Trans-Miss set to bring another event to Colorado as Lakewood CC will host 2026 TM Mid-Master and Mid-Am
By Gary Baines – 11/20/2025
Over roughly the last two decades, on four different occasions Trans-Miss golf championships have been held in Colorado, with one of them producing a winning team that included a certain John Elway.
They’re big-time events that often draw produce big-time champions. Using the open-age Trans-Miss Championship as an example, winners since 2013 include Bryson DeChambeau, Collin Morikawa, Will Zalatoris (twice) and Cameron Champ. That Trans-Miss event is now part of the Elite Amateur Golf Series.
And while Denver Country Club has hosted the Trans-Miss open-age event twice in the 21st century (2010 and ’22), the Trans-Miss Golf Association also operates three other championships — for seniors, mid-amateurs/mid-masters, and a junior-senior four-ball event — that are prestigious events.
Which brings us to next year. As the fall edition of The Transcript — the Trans-Miss newsletter — recently noted, the 2026 Trans-Miss Golf Association’s Mid-Master and Mid-Amateur Championship will be held in Colorado. Specifically, it’s set for Lakewood Country Club Sept. 13-16. It will be the third year for the Mid-Master and Mid-Amateur to be held as a stand-alone championship. The Mid-Master is limited to competitors 40 and older, while the Mid-Am is for players 25 and older.
As it happens, one of the recent winners of the Trans-Miss Mid-Master title was a Lakewood Country Club member — Jay Livsey in 2021. Another Lakewood member, Jon Lindstrom, won the Trans-Miss Senior title in 2023.
Lakewood Country Club, founded in 1908, has long hosted elite-level amateur championships. That includes the 1965 U.S. Women’s Amateur and 1957 U.S. Girls’ Junior, plus the 1952 Trans-Miss that Charlie Coe won. And, between men and women’s tournaments, more than 40 open-age state amateurs have been conducted at LCC. That includes in 2019 when current DP World Tour player Davis Bryant won the CGA Amateur at the club.
Next year will mark the 125th anniversary of the Trans-Miss Golf Association. Trans-Miss member clubs in Colorado include Lakewood CC, Denver CC, Cherry Hills CC, Columbine CC and Colorado Golf Club.
As for that Elway victory, he and tournament partner Tom Hart teamed up to win the 2009 Trans-Miss Four-Ball at Cherry Hills.
About the Writer: Gary Baines has covered golf in Colorado continuously since 1983. He was a sports writer at the Daily Camera newspaper in Boulder, then the sports editor there, and has written regularly for ColoradoGolf.org since 2009. The University of Colorado Evans Scholar alum was inducted into the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame in 2022. He owns and operates ColoradoGolfJournal.com