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LOUDONVILLE, NY -- The New York State Golf Association has accepted 437 entries for the 40th NYS Men's Mid-Amateur Championship at Schuyler Meadows Club in Loudonville, N.Y., September 27-29, 2024.

Related: Championship Home / Qualifying Info / Qualifying Results

To be eligible, a player must be at least 25 years old by September 27, 2024 and have an up-to-date Handicap Index of 10.4 or less, and must be a member of the NYSGA, defined as either (1) belonging to an NYSGA member club or (2) joining the NYSGA as a 2024 NYSGA eClub Member. 

Sectional Qualifying, played over 18 holes, will be conducted at nine sites around New York, from Friday, August 23 through Wednesday, September 11 at the following venues:

• Albany | McGregor Links CC | Mon, Aug 26 (101/16)

• Binghamton | Binghamton CC | Mon, Sept 9 (38/6)

• Buffalo | Pendleton Creek | Wed, Aug 28 (29/4)

• Long Island | Baiting Hollow Club | Mon, Sept 9 (38/6)

• Mid-Hudson | Powelton Club | Tue, Sept 3 (73/10)

• North Country | Malone GC | Sat, Aug 31 (6/2)

• Rochester | Ravenwood GC | Wed, Aug 28 (31/5)

• Syracuse | Tuscarora GC | Fri, Aug 23 (34/6)

• Utica/Rome | Yahnundasis GC | Wed, Sept 11 (36/6)

( ##/## denotes the number of players competing for an allocated number of qualifying spots at each site.)

No playoffs will be conducted during sectional qualifying (except for the Last Chance Qualifier). All players tied for the final allocated spot at a given qualifier will advance to the championship.

The "Last Chance Qualifier" will be held at the Country Club of Troy in the Capital Region on Wednesday, September 25th. Click here to learn more or register.

Here is the current list of players who are fully exempt into the 2024 NYS Men's Mid-Amateur and have accepted their invitation (as of August 23):

Past Champions
Billy Hanes (2023, 2022 champion), Carl Schimenti (2021 champion), Ken Riter (2009 champion), Tim Spitz (2012 champion), Jimmy Welch (2011 champion), Matt Clarke (2005 champion).

Top 20 & Ties - 2023 NYS Mid-Am at Crag Burn GC
Benjamin Bates, Chris Blyth, Kyle Downey, Billy Hanes, David Hanes, Doug Kleeschulte, Matt Maione, Jeff March, Brad Monroe, Anthony Ragusa, Wills Reardon, Gregory Sibick, Carter Thompson, Andrew Watson.

NYS Men's Am Champions - Past 10 Years
Kyle Downey (2023), Luke Feehan (2014)

2024 NYS Men's Am - Low 40 & Ties
Andy Bernatovicz, Chris Blyth, Thomas Conroy, John Duthie, Joel Jakubowicz, Jeff March, Ben Peacock, Wills Reardon, Carl Schimenti.

2024 NYS Men's Four-Ball Championship
Jim Hirsch, Bill Virkler

2024 NYS Men's Senior - Top 5 & Ties
To Be Determined  on Sept. 11, 2024

USGA Championship Qualifiers
Jon Klotz, Joe Mitchell, Nick Taylor

Special Exemptions
Max Adler, Joe Fitzsimmons, Dan Gabel, Blake Gianniny, Jim Gifford, David Hayes, Andrew Kay, Tom McGinn, Patrick Mainey, Dan Russo, Dave Segot, Austin Teal.

Club Exemptions
To be determined

Regional Association Champions
Ben Bates (Schenectady Classic), John Duthie (AIM), Jonathan Farber (LIGA Am), Timothy Hegarty (WGA  Open), Mark Mumford (WGA Mid-Am), Nolan Swanson (WST Am), Josh Woodward (Watertown City), Aaron Youngman (RDGA Mid-Am).

The number of exempt players into the championship could increase based on the performance of amateurs in other regional championships and tournaments around New York State (see below).

Exemption categories for the championship are as follows:

• E1. Winners of the NYS Men's Mid-Amateur Championship from the last 20 years.

• E2. From the 2023 NYS Men's Mid-Amateur Championship, the 20 lowest scorers and anyone tied for 20th place.

• E3. Winners of the NYS Men's Amateur Championship from the last 10 years.

• E4. From the 2024 NYS Men's Amateur Championship, any player in the low 40 & ties.

• E5. Winners of the 2024 NYS Men's Amateur Four-Ball Championships.

• E6. From the 2024 NYS Men's Senior Amateur Championship, the 5 lowest scorers and ties.

• E7. Most recent (as of September 27, 2024) winner or low amateur (*professional events) of the following regional championships:

• AIM Championship

• BDGA Individual Championship

• BDGA Mid-Amateur Championship

• CCR Invitational

• Delaware County Championship

• Dutchess County Championship

• LIGA Individual Championship

• MGA Ike Championship

• MGA MET Amateur Championship

• MGA MET Open*

• NYC Amateur

• NYS Open*

• RDGA Individual Championship

• RDGA Mid-Amateur Championship

• SDGA Gerry Ashe Memorial

• SDGA Mid-Amateur Championship

• TCGA Amateur Championship

• Tri-County Match Play Championship

• Ulster County Championship

• Watertown City Championship

• WGA Individual Championship

• E8. All actively ranked golfers in WAGR (World Amateur Golf Rankings)

• E9. Players qualifying for a USGA Championship (since September 26, 2023)

• E10. Host club exemptions

• E11. Special exemptions as selected by the NYSGA

 
About Schuyler Meadows Club

As one of the premier golf clubs in New York’s capital region, Schuyler Meadows boasts a magnificent design by the preeminent course architect Devereux Emmet.

Albany architect, J. Worthington Palmer used the central portion of George Washington's home at Mount Vernon as a model for his design of the Clubhouse.

The 18 hole golf course was completed in 1927. During his career, Emmet designed over 150 golf courses throughout the world. Some of the more notable courses he designed include Congressional Country Club, Garden City Golf Club, St George’s Golf and Country Club, Wee Burn Country Club and Leatherstocking. In 2002, Hanse Golf Course Design was retained and the firm prepared a long-range plan to modernize the golf course and restore the 18 holes to the original Devereux Emmet design.

Schuyler Meadows has been a strong steward for the NYSGA in recent years, hosting the NYS Men’s Amateur in 2013 and 2021, as well as the NYS Women’s Amateur three times, most recently in 2017 (which also included the concurrent Mid-Amateur championship) as well as in 1976 and 1955. The club hosted its first state championship, the NYS Boys’ Junior Amateur in 1938.