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NEW HARTFORD, N.Y. – The 102nd New York State Men’s Amateur Championship will be held at Yahnundasis Golf Club in New Hartford, July 8-10, 2025. 149 of New York State’s top male amateur players will tee off for 72 holes of individual stroke play for a chance at hoisting the century old Ganson Depew Cup.

Play will commence with 18 hole rounds on both Tuesday and Wednesday, at which point a 36 hole cut will occur. The low 40 players and ties at conclusion of second round play will advance to the final two rounds. The final 36 holes will be played on Thursday, with the low scorer across all 72 holes earning championship honors. A sudden-death playoff will be the deciding factor in the event of a tie after 72 holes.

Related: Pairings / Scoring / Championship Central / Photos / 2024 Recap / Qualifying Results / Past Winners

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CHAMPIONSHIP QUICK FACTS

Dates: July 8-10, 2025

Host Site: Yahnundasis Golf Club

Defending Champion: Aiden Spampinato of Cobblestone Creek Country Club secured the 101st NYS Men’s Amateur Championship at Wanakah Country Club with a six under total for the tournament. With a dominant opening round 67 (-5), there was no way to be denied. He followed up his next two rounds with an even 72 and a final round one under 71. Along with the weather delaying and even a tornado warning, Spampinato defeated the field and the elements before the sunset. Former NYS Amateur Champion James Allen was runner up along with Alex Zurat both coming in at five under par for the tournament.

Format: 72 holes* of individual stroke play, played over three days (Tuesday-Thursday).
*36 hole cut with the low 40 and ties advancing to the final two rounds. 

Eligibility: This Championship is open to (1) male amateur golfers who hold an (2) active, up-to-date USGA Handicap Index (6.0 max) issued through a licensed golf club in New York. Nonresidents of New York may be eligible, click here for the NYSGA's eligibility requirements.

2025 U.S. AMATEUR EXEMPTION & RANKINGS

The winner of the 2025 NYS Men's Amateur Championship will earn an exemption to compete in the 2025 U.S. Amateur Championship, played August 11-17 at The Olympic Club in San Francisco, California. The top-3 finishers receive an exemption from local qualifying for the 2026 U.S. Amateur Championship

Top-20 Exempt into 103rd NYS Men's Amateur: The top-20 players in the 2025 NYS Men’s Amateur will earn an exemption into the 2026 NYS Men's Amateur Championship.

Par & Yardage: 6,815 yards, par 71

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

• 6:00am....................Practice facility open
• 6:30am....................Registration opens
• 7:30-9:00am............Round 3 from tee #1 and #10
• 11:00-1:00pm..........Player lunch
• 12:30-2:00pm..........Round 4 from tee #1 and #10
• 6:30pm....................Award ceremony
  
  

PLAYERS TO WATCH

Past Men's Amateur Champions in the Field

Kyle Downey, 35, of Locust Hill Country Club, looks to come back after a missed cut last year he won the state amateur title in 2023 after a two-stroke victory at Wykagyl Country Club. Last year Downey won the 2024 Men’s Mid Amateur Championship at Schuyler Meadows Club finishing at 14 under par. He won by ten shots, an absolute dominant performance. Downey finished as the low amateur (T4 overall) at the 2023 Western New York Open Championship and also added a top 10 finish at the NYS Men’s Mid-Amateur Championship at Crag Burn GC. Downey was the runner-up at the 2022 Mid-Amateur Championship, held at Seven Oaks GC.

James Allen, 23, of Scarsdale Golf Club, was runner-up last year at Wanakah Country Club shooting five-under. Now he seeks his revenge. He secured the 2021 Men’s Amateur title with a one-stroke victory at Schuyler Meadows. Allen finished T7 at the 2022 Championship at Onondaga and T27 at the 2023 tournament at Wykagyl. Allen played collegiately at Penn State, where he won the Rutherford Intercollegiate and was named Big Ten Golfer of the week as a sophomore in 2022. Allen won the Metropolitan Golf Association’s Carter Cup for juniors in 2020. This year Allen played in the Ike MGA Stroke Play Championship and the Westchester Open Championship, where he finished in 24th in both. 

John Duthie, 36, of Cornell University Golf Course, won the 2007 NYS Amateur at Yahnundasis Golf Club 1 up, when it was still in matchplay format. Duthie is the last champion from Yahnundasis and is ready to conquer again. Last year he finished solo fourth at four under in the NYS Men’s Amateur Championship two shots off the lead. Duthie turned pro in 2011 and spent a decade as a touring professional, regaining his amateur status two years ago. Last year, Duthie won the CNY PGA’s AIM Championship, setting a tournament record for the lowest four-round score at -9. He also finished in fourth in both the NYS Amateur and NYS Mid-Amateur last year. Recently he finished runner up in the Apogee Investment Management Championship.

