For a father with golf-obsessed children, mid-life doesn’t get much better than the scenario Steve Albright is living.
Albright’s two sons, Gray and Miles, each found success on Division I college golf teams over the past eight years (at Florida State and Gardner-Webb, respectively). Now they’re both back home in Ocala, Florida, still very much hooked by the game and available for casual rounds with Dad.
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After being on the road so much watching both men compete with their respective teams, Steve Albright, 56, felt ready to get back into a competitive setting himself.
Steve Albright is the March 2026 Golfweek Player of the Month.
“Really my focus when they started college was watching them,” Albright said. “I still played a little bit of competitive golf but just really was traveling to their tournaments. . . . So that was how I spent most of my time and obviously that got my competitive juices flowing. Couldn’t wait to get back into competition again – always eyeballing that 55-and-over senior golf.”
Perhaps the reps with his sons also sharpened his own game. (Son Gray notably won the Jones Cup in 2025 and after spending half a year on the PGA Tour Americas, is seeking amateur reinstatement to return to this sphere of the game.) Steve Albright may be just finding his footing in the senior amateur landscape, but so far, he’s done it with great success.
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Last March, in his first senior amateur start, Albright won the Moot Thomas Invitational in his hometown. He won that tournament again on March 11, followed by a runner-up finish four days later at the Florida Senior Azalea. He had partnered with Justin Grant to win the Florida Senior/Mid-Amateur Four-Ball the week before the Moot Thomas.
For all that, Golfweek has named Albright the Senior Amateur Player of the Month for March.
“Being a rookie again is really exhilarating and fun,” Albright said.
Albright has lived in Ocala since he was 3 years old. Ocala (Florida) Golf Club and Palatka (Florida) Golf Club, which hosted the Moot Thomas and the Florida Azalea Senior, respectively, are layouts that Albright has been playing since high school.
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“I literally could play those blindfolded, if I had to,” he said.
As Albright went on his winning tear mid-March, his sons joked with him about whether he could pull off three tournament titles in the span of a week.
Aside from getting his children into golf, Albright, who works as a commercial real estate appraiser, has also made contributions to the game through his state association. He began a two-year term as the President of the Florida State Golf Association at the start of the year after having served several years on the association’s board.
But nationally, Albright has begun to make a name for himself, too. In 2025, he qualified for the U.S. Senior Amateur – his first U.S. Golf Association start. He advanced to match play but lost in the first round. Regardless, a spot on the bracket earned Albright an exemption into the R&A Senior Amateur this July. It will be his first time competing overseas.
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For now, Albright’s priority remains learning the competition calendar – finding the courses and the events he loves and relishing the competition.
“I absolutely love the competition, that’s my No. 1 priority,” he said.
As he continues to work full-time and fulfill his commitment to the FSGA, Albright is also trying not to overschedule and keep it in perspective. If he’s entering a tournament, he wants to be as competitive as possible.
“I would call myself a very consistent player,” he said when asked to assess his game. “I don’t have any outstanding part of my game other than my consistency. I’m a good driver, pretty good iron player, I have a good short game and I just like to think I’m a good manager of my game.
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“Steadiness does well in most golf tournaments so that’s what I preached to my kids and try to do the same.”
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Golfweek Player of the Month for March 2026 is Steve Albright
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