In 2022, the MGA will hold 22 championship events across the Met Area including its three major championships at some historic venues; Baltusrol Golf Club, Fenway Golf Club and Bethpage Black.
95th MGA Senior Amateur Championship
May 2-3 | Haworth Country Club | Haworth, NJ
The 95th MGA Senior Amateur heads to Haworth Country Club for the first time in the event’s history. In 2021, the championship came down to the wire, with Roddy McRae of Baltusrol finishing the two-day championship at 3-over par, edging out Dennis Lynch of Baiting Hollow by just one stroke to capture his first career MGA title.
24th MGA/WMGA Women's Public Links Championship
May 24 | Hominy Hill Golf Course | Colts Neck, NJ
Hominy Hill Golf Course will host the 24th MGA/WMGA Women's Public Links Championship for the first time in club history. This 18-hole stoke play tournament was created in 1988 and has been played at some highly regarded venues in the Met Area, including Bethpage Red, Sterling Farms and New Jersey National. In 2021, the event was held Rock Spring Golf Club. Stacie MacCourtney of the Weekenders Women's Golf Club shot +8/79 to finish five shots clear of the field to claim the title.
29th MGA Senior Net Four-Ball Championship
May 24 | Maplewood Country Club | Maplewood, NJ
The Senior Net Four-Ball Championship will be played at Maplewood Country Club this season. Maplewood will host the event for the first time in club history. The Senior Net Four-Ball aims to bring the competitive atmosphere to players whose Handicaps fall closer to that of an average golfer. What began as an individual event in 1993 is now a two-man team event. Notable past host sites include Burning Tree, St. George's and Glen Ridge. In 2021, Ralph Lombari and Richard Koshar of Neshanic Valley won the event at Ardsley Country Club.
72nd MGA Father & Son Championship
June 9 | Richmond County CC | Staten Island, NY
The 72nd Father & Son Championship will take place at Richmond County Country Club this summer. Created in 1951, the Father & Son Championship serves as an opportunity for fathers and sons to bond and play together competitively. The first Father & Son Championship was played at Saint Andrew's Golf Club in Hastings-On-Hudson, New York. The 2021 Father & Son Championship took place at Tamarack Country Club. Gerard and Philip Connolly carded a net score of 8-under par to finish two shots clear of the rest of the field.
20th WMGA/MGA Women's Met Amateur Championship
June 13 | Mendham Golf & Tennis Club | Mendham, NJ
The MGA/WMGA Women's Met Amateur is heading to another first time host, Mendham Golf and Tennis Club. The inaugural Women's Met Amateur was played in 2002 at High Mountain Golf Club in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. The championship has been co-administered by the MGA and WMGA since 2012 and in recent years, has been played at premier Met Area clubs, including Somerset Hills, Mountain Ridge, Atlantic and The Tuxedo Club. In 2021, Paige Diecidue of Smithtown Landing claimed the title after carding a round of +3/74.
74th MGA Public Links Championship
June 16 | Rock Spring Golf Club | West Orange, NJ
The MGA Public Links Championship, one of the oldest public links championships in the country. In 1936, a group of golfers from Hendricks Field Golf Course in Belleville, New Jersey became the driving force behind the creation of this event. Since its inception, the MGA Public Links has been played at some outstanding venues that include Spook Rock, Bethpage Black and Hominy Hill. In 2021 at Pound Ridge, Jonathan Jeter of Nassau Players Club edged Ryan Lee of the Blue Hill Golf Association by one stroke for the second Public Links title of his MGA career. This season, the championship heads to Rock Spring Golf Club for the first time in its 86 year history. In the lead up to June 16, there will be five local qualifiers held: 5/18 at Blue Hill Golf Course (Pearl River, NY)... 5/24 at Hominy Hill Golf Course (Colts Neck, NJ)... 5/26 at Bethpage State Park -Yellow Course (Farmingdale, NY)... 5/31 at Hudson Hills Golf Course (Ossining, NY)... and 6/2 at Soldier Hill Golf Course (Emerson, NJ).
67th Ike MGA Stroke Play Championship
June 27-28 | Baltusrol (Lower Course) | Springfield, NJ
The first of the MGA's three major championships will take place at Baltusrol Golf Club's Lower Course. This A.W. Tillinghast design, recently renovated by Gil Hanse (Lower Course), is one of the most prestigious championship venues in the northeast. Baltusrol has hosted a myriad of MGA championships over the years, but this will be the club's first time hosting the Ike Championship. The Ike, founded in 1953, is considered the premier stroke-play amateur event in the Met Area. In recent years, it has been played at well-respected venues such as Somerset Hills, Mountain Ridge, Friar's Head and Quaker Ridge. In 2021, Matthew Fields of Quaker Ridge finished six shots clear of the field, recording a two-day, 54-hole score of +2/218 at The Bridge for his first MGA victory.
