Daily Memphian: The Memphis Golf Association City Am nearly died. Ben Fisher gave it life.
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.