Past RDGA Mid Amateur Champions

The RDGA Mid Amateur Championship

Brook-Lea’s Kevin Lewis claimed the RDGA Mid Amateur trophy in 2023 at Mill Creek Golf Club.

One of the more recent additions to the annual lineup of Rochester District Golf Association championships, the RDGA Mid Amateur Championship is open to all amateur male golfers age 25 and over (as of the beginning of each year’s tournament) who are members in good standing at RDGA clubs. All contestants must have a RDGA/USGA® Handicap Index® supplied by the RDGA.

Patterned after the USGA’s Mid Amateur, the first RDGA Mid Amateur Championship was held in 2007 as a way to provide a formal competition for local post collegeiate-age amateurs, for whom the game is an avocation, rather than a stepping stone to a professional career. The format of the event is a two-day, 36-hole, stroke play competition, conducted as two 18-hole rounds held on consecutive days.

To say that Stafford Country Club member Jim Scorse has dominated this championship is an understatement. In 2019, the five-time RDGA District Championship John H. Ryan Memorial winner captured his eighth RDGA Mid Am title in the 13-year history of the competition. In 2022, Oak Hill’s Tim Saur became just the third player (other than Scorse and Ken Starkweather) to win the District Mid Am title more than once.

In 2023, Brook-Lea’s Kevin Lewis, captured the Championship for the first time in dramatic fashion, battling Caledonia’s Troy Allen down to the final hole in the final round to claim his first District Championship of any kind since winning the 2006 RDGA Junior Championship.

Lewis became the second District Champion in 2023 to have previously won the RDGA Junior Championship, including Jason Lohwater, who won the 2023 RDGA District Championship at Ravenwood.