2024 Men’s Senior Player of the Year

The 2024 RDGA Senior Player of the Year: Jim Scorse

The Rochester District Golf Association began its Senior Player of the Year Award in 2018 as a way of honoring the most consistent championship-level men’s senior player of the season.

Designed to recognize and celebrate consistent excellence in the game of golf over the course of a single season, the RDGA Senior Player of the Year is recognized annually. This recognition is open to all male golfers, ages 55 and above, in the RDGA and is based on gross score results only. To be considered for the RDGA Senior Player of the Year award, golfers must play a minimum of 5 events on the published Points schedule with an additional requirement that 3 of those events must be RDGA events.

Winning the 2024 RDGA Men’s Senior Player of the Year Award was Jim Scorse of Stafford Country Club – who emerged with the 2024 RDGA Men’s Senior Points champion in one of the most hotly contested points races of the year.

Scorse battled Ken Ogden of Oak Hill neck-and-neck throughout the season – but came out on top by 145 points with victories in the New York State Men’s Senior Amateur Championship and in the Senior Division of the Brook-Lea Amateur Invitational, as well as in one of the RDGA Two Person events. Scorse also solidified his position as the year’s top RDGA Senior player by earning one of two qualifying positions in the local U.S. Senior Amateur qualifier.

In the end, Scorse emerged as the 2023 RDGA Men’s Senior Player of the Year, earning 1212.5 Player of the Year points – outdistancing Ogden’s 1067.5 by 145 points.

In addition to Player of the Year, the top-16 Senior point winners for the 2024 season also earn invitations to the 2025 RDGA Men’s Senior Match Play Championship and the top-10 point winners (and ties) earn exemptions into the 2025 RDGA District Championship John H. Ryan Jr. Memorial.

To see the final 2024 RDGA Men’s Senior Player of the Year Points standings, CLICK HERE.