2022 PLAYER AWARDS

Chris Kamin

AGA Player of the Year, Masters Player of the Year, Mayfair Award

Countless players have teed it up at Arizona Golf Association tournaments over the last century, but few have had a stretch of dominance comparable to Chris Kamin’s 2022 performance. On the strength of four championship wins, Kamin earned the AGA Player of the Year, Masters Player of the Year and the Mayfair Award for lowest scoring average at 68.51.

“There are so many great names who have won the AGA Player of the Year over the years and I am both excited and humbled to be part of that list,” Kamin said. “2022 was a great year on the course and winning the Player of the Year, Masters Player of the Year and the Mayfair Award along with four wins was certainly the highlight of my amateur career.”

Almost like clockwork, Kamin won on the AGA’s biggest stages and bested its top fields. His four championship wins came at the Arizona Stroke Play, Arizona Mid-Amateur Championship, Northern Amateur and Players Cup Championship. Behind the stellar stroke average, Kamin often did more than outlast the competition – he dominated it.

At Stroke Play, he shot -12 overall, including a round one score of 65, and won by nine strokes. In June, he topped that performance with a fourday score of -15 at the Mid-Am – an 11-stroke victory. In his four wins, he never carded a round worse than even par.

Kamin also showed off his game on the national stage, qualifying for the U.S. Amateur and U.S Mid-Amateur. At the Arizona Open, he made the cut and finished seventh place in the Amateur Division.

Kamin’s play earned him spots on the 61st Bob Goldwater Cup Team, as the AGA outlasted the Southwest Section PGA for a second year in a row in the Open Division. He also served as captain of the Arizona vs. Utah Shootout team, represented the AGA at the Pacific Coast Amateur and earned the AGA’s exemption into the Patriot All-America Invitational.