The Anne Cameron Golf Classic set to celebrates its 50th year, the oldest charity golf event in Putnam County.
Anne Cameron was a Cookeville native and Tennessee Tech graduate. She studied law at Vanderbilt before working with her family’s law firm. Cameron worked with and played in the tournament from 1975 until she passed away in 1988 due to complications with breast cancer. Cameron’s niece, Lindsay Cameron Gross, serves as tournament organizer.
“People who knew her knew just how she was,” Cameron Gross said. “She was very caring, and you know, just had a people around her. She was always willing to help and be involved in the community.”
The tournament was originally named the Walter Hagen Memorial Tournament, Cameron Gross said. It was re-named after Cameron in 1989. Cameron Gross said proceeds from the tournament will benefit the Cookeville Regional Foundation.
“This is an area where we can actually help local cancer patients like Anne was,” Cameron Gross said. “This can benefit people in her community and do things for good that really need to be done for people in our area. [Anne] loved Cookeville, we’re a Cookeville family.”
Cameron Gross said golfers love the tournament’s laid-back, family friendly feel.
Cameron-Gross said that there would be some special 50th Anniversary prizes this year, as well as a $10,000 hole-in-one prize.
“We have a lot of loyalism, a lot of faithful golfers that play every year,” Cameron Gross said. “A lot of family involvement. Teams that are families and multi-generational, so we want to recognize some of those people.”
This year’s Anne Cameron Golf Classic takes place June 14 at the Golden Eagle Golf Course in Cookeville.
