Chris Gotterup's sister Anna overcame rare condition, now a Navy pilot

The meteoric rise of PGA Tour golf star Chris Gotterup is well known. Chris this week will make his Masters Tournament debut. His sister Anna's story is just as impressive.

The siblings grew up in Little Silver. Anna is a senior lacrosse player for the nationally ranked Navy team who was dangerously close to losing her left leg due to a rare vascular condition called Popliteal Artery Entrapment Syndrome. It’s a condition that caused the former Red Bank Catholic star’s calf muscle to atrophy down to a small fraction of its normal size.

Her early outreach for treatment is credited with saving the leg and preserving her athletic and military careers. All this while Anna has also been preparing for what comes after graduation - when she will spend five years on active duty and become an officer. In September, as a potential Navy pilot, she'll attend flight school.

"It hasn't been easy for that young lady," dad Morten Gotterup said, "but she's kind of a badass. " The family will be in attendance when Chris, 26, tees it up in Augusta as a highly ranked newcomer that the golf world has been abuzz about; the 2025 Scottish Open champion said he'll "treat it like a normal week and try to play well. " Chris also played youth lacrosse but specialized in golf when he entered Christian Brothers Academy and he went on to have an elite collegiate golf career at Rutgers for four years and the University of Oklahoma for a final season.