Michael Hammett wins second title of the season at the Mississippi Senior Amateur presented by Willis Engineering
September 27, 2025
TUPELO, Miss. — Hattiesburg’s Michael Hammett closed out his 2025 championship season the way he began…with a win.
Mississippi’s best senior golfers took to Tupelo Country Club with hopes to close out the 2025 season with one last hoorah for victory. In a championship not short on drama, Hammett weeded his way through one of the toughest leaderboards in the southeast.
Through the first two rounds, Tim Roop — Hammett’s winning partner at the Senior Four-Ball earlier this year— paced the field. Firing rounds of 72 and 74, he held a two-stroke lead over a stacked leaderboard ahead of Saturday’s final round.
Roop (+2), EJ Blanchard (+4), Clay Homan (+4) and Hammett (+6) made up the final pairing in the championship flight, with a 2025 U.S. Senior Amateur participant, Steve Wilson, lurking in the penultimate group also at 6-over.
Hammett wasted no time in climbing the leaderboard, firing off three consecutive birdies to start his final round. With Roop carding bogeys on two of his first three holes, his lead was cut to just one shot in what seemed like the blink of an eye.
Closing out the front nine with a bogey-free 32, Hammett sat alone atop the leaderboard with just 9 holes to play. Former Mississippi State golf coach and Mississippi Golf Hall of Famer, Clay Homan, worked his way into solo second at 3-over. Roop was able to tread water to stay two shots back at 4-over. With Blanchard at 6-over and Wilson at +7, it was still anyone's ballgame.
On No. 13, the penultimate par 5 at Tupelo CC, a wild swing of momentum swept through the final group.
Hammett pulled his second shot left out of bounds in an attempt to reach the green. This slid him into a tie for the lead alongside Homan, with Roop now just one shot back. All of a sudden, here came EJ Blanchard.
Pulling out his 4 hybrid, Blanchard launched a rocket from 232 yards out. The ball looked as though it was on a rope, never leaving the flag for the four or so seconds it was in the air. Matriculating onto the green, the ball nestled close to the hole before disappearing. ALBATROSS!
In one swing, Blanchard erased his three-stroke deficit and took the outright solo lead with just five holes remaining.
With all four players in the final group within a shot of each other, the stage was set for someone to separate themselves from the pack.
Instead of laundering in his two back-nine bogeys, Hammett locked in. Another trio of birdies on holes 15, 16 and 17 gave him a two-shot advantage over Blanchard as they stood on the 18th tee.
Burying a knee-knocker for par, Hammett claimed his second MGA title of the season and his first solo MGA title since the 2020 Mississippi Senior Amateur (Lake Caroline Golf Club).
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