María José Fassi Álvarez (born 25 March 1998) is a Mexican

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who plays on the U.S.-based

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. She won the 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Championship.

Amateur career

Fassi represented

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at the

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and won the Mexican Women's Amateur in 2015, 2016 and 2018. In 2015, she won the Spirit International Amateur in Texas, and was runner-up in the South American Women's Amateur and at the Dixie Amateur, behind Lauren Stephenson. Fassi attended the

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from 2015 to 2019 and played with the Arkansas Razorbacks women's golf team. As a junior she was WGCA First-Team All-American, SEC Women's Golfer of the Year and ANNIKA Award winner. As a senior she won the 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Championship individual title, was Ping WGCA Player of the Year and SEC Female Athlete of the Year, and received the

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. She received sponsor's exemption to the

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in 2016 and 2018 and in total made six starts on the

as an amateur, including a T15 finish at the 2016 Lorena Ochoa Invitational. Fassi played in the

2018 Arnold Palmer Cup The 2018 Arnold Palmer Cup was a team golf competition held from 6–8 July 2018 at Evian Resort Golf Club, Évian-les-Bains, France. It was the 22nd time the event had been contested and the first under a new format in which women golfers played ...

and finished runner-up behind

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at the inaugural Augusta National Women's Amateur in 2019.

Professional career

Fassi, who earned her LPGA Tour card in December 2018 deferred membership until she was done with college, competed as an amateur and turned professional in May 2019, making her professional debut at the 2019 U.S. Women's Open where she finished T12. Waiting for the

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to resume following the

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break, Fassi decided to keep her game sharp by entering the Cooper Communities NWA Classic, a Women's All Pro Tour event in Arkansas. She claimed a wire-to-wire, four-shot victory, her first as a professional. In 2021, Fassi was runner-up at the Dubai Moonlight Classic a stroke behind

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, and in 2022 she finished 3rd behind Ally Ewing and

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at the Kroger Queen City Championship.

Amateur wins

*2013 Mexican Junior Championship *2014 Campeonato Argentino de Aficionadas *2015 Women's Mexican Amateur, Spirit International Amateur (individual) *2016 Women's Mexican Amateur, Lady Puerto Rico Classic, Annika Intercollegiate *2017 Mason Rudolph Women's Championship, Annika Intercollegiate *2018 Women's Mexican Amateur, Lady Puerto Rico Classic, Darius Rucker Intercollegiate, Evans Derby Experience, SEC Championship, NCAA Austin Regional *2019 SEC Championship, NCAA Women's Division I Championship (individual) Source:

Professional wins (1)

Other wins (1)

*2020 Cooper Communities NWA Classic (Women's All Pro Tour)

Results in LPGA majors

''Results not in chronological order.'' CUT = missed the half-way cut
NT = no tournament
T= tied

Summary

*Most consecutive cuts made – 2 (twice)

Team appearances

Amateur * Junior Golf World Cup (representing Mexico): 2015 * World Junior Girls Championship (representing Mexico): 2015 * Spirit International Amateur (representing Mexico): 2015 *

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(representing Mexico):

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

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(representing the International team):

Source:

Collegiate honors

*2018 WGCA First-team All-American *2018 First-team All-SEC *2018 SEC Women's Golf Player of the Year *2018 ANNIKA Award winner *2019 Honda Sport Award for Golf winner *2019 ANNIKA Award winner *2019 Ping WGCA Player of the Year *2019 SEC Female Athlete of the Year *2019 WGCA First-team All-American *2019 Golfweek First-team All-American *2019 SEC Women's Golf Player of the Year *2019 First-team All-SEC *2019 WGCA All-American Scholar Source:

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fassi, Maria Mexican female golfers LPGA Tour golfers Olympic golfers for Mexico Golfers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Golfers at the 2024 Summer Olympics Golfers at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Arkansas Razorbacks women's golfers Sportspeople from Pachuca Southeastern Conference Athlete of the Year winners 1998 births Living people 21st-century Mexican sportswomen Golfers from Hidalgo (state)