USGA Men’s State Team Championship

The USGA Men’s State Team Championship, as well as the Women’s State Team Championship, grew out of the USGA's Centennial celebration in 1995. It was believed that a new championship, one in which each state could be represented by non-college, amateur golfers, was a good way to cap the USGA’s year-long birthday celebration. In enthusiasm and fine golf, the State Team Championship proved such a success that it has been instituted to return every two years.

The top three players as of August 1, 2012 will be awarded the opportunity to represent the state of Connecticut in this biennial event.  The format for the championship is three rounds of stroke play with the best two individual rounds per day couting towards the team score.

Although teams from Connecticut have not won this event there have certainly been several highlights.  Most notably was Bill Hermanson's, Black Hall Club, hole-in-one in the third round of the 2007 USGA Men's State Team at Carlton Woods Golf Club in The Woodlands, Texas.

The 10th USGA Men's State Team Championship will be held on September 19-21, 2012 at Galloway National Golf Club in Galloway, NJ. State associations are given the option to choose their teams by any method. In Connecticut, the team is chosen by virtue of a points system based on the Dick Tettelbach Player of the Year Points.  The points system is as follows;

Dick Tettelbach POY Points Awarded from 8/2/2010 - 8/1/2011 are valued at 50%
Dick Tettelbach POY Points Awarded from 8/2/2011 - 8/1/2012 are valued at 100%