2025 GAP Middle-Amateur Qualifying: Conestoga

Home club’s Carrihill leads Middle-Amateur Qualifying

LANCASTER, Pa. — Conestoga Country Club’s Stuart Carrihill carded a 3-under-par 67 to earn medalist honors in GAP Middle-Amateur Championship Qualifying Monday at Conestoga (par 70, 6,407 yards).

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Carrihill, 41, of Leola, Pa., earned one of 10 qualifying positions and ties available for the Championship proper. The 42nd Middle-Amateur Championship, presented by NJM Insurance Group, will take place May 21-22 at Riverton Country Club in Cinnaminson, N.J.

The cut line at Conestoga stopped at 75 with 11 players successfully qualifying for the Championship proper.

Carrihill carded four birdies and one bogey to secure the top spot.

The Middle-Amateur is open to males 25 years of age or older with a GAP Handicap Index of 5.0 or less. 

A William Hyndman, III Player of the Year points event, the Middle-Amateur started in 1984, three years after the USGA created the U.S. Mid-Amateur as a formal championship for post-college amateurs. GAP followed suit with the USGA in creating a Middle-Amateur, but initially varied in its administration of the tournament in a couple of respects.

The most obvious difference was the age requirement. Prior to 2001, the GAP Middle-Amateur was only available to players 30 years of age or older.

The GAP Executive Committee reviewed and revised that age requirement in 2001 to match the USGA’s guidelines of 25 years of age or older for eligible players.

GAP
Celebrating Amateur Golf since 1897, GAP, also known as the Golf Association of Philadelphia, is the oldest regional or state golf association in the United States. It serves as the principal ruling body of amateur golf in its region. The organization’s 345 Member Clubs and 125,000 individual members are spread across Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey and Maryland. The GAP’s mission is to promote, preserve and protect the game of golf.

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