Michigan Golf Journal October 2021

Grand Blanc’s Terry Delcamp Wins GAM Women’s Senior Championship in Playoff Terry Delcamp of Grand Blanc made a seven-foot par putt on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff with Shelly Weiss of Southfield to win her third GAM Women’s Senior Championship, at Birchwood Farms Golf & Country Club. “I had the same putt in regulation play and missed it, but this time I knew it was straight in,” she said. Delcamp won her first two Women’s Senior titles back-to-back in 2014 and ’15, including the previous visit in 2015 to Birchwood Farms. Both players totaled 157 for two rounds and the medalist tie. “I retired this year so I’ve played a little bit more golf and had expectations that I would play better,” Delcamp said after accepting the Sara Wold Trophy. Four golfers tied for third behind Delcamp and Weiss. Cathy Netter of Monroe, Susan Campbell of Kalamazoo, Barb Schmid of Grand Rapids and Pam Tyler of Grand Rapids all finished at 161 with defending champion Julie Massa checking in at 165. Massa went on to reach match play of the USGA Women’s Sr. Amateur soon after. MGJ 29 October 2021 www.michigangolfjournal.com Jackson’s Steve Maddalena Wins 35th GAM Senior Championship ANN ARBOR – Jackson’s Steve Maddalena didn’t miss a green in regulation and held off his playing partners to win the 35th GAM Senior Championship at Barton Hills Country Club. “I played pretty solid except for two three- putt bogeys and felt really good with what I was doing tee to green,” he said after shooting a closing 3-under 68 for a 5-under 137 tournament total and three-shot win. “I love this golf course. I could play here every day and never get tired of it.” Mitch Wilson of Portage and fellow Michigan Golf Hall of Fame member Randy Lewis of Alma, who played in the same group with Maddalena, tied for second. Wilson shot 70 and Lewis 71 for 140. Leo Daigle of Wixom, and recent U.S. Senior Amateur runner-up Jerry Gunthorpe of Ovid, rounded out the top five at 141. It was the second GAM Senior Championship win for the 61-year-old Maddalena, who also won in 2019, and he was coming off a prestigious invitational win in the Senior Porter Cup at Niagara Falls Country Club near Buffalo, N.Y. It was his second big national win of the year. He also won the Trans-Mississippi Senior in May. MGJ