Michael Stieler with his trophy after winning the 2017 GCSAA Championship.
A two-time winner of the GCSAA Golf Championship is after another title.
Michael Stieler, CGCS, at Spring Creek Golf and Country Club in Ripon, Calif., has advanced to his second U.S. Senior Amateur, which will run Aug. 24-29 at The Pete Dye-designed Honors Course in Ooltewah, Tenn.
Stieler, 57 and a 29-year GCSAA member, qualified through the Fairfield, Calif., qualifier on July 8. He shared medalist honors with a 70 and made four birdies and two bogeys at Green Valley Country Club in Fairfield, Calif. Stieler won the GCSAA national
title in 2012 and 2017 and claimed last year’s Northern California Golf Association Senior Amateur by winning on the first playoff hole at Poppy Hills Golf Course in Pebble Beach, Calif.