Tag Archives: GAM
GAM Golf Days Championship
Sponsored by Michigan Golf Journal GAM members who have made the most of their GAM Golf Days during 2020 gathered at Indianwood Golf & Country Club for the GAM Golf Days Series Championship presented by the Michigan Golf Journal, on Oct. 6. Winners, both net and gross, were determined among men, women and senior men. The field of 84 golfers became eligible for the final […]
GAM Amateurs Top PGA Pros in 48th Fuller Cup Matches
The Golf Association of Michigan (GAM) team started hot on a cool morning winning five of the six four-ball matches and rolled on through singles over Michigan PGA pros in the afternoon to win the 48th Fuller Cup Matches 13-5 at Cascade Hills Country Club. Top amateur golfers representing the GAM and top PGA professionals representing the […]
Tom Gieselman, Scott Strickland Win GAM Senior/Mid-Am Team Championship
Fellow Oakland Hills Country Club members Tom Gieselman of Commerce Township and Scott Strickland of Bloomfield Hills earned a par on the third hole of a sudden-death playoff with the father-son team of Dean/Dan Ellis to win the finals of the 11th GAM Senior/Mid-Am Team Championship at Barton Hills Country Club. The 2017 champions came from 4 shots […]
Dan Ellis, Jimmy Dewling Shoot Smashing 61 to Win GAM Four-Ball
Former Michigan State University classmates and teammates, Dan Ellis of East Lansing and Jimmy Dewling of Brighton, take on golf courses in similar brute-force fashion. “We swing hard and go find it,” Ellis said. “You saw that on TV with (Bryson DeChambeau) doing the same thing in the U.S. Open. If they’re going to let you do it, […]
GAM Senior Championship: Gregg Bonamici
Gregg Bonamici of Grosse Ile made a 25-foot birdie putt on the second playoff hole and won the 34th GAM Senior Championship at Belvedere Golf Club. The 62-year-old Grosse Ile Golf & Country Club member turned back John Barbour of Grand Rapids in the sudden-death playoff. Bonamici had closed with a 1-under 71 in regulation play for 145, and […]
GAM Sr. Women’s Championship: Julie Massa
Julie Massa of Holt checked the leaderboard at hole No. 17 and saw she had a two-shot lead. “And on 17 I hit my third shot – it’s a par 5 – in the bunker and got up and down to save par,” she said. “So, I knew going to 18 that I just had to […]
GAM Mid-Amateur: Mike Anderson
Northville’s Mike Anderson – the golf coach at Detroit Catholic Central High – hit what he called high-quality golf shots down the stretch in winning the 38th GAM Mid-Amateur Championship at Boyne Highlands Resort. “I’ve played golf for a long time, and you know we all play some good golf and some bad golf and it has […]
GAM Junior Stroke Play: Lauren Timpf and Ieaun Jones
Lauren Timpf of Macomb won an unprecedented 5th consecutive Golf Association of Michigan tournament in her age group – and Ieaun Jones of Ann Arbor won his third junior title in the 12th GAM Junior Stroke Play Championship at Forest Akers East Golf Course. Timpf is a soon to be 14-year-old who has taken the summer by storm. She won the overall title (ages 13-15) by […]
GAM Championship: Jimmy Chestnut
Jimmy Chestnut of Royal Oak fought off final-round nerves he had not confronted for a long time and won his second GAM Championship in August, 12 years after his first. With a 7-under tournament total the 38-year-old attorney rallied to catch and pass Ann Arbor’s Tyler Copp (winner of the Michigan Amateur in late June), who shot […]
Junior State Amateur: PJ Maybank III
PJ Maybank III of Cheboygan has some impressive golf credentials – winning the celebrated Drive, Chip and Putt at Augusta National at age 13, and previously winning Golf Association of Michigan junior tournaments and others on the traveling golf circuit. He called winning the 42nd Michigan Junior State Amateur Championship at TPC Michigan, the biggest win so […]