About Us
The goal of the Foundation is to create inclusion for kids of ALL abilities and backgrounds to come together to learn and grow the game of golf.
Fassi’s Friends offers free golf classes for disabled and full-bodied kids to come together and learn the game of golf.
Fassis’s Friends Clinics
We would love to have your child join us for our FREE monthly golf clinics. Registration is required, but all children, all abilities, are welcome to join us!
When: Thursday Evenings
Two Different Class Times Offered!
Classes are held at First Tee - NWA
715 E. Monroe Ave. | Lowell, AR
Register for our next session using the button below.
Birdie Benefit
Support Maria during the 2023 Season by making pledges for birdies and eagles during her LPGA events. All funds raised go directly into growing Fassi’s Friends and expanding to new locations.
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Fassi’s friends essay contest!
Congratulations to our 2023 Winner of the DOW GLBI and Fassi’s Friends Essay Contest - Sophia!!
Sophia, our 2023 winner of the DOW GLBI Essay Contest, and her sister Emma are both participants in our Fassi’s Friends classes in NWA. They had an incredible week experiencing what it was like behind the scenes of an LPGA tournament. Enjoy this recap of the fun they had!
Our 2022 Winner, Mia enjoyed a once in a lifetime trip, behind the scenes and inside the ropes with Maria Fassi as the winner of the Fassi’s Friends Dow GLBI Essay Contest!
2023 Fassi’s Friends Festival!
Meet the Founder
On March 25, 1998, Maria Fassi was born in Mexico City and raised in Pachuca, Hidalgo, about 70 miles north of Mexico City.
Maria started playing golf when she was seven years old. Everything started as a fun game between her and her siblings. She fell in love with the game at an early age and started competing when she was 8. Her passion for the game kept growing as well as her love for competition. These all lead to her pursuing her dream and becoming a professional athlete.
Family, friends, and golf are Maria's biggest passions.
Maria played collegiate golf at the University of Arkansas from 2016-2019, where she won 11 individual titles, including the 2019 SEC Championship and the 2019 NCAA Championship. Maria also became the first person to win the Annika award in back-to-back seasons.
Maria started her professional career on the LPGA in June of 2019. Her first event as a professional was the US Women's Open, where she finished T-12.
On June 27, 2020, Maria claimed her first professional win at the Cooper Communities NWA Classic, only a few miles away from her alma mater. She is now on her third year as a professional and just recently competed at the 2020 Olympics.
Maria's work through The Maria Fassi Foundation and the creation of Fassi's Friends came to fruition after many years of dreaming about starting her own foundation. Josefina, Maria's cousin, is mute, deaf, and has brain paralysis. Josefina's love and passion for golf grew after watching Maria compete. Josefina's love for the game, grows daily and she has become an inspiration for so many in her community and Maria herself.
This is why Maria felt inspired and motivated to start a foundation to help bring kids of all abilities to golf and start impacting kids' lives in her community.
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