CUMBERLAND — The Maine State Golf Association is hosting the 100th Maine Amateur Championship at Portland Country Club this week from Tuesday through Thursday. 

The venerable club opened in 1895 and was one of the founding member clubs of the MSGA in 1917. This will be the 14th time that Portland CC has hosted the state amateur, the first being in 1919 and the most recent in 2011 when Ryan Gay won his third and final Maine Amateur title.

Last year’s championship was held at Belgrade Lakes GC and was won by South Freeport’s Jack Wyman with a score of 207 (6-under par). He defeated runner-up Cole Anderson by one stroke. 

Wyman, who also won the 2017 Maine Amateur at Brunswick GC, is not in the field seeking a three-peat this year, as he has since turned professional. 

With Wyman not competing, Ron Brown, John Hayes IV, Ricky Jones, Mark Plummer and Andrew Slattery are the only former champions in the field of 132 players.

In all, there were 47 exempt players to register, and 85 players who earned their spots at qualifiers in June held at Biddeford-Saco CC, Poland Spring GC and Waterville CC.

The Maine Amateur Championship is a 54-hole stroke play competition. The field for the championship will be cut to the low 40 two-day scores, plus ties, for Thursday’s final round. Any player that makes the cut will be exempt from qualifying for the 2020 Maine Amateur Championship at Biddeford-Saco CC. Additionally, the top 16 and ties will earn a berth in the 2019 Match Play Invitational, to be played at Point Sebago GC in August.

Martindale CC has the most players in the field with 13, followed by Biddeford-Saco CC with 12, and Brunswick GC and Val Halla GC with 10 each.

The oldest player in the field is Truman Libby (73), and the youngest is Kellen Addickes (12). The two players are paired together for the first two rounds.

Tee times begin at 7:30 a.m. each day.