Schlicher Is A 2025 GAM Player Of The Year

Lori Schlicher

GAM PLAYER OF THE YEAR

Lori Schlicher of Lewiston Tops 2025 Senior Women’s Points List

FARMINGTON HILLS – Lori Schlicher of Lewiston gets her winter workouts not at some indoor golf facility, but from chopping wood.

She has a wood stove for home heat, in addition to a furnace if needed, but she prefers to chop and burn for warmth in the winter.

“I keep the home fires burning,” she said and laughed.

The 64-year-old Garland Lodge & Golf Resort member burned up the competition in 2025 winning the Michigan Women’s Senior Amateur for a third consecutive year, the GAM Women’s Senior Championship and the GAM Senior Tournament of Champions.

Those performances powered her to the top of the Golf Association of Michigan Points List, and she has been named the 2025 GAM Senior Women’s Player of the Year, Ted Newton, the director of tournament administration, announced today.

Player of the Year point totals can be found on a pull down from the PLAY tab at GAM.org. Carl’s Golfland is the presenting sponsor of the points lists.

Last week, the GAM announced Elayna Bowser of Dearborn as the Women’s Player of the Year and Caleb Bond of Williamston as the Men’s Player of the Year, and in the next few weeks the GAM will announce more Players of the Year in gender and age categories.

Schlicher is the Senior Women’s Player of the Year for the second consecutive year, and excited about trying to do it three times in a row.

“I learned this year that you get points from (U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur) qualifying, so now I feel like I should try for everything,” she said. “I’m not getting any younger, so I’m trying to get it while I still got it.”

Schlicher was medalist in the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Qualifier at Spring Meadows early in the golf season. She said her 1-over 73 was the highlight performance of the season.

“It was tough, and I had just one bad hole but played really well the rest of the round, and it got me in the (national) tournament for the first time,” she said. “I had other good rounds, but that one stands out.”

The mother of four and grandmother of seven called her golf season one of fewer cringe moments.

“I was pretty consistent this year,” she said. “I still have things to work on. I could have played better when I got to the (U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur in Virginia), and I know I feel things in my muscles I didn’t used to feel. I’m working on that to be ready for next season. And I’ll chop wood and maybe go to Florida for a few weeks like I did last year.”

Newton said Schlicher has been the most consistent player among the senior women in GAM tournaments in recent years, and she advanced her game in 2025.

“She played really well, qualified for the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur which is a significant accomplishment, and on top of that she is a great person who enjoys our tournaments and the other players enjoy competing with her,” he said. “She is definitely gaining strokes on the field with her distance and ball-striking. It’s not a surprise she is player of the year.”

Schlicher’s three wins this season helped her earn 817.5 points to top the GAM Points List.

Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll of Haslett, who won the GAM Women’s Mid-Amateur Senior Division title and made match play at the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur, was second with 395 points.

Julie Massa of Pentwater with 315 points, Shelly Weiss of Southfield with 241.5 points and Donna Tepper of Grosse Pointe Park with 240 points rounded out the top five.