There hasn’t been much to celebrate for Ole Miss basketball during the 2019-20 season, but when 84-year old Mary Ann Wakefield sunk a putt from baseline to baseline to win a 2020 Nissan Altima on Saturday, The Pavilion might as well have been the venue of Game 7 of the NBA Finals.
Wakefield lined up a putt from 94-yards away and, with pinpoint technique and mechanics, hit a long, winding shot reminiscent of Tiger Woods at the 16th hole of the 2005 Augusta Masters.
“I got up there, and I was very relaxed,” she said. “(I) didn’t feel the pressure.