Bobby Massa has won a few tournaments, but he had never bested a field in the stroke-play portion of a USGA competition.
That drought ended on Sunday at the Sand Valley Resort when he backed up his first-round, 7-under 64 on The Lido with a 2-under 69 at Sand Valley, the stroke-play co-host venue, to earn medalist honors in the 45th U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship with a 36-hole total of 133.
As a first-time USGA championship venue, Sand Valley Resort more than held its own on Day 1 of the 45th U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship on Saturday.
The Lido, modeled after the classic Charles B. Macdonald design that closed during World War II on Long Island (N.Y.), and stroke-play co-host Sand Valley, the first layout to open at the central Wisconsin golf destination developed by Mike Keiser and now overseen by his two sons, Mike and Chris, provided a stern test for the world’s best 25-and-older competitors.
Club Champion, the globe’s leading custom golf club fitter, is taking its expertise to golf’s biggest stage through its relationship with Scott E.G. Golf, bringing Club Champion services and SST PURE (shaft analysis technology that identifies the most stable orientation for each club before installation) technology directly to the PGA Tour.
For Club Champion founder Nick Sherburne, the move represents much more than a Tour presence. It brings the Club Champion story full circle. In 1997, Sherburne was working the range at the Western Open outside Chicago when he was exposed to the PGA Tour equipment trucks and saw firsthand the level of detail, customization and expertise available to the best players in the world.
The 45th U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship will be played at the Lido Course Sand Valley Course at Sand Valley Resort.
The Lido is an exacting re-creation, by Renaissance Golf’s Tom Doak and Brian Schneider, of the legendary links originally designed by inaugural U.S. Amateur champion Charles B. Macdonald on Long Island. The original course opened in 1914 and featured classic templates including the Alps, Redan and Eden before it was repurposed by the U.S. Navy during World War II and closed in 1942. Using historical surveys, engineering records and photographs, Doak and Schneider, alongside golf historian Peter Flory, brought the course back to life adjacent to Sand Valley in Wisconsin, where it opened for play in 2023. Its deep hazards, greens averaging more than 12,000 square feet and classic template holes make it a strategic marvel and one of the premier courses in the nation.
The 45th U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship will be held at Sand Valley Resort's Lido Course.
There are 264 players in the field. Here's a closer look at the competitors.
PUMA Golf proudly celebrates Tour ambassador J.J. Spaun’s victory at the BMW PGA Championship. Spaun secured his first Rolex Series title and second DP World Tour victory at Wentworth Club this weekend, in addition to his win at the Valero Texas Open on the PGA Tour earlier this year.
“We could not be more proud of J.J.’s performance this weekend,” said Russ Kahn, president of COBRA PUMA Golf. “He is an incredible athlete and ambassador of the brand, and he showed his grit in the face of challenging conditions at Wentworth this weekend. We look forward to J.J.’s continued success at the highest level.”
SRIXON announces the launch of its all-new ZXi RKT Woods family, a complete reimagination of brand’s metalwood lineup engineered to deliver explosive ball speed, refined acoustics, and tour-validated performance for golfers of every skill level.
The new lineup, including ZXi RKT LS, ZXi RKT, and ZXi RKT MAX Drivers, along with ZXi RKT Fairway Woods and Hybrids, represents years of research, prototyping, and collaboration between Srixon’s engineers and Tour staff. Rather than pursuing a simple evolution of its previous generation, Srixon rebuilt its development process from the ground up, creating entirely new prototypes and gathering deeper player feedback to uncover every possible performance advantage.
Srixon’s J.J. Spaun delivered a fiery closing stretch on Sunday to capture the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth Club, securing his second victory of the 2026 season and first Rolex Series win of his career.
Making his debut appearance at the prestigious event, Spaun finished at 17-under-par after birdieing four of his final five holes to claim one of the DP World Tour’s most coveted titles.
Fujikura is celebrating another global Tour victory after the winner negotiated a demanding week on one of the UK’s most challenging inland courses, relying on the performance and stability of VENTUS on a course where precision from the tee proved essential.
Host of the European-based Tour’s showpiece tournament since 1984, the famous venue - one of the most iconic in the UK - offers a unique test to players with tightly lined fairways surrounded by heavy woodland, towering pine trees and heather. But under the most intense pressure to find the fairway, the winner was able to close out victory - with four birdies over his last five holes - using a VENTUS Black 6-X shaft in his driver.
