39th Texas Mid-Amateur

Abilene Country Club (South)
September 23-25


TOURNAMENT EXEMPTIONS

Eligibility: Entries are open to male amateur golfers who reside in the state of Texas, age 25 or older as of the first round of tournament play, with a WHS Handicap Index of 8.4 or less. Please reference TGA Policies and Procedures for further details, including Terms of the Competition.

Provided players are otherwise eligible, exemptions are given to the following:

1. Last five (5) Texas Mid-Amateur Champions;

  • 2021: Frederick Janneck
  • 2020: Ryan O’Rear
  • 2019: Christopher Wheeler
  • 2018, 2017: Colby Harwell

2. Top 5 Mid-Amateur finishers (and ties) within the Top 25 of current year’s Texas Amateur;

  • Bobby Massa
  • Zach Atkinson
  • Travis Woolf
  • Jason Schultz
  • Ryan O’Rear

3. Last five (5) Texas Amateur Champions;

  • 2021: Austyn Reily (Ineligible)
  • 2020: Trey Bosco (Ineligible)
  • 2019: Ryan Grider (Ineligible)
  • 2018: Mitchell Meissner (ineligible)
  • 2017: Zander Lozano (ineligible)

4. Top 20 finishers in the previous year’s Texas Mid-Amateur;

  • Frederick Janneck
  • Clay Fullick
  • Aaron Hickman
  • Ryan O’Rear
  • John Yerger
  • William Aycock
  • Eric Lodge
  • Brandon Immel
  • Todd Albert
  • Clay Hodge
  • Casey Carnes
  • Matt Williams
  • Michael Parker
  • Christopher Wheeler
  • Jess Bonneau
  • Austin Smith
  • Rob Couture
  • Anthony Estorga
  • Sean Heidrick
  • Matt Van Zandt

5. Low Mid-Master in previous year’s Mid-Amateur;

  • Clay Fullick
  • Aaron Hickman

6. Current year Mid-Amateur Match Play Winner & Runner-Up & Semifinalists;

  • Jason Schultz, Rob Couture, Matt Miller, & Zach Atkinson

7. Top 15 finishers (and ties) on the previous year’s TGA Statewide Player of the Year Points List;

  • Christopher Wheeler
  • Aaron Hickman
  • Austyn Reily (Ineligible)
  • Ryan O’Rear
  • Jake Doggett (Ineligible)
  • Frederick Janneck
  • Colby Harwell
  • Gary Ezmerlian
  • Chris Berzina (Ineligible)
  • JT Pittman (Ineligible)
  • Travis Vick (Ineligible)
  • Clay Fullick
  • Clayton King (Ineligible)
  • Grayson Blunt (Ineligible)
  • Rob Couture

8. Three (3) host club exemptions;

  • TBD
  • TBD
  • TBD

9. Low Mid-Master in current year’s TGA Regional Mid-Amateurs;

  • North: Jason Shultz
  • South: Daniel Depasquale

10. Top three (3) finishers (and ties) in the current year’s TGA Regional Mid-Amateur, not already exempt, within the top ten (10) finishers;

  • North: Scott Maurer
  • North: Robert Johnson
  • North: Mark Strickland
  • South: Randy Lance
  • South: Jonathan Keane
  • South: Tino Flores
  • South: Brandon Rougeau

11. Top two (2) finishers & ties in current year’s TGA Regional Amateurs, not already exempt, within the top ten (10) finishers;

  • North: Joe Seth Murphy & Kevin Doskocil
  • South: Joseph Mathis & Coy Breen

12. Previous year’s Texas Senior Amateur Champion;

  • Gary Durbin

13. Previous year’s TGA North and South Region Player of the Year;

  • North: Gant Bills
  • South: Padden Nelson

14. Top two (2) Mid-Amateur finishers in the current year’s West Texas Amateur;

  • Casey Carnes
  • Josh Pasco

15. Current Year’s TGA Medalist North and TGA Medalist Hill Country Players of the Year.

  • North: Jeffrey Juillerat
  • Hill Country: Kiley Hardy

16. Previous year’s Texas Senior Player of the Year;

  • Lewis Stephenson

17. Previous year’s U.S. Mid-Amateur Match Play qualifiers;

  • Zach Atkinson
  • Colby Harwell
  • Andrew Paysse
  • Brady Shivers

18. Top 1500 in the R&A/USGA World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR) at time of entry.

For complete past results, click here.

The TGA reserves the right to select players to be in the field. Exempt players must complete registration for the event by the published exemption deadline or they will lose their spot in the field.

NOTE: All players who are not exempt under the categories listed above for the 39th Texas Mid-Amateur must participate in an 18-hole individual stroke play sectional qualifier.