Jim Scorse, 60, of Stafford Country Club, of Stafford Country Club this year won the 2025 Men' s Senior Four-Ball Championship with partner Wade Sarkis respectfully, also securing back-to-back Men’s Senior Amateur titles in 2023 at Yahnundasis and last year at Corning CC. Scorse won the 2016 NYS Mid-Amateur Championship at his home course of Stafford Country Club, as well as the 2013 Mid-Am at Onondaga Golf and Country Club and the 2005 Men’s Amateur at Ontario Golf Club. He’s an eight time NYS champion as a whole, winning the 2011 and 2012 Four-Ball Titles. He won the RDGA’s Men’s Senior Player of the year in 2023 for the second consecutive year.

Aiden Spampinato, 22, of Cobblestone Creek Country Club is the defending champion winning last year's NYS Men’s Amateur at Wanakah finishing at six under par. He finished his senior year at Methodist University on the men’s golf team where he finished 29th in the NCAA Division III Championship. He also won the Flower City Preview, a strokeplay collegiate golf tournament in September posting rounds of 68-66-65, eight shots clear of the field. In the previous Men’s Amateur’s he finished in the top 10 in 2023 at Wykagyl, top 20 in 2022 at Onondaga, and 3rd in 2021 at Schuyler Meadows. He also won the RDGA Men's Championship at Irondequoit last year.

Jeff Wolniewicz, 39, of Crag Burn Golf Club, brought home the 2008 Men’s Amateur title at Pinehaven Country Club. He also won the 2016 and 2017 NYS Men’s Four-Ball Championships at Leatherstocking Golf Club, with partners Bill Gaffney and Jonathan Clark respectively. Wolniewicz played collegiately at Binghamton University (‘03-’07), where he was a 3x all-region selection and two-time captain. He was inducted into their Hall of Fame in 2018. Last year Wolniewicz made the cut and finished T59 at Wanakah Country Club.

Other Past NYSGA Champions in the Field

Andy Bernatovicz, 57, of River Oaks Golf Club, last year claimed the BDGA Senior Championship at Moon Brook CC, posting 3-over for the two days. He also captured the 2023 NYS Men’s Senior Four-Ball with partner Ken Riter at Turning Stone Resort. He also won the 2018 BDGA Senior Championship at Cherry Hill Club. Bernatovicz captured multiple Buffalo District Senior Match Play and Senior titles. Last year he finished T38 at Wanakah. 

Christian Chapman, 26. of RDGA eClub, won the 2016 NYS Boys’ 18U Junior Amateur at Seven Oaks Golf Club. He most recently took home the CCR Invitational getting an exemption to the NYS Men’s Amateur. In 2023 he won the Golf Max CNY Open Championship, a professional golf event firing a score of 8-under for the tournament. He played collegiate golf at St. Bonaventure University. 

Owen Corby, 19, of Monroe Golf Club, took home the 2025 NYS Men’s Four-Ball Championship with partner Anthony Maglisco this May. The duo posted the lowest round of the championship shooting 65 and clearing the field by two strokes. He wrapped up his Sophomore season at LeMoyne College on the Men’s golf team. Last year he just missed the cut at Wanakah.

Kellen Dean, 19, of McGregor Links Country Club, won the 2023 NYS Boys’ Junior Amateur, claiming a two stroke victory at the Lake Placid Club. He wrapped his freshman year at Xavier University, claiming the individual title at the Grier Jones Shocker Invitational. He recently was in the field for the Korn Ferry Tour’s Wichita Open where he got his first taste of professional golf finishing 154th. Last year he also captured the inaugural Capital Region Golf Association Amateur Championship at McGregor Links CC. Yahnundasis will mark Dean’s fourth straight Men’s Amateur appearance. Last year he finished T14 at Wanakah coming in at two over par for the championship.

Anthony Delisanti, 22. of Willowbrook Golf Club, won the 2021 NYS Boys’ 18U Junior Amateur Championship at Seven Oaks Golf Club. He was a co-runner-up during the 2023 Men’s Amateur at Wykagyl. He is currently ranked 147th in the World Amateur Golf Rankings with 3 career wins. He played collegiate golf at Valparaiso University, where he recently won the Mountain Valley Conference player of the year.

