Minnesota Golfer - Summer 2019 - 20
* BY MIKE FERMOYLE *
A brief history of three University of Minnesota-hosted golf
tournaments provides a glimpse of golf to come.
The most
star-studded
Gopher
Invitational
fi eld was
probably
the one that
assembled
at Spring Hill
in 2012.
W
riter Dan Jenkins once said: " Arnold
Palmer invented golf on the back nine at
Augusta in the 1960 Masters. "
Basically, he was right. Palmer won the Masters
that year in a spectacularly dramatic fashion, making
a 35-foot birdie putt at the 17th hole and a 6-footer
for birdie at the 18th to beat Ken Venturi by a single
stroke. When he followed that up two months later
by winning the U.S. Open, the charismatic Wake
Forest dropout established himself as the most
popular golfer in the world. In the process, he made
golf seem cooler than ever before.
What happened this spring on that same Augusta
course in the inaugural Augusta National Women's
Amateur may not hold the same cultural signifi cance
as the events that took place 59 years ago, but it
defi nitely gave women's amateur golf a massive shot
in the arm. Fittingly, it was another Wake Forest golfer
who took the victory with another spectacular fi nish,
as Deacons senior Jennifer Kupcho played the last six
holes in 5-under par to win. But the fi nal-day drama
also made a TV star of the runner-up, Maria Fassi.
Fassi, who was a senior at Arkansas, impressed
anyone who was watching (and this was the highestrated
telecast of women's amateur golf in 16 years) with
her power, talent and sportsmanship. To most viewers,
Maria Fassi was a revelation-but not to any of the
college golf fans who watched either of the fi rst two
Annika Intercollegiate tournaments in the Twin Cities.
The Annika Intercollegiate, named after the
Hall of Fame LPGA Tour player Annika Sorenstam,
came to the Twin Cities in 2017. The University of
Minnesota's women's team hosts the 3M-sponsored
tournament, which boasts the strongest fi eld of
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