really looking forward to is the final rounds, to be played today and tomorrow, which will determine this year's winner. "There are a lot of good golfers out there," she observed. Bouley would get no argument on that from Donna Beach, the wife of AAGA co-chairman and perennial contender Bobby Beach, and a one-woman cheerleader for the whole extravaganza. "I love watching them play," she said. "I know just about all of them. ... It's exciting." Beach does more than watch her husband play, though. She has been involved with the AAGA for nearly 30 years, and called herself a "gofer." She ticked off a list of her duties, from coordinating tent activities to keeping score. Alan Ashley, the AAGA's treasurer, chimed in that Beach is no mean golfer herself, though she laughed it off. For his part, Ashley noted that one of the things that makes the AAGA tournament special is the fact that it is played on four different courses over four days: the Foxborough Country Club, the Wentworth Hills Golf Club in Plainville, the Highland Country Club in Attleboro, and the Norton Country Club. "You don't have people playing their home course for four days," he explained, making the tournament a true test of each player's fundamental golf skills. It also brings together golfers from a number of area communities.