| María Fassi | |
| Birth Date: | 25 March 1998 |
| Birth Place: | Pachuca, Mexico |
| Height: | 5 ft 9 in |
| College: | University of Arkansas |
| Yearpro: | 2019 |
| Tour: | LPGA Tour (joined 2019) |
| Prowins: | 1 |
| Nabisco: | 71st: 2020 |
| Lpga: | T48: 2019 |
| Wusopen: | T12: 2019 |
| Wbritopen: | CUT: 2019, 2020, 2023 |
| Evian: | T15: 2021 |
| Award1: | SEC Women's Golfer of the Year |
| Year1: | 2018, 2019 |
| Award2: | SEC Female Athlete of the Year |
| Year2: | 2019 |
| Award3: | WGCA Player of the Year |
| Year3: | 2019 |
| Award4: | Honda Sports Award |
| Year4: | 2019 |
María José Fassi Álvarez (born 25 March 1998) is a Mexican professional golfer who plays on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. She won the 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Championship.
Fassi represented Mexico at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics 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.[1] [2]
Fassi attended the University of Arkansas 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 Honda Sports Award.
She received sponsor's exemption to the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship in 2016 and 2018 and in total made six starts on the LPGA Tour as an amateur, including a T15 finish at the 2016 Lorena Ochoa Invitational.[3]
Fassi played in the 2018 Arnold Palmer Cup and finished runner-up behind Jennifer Kupcho at the inaugural Augusta National Women's Amateur in 2019.[4] [5]
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.[6]
Waiting for the 2020 LPGA Tour to resume following the coronavirus pandemic 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.[7]
In 2021, Fassi was runner-up at the Dubai Moonlight Classic a stroke behind Bronte Law, and in 2022 she finished 3rd behind Ally Ewing and Lin Xiyu at the Kroger Queen City Championship.
Results not in chronological order.
| Tournament | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chevron Championship | CUT | 71 | CUT | CUT | CUT | ||||||
| U.S. Women's Open | CUT | CUT | T12 | CUT | CUT | ||||||
| Women's PGA Championship | T48 | T54 | CUT | CUT | T61 | T60 | |||||
| The Evian Championship | CUT | NT | T15 | ||||||||
| Women's British Open | CUT | CUT | CUT |
Amateur
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