U.S. Mid-Amateur Golf Championship Totally Explained

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The U.S. Mid-Amateur, often called the Mid-Am for short, is the leading annual golf tournament in the United States for post-college male amateur golfers. It is organized by the United States Golf Association. The Mid-Amateur was first played in 1981 at Bellerive Country Club in Creve Coeur, Missouri, near St. Louis. When introduced, it was the first new USGA championship created since the United States Senior Women's Amateur Golf Championship in 1962.
Qualifications for the Mid-Am are similar to those for the U.S. Amateur, except for the following:

Competitors must be at least 25 years old as of the opening day of the main tournament.
Competitors must have a USGA handicap index of 3.4 or lower, as opposed to 2.4 or lower for the U.S. Amateur.

The USGA specifically intended the Mid-Am as a championship for post-college golfers who were not pursuing golf as a career, as virtually all golfers who pursue a professional career decide to do so no later than their early twenties. This was most likely a response to the fact that less than half of all U.S. Amateur qualifiers are 25 or older, and most older golfers found themselves disadvantaged in competing against college golfers who typically play much more often.
   Like the U.S. Amateur, the Mid-Am consists of two days of stroke play, with the leading 64 competitors then playing a knockout competition held at match play to decide the champion. The profile of Mid-Am champions, with respect to age, is somewhat similar to that of U.S. Amateur champions before World War II. In that era, more top-level golfers chose to remain amateur, and the average age of U.S. Open Champions was higher.
   While the list of winners is considerably less illustrious than that of the U.S. Amateur, one notable winner was Jay Sigel, a three-time winner of this event and a two-time U.S. Amateur champion who went on to play the Champions Tour. The winner receives an automatic invitation to play in The Masters and the U.S. Open.
   The USGA's analogous event for women is the U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur.

Winners

2007 Trip Kuehne

2006 Dave Womack

2005 Kevin Marsh

2004 Austin Eaton III

2003 Nathan Smith

2002 George Zahringer

2001 Tim Jackson

2000 Greg Puga

1999 Danny Green

1998 John "Spider" Miller

1997 Ken Bakst

1996 John "Spider" Miller

1995 Jerry Courville, Jr.

1994 Tim Jackson

1993 Jeff Thomas

1992 Danny Yates

1991 Jim Stuart

1990 Jim Stuart

1989 James Taylor

1988 David Eger

1987 Jay Sigel

1986 Bill Loeffler

1985 Jay Sigel

1984 Michael Podolak

1983 Jay Sigel

1982 William Hoffer

1981 Jim Holtgrieve

Multiple winners

3 wins: Jay Sigel

2 wins: Tim Jackson, John "Spider" Miller, Jim StuartFurther Information

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