Billy Hanes, 39, of Crag Burn Golf Club,is a two-time NYS Men’s Mid-Amateur Champion winning in 2022, and 2023. His 7-under tournament lifted him seven clear of the field at his home course of Crag Burn in 2023. Hanes also secured the 100th Buffalo District Golf Association’s Individual Championship at Orchard Park GC. Hanes played collegiate golf at the University of Richmond. He plays on the Tampa Bay Swap Dawgs in the Grass League.

Jim Hirsh, 38, of NYSGA eClub - CNY, captured the 2024 NYS Men’s Amateur Four Ball with partner Bill Virkler. Hirsh also won the 69th annual Apogee Investment Management Championship this year clearing the field by three-strokes, and the final round was held at Yahnundasis Golf Club.

Tanner LaTorre, 15, NYSGA eClub - Capital Region, is the reigning Boys’ 14U Junior Amateur champion. He’s coming off a fifth-place finish at the 2025 NYSPHSAA Boys State  Golf Championship and a T7 at the 2025 Boys’ 18U Championship a week ago. In 2024, as a sophomore, he became the first golfer from Ichabod Crane HS to win the NYSPHSAA Section II championship. He also competed in the 2022 Drive, Chip and Putt competition, making history with his brother, Mason, as the first pair of brothers to compete in the event together. He will be making his NYS Men’s Amateur Championship debut.

Anthony Maglisco, 21, of Pompey Club, captured the 2025 NYS Men’s Four-Ball with partner Owen Corby. He also won the 2018 NYS Boys’ 14U Junior Amateur and the 2024 Syracuse District Amateur Championship. He is currently ranked 2722nd in the World Amateur Golf Rankings. Maglisco is going into his senior year at LeMoyne College playing on the golf team there.

Jamie Miller, 40, of Crag Burn Golf Club, is a four-time NYS champion. He won the 2014 Mid-Am at Teugega CC and 2018 at Wanakah CC. Miller and partner Billy Hanes won the 2017 NYS Men’s Four-Ball Amateur at Leatherstocking GC. He also claimed a NYS Mixed Team title in 2022 at Brook-Lea with partner Chelsea Dantonio of the same club. He’s been on the NYSGA Executive Committee for several years and is currently serving as the NYSGA’s President in 2025. He’s also qualified for numerous USGA championships and played his college golf at Augusta State. Last year he finished T8 in at Wanakah finishing at even par through the 3 rounds.

Jonathan Oakes, 19, of Ardsley Country Club, claimed the NYS Boys’ 18U Junior Amateur title last year at The Links at Hiawatha Landing. He tied the course record with a 64 in the opening round, and never looked back, capturing the title at 14-under over 54 holes, eight strokes better than the runner-up. He plays on the Kenyon College Men’s Golf Team and just wrapped up his sophomore year. He recently came in 14th place in the DIII Men’s National Championship. He also won the 2022 Westchester Junior Am. He is currently ranked 2862 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings.

Jacob Olearczyk, 17, is a two-time NYS Boys’ 14U Junior Champion in 2023, and 2024. Also in 2023 he earned a spot in the Drive, Chip, and Putt competition at Augusta Country Club at the Masters. He is committed to play Division I Golf at LeMoyne College. 

James Welch, 57, of Olde Kinderhook Golf Club, Finished runner up in the 2024 Senior Amateur Championship at Corning Country Club. He also won the 2011 NYS Men’s Mid-Amateur Championship at Dutchess Golf & Country Club. Welch outlasted his opponents in a four-way playoff to claim the title. Welch qualified for the 2019 U.S. Men’s Mid-Am, sharing the top qualifying spot out of Glen Falls Country Club. He has finished in the top three in the last 2 NYS Senior, being the runner up a year ago and third place the year before. He played college golf at Skidmore where he was a prominent figure being the first athlete to be named a National Collegiate Athletic Association All American in 1987. 

Other Names To Watch

Jack Angelucci, 25, of Yahnundasis Golf Club, playing this year at his home course for the NYS Men’s Am. Last year he finished T5 carding 3 under for the championship and 3 shots off the lead. Last year he claimed the 2024 Syracuse District Gerry Ashe Memorial title at Bellevue Country Club, and also won in 2022 at Beaver Meadows. He finished tied for 13th during both the 2023 and 2022 NYS Men’s Am. Recently he finished 11th in the Apogee Investment Management Championship. Angelucci competed on St. Bonaventure’s golf team in 2022-23 as a Graduate Student and Mercyhurst University prior to that.

