Anderson and Schlicher Win 2025 Match of Champions Titles

Mike Anderson, Lori Schlicher Win Season-Ending Match of Champions Titles

  COMMERCE TOWNSHIP – Mike Anderson, a Meadowbrook Nation Membership member from Novi, and Lori Schlicher, a Garland Lodge & Golf Resort member from Lewiston, completed the golf season with victories.

  Anderson gained the lads’s title and Schlicher the ladies’s title within the season-concluding 2025 GAM Senior Match of Champions introduced by BOYNE Golf Tuesday at Edgewood Nation Membership.

  Anderson, who earlier this season reached the quarterfinals of the U.S. Senior Beginner Championship, gained in a one-hole sudden-death playoff with Tom Gieselman of Commerce Township and the Oakland College Golf and Studying Heart.

  They every shot 5-under 66 rounds in regulation play, and Anderson gained on gap No. 1 of the playoff with a par.

  David LeVan of Ann Arbor and Barton Hills Nation Membership shot 70 for third place. Greg Zeller of Jackson and the Michigan Publinx Golf Affiliation and Rick Crandall of Fenton and the Flint Elks Golf Membership every shot even-par 71.

  Schlicher, the Michigan Girls’s Senior Beginner winner and GAM Girls’s Senior champion this summer time, birdied the 18th gap to shoot 75 and it offered the margin for her one-shot win over Donna Tepper of Grosse Pointe Park and the Nation Membership of Detroit, who shot 76.

  Julie Massa of Pentwater and Lincoln Hills Golf Membership shot 79 for third place, and Shelly Weiss of Southfield and Plum Hole Nation Membership and Colleen Degaynor of Bloomfield Hills and Oakland Hills Nation Membership every shot 81 to tie for fourth.

   Anderson, 56 and the managing director of investments at Stifel Monetary, performed in the identical group as Gieselman and so they had been within the half of the sector that teed off on No. 10 and performed the again first. He mentioned it was enjoyable watching Gieselman shoot a 5-under 31 on that aspect to cost into the lead.

  “I used to be hitting it nicely sufficient, simply wanted to see some putts drop and that’s what occurred,” Anderson mentioned of the flip to their second 9, the membership’s entrance 9.

  “I birdied 18, then I made two lengthy putts for birdie on 1 and a pair of after which I birdied 3, too,” he mentioned. “So, I birdied 4 in-a-row after which we battled backwards and forwards the remainder of the way in which.”

  Anderson mentioned the birdie putt on No. 1 was from 25 toes, and the birdie on No. 2 was from 20 toes. He made bogey on gap 4 after the streak, then birdied gap 5 and holed a bunker shot for birdie at 6 and shot 31 on the entrance aspect.

  “You already know we have now performed in opposition to one another for thus a few years, we had an excellent group with (David Vaclav), so it was enjoyable,” he mentioned. “We had been all pulling for one another. Watching him get off to that begin was enjoyable, however I simply saved plugging away, had some luck, one factor led to a different on the again 9, and I snuck into the playoff.”

  Schlicher, 64, mentioned it was good to finish the season with one other win. It’s the second consecutive yr she has gained the Senior Match of Champions title.

  “Donna gave it a go in order that birdie I had on 18 was huge,” she mentioned. “I didn’t hit all of it that nice, had a number of placing woes, however I discovered methods to get it on the inexperienced, acquired fortunate right here and there and it was adequate right now.”

  She mentioned the birdie at 18, one in every of two birdies on the day, was produced by way of a wedge shot to eight-feet.

  “It got here at an excellent time,” she mentioned. “I used to be moist and drained, and I missed huge putts on 15 and 16 and wanted one to go in.”

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