The Augusta National Women’s Amateur golf tournament is underway ahead of the Masters next week and one rising star from Clemson University is quickly going viral.
Among the 70-plus participants in this year’s tournament is Annabelle Pancake, the 2023 Women’s Amateur Championship runner-up and a debutant at Augusta this year. Pancake made a statement on the course early with an eagle on the par-five third hole.
But for the most part, fans just found her name absolutely delightful. As you might imagine, the puns have been flying all over the place since this morning:
“Found who I’m rooting for this week at ANWA,” Golf.com’s Zephyr Melton wrote, adding a pancake emoji.
“Syrupy swing. Hits butter cuts,” one user replied.
“If Pancake wins and doesn’t roll down Washington Road to the nearby (Waffle House), then what are we even doing here?” another joked.
“Need her listing of favorite breakfast foods!” a third declared.
Jokes aside, Annabelle Pancake is a pretty talented golfer in her own right. She had five top 25 finishes during the 2023 golf season at Clemson and was the runner-up at the 2023 Landfall Tradition. She also won the 2023 Clemson Invitational, reached the final 16 of the North and South Women’s Amateur, and made the cut in the LPGA Tour’s Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational.
Pancake was also the runner-up at the 2022 Women’s Western Amateur and reached the Round of 16 in the U.S. Women’s Amateur that year.
All of that said, it would be pretty fitting if a national brand like IHOP, Waffle House, Perkins or Denny’s offered her a deal at the end of the tournament.
Though one could argue that she would deserve a deal like that even if she didn’t have such an awesome surname.