Career Highlights

Collegiate Career 

1986-90 Four Year Letter Winner at the University of Iowa
First Team All-Big Ten (1988 and 89)
Won Six college tournaments

Professional Career 

Played on Asian, South American, and Canadian Golf Tours
Waterloo Open Champion (1996, ’97)
North Dakota Open Champion (1997, ’99)
Iowa Open Champion (2000, senior division: ’21, ’22, ’24)
Gold Bear Tour event champion (2002, ’03)
2003 Hillcrest Invitational Champion
Gateway PGA Assistants Championship Champion (2012)
Gateway Section Championship Champion (2013, ’16)
Event #4 PGA of America Tournament Series Champion (2015)
Qualified for PGA Championship (2019)
Qualified for KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship (2019, ’20, ’21, ’23, ’24)
-2022: Finished T-33
-2023: Finished T-63
-2024: Finished T-27
Iowa PGA Section Match Play Champion (2020)
Iowa PGA Section Senior Match Play Champion (2020)
Iowa Section Senior Championship Champion (2021)
9th Place finish at 2024 Senior PGA Professional Championship
2024 Iowa PGA Section Player of the Year

Jeff Schmid has seen the world through a golfing lens, putting together a resume that has earned him a spot in the Iowa Golf Hall of Fame’s Class of 2025.

Schmid started winning in the late 1980s as an all-Big Ten player and two-time captain at the University of Iowa. Now a teaching pro at Brown Deer in Coralville, he continues to win in a career nearly four decades long. Most recently, he was the 2024 Iowa Section PGA Senior Player of the Year.

“His playing record continues to culminate at a very high level,” said Iowa Golf Hall of Fame member Jeff Smith.

Schmid won six times as a collegian at Iowa. His best season came in 1988-89. Schmid won two individual titles, was sixth at the Big Ten Championships and was named all-Big Ten for a second straight season.

In the summer of 1990, after his college career had ended, the Cedar Rapids native captured the Iowa Amateur Match-Play title at the Carroll Country Club.

Schmid’s professional career included stops on the Asian Tour (1993-96), the South American Tour (1993-99) and the Canadian Tour (1996-97). He also played on the Hooters Tour, Dakotas Tour and Golden Bear Tour. He won three times on the Golden Bear Tour and took home a pair of North Dakota Open crowns. He also won the 2002 Arrowhead Pro-Am and the 2003 Hillcrest Invitational on the Dakotas Tour. He won the Dakotas Tour Order of Merit in both 1996 and 1997.

Schmid also returned to his home state and won the Waterloo Open back-to-back (1996-97) . He also took home the 2000 Iowa Open at the Irv Warren course in Waterloo.

He left the state and won a pair of Gateway Section Championships in 2013 and 2016. He moved back to Iowa City later in 2016 and spent two seasons as an assistant golf coach at Iowa.

He qualified for the 2019 PGA Championship at Bethpage Black. He’s also played three times on the PGA Tour (2000 Western Open, 2000 John Deere Classic, 2001 Greater Milwaukee Open).

A week after that 2019 PGA Championship, Schmid made his first appearance in the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship. He also qualified for that event in 2020, 2021 (canceled because of COVID), 2023 and 2024. Schmid tied for 63rd in 2023 and had strongest showing when he tied for 27th after rounds of 66-71-70-73 (3 under par) in 2024.

Schmid also turned in an impressive showing at the 2022 at the U.S. Senior Open, played at Saucon Valley Country Club in Bethlehem, Pa. He tied for 33rd after rounds of 75-70-73-73.

In 2020, Schmid pulled off a rare double. He won both the Iowa Section PGA Match-Play and Senior Match-Play championships. During his career, he also won the Iowa Section PGA and Iowa Open Senior title in 2021; and two more Iowa Open Senior titles in 2022 and 2024.

“The thing that impresses me the most about Jeff is that he is still competing at a very high level,” said Iowa Golf Hall of Famer Ken Schall. “He made the cut at the U.S. Senior Open in 2022 and the Senior PGA in 2023 and 2024 against the world’s best senior players, all while maintaining his position as Teaching Professional at Brown Deer. At Iowa PGA events Jeff is always at the top of the leaderboard.”