Nick Bove, 24, Pompey Club is in the top 3,000 WAGR ranking and finished in the top 20 at last year’s Men’s Amateur. He won the 2025 Gerry Ashe Memorial at Timber Banks. He played college golf at Le Moyne College. 

Brody Burgess, 18, Cobblestone Creek Country Club, a recent graduate of Victor High School earned medalist honors and was Section V's lead player. He ended up finishing 10th in the NYSPHSAA 2025 Boys Golf State Championship at Mill Creek Golf Club. Burgess advanced to the final U.S. Open qualifier in May, he shot four-under at a local qualifier at Mendon GC. Burgess finished T14 last in last year's NYS Men’s Amateur Championship at Wanakah Country Club. He is coming off a top 10 finish at the 2025 NYS Boys' 18U Junior and is committed to play Division I Golf at West Virginia University.

Ben Carpenter, 24, of GlenArbor Golf Club, last year placed T14 at the NYS Men’s Amateur Championship at Wanakah. The year before he was the leader through the first three rounds at the 2023 Men’s Amateur at Wykagyl. He finished T2 at three under par, two shots behind the champion Downey. Carpenter was a standout at Yale, where he was the top finisher at the 2024 Ivy League Men’s Championship and recently finished 7th at the 2025 Ivy League Men’s Golf Championship. He was named First Team All-Conference as a Freshman. In 2019, Carpenter won the MGA’s Carter Cup in 2019 at Baltusrol Golf Club. He is currently 2,321 on the World Amateur Golf Ranking.

Braydon Dock, 18, of Glens Falls Country Club, advanced through the local stage of the U.S. Open Qualifying at Shaker Ridge Country Club in early May. He finished his freshman year at Colgate where he finished 4th in the Lake Placid Tournament. He finished runner-up in the Drive Chip and Putt National Championship. 

Ryan Edholm, 21, of Pendleton Creek Golf Club, just wrapped up his senior year at Canisus College where he was named two-time All-MAAC Championship Team, All-MAAC First Team, and the 2024 Buffalo District Golf Association Player of the Year. He is currently ranked 1923 in the World Golf Amateur Rankings.

Joe Fitzsimmons, 41, of Shaker Ridge Country Club, recently captured the Schenectady Classic title along with the Troy Invitational this year. He clinched the Troy Invitational in a sudden-death playoff defending his title from the year prior. 

Donte Groppuso, 23, of Wiltwyck Golf Club, won the 2024 Metropolitan Amateur Championship, securing him a spot in the 124th U.S. Amateur Championship at Hazeltine. Also last year, he finished 10th at the Ike MGA Stroke Play Championship and was named Ping All-South Region in 2024, playing for Florida Southern University. He is currently ranked 2019 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings.

Nathan Han, 24, of Centennial Golf Club, is coming off a decorated career at Columbia University. Han was a PING All-America Honorable Mention in his senior season and was awarded the Ivy League Player of the Year in 2022. He holds numerous Columbia records, including a low single-round of score 60 and single-season stroke average of 70.24. Before Columbia, Han was a two-time NYSPHSAA Champion and was the runner-up at the 2016 NYS Boys’ Junior Amateur at Seven Oaks GC. He currently sits at 1229 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking. This last year he was a graduate student at Pepperdine. Recently he competed in the Westchester Open Championship finishing in 6th place (Professional Event).

John Hiller, 18, of Westchester Country Club, won the 2022 Met Junior at St. George’s Golf & Country Club. The Duke University commit has won two AJGA events, including the AJGA Junior at Penn State in 2022 and the Three Little Birds Memorial Open in 2023. Hiller finished T3 at the 2021 NYS Boys’ Junior Amateur and represented the Empire State at the 73rd U.S. Junior Am at the Country Club of North Carolina. 

Thomas Finn, 20, of Nassau Country Club, Won the 2022 NYSPHSAA Boys Golf State Championship. In last year’s NYS Men’s Am, he finished in 13th place. In 2023, he won the Michael Hebron Amateur Championship at Bethpage Black. Finn is entering his junior season at St. John’s University. 

Justin Fiato, 23, NYSGA eClub Southern Tier, won the 2025 TCGA Amateur Golf Championship he led all three rounds and claimed the title. He played collegiate golf at LeMoyne College.

