Born into a family of talented golfers, Alissa Super won her first state title in 1990 at the Minnesota Junior Girls’ State Championship. She is a three-time women’s state amateur champion, having won the Minnesota Women’s State Amateur three consecutive years, from 1996 to 1998, a two-time Minnesota Women’s State Match Play champion, winning in 1994 and 2000, and was twice honored as the MGA Women’s Player of the Year, in 1998 and 1999. At 26, Super captured her lone national title, advancing through match play at the 1999 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur at Cherokee Town & Country Club, outside Atlanta, Ga. She beat the 50-year-old veteran Carol Semple Thompson, 3 and 2 in the first round, and never looked back, eventually meeting Leland Beckel in the finals, and winning 1-up.
