University of Minnesota Athletics
Beverly Gammon Vanstrum - M Club Hall of Fame
Women’s Golf, 1952
HOF Class of 2005
Before women’s golf developed at the U of M, Gopher men’s golf coach Les Bolstad coached Beverly Gammon, inviting her to practice with the men and use the men’s golf facilities.
In 1949, she joined the University Golf Club and played in Minnesota Women’s Golf Association tournaments. Her status as a U of M legend became solidified in 1952 when she took second places at the Western and at the Women’s National Collegiate Championship.
From the mid-1950s until the late 1960s, and as a senior player into the late 1980s, Gammon Vanstrum dominated women's state amateur play. She won seven state match-play titles, six state stroke-play championships and four State Amateur crowns. In 1957, she became the first to win all three major championships in a single season. She took second place six times, a medalist or sharing honors 16 times in 16 years.
Vanstrum won four Senior Women's State Amateur titles and finished second four times.
In total, she won 21 state titles and was runner-up 10 times. The Minnesota Golf Association PGA inducted Vanstrum into its Hall of Fame in 1991. In 1999, the Minneapolis Star Tribune placed her sixth in a list of Minnesota's all-time greatest golfers.