Ben Loomis, 22, of Winged Foot Golf Club, plays Division I golf at Vanderbilt, and is going into his Senior year. He won the Colonel Shootout last season shooting his personal best 54-hole score of 7-under. He also helped the Commodores win the 2023 St Andrews Links Collegiate. He is currently ranked 3524 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings and will be making his NYS Men’s Am debut.

Philip Minnehan, 22, of Cobblestone Creek CC, finished T8 in last years NYS Men's Am along with winning last year's Country Club of Rochester Men’s Invitational. He won the 2025 RDGA Men's Match Play in May, and is ranked 2449th in the World Amateur Golf Ranking. In 2021, he was the NYS Boys’ 18U runner-up to Anthony Delisanti at Seven Oaks. He played colleigate golf at Old Dominion University and played for Towson University prior to that.

Sam O’Hara, 20, of the Maidstone Club, last year placed T21 in the NYS Men’s Am. O’Hara finished as the runner-up at the 2022 Long Island Amateur Championship and 16th at the Long Island Open in 2023. Just wrapped up his sophomore year at the University of Virginia, making his collegiate debut at the Hamptons Intercollegiate.  

Lucas Rizo-Patron, 18, of Pelham Country Club, last year he won the First Tee Miami Doral Junior Classic. He was also runner-up at the Westchester Open Championship, a professional golf event. Rizo-Patron is committed to play Division I golf at Richmond University. 

Wills Reardon, 37, of Piping Rock Club, was the runner-up at the 2024 NYS Men’s Mid-Amateur last fall. In the NYS Men’s Am last year he finished T14 posting two-over for the championship.

Jackson Saroney, 17, of Drumlins Golf Club, is coming off a NYSPHSAA individual state title where he set a new record. His 36-hole total of 132 was the lowest in NYSPHSAA golf history, dating back to 1973. Saroney, who attends Jamesville-Dewitt High School, placed T4 in Boys' 18U Amateur, T8 at the NYS Amateur and won two SDGA events (Junior District Match Play and Junior Classic) last summer. Also won the SDGA Junior Player of the Year honors in 2024. He’s committed to play collegiate golf at Penn State.

Alex Zurat, 24, Oak Hill Country Club, was a runner up in last year's NYS Men’s Amateur championship at Wanakah finishing one off the lead. Zurat has played in a couple of PGA Tour qualifier events, most recently at the John Deere. He currently holds the course record at Oak Hill Country Club (West) shooting a 63 (7 under par). He played Division I golf at Old Dominion. 

Youngest competitors in the field

15 – Massimo Riccio, Oak Hill CC
15 – Tommy Goodelle, Yahnundasis GC
15 – Tanner LaTorre, NYSGA eClub - Capital Region
15 – Joe Carey, Youth on Course - MGA

Oldest competitors in field

60 – Jim Scorse, Stafford Country Club
57 – James Welch, Olde Kinderhook GC
57 – Andy Bernatovicz, River Oaks GC

Host club members in the field

Jack Angelucci
Chad Carstensen
Bobby Davenport
Caleb Decker
Tommy Goodelle
Joel Jakubowicz

PAST NYS MEN’S AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIPS AT HOST CLUB

YAHNUNDASIS GOLF CLUB

Yahnundasis Golf Club is regarded across upstate New York for its magnificent Walter J. Travis layout spanning over 6,800 yards and includes gently rolling hills, strategically dispersed bunkers and tricky undulating greens defined by the land’s natural contours.

The club dates to 1897, where sixty-five prominent area citizens made a commitment to create an institution that would enhance the enjoyment of their leisure hours. They began a strong tradition of sportsmanship and camaraderie that would be built upon by those who followed.

The club’s name, Yahnundasis, means “around the hill”, which Native Americans called the area around Utica close to Genesee Street, the club’s original site.

On August 9, 1923, the New York State Golf Association was founded at Yahnundasis to foster closer and more intimate relations in and among the greater body of golfers in New York and to create an opportunity for an annual sanctioned (men’s) state championship. Yahnundasis member Sherrill Sherman also became the first NYSGA President and served on the executive committee for decades.

This will be a record-setting seventh NYS Men’s Amateur at Yahnundasis (previously held in 1946, 1953, 1958, 1968, 1988 and 2007, and fourteenth overall NYSGA championship. The venue has been a wonderful supporter of the NYSGA and has hosted numerous championships over the decades including: the NYS Women’s Amateur in 1932, 1950, 1977 and 2018 along with the Women’s Mid-Am, the NYS Men’s Mid-Amateur in 1998 and 2017, and the NYS Men’s Senior in 1946 and 2023.