MIKE MCCOY

Des Moines | Inducted 2011 | Category: Amateur Golfer

The sheer volume of Mike McCoy’s accomplishments in competitive amateur golf, both within the borders of the state of Iowa and on the national scene is amazing.  He has played in 66 USGA Championships including 20 U.S. Amateurs and 22 U.S. Mid-Amateurs. McCoy captained the USA Team to a come from behind victory at the 2023 Walker Cup Match on the Old Course at St. Andrews in Scotland. He has won the Iowa Amateur five times and the Iowa Mid-Amateur six times but because he has played such an extensive national schedule he missed competing in both of those events many times.

Since the inception of the IGA Player of the Year award in 1960, no other player has won it more than three times. McCoy won his first in 1983 and his eleventh 30 years later in 2013.

2013 marked one of McCoy’s best years as an amateur golfer. In his 38th try, McCoy claimed the U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship at the Country Club of Birmingham. That win gave him a sweep of the IGA Player of the Year and IGA Senior Player of the Year awards, making him the first person do so. In capturing the Robert T. Jones Jr. Memorial Trophy, he also earned a spot at The Masters in 2014.

He is Iowa’s best known amateur player, advancing to the Semi-finals of the U.S. Mid-Amateur three times (2005, 2008 & 2013). He has won the Trans-Mississippi Championship twice (2000 and 2008), the and is a four-time winner of the Crump Cup at Pine Valley Golf Club in New Jersey.

In a letter supporting McCoy’s nomination two-time Walker Cup Captain George (Buddy) Marucci, Jr. said: “The excellence of his game is obvious. What may not be so obvious to those who have not played with him is just how well he handles himself, win or lose.  The game of golf is still and will always be a gentleman’s game, and Mike is the best example I know.  He has been a great representative of the State of Iowa.”

Career Highlights

  • 11-time Iowa Player of the Year – ’83,’92,’93,’94,’96,’01,’05,’08,’09,’10,’13
  • IGA Senior Player of the Year – 2013
  • 6-time Iowa Mid-Amateur Champion – ’93,’95,’97,’03,’05,’06
  • 6-time Iowa Amateur Champion – ’92,’95,’96,’98,’10,’15
  • 5-time IGA Four-Ball Champion – ’06,’12,’15,’16,’17
  • 4-time Herman Sani Invitation Champion – ’91,’92,’96,’02
  • 4-time Lake Creek Amateur Champion – ’92,’94,’95,’05
  • 3-time Fort Dodge Amateur Champion – ’93,’94,’00
  • 2-time Briarwood Amateur Champion – ’10 & ’12
  • 2021 Iowa Senior Amateur Champion
  • 2012 Iowa Masters Champion
  • 1994 IGA Match Play Champion
  • 1994 Iowa Open Champion
  • 1982 Tournament of Champions Winner
  • Participated in 68 USGA Championships
    • 20 U.S. Amateurs
    • 24 U.S. Mid-Amateurs – Champion – 2013, Semifinalist in ’05 and ’08
    • U.S. Amateur Public Links – 1982, 1983
    • U.S. Four-Ball Championship – 2015, 2019
    • U.S. Senior Open – 2013, 2014 (Low Am), 2015 (Low Am), 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021
    • U.S. Senior Amateur – 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023
    • USGA Men’s State Team – 1995, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2016
    • U.S. Walker Cup Team – 2015 (Team Member), 2023 (Winning Captain)
  • 4-time Crump Cup Champion at Pine Valley – ’04,’05,’07,’10
  • 3-time Coleman Invitational Champion at Seminole Golf Club – 2011, ’13, ’15
  • 2-time Trans-Mississippi Champion – ’00,’08
  • 2012 Trans-Miss Four-Ball Champion (with Gene Elliott)
  • 2014 George T. Thomas Invitational Champion
  • 2018 Trans-Miss Senior Champion
  • 2021 George T. Thomas Invitational – Senior Division Champion
  • 2022 British Senior Amateur Champion
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