Written By Jeffrey Reed
For the past decade, Londoner Maddie Szeryk has been an inspiration to countless golfers across Southwestern Ontario. A dual citizen hailing from Allen, Texas near Dallas, Szeryk prepared for the second stage of LPGA Tour Q-School as she reflected on her 2025 season – and seven complete seasons – on the developmental Epson Tour.
“Golf is hard. It’s really, really hard!” said Szeryk, who has lived most of her life with her parents, Neil and Karen, and her younger sister, Ellie, in the U.S.
A former All-American at Texas A&M, Szeryk, 29, finished T12 at the Epson Tour Championship at Indian Wells Golf & Country Club, California earlier this month, and can compete again with full status on the Epson Tour for an eighth season. She finished 40th in the Race for the Card end-of-season rankings, so she will need to earn an LPGA Tour card through Q-School. Final qualifying is slated for December 4-8 at Magnolia Grove Golf Course in Mobile, Alabama.
Indeed, golf is not easy – even for golfers boasting Szeryk’s talent from tee to green. She has not won on the Epson Tour but has nine career top-10 finishes. This season, she had two top-10s, made the cut at 15 of 20 tournaments and amassed $40,000 in earnings. Szeryk’s best result was a T6 in March at the Atlantic Beach Classic.
On the LPGA Tour, Szeryk played in 15 events in 2022 before full status in 2023, and then just six events in 2024. Add world travelling to the mix, plus Monday qualifiers on various tours and – well, you get the idea: golf is hard enough with a club in your hand, not to mention with everything else that accompanies the life of a touring pro.
If that is not enough for a full plate, Szeryk and her fiancé, Epson Tour and LPGA Tour caddy Nick DiBello, are tying the not in January. Nick was on the bag during Maddie’s win at the 2024 Destination Grapevine Texas Women’s Open. The couple will live in golf mecca Jupiter, Florida.
“This has been a crazy, busy year and it has gone very fast,” said Szeryk, a member of Golf Canada’s Team Canada program for 11 years. “Things are always hectic and go-go-go. But that is the life of being a professional golfer.”
Something has clicked, though, with Szeryk’s golf game. She said although she wasn’t in the winner’s circle on the Epson Tour and did not have her LPGA Tour card, it was still “one of my more consistent years. I saw a lot of progress in areas where I have struggled in past years.”
Golf is hard. So is life. But Szeryk believes she now has the complete toolbox to compete and win at both.
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Jeffrey Reed has covered Middlesex County sports since 1980. He is publisher and editor of LondonOntarioSports.com. Reach him at
jeff@londonontariosports.com.
