Daily Memphian: Former Memphis Tigers golfer wins MGA City Amateur championship
It all begins with an idea.
Matt Cooper finished at 3-over-par 145 to win the 2024 Memphis Golf Association City Amateur.
Cooper shot 76 Wednesday, Oct. 9, at Memphis Country Club, but his 69 Tuesday at Spring Creek Ranch in Collierville paved the way for a one-stroke victory over runner-up Ben Fisher.
Cooper, 45, took a one-stroke lead into the two-round tournament’s second round. He also won the tourney, which was first played in 1914 and counts three-time PGA Tour majors winner Dr. Cary Middlecoff among its past champions, in 2014.
Daily Memphian: The Memphis Golf Association City Am nearly died. Ben Fisher gave it life.
It all begins with an idea.
The Memphis Golf Association City Amateur — City Am, as it’s fondly known these days — was on life support a few years back.
Someone needed to save it, or the 100-plus-year-old local tournament whose list of past winners reads like a who’s who in Memphis-area golf — Dr. Cary Middlecoff chief among them — might forever be lost.
“There’s some pretty incredible names on it,” said Chase Harris, a former University of Memphis golfer who won the tournament in 2018 and is now head pro at Chickasaw Country Club.