GAM Fall Tournament Results
Mike Anderson, Lori Schlicher Win Senior Tournament of Champions Titles
By Greg Johnson
Mike Anderson, a Meadowbrook Country Club member from Novi, and Lori Schlicher, a Garland Lodge & Golf Resort member from Lewiston, finished the golf season with victories.
Anderson won the men’s title and Schlicher the women’s title in the season-concluding 2025 GAM Senior Tournament of Champions played at Edgewood Country Club.
Anderson reached the quarterfinals of the U.S. Senior Amateur Championship earlier in 2025 and won the GAM event in a one-hole sudden-death playoff with Tom Gieselman of Commerce Township. They each shot 5-under 66 rounds in regulation play, and Anderson won on hole No. 1 of the playoff with a par.
Schlicher, the Michigan Women’s Senior Amateur winner and GAM Women’s Senior champion this summer, birdied the 18th hole to shoot 75 and it provided the margin for her one-shot win over Donna Tepper of Grosse Pointe Park and the Country Club of Detroit, who shot 76.
John Quigley, Anika Dy Take Tournament of Champions Titles
John Quigley, a Michigan Publix Golf Association member from Sterling Heights, and Anika Dy of Bay Meadows Family Golf Course in Traverse City, proved to be the champions among the champions at Travis Pointe Country Club. Their wins came in the season-concluding 2025 GAM Tournament of Champions, which featured 2025 golf club champions and tournament champions from across the state.
Quigley shot a 1-under 71, getting a key birdie on the 18th hole, to win. Meanwhile, Dy was shooting a 2-under 70 to win by three shots over defending women’s champion Chelsea Collura of West Shore Golf & Country Club.
“It was not the summer that I wanted to have, but this makes me feel better about it,” Quigly said.
Dy, a Michigan Women’s Open past champion who was busy finishing post-graduate studies at the University of Michigan (where she played college golf) this summer, was playing in just her second tournament beyond events at Bay Meadows.
“I had no idea what to expect, honestly,” she said. “It’s a new tournament for me. I don’t have my normal friends and competitors around and I had no idea how I would match up with this field.”
Tommy Preston, Lillian O’Grady Win GAM Junior Invitational Titles
Tommy Preston and Lillian O’Grady, both of Grand Rapids, won the overall titles at the GAM Junior Invitational Championship at Michigan State University’s Forest Akers West course.
Preston, age 15 and a sophomore at Grand Rapids Catholic Central, followed up a 6-under 66 from the first round with a 73 for 139 and a 6-shot win among the boys.
O’Grady, 18 and a senior at Grand Rapids Christian, shot even-par 72 for 149 and won by three shots in the girls' competition. She later won the MHSAA state title in Div. 3.
Cooper Reitsma of Ada shot 145 to finished second among the boys. Sawyer O’Grady, Lillian’s brother, shot 146 for T3.
Champions were also determined in the 15-and-under division. Parker Westcott of Manchester shot 154, to win the boys’ title. It was the second consecutive year that Westcott won the 15-and-under title. Hannah Kim of Troy shot 142 and won the 15-and-under girls’ title.
David LeVan, Casey Baker Win GAM Senior/Mid-Am Team Finals
Casey Baker pounded a drive down the middle of the fairway on No. 10 at Red Run Golf Club, and then his senior partner David LeVan holed out a gap wedge shot from just 82 yards for an eagle-2.
It ended up being especially helpful as the pair of Ann Arbor residents and Barton Hills Country Club members won the 16th Senior/Mid-Am Team Championship Finals by a single shot. They played nine holes of four-ball competition and nine holes of foursomes, also known as alternate shot, and shot a 2-under 70.
“Casey had the great drive on 10 and I hit a good shot that ended up finding the hole for a two, so that kind of buoyed us a bit,” LeVan said.
A five-foot birdie putt attempt lipped out on No. 18, a par 5, for Scott Strickland of Bloomfield Hills, who was partnered with Tom Gielselman of Commerce Township, and they finished second with a 71. Strickland and Gieselman were seeking a fourth title in the championship.
GAM Team Holds off PGA Rally to Win Fuller Cup Matches
By Greg Johnson
The Golf Association of Michigan (GAM) Team moved in front in the final few matches on the course to win the 53rd Fuller Cup Matches at Dearborn Country Club.
Top amateur golfers representing the GAM and top professionals representing the Michigan Section PGA squared off in a Ryder Cup-like format with six four-ball matches and 12 singles matches.
The GAM led 4-2 after the morning matches, but the PGA rallied in singles and tied the score briefly during the afternoon singles session. The GAM, however, won two of the final three matches on the course to secure the victory with the 6½-5½ points advantage in singles for the 10½-7½ win.
The GAM won for the seventh time in the last eight years, but still trails in the historic series, 36-15-2.
The PGA dominated the matches in the first three decades of play, but talented collegiate players have helped turned the tide in recent years for the GAM.
The GAM was led by former Wayne State golfer Adam Burghardt of Clinton Township, current Michigan State golfer McCoy Biagioli of White Lake, Paul Wolcott of Macomb and University of Detroit Mercy golfer Mason Sokolowski of Northville, who were part of winning four-ball teams and won their singles matches.
Other key singles match winners for the GAM were Mike Ignasiak of Saline and Michigan State golfer Caleb Bond of Williamston.
Scott Hebert of Traverse City Golf & Country Club and Ryan Lenahan of Walnut Creek Country Club led the PGA’s effort as point winners in both four-ball and singles.
Cody Haughton of Red Run Golf Club, Dan Shattuck of Oakland Hills Country Club and Brian Cairns of Fox Hills Golf and Learning Center were other singles match winners that helped spark the PGA rally.
The format has changed over the years, but the matches are presented to promote sportsmanship, friendship and quality golf among professionals and amateurs. The matches are named for the late Ernest Fuller, a Michigan golf course developer.
