LITCHFIELD PARK, Ariz. –
Gracie Parrott was invited to the 2021 Patriot All-America Invitational, the first year the prestigious event also included a women's field. The 54-hole amateur stroke-play Championship was held December 27-31 at The Wigwam Resort where Parrott finished 37th.
The annual Patriot All-America Invitational frequently features the top fields in amateur golf. Major champions Justin Thomas, Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, and Collin Morikawa are all past participants in the event. In the ten years since its inception, alumni from the invitational have collected more than 50 victories on the PGA Tour and European Tour.
Every player was presented a golf bag at the event's opening ceremony to utilize throughout the competition. Parrott was gifted a bag featuring Specialist Russell E. Madden of the U.S. Army. The bag was embroidered with the name and branch of service of a fallen military member. At the conclusion of the event, the golf bags were collected and are to be auctioned off by the respective athletic departments of participating student-athletes with all proceeds going to the Folds of Honor foundation which provides post-secondary educational scholarships for children and spouses of military service men and women killed or disabled while serving the United States.