105th Met Junior Championship Sponsored By MetLife
July 18-21 | St. George's Golf & CC | East Setauket, NY
St. George's Golf and Country Club will host the 105th Met Junior Championship Sponsored by MetLife for the third time in club history, the most recent occurrence coming in 2002. This match-play event dates back all the way to 1912, when it was founded as the MGA Junior Championship. In 2021, the event was held at The Tuxedo Club, where Colin Summers of Westfield, NJ defeated John Hiller of New York, NY 4 & 2. In additional to winning the Met Junior, weeks later Summers competed in the 119th Met Amateur Championship at his home course, Plainfield Country Club.
58th MGA/WMGA Mixed Pinehurst Championship
July 26 | Redding Country Club | Redding, CT
This season, Redding Country Club will host the 58th MGA/WMGA Mixed Pinehurst Championship for the first time in club history. The event was founded in 1964 and offers a unique format as teams of two bring together some of the top male and female players in the Met Area. Recent venues to host this event include Knollwood, Glen Ridge and Old Westbury. In 2021, Caraline and Michael Oakley of Southampton Golf Club won on a match of cards with a final score of 2-under par.
20th Carter Cup
August 2 | Baltusrol Golf Club | Springfield, NJ
The Carter Cup, the MGA’s Junior Stroke Play Championship, is an annual event at Baltusrol Golf Club, taking place on both the Upper and Lower courses. The junior invitational honors Michael Carter, a junior club champion at both Baltusrol and Winged Foot Golf Club who died in a car accident in 2002. In 2021, Nathan Drogin of Essex Fells, New Jersey shot -6/138 across the two rounds to claim his first MGA title.
120th Met Amateur Championship
August 4-7 | Fenway Golf Club | Scarsdale, NY
The 120th Met Amateur Championship heads to Plainfield Country Club for the 6th time in club history. Fenway has hosted the Met Amateur once before, in 1953. The Met Amateur is rivaled for longevity in this country only by the U.S. Amateur and as one of the MGA's three major championships, its list of winners stands as a testament to its ability to identify the region's top amateur player in a given year. In 2021, Garret Engel of Old Westbury defeated Trevor Randolph, 3 & 2 at Plainfield Country Club to win his first ever MGA championship.
54th MGA/MetLife Boys Championship
August 10-11 | Saint Andrew's GC | Hastings-On-Hudson, NY
This year's MGA/MetLife Boys Championship will be played at Saint Andrew's Golf Club for the first time in club history. The event was first played in 1969 at Westchester Country Club and since 1987, traditionally has rotated between four host sites: Gardiner's Bay on Shelter Island, Bedford Golf & Tennis in Westchester County, Rumson in New Jersey and Glen Ridge in New Jersey. This is the first year that the four venue rotation is expanding. Following qualifiers throughout the Met Area, players are seeded into a 16-player match-play bracket. In 2021, Lance Hollingshead of Basking Ridge, New Jersey defeated Liam Pasternak of Morristown, New Jersey 4 & 3 at Gardiner's Bay.
2nd MGA Parent-Child Championship
August 17 | Green Brook Country Club | Caldwell, NY
One of the newest events on the MGA calendar, the Parent Child Championship will be played for just the second time ever this summer. Last year's Inaugural Parent-Child Championship was contested at Pine Hollow Country Club. Christopher Surace and Rocco Surace carded a round of -9/62 to win the first playing of the event.
107th Met Open Championship Presented By Callaway
August 23-25 | Bethpage Black | Farmingdale, NY
The Met Open is the third oldest Open championship in the country, following the U.S. and Western Opens. Until World War II, the Met Open was considered one of the "major tournaments" on the professional circuit, in part because it offered one of the richest purses. It attracted many of the country's top players and the winner was usually selected to the Ryder Cup team. The event became a financial burden for the MGA and it was discontinued in 1941. Eight years later, the Met Open was reinstated as a three-day tournament with a one-day Pro-Am component. The trophy, still awarded today, was donated by former MGA President Walker L. Trammell. In 2021, Andrew Svoboda of Engineers won the Met Open at Hudson National Golf Club, the third Met Open title of his career. Svoboda, who shot -10/200 over three rounds, finished two strokes ahead of runner-up Tom Lovelady, who finished the tournament 8-under par. This summer, Bethpage Black will host the Met Open for the fourth time in club history, most recently hosting the event in 2010 when Bob Rittberger claimed the victory.
26th Lexus MGA Senior Open Championship
August 29-30 | The Patterson Club | Patterson, CT
This year's Lexus MGA Senior Open will be played at The Patterson Club for the first time in the event's history. The Senior Open began in 1997 and has been contested at highly respected venues across the Met Area: Brooklawn Country Club, Essex County Country Club and Glen Head Country Club. In 2021, David Schuster of Sleepy Hollow carded a final round 66 to claim a one shot victory over Mark Brown of the Pine Hollow Club and Rob Labritz of GlenArbor Golf Club.
