McCoy Biagioli Wins His Second Michigan Amateur

By Greg Johnson

    McCoy Biagioli of White Lake, a current Michigan State University golfer, won the 115th Michigan Amateur, two years after taking the same crown. In 2024, he was at Ferris State University.

    Biagioli beat Logan Price of Grand Blanc 7 and 5 in the final match of the championship, on July 3 at Eagle Eye Golf & Banquet Center.

   “I’ve been working on my swing and in stroke play I hit it really well, but I couldn’t make any putts,” he said. “Then the putts started to fall.”

   And fall and fall again.

   He beat last year’s Michigan Amateur runner-up PJ Maybank III of Cheboygan and the University of Oklahoma in the semifinals 3 and 1, and that was the closest match of the six he played for the week.

   Meanwhile, defending champion Caleb Bond of Williamston and Biagioli’s teammate and roommate at MSU, lost to Price, 3 and 2, in the other morning semifinal.

   The local Lansing area crowd missed out on the all-MSU final they hoped for, but with a nod to Ferris State before Biagioli transferred, Spartan golfers have won the last four Amateurs (August Meekhof in 2023, Biagioli in 2024, Bond in 2025 and Biagioli again).

    Eagle Eye is the course the Spartans play often for practice and team qualifying. It also hosted the 2023 NCAA Regionals.

    “I knew going into match play if I could get some putts to drop it would be really tough to beat me,” Biagioli said. “Once match play started I had it going, and it was fun. I wouldn’t say easy because there are a lot of good players out here. Maybe it looked easy, but it was still difficult to do and especially playing and walking in this heat.”

   To top things off, Biagioli as champion will receive an exemption into the field at the U.S. Amateur at Merion Golf Club in Pennsylvania, Aug. 10-16.