North stars again

Olivia Herrick (right) and Samantha Sommers are teaming up for the U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball for the first time since 2018. Chris Keane, USGA
A Christmas or two ago, Samantha Sommers received two shipping tubes in the mail.
Sommers, a former University of Minnesota golfer, opened them to find two of her favorite prints designed by her four-ball partner, Olivia Herrick.
“One had pencils and had a bunch of life sayings on them, and the other talked about ‘stop apologizing for your wild,’” Sommers said. “When I opened the two tubes of the prints, I just started crying because I knew they were made by her, but I also knew they rang true in my life.”

 
Sommers and Herrick, based on their familiarity of each other from junior golf in Minnesota, formed a side for the inaugural U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship in 2015 at Bandon Dunes in Oregon. The Twin City-area residents advanced to the Round of 32. The next year at Streamsong Resort in Florida, Herrick and Sommers made the quarterfinals. In 2017 and 2018, the pair did...