Jon Lindstrom has long been among the most accomplished mid-amateur or senior amateur golfers in Colorado. And during the 2020s, his proficiency has extended well beyond state borders, as he’s been ranked as high as sixth among the world’s top amateurs 55 and older, despite facing some health challenges.
His national/international feats over the last several years include winning the 2023 Trans-Mississippi Senior Championship (the only Coloradan ever to claim that title) and Heron Creek National Senior Invitational, as well as the 2024 Golfweek Senior Division National Championship. He also finished ninth at the British Senior Amateur in 2023.
In addition, going into 2025 he’s competed in 18 USGA championships, including the 2021 U.S. Senior Open. And in 2023 Lindstrom was named to Global Golf Post’s Men’s Senior Amateur First Team, which was comprised of 10 players. Locally, the Lakewood Country Club member swept the Colorado Golf Association senior major titles in 2023, earning the association’s Senior Player of the Year Award to go with his 2008 Mid-Amateur POY honor. Overall, for his career in Colorado, the former Washington State University golfer owns 14 CGA championship titles, a total that includes three Mid-Amateurs and a Mid-Amateur Match Play, a Senior Amateur, a Senior Match Play and a senior division of the Western Chapter. Team-wise, he’s prevailed in a record four CGA Four-Balls, a Senior Four-Ball and two Two-Man titles.
Only two players have won more CGA Mid-Am stroke plays than Lindstrom: Colorado Golf Hall of Famer Rick DeWitt (seven victories) and Keith Humerickhouse (four), with Chris Thayer having since matched Lindstrom’s total.
Lindstrom’s “pedigree is just phenomenal,” Steve Ivan said last year after managing to overcome Lindstrom in the finals of the CGA Senior Match Play. “It was phenomenal before he became a senior. For me to win is hard for me to put into words. The guy is so good, and he’s so even-keeled.”
At the Colorado Senior Open— against a field that includes many high-level senior pros—Lindstrom has finished low-amateur four times, giving himthe most low-ams of anyone in any Colorado Open championship. And in every Colorado Senior Open in which he’s competed, Lindstrom has placed in the top 10 overall, ending up sixth in 2018, second in a playoff in 2020, fourth in 2021 and ninth in 2022. In losing to Harry Rudolph in the playoff, Lindstrom came the closest any amateur has to winning the CSO title since John Olive triumphed in the 1999 edition. In fact, Rudolph had to sink a 35-foot bogey putt over a large hump on the final hole of regulation just to force extra holes.
“Jon is such a class player,” fellow Lakewood Country Club member Richard Bradsby, who has twice teamed with Lindstrom to win the CGA Four-Ball, said a few years ago. “It’s gratifying to be close (to him) in any event. He’s hard to catch.” One person who did catch Jon was his wife, Stacey, an architect he met around the turn of the century. The Denver-based couple has a son, Jake, and daughter, Mia.
