Michigan Golf Hall of Fame Inductees  

JAKE FASSEZKE

Jake was a big man, 6-foot-3 and 200 pounds, and was known as the “Blond Bomber” when he won the Michigan Open in 1933 and repeated in 1934. He came out of Saginaw and had some of his best years at the Country Club of Jackson where he was professional from 1931 to 1938. Fassezke never shot a round higher than 69 at the club and held the record there until a young former caddie at the club, Dave Hill, broke it. Fassezke played in nine United States Opens and barnstormed across the country for two years with Walter Hagen. But times were difficult economically in the 1930s and Fassezke regained his amateur status and worked in personnel and sales for 30 years. He still had game, though – his handicap at Lenawee Country Club was minus 2 and he shot his age at 66, 67, 68 and 69, every year until he suffered a stroke.