Top Michigan Senior Golfers head to Bedford Valley for the 2025
Yamaha Golf Cars Plus Michigan Senior Open
BATTLE CREEK – Our field of 111 golfers includes PGA Professionals, 12 Michigan Golf Hall of Fame members, 14 past champions, and top amateurs that will all compete at the ...2025 Yamaha Golf Cars Plus Senior Open set for the 15th and 16th of July at Bedford Valley Golf Club.
Defending champion and Michigan Golf Hall Of Fame member Tom Werkmeister of Hudsonville , will look for back-to-back wins after shooting a 64 last year in the rain shortened 18-hole event picking up second Yamaha Golf Cars Michigan Senior Open title.
Werkmeister and others will be competing this week against 11 other Michigan Golf Hall of Fame members in the field including PGA Professionals Scott Hebert from Traverse City Golf & CC, Ron Beurmann of the Country Club of Jackson, Brian Cairns from the Fox Hills Learning Center, Jack Seltzer from Linden and the Jack Seltzer Golf Academy, Dave Kendall of Saline and Washtenaw Golf Club, PGA Life Member Randy Erskine from Lake Orion, Tom Harding from Carls Golfland and Jeff Roth from the BOYNE Golf Academy, who just recently competed in the 2025 US Senior Open at the Brooadmoor in Colorado Springs CO.
The two Michigan Golf Hall of Fame Amateur members include Greg Davies of West Bloomfield and Steve Maddalena from Jackson. Doug Labell II, professional from Mt Pleasant and Michigan Golf Hall of Fame member is also in the field for the first time.
Werkmeister tops the list of past champs with Kendall and Beurmann, who are also former two-time champions. Cairns, Roth, Hebert, Erskine and Zeller also have Senior Open titles on their rich resumes. The other past champions in the field consist of Jay Jurecic of Crystal Falls, Steve Maddalena, Frank McAuliffe of Meadowbrook CC, Chuck Pohl of Lansing, Jim Deiters of Midland CC, and Ian Harris of Bloomfield Hills.
The field will play 36 holes of stroke play for a purse yet to be determined. This is the 44th edition of the state championship for seniors (age 50-and-over), and includes a 65-and-over super senior division. Play starts at 8 a.m. on July 15th 2025.
Bedford Valley Golf Club is part of the Gull Lake View collection of six courses near Battle Creek and Kalamazoo including the new Stoatin Brae course. Bedford Valley was a 2008-2009 Best Places to Play selection by Golf Digest and in 2010 was named the Michigan Golf Course of the Year by the Michigan Golf Course Owners Association.
It was designed in 1965 by William Mitchell and purchased by the Scott Family of Gull Lake View in 1988. The classic parkland design is known locally as “The Big Course” and features big greens, bunkers and fairways lined with large oak trees.
Bedford Valley has hosted several of the state’s top tournaments including the Michigan Open, multiple Michigan Senior Opens, the Michigan Maxfli PGA Junior, the Michigan Publinx State Match Play and the NCAA Division III National Championship.
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