How do you make something golfers already trust even better?
For Srixon's second-generation ZXi Irons, the answer wasn't a complete redesign. Instead, it was a commitment to refining the details that matter most through extensive testing, player feedback, and continuous innovation.
Motocaddy, the world’s leading electric caddy brand, has taken a giant leap forward in collegiate golf with an agreement to provide electric caddies for the 2027 Molly Collegiate Invitational, hosted by San Diego State University. The event, to be held February 15-16 at The Heights Golf Club in San Diego, will make Motocaddy products the first-ever electric caddies to be used during a regular-season NCAA event – marking a new era in collegiate golf.
“Providing industry-leading product for the Molly Collegiate Invitational is a natural progression in Motocaddy’s support of collegiate golf,” says Andy Warren, VP of Sales for Motocaddy. “Through this agreement, student athletes can experience the key benefits of using an electric caddy, which include injury prevention, feeling less fatigued and improving mental focus – all leading to greater performance.”
The United States Golf Association (USGA) today announced that Lancaster (Pa.) Country Club will host five USGA women's championships between 2028 and 2044: the 2028 U.S. Girls' Junior, the 2033 U.S. Senior Women's Open, the 2037 U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur, the 2040 U.S. Women's Amateur and the 2044 U.S. Women's Open.
Together, the five championships represent a rare commitment spanning nearly every stage of a woman's competitive golf journey — from the sport's youngest stars to its most accomplished senior players — and reflect the depth of Lancaster's partnership with the USGA in advancing the women's game.
Srixon staffer Shane Lowry delivered a commanding performance at the Amgen Irish Open, capturing his first victory of the 2026 season and the seventh DP World Tour title of his career with a dominant 11-stroke victory on home soil in Dublin, Ireland.
The victory marks Lowry’s second Amgen Irish Open victory, his first coming 17 years prior in 2009 as an amateur. Lowry’s dominant performance included a course-record 8-under-par 62 in the second round to surge into contention and never let up. He carried a four-shot advantage into Sunday’s final round before pulling away from the field to secure the most decisive victory on the DPWT this season. He finished the tournament at 23-under-par.
Why choose features in a golf rangefinder when you can have them all? That' pretty much sums up the new Mileseey GenePro G1 GPS Laser Rangefinder and what it brings to the table. The GenePro G1 measures everything. It measures smarter. And it might know the course you're playing even better than the groundskeepers.
The GenePro G1 is a laser rangefinder. It's also a GPS device. And its smart algorithms and integrated technology give you more intelligent golf distance information than a traditional laser rangefinder or GPS device alone. Built in sensors factor in elevation, temperature, and humidity when calculating distances on all uphill and downhill shots. And the big, bright AMOLED touchscreen overlays distances on course maps making data more contextually useful.
A great wedge should do more than look pretty sitting behind your ball. It should inspire confidence when you're 115 yards out, save your score when you short-side yourself, and somehow even turn sketchy lies in the rough into good shots that actually look intentional.
And the new Cleveland Golf RTZ 2 wedges are designed with exactly this kind of versatility in mind. RTZ 2 are more consistent from a wide variety of lies and impact locations. And they give you more ways to get your ball closer to the hole no matter what kind of situation you're facing.
Pro’s Choice Golf Shafts, Inc., the exclusive distributor of Graphite Design golf shafts in North America, is pleased to announce the introduction of the new Graphite Design x L.A.B. Golf Tour AD RAIL Putter Shaft, developed exclusively for L.A.B. Golf.
The Tour AD RAIL marks Graphite Design’s first-ever putter shaft, combining the performance legacy of the Tour AD brand with L.A.B. Golf’s uncompromising focus on stability, precision and premium feel.
Turtleson, makers of versatile apparel for the moments that matter most, recently welcomed a select group of golf industry leaders to its Bristol headquarters for the inaugural Bristol Sessions, an invitation-only gathering created to explore the evolving needs of the modern golf club and the future of golf retail.
The event takes its name and inspiration from the original Bristol Sessions of 1927, where nearly a century ago, musicians gathered in Bristol, Tenn., to share distinct regional sounds, perspectives and traditions. What emerged from those recordings helped shape the future of American music and established Bristol as the “Birthplace of Country Music.”