11th MGA Senior Masters Tournament
September 29 | Siwanoy Country Club | Bronxville, NY
The Senior Masters Tournament is one of the newer events on the MGA's schedule. The inaugural MGA Senior Masters was originally supposed to be played in 2011, but was postponed a year due to Tropical Storm Irene. After the full-year delay, the event made its debut at Country Club of Fairfield in September of 2012. In just a handful of years, the MGA Senior Masters Tournament has become a popular and competitive championship for amateurs age 65 and older. In 2021, George Zahringer III of Deepdale Golf Club won the event for the second straight year and for the third time in four years. This season, the event heads to Siwanoy Country Club for the first time.
The Farrell
Sept. 30 - Oct. 2 | The Stanwich Club | Greenwich, CT
The Farrell is the newest addition to the MGA championship calendar. The MGA will partner with The Stanwich Club in Greenwich, CT to host an annual, high-level invitational for male and female golfers on a national basis. The Farrell will consist of 18 holes of on-site stroke play qualifying, from which the low 16 competitors will advance to match play in divisions for men, women, and seniors. The Farrell will be an MGA Player of the Year points-eligible event and a World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR) counting event. Formal invitations will be extended to competitors with a high-level national competitive resume by The Farrell selection committee, led by the event’s co-chairs, former Stanwich President Ken Dardis and MGA Executive Director Brian Mahoney. Select applications will be accepted from golfers with an official World Handicap System (WHS) Handicap Index not exceeding 4.0. This championship honors the legacy of longtime Stanwich head professional Billy Farrell. Farrell was the first-ever Head Golf Professional at the club, a role which he held from 1964 until his retirement in 2000. He passed away in May 2020 at the age of 85.
2nd MGA Lexus Long Drive Championship
October 8 | Bethpage Polo Fields | Farmingdale, NY
A debut event in 2021, the MGA Lexus Long Drive Championship is one of the only off-course championships on the MGA calendar. The Long Drive Championship was created with the goal to provide a championship experience for individuals who may not always be those who thrive in a traditional stroke-play MGA championship event.
16th MGA Mid-Amateur Championship
October 11-12 | The Tuxedo Club | Tuxedo Park, NY
The MGA Mid-Amateur Championship was played for the first time in 2007 at Hudson National Golf Club, the host of this year's Met Open. As a two-day, stroke-play invitational, the championship brings together the Met Area's top players aged 30 and above. Players earn a spot in the field based on high finishes in select MGA and Met Area events. In 2021, Chris DeJohn of Arcola Country Club finished the two days at 7-under par, winning the event by one stroke and capturing the Westmoreland Cup, named in honor of former longtime MGA Tournament Director Gene Westmoreland. This season, The Tuxedo Club will host the event for the first time in club history.
45th MGA/MetLife Men's Four-Ball Championship
October 19 | Summit Club @ Armonk | Armonk, NY
The MGA/MetLife Men's Four-Ball Championship was created in 1977 with the goal of giving the “average golfer” in the Met Area a high-caliber tournament experience. The event is made up of two-man teams with each team representing an MGA member club. Each team member must have a USGA Handicap Index of below 20.0 and the team total cannot exceed 36.0. In 2021, the event was played at Spring Brook Country Club in Morristown, New Jersey. This fall, the event heads to The Summit Club at Armonk for the first time in its 45-year history.
37th MGA/MetLife Women's Four-Ball Championship
TBD
The MGA/MetLife Women's Four-Ball Championship will be one the final events on the calendar for the 2022 season. After seeing the success of the Men's Four Ball Championship in the late 1970's and early 1980's, the MGA created the Women's Four-Ball Championship in 1985. The tournament is a two-woman team event and each player must have an active USGA Handicap Index that does not exceed (28.0) at the time the team attempts to qualify at the club level. This year's site and date are TBD.
20th French - American Challenge MGA vs. Ligue de Paris
October 24-26 | Quaker Ridge Golf Club | Scarsdale, NY
The MGA entered the “transatlantic” arena in 1990 with the founding of the French/American Challenge for Fred’s Cup. Named after its sponsor, the international jeweler Fred Joaillier, it pits teams of men and women representing the MGA/WMGA against the Ligue de Paris. The first competition was held at Chantilly Golf Club outside Paris. Since then, it has alternated annually between France and the Met Area, having been played over some of the Met Area’s and Paris’ most outstanding courses. A spot on this prestigious team is one of the most sought after positions by Met Area competitors. The competition is now referred to as the French-American Challenge and is contested typically every two years. The regularly schedule matches in 2020 were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The MGA and the League de Paris are excited to have this event back on the calendar for 2022, where they will compete at Quaker Ridge Golf Club. In 2018, the League de Paris won 11.5-8.5.