2024 in the Books + Virtual Players Meeting Announced
2024 Miniest Mini Golf Open Group Photo
Our organizer crew set out this year to do more timely news updates and email blasts. Still, in the peak of the competitive season, our news update and email blast goals fell to the wayside as we attempted to share tournament results promptly and keep the rankings points updated during a time of year when there was on average a tournament every weekend. After a little breathing room, we’re running through the tournaments that took place between August and November based on the different point tiers starting with blue tournaments and finishing with our virtual events.
Before we jump into all the events, we wanted to let everyone know will have our annual virtual players meeting to recap the 2024 season, preview the 2025 season, and take feedback from attendees on Wednesday, December 11th at 8pm central. The audio of that player’s meeting will be featured in a future episode of the Puttcast as well. Additionally, we’re looking for feedback in our yearly competitor’s survey found at https://bit.ly/ama2024survey.
Blue Tier
5th Miniest Mini Golf Open (MN) - Results & Recap
Pro: Shawn Brown - 2nd Miniest Open Win. Set single (45) and 2 round (94) course records
Amateur: Nicholas Windyk - 1st tournament win!
8th Matterhorn International Pro-Am (CT) - Results & Recap
Pro: Mark “Highlighter” Novicki. Won in tiebreaker with Dave Vayda acing hole #1. Kyle Courcy finished 3rd.
Amateur: Michael Scanlon won 1st play, Patrick Lazor & Josh Hayes tied for 2nd.
Tennesse Open (TN) - Results & Recap
Pro: In the tournament that featured 14 of the top 25 points-scoring leaders for the 2024 Season, Mossy Creek local pro David Lanham armed with his own lime green urethane putter won the tournament by 7 strokes.
Amateur: Clayton Craft
O-Street Open at Tee Time (NJ) - Results & Recap
Biggy won by 2 strokes and set the tournament 2-round record for overall lowest score with an impressive 62. Anna Seymour finished 2nd and win’s the women’s title of the event.
22nd Red Putter Pro Tournament (WI) - Results & Recap
Matt Kraus wins his 3rd Red Putter tourney in a row tying the 3-round record (101). 2nd place playoff was wild (see vid below)
White Tier
Show Me Putters Tour Championship (MO) - Results & Recap
Finishing off a dominant season, Jody Kimble takes 1st place by 18 strokes across 12 rounds on 3 courses. The win also solidified Jody’s 1st place season finish for the “Show Me” Putters tour.
NC Open Lakeview Putt & Play (NC) - Results & Recap
With a tiebreaker ace on the 3rd playoff hole, Gary Hester won the tournament over Randy Reeves and solidified the top finish in the Southern Swing Tour.
42nd Farmington Miniature Golf Tournament (CT) - Results & Recap
In rainy conditions, Josh Kestenbaum bested Landon & Griffin Weiss and Mark “Highlighter” Novicki
Maine Open at Taber's (ME) - Results & Recap
In the final holes of the 3-round tournament, Matt Liles bested Mark “Highlighter” Novicki by a single stroke to win.
Red Tier
Putters League Championship (GA) - Results & Recap
Pro: Joey Graybeal finished in 1st by a single stroke over Greg Newport with an impressive 5-round -17.
Local Pro: Kevin Mckleroy | Amateur: Carolyn Kinefelter
Ice Age Classic (formerly Putterz Course 2 Championship) (OH) - Results & Recap
Pro: Frank Bisesi with his first pro tournament win after top 5 finishes in major international tournaments.
Amateur: Gabe Kelly
Mossy Creek Masters (TN) - Results & Recap
Pro: David Lanham continues his Mossy Creek mastery with a 5-stroke win in this 2-round strokeplay event
Branson Open (MO) - Results & Recap
The 8-round event was won by Jody Kimble by 3 strokes that included a low round of 30.
Rogue Eagle Tournament (MN) - Results & Recap
Pro: Tom Loftus | Amateur: Andrea Pendleton
31st Lee Stoddard Dolphin Open (ME) 9/7 & 9/8 - Results & Recap
After 180 holes & 10 rounds across two days, Pat Sheridan and Kyle Courcy went to sudden death where Pat aced the 1st hole for the victory.
Virtual Tier
Putt18 Event #2 - Results & Recap
Tom Ochnikowski now holds the lowest recorded 4-round total for an AMA Putt18 virtual event with a 248 (-40). Tied for the 2nd was Tom’s brother Tim Ochnikowski and Justin Seymour. Justin won the tiebreaker with the lower single round of 60.
Walkabout Mini Golf 2024Virtual Event #2 - Results & Recap
Jorge Rimblas finished 1st once again in a Walkabout event but had to share the top spot with new member Ron Majersky. Both shot a ridiculous 2 round total of -41.
Upcoming Events
Wednesday, December 11th - 2024 Virtual Players Meeting - 8pm Central
Since you last heard from us, there are tons of new Puttcast episodes recapping all of the AMA tournaments through the end of the season. The most recent episode features 2024 season points winner, Bryan Akers.
