Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship

The New York State Golf Association, formed in 1923 to promote and preserve the game of golf in New York State, organizes and conducts various championships for amateur golfers of both genders and all ages. One of its newest events is the Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship, which annually identifies New York’s premier female golfers who have reached the age of 25.

The NYSGA Mid-Amateur Championship is specifically intended as a championship for post-college golfers who are not pursuing golf as a career. The innovative approach is designed to provide a competitive format for golfers who are committed to amateur play.

The first NYSGA Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship was held in 2009 at Drumlins CC (East). Rochester’s Christy Schultz claimed the new event as hers by taking home the trophy in both 2009 and 2010. In fact, Schultz captured four state titles in four years, having already won the NYSGA Women’s Amateur in both 2007 and 2008. However, she wasn’t through. Schultz waited a over decade to win her third and fourth Women’s Mid-Am titles, first in 2021 at Teugaga Country Club and then in 2022 at McGregor Links Country Club.

In between Schultz’s set of Mid-Am bookends, the most dominant play has come from Syracuse’s Teresa Cleland, who took home the trophy in 2011, ’12 and ’13. Both Newburgh’s Joanna Beatty (in 2014 and ’16) and Rochester’s Jenna Hoecker (in 2018 and ’19) have taken home two titles.

The NYSGA is proud to honor its past champions and welcome its future ones as it continues to think innovatively to uphold its mission to both serve golfers across New York State and annually identify the best player among

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