Spring Lake’s Anna Kramer led from start to finish to win the 104th Michigan Women’s Amateur Championship, July 22 at MSU’s Forest Akers West Golf Course. The University of Indianapolis golfer was stroke play medalist, then culminated the five rounds of match play by beating 2018 champion Kerri Parks of Flushing and Marshall University, 5 and 4 for the title.
“I’ve wanted to win this one for a while, and I do love this tournament,” Kramer said. “It’s one of my favorites to play in and I’ve tried a few times. It’s a sigh of relief really. It was a long week, but I took it one day at a time, got through stroke play and played it one shot and one match at a time and tried not to think about what could happen. This is really so special.”
Parks had just won the West Virginia Women’s Amateur, literally, and was on the waiting list for the Michigan Women’s Am and didn’t know until 10:00 a.m. the day before stroke play started that she made in the field after another player dropped out, so she hustled back to Michigan without time to get in a practice round.
