After being named to Little League Baseball all star teams three straight years, Steve Sampson eventually turned to golf.

He has won ten club championships, capturing the Bristol Country Club title in 1978, 1980, and 1981 and finishing as the best golfer at Crestwood Country Club seven times in the 1990s.

Partnering with current Senior PGA star Dana Quigley for fourteen years, Steve won over thirty New England Pro-Am events, including local victories at Alpine, Fall River, Ledgemont, Rhode Island, Sakonnet, and Wannamotonomy.  In 1988 the two of them, along with Steve’s cousin John Sampson and Bill Wilkinson, competed in the Bermuda Good Will Tournament versus one hundred and thirty other teams from around the world.  They finished in the runner-up position.  Returning the following year, they did themselves one better and won the championship.

He has won Rhode Island State Amateur Invitational titles at Agawam Hunt, Alpine, Crestwood, Ledgemont, Pawtucket, Point Judith, Potowomut, Rhode Island, Sakonnet, and Wannamoisett.  Qualifying for the State Amateur Championship twelve times and leading the field after the first day of qualifying in 2000, Steve has reached match play four times and lost to the eventual champion on three separate occasions.

At the Rhode Island State Mixed Championship, he and Donna Warner won medalist honors three times and finished as tourney runner-ups twice in the early 1990s.  In 2005 he and his wife Donna snared the first division title.  And Steve has placed in the top ten six times at the Rhode Island Par 3 Championship.

Eventually recognizing that he was getting old, Steve entered the Senior Club Championship at Crestwood in 2003 and won that tourney.

Off the course he has been a member of the Crestwood board since 1994 and served as that club’s president from 2000 to 2003.  Steve has also been a vice president of the Rhode Island Golf Association since 1994.

Steve has won the Senior Club Championships at Crestwood Country Club 4 times; 2003,2005,2008 and 2009.

(Steve was named the President of the Rhode Island Golf Association